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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 12/18/18
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Dan
2:44
Can you explain the new relationship b/w MLB and the "gaming" industry in light of recent SC ruling on sports betting?
Meg Rowley
2:44
A moment!
khaaaan
2:45
Why doesn't Brandon Nimmo get any respect? He was better than Harper last year, but people talk like he's expendable
Meg Rowley
2:47
He doesn't not get respect, I don't think. He was dinged up a little at one point but he's being talked about as worthy of inclusion in trade packages that would net big stars.
2:48
He just played his first real season in the bigs, but he was a well thought of prospect. This stuff takes a little while.
asking for a friend
2:48
Why don't teams provide better access to nutrition and fitness for their minor league systems? Seems like it would be a small financial commitment for a massive gain in player development
Meg Rowley
2:49
More and more teams are getting smart about this, but that they aren't all excellent at it is bizarre and pretty short sighted in my opinion.
It's just such a bad way to be cheap, especially when the problem could be solved cheaply.
Home Run Trotsky
2:49
The 2019 HOF ballot is full of "steroid guys." I'm assuming that it will be an interesting vote (albeit likely disappointing)  How long do you reckon it will take for these deserving guys linked to steroids to get into the hall if they are ever allowed at all?  When will the cloud dissipate? A hall without some of those names I grew up watching (steroids or not) would be the pits.
Meg Rowley
2:51
Jay Jaffe always makes a distinction between those who were likely users before there was a policy, but didn't have a positive test, and those who are known to have used. I think that's useful. I think as the writing corps turns over, and you have fewer BBWAA members who were personally lied to by these guys, you see a change. Selig getting in also matters a lot.
But I tend to agree. I would like the Hall to be less of an accolade and more of a museum. Like, baseball happened when I was a kid. How do you tell that story without Bonds and Clemens?
Whitty
2:52
Hey Meg, awesome job on MLB network! How nervous were you being on a panel with baseball writing legends like Stark and Gammons?
Meg Rowley
2:53
Thank you. I was very grateful to be distracted by the wind so that I didn't think about it too much. TV is weird, but they were all really lovely, both to me and to all of our staff who went on that week.
Kevin
2:53
So Pollock is a good ballplayer who no one is talking a lot about with Brycechado still out there. Where do you see him landing, and at what kind of deal? He's a more "typical" free agent age, but also has a ton of injury history.
Meg Rowley
2:54
Allow me a moment to look something up
2:55
I just wanted to make sure he wasn't a Boras guy. I don't think he's being forgotten by teams, though there certainly are teams that are waiting because they're in on Harper.
2:56
I know there was some stuff linking him to the Dodgers this morning; he's make sense for the Braves. He'd make sense for a lot of teams, honestly.
Anuj
2:56
Given the current cheapness of Seager, Buehler, Bellinger, should the Dodgers be inclined to pull a Dombrowski and go for broke this year?
Meg Rowley
2:57
I don't think we're nearing the end of their window or anything.
2-D
2:57
An MLB game must be played in either a blizzard, down pour, or very dense fog. Which would you want to watch the most?
Meg Rowley
2:58
Down pour if it goes more than an inning because you're the most likely to see?
I have an almost limitless capacity to experience real anxiety on behalf of strangers, so I don't imagine I would enjoy it very much.
GSon
2:58
Hockey will become a drag.. Only a small percentage of the area populace will embrace it.. Nothing grabs the attention and wonder of small children and the conveyed love of baseball by the grandfathers and moms and dads and siblings.. Baseball does more to promote their game to the children of franchise cities than ANY OTHER SPORT. Thoughts?..
Meg Rowley
2:59
Baseball has the oldest viewership of any of the big professional sports. I think the sport is healthy, and set up to keep making money, but its viewership is pretty old, and soccer and basketball are pretty popular with young kids.
carrotjuice
2:59
Minor correction:  Castellanos will be a free agent after 2019 according. Does that change your answer much in the Cron/Castellanos comparison?
Meg Rowley
3:00
Apologies, I meant he is one in 2020, and no.
He's a better player.
trevise-en
3:00
Your thoughts now that the Orioles are no longer 'Hyding' their new manager?
Meg Rowley
3:00
oh good grief.
Ryan
3:01
When will noted Patriot Dayn Perry be appearing on the Podcast again?
Meg Rowley
3:01
Perhaps some day. I'm not sure why people assume it will be at all the same though. It could still be wonderful. But it wouldn't be the same.
Fritz Ferter
3:01
Do you think Jeters decision to hold on to Realmuto in 2018 was a good move?
Meg Rowley
3:02
When you look at what they got in trade for the other pieces they moved, yes.
CFH
3:02
It seems like people who criticize analytics have more of a problem with the changes prescribed (more home runs, walks, relief pitchers) than analytics per se; would the league do anything to address these changes like larger ballparks or smaller pitching rosters, and do you think that would encourage more traditionalists to embrace advanced stats?
Meg Rowley
3:03
I mean, if they end up banning the shift (which I still don't think they'll do) it would be a nod in that direction, but I don't think any interventions they make will be in service of swaying a side to analytics so much as embracing a particular aesthetic.
STL Dave
3:03
Is there a lot of - come back to me when other stuff fails - GM chatter going on?
Meg Rowley
3:04
There's a lot of everything going on. I think it's easy to miss just how many conversations happen in parallel this time of year.
Alright friends, I need to get going.
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