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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 3/31/2020
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Meg Rowley
2:41
I think that a lot of people would very much appreciate baseball right now. Not at the expense of public health (I hope!) but gosh it would be nice.
Lunar verLander
2:41
when there's empty stadiums, who all is allowed to attend? besides players, clubhouse attendants, field crew...anyone from the front office? scouts? 'cause if there's any sort of non-team employee...imagine the heckling they could do...
Meg Rowley
2:42
I imagine it'll be very, very limited, and those who are there will be heavily socially distanced.
Tom Pagnozzi beast mode
2:43
Do incentivized deals get pro-rated to total amount of games played?
Meg Rowley
2:44
My understanding is that performance-bonus clauses will be pro-rated too
Scott
2:45
All of the changes that I've seen from the business side of MLB over the past few years seem to be good for the short-term profits of the owners, but bad for baseball over the long-term. Am I the only one who has this view?
Meg Rowley
2:45
/gestures at much of the commentary about the game's future from the last several years
No
Julian
2:45
What are your thoughts on what happens if the season starts again and a player tests positive? Could play continue or would everything have to shut down for 14 days at that point?
Meg Rowley
2:46
They would almost certainly have to shut down, and really don't seem like they'll have the time so...
Not sure what they do
Ryan
2:47
The Ringer had a draft the other day on the writers' favorite Baseball Reference pages. Do you have any favorites that weren't mentioned in the article?
Meg Rowley
2:48
I don't think they picked this but even if they did, I'm picking it: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=green-002sh...
2:49
Shaq Thompson's line from that one year of minor league ball is the wildest thing I've ever seen.
.000/.170/.000
the second wildest thing is that having faced that sort of professional failure, he then was like, it's fine, I'll just play football
2:50
the confidence gap is an underrated difference between us (or at least me) and professional athletes
AW
2:50
How do you think up new articles, in this darkest of timelines?
Meg Rowley
2:51
Watch an old game, and watch the stuff that isn't exactly the baseball itself
A Fan
2:51
Meg, you and Fangraphs are the best!
Meg Rowley
2:51
FanGraphs is the best. Me, I'm just ok.
Idea Man
2:51
Thought to save the FanGraphs during the pandemic: open a distance learning hip hop arts school for teenage vampires Fans Raps HS
Meg Rowley
2:51
And stream it on Twitch!
scully's silky social distance
2:52
meg - do you think most older starting pitchers have tried to simulate 'getting stretched out', or are maybe taking this as time to rest instead of simulating the full season? Seems like it would throw off older SPs more, to their detriment (routine) and to their benefit (rest)
Meg Rowley
2:52
I'd imagine a lot of guys are doing a longer version of their usual offseason routines, with the actual baseball activities more stretched out
Bored
2:53
Considering the current situation which MLB GM would you most like to be and which would you least like to be?
Meg Rowley
2:55
Hmmmm, that's a good question. It's hard to feel bad for the Dodgers, but probably Andrew Friedman? Potentially no Mookie, likely no All-Star game, just a weirdly bummerish year. Seems like a good time to be a wobbly chair GM. Not a lot can count against you right now.
Antiviral
2:55
Also they may have a treatmet long before they have a preventive vaccine! Here's hoping!
Meg Rowley
2:55
Knowing who has it, and who has had it would be very useful right now.
Rings
2:56
Say there's a short season. Someone wins. Do they get WS rings? Do people (see, Mariano Rivera's comment) look down on the champions? (I guess, after the trashcan, not as much as some other winners...)
Meg Rowley
2:57
I imagine they'll get something to mark having won whatever the thing they end up winning ends up being. I think everyone will forever remember this was the COVID-19 year, but "look down" isn't how I'd put it.
We'll know it was different. That doesn't make it bad.
tomerafan
2:57
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but if and when Spring Training 2 occurs, I truly hope it's more than 2-3 weeks long.  The only thing worse than no baseball would be a baseball season with a higher-than-normal incidence of injuries, not just pitchers but also muscle pulls, oblique injuries, etc.  Guys running and staying in shape isn't the same as swinging a bat in game conditions.
Meg Rowley
2:59
A lot of players will tell you six weeks is longer than they need, and it sounds like there will be some roster rules that allow teams to carry more guys to address injury concerns.
But yes, I imagine a lot of teams will be trying to thread that needle, and some will be more successful than others.
3:00
Ok pals, I need to get rolling.
3:01
Thank you for hanging out, and for your support as we navigate this. We appreciate it more than we can say, and hope you won't mind when we keep asking. I hope you and yours are healthy and safe and managing as best you can. Until next week, be well!
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