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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 3/3/2020
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Meg Rowley
2:25
I both understand the frustration and also how that frustration determining the orgs course of action was ill-advised. That rotation was scary (not in a good way) before. Now...
brad penny for your thoughts
2:25
craigs article on the *cards* messy outfield
Meg Rowley
2:25
Yes, sorry, yes. Jay wrote about the Mets and their mess. Apologies.
Greene
2:26
The Angels, Red Sox, Reds, Phillies and Padres all figure to be contenders, but they currently rank dead last in MLB in the depth charts' projected output for, respectively, first base, second base, shortstop, center field, and right field.  Which team is most likely to fill its glaring hole before opening day?
Meg Rowley
2:28
I don't think any of them sort that out pre-Opening Day. I suppose theoretically right field is the easiest to address because Puig exists, but I'd be surprised if San Diego does that. The Angels could not play Pujols but seem unlikely to do so.
Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes
2:28
Oh, and as long as we're talking hygiene, sneeze into your elbow, not your ****ing hands. You're welcome.
Meg Rowley
2:29
Yes, also this. You're now a vampire! Congrats! You get to be in movies and also fascinate teens, and help others not get sick. You're so cool.
Booing
2:29
Does stamina increase if they're world-beaters again or increase if they're making mental errors and underperforming?
Meg Rowley
2:30
I think it depends when in the season it is - if they are just so-so, and goofing up in August, I don't think it inspires a ton. If they are very good or very bad to start or end the year, watch out.
Greg
2:31
Most innings pitched this year: James Paxton, Chris Sale, or Blake Snell?
Meg Rowley
2:31
gut feel - Snell, Pax, Sale
Flex
2:31
Will there be player profiles for the 2020 season?
Meg Rowley
2:31
Lemme ask Appelman, but perhaps not.
2:32
I don't manage that side of the site.
TinFoilHatGuy
2:32
What if Jim Crane is actually SUUUPER against sports betting, and is doing everything he can to tank MLB's pending partnership with gambling enterprises?
Meg Rowley
2:32
Not sure he's a leading candidate to eschew money coming in the door.
R
2:33
Besides writing every day but what is another important thing to do if you are trying to grow an audience
Meg Rowley
2:33
Read as much as you can (it informs good writing).
2:34
Also, and this is going to seem less important than tweeting because followers are fun, and feel important but, observe editorial niceties. File on time. Be conscious of the fact that you aren't an editor's only writer. Learn the style guide of the publication you're writing for, and try to be good about using it.
Clean copy filed on time is so valuable.
2:35
Also, and you're gonna say, "But Meg, of course people do that," address emails to the right person, using their correct name, without assuming marital status.
The number of emails I have gotten to Mrs. Rowley is staggering.
Lunar verLander
2:36
I...I had no idea this face-touching thing was real. I thought it was just Grant Brisbee being...well, Grant.
Meg Rowley
2:37
It's a thing! It can lead to you getting others sick and you getting sick yourself.
Dave
2:37
How do you take your coffee?
Meg Rowley
2:37
Just with half and half, generally.
Big Joe Mufferaw
2:37
Think people are overreacting to the yankee injuries? Sure Severino is impactful, but they also won 103 games WITHOUT him last year. They added this winter and they can't possibly get 30 guys on the DL 39 times again?
Meg Rowley
2:38
It is never good when two of your starters go down with injury, and a third is unavailable for violating the league's domestic violence policy. Two of those three will come back, and they have depth on the position player side, but it isn't good, and replicating their production from last year from subs isn't a given.
2:39
They're still projected to be a very good team, but also...
Cito's Mustache
2:39
Zach Eflin and Zack Wheeler both remarked a few days ago about the spring balls feeling more like pre-2019 balls. Have you heard of any other indications that the ball may change again this year? Or are ST balls not the same as regular seasons balls so any changes seen now should be dismissed? Thanks, Meg.
Meg Rowley
2:40
I've heard what you heard, which is an indicator, but also we know there is a lot of variation in batches of balls. I don't think we know enough yet to know, and unfortunately, the league isn't a super reliable source of info on this question.
Arthur Kinney
2:42
The only way an owner would be super against sports betting would be religious convictions. In such a case, said owner would also be likely be super against cheating if his religious convictions were that strong.
Meg Rowley
2:43
This is not confined to religious folks by any means, but you are more optimistic about humans' baseline ideological consistency than I am.
Nolan
2:43
Who are the best options among the Red Sox 4th and 5th starter candidates?
Meg Rowley
2:43
Congrats, it's you! Probably Webber and... gosh, Tanner Houck?
yeesh
Ryan
2:44
Did the resolution of the Kris Bryant grievance affect the CBA negotiations at all?  Perhaps, e.g., encourage the MLBPA to take a harder line on new language to limit service-time manipulation?
Meg Rowley
2:44
I want to hope that the union was conscious of the need to codify service time manipulation rules before now, but yeah, this makes the need very clear.
Logan
2:45
If you're going to admonish people to make sure they address their emails to correctly named recipients, you should at least spell Ryan Weber's name correctly.
Meg Rowley
2:45
Touché, though I hope those sending pitch emails are doing so with greater care and less rapidity than a chat.
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