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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 4/28/2021
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Meg Rowley
4:45
I'm really curious to see how active they'll be considering that the person now in-charge 1) is a business rather than baseball guy 2) has a whole other job he's doing.
But then again they traded Arenado with a bad GM in charge and the same rather thin ops group in place, so who knows.
45 blows billygoats
4:46
You have a 2 hour drive later today. What does your podcast list look like for the drive?
Meg Rowley
4:48
I blew through all the back episodes of You're Wrong About during my last move. Now I have to wait for new episodes, and it is very distressing, but those if you're looking for something new and ok with a non-baseball pod. I've also been listening to the Charles Manson run of episodes of You Must Remember This, and it is excellent.
Bobby
4:49
At what point in the season is a small sample size no longer a small sample size?  It's still April but almost May and the Mets offense is putrid.  Lindor, Conforto, and McNeil are bad while Smith and Alonso are barely adequate.  I'm really hoping Lindor is not the next Baerga or Alomar.  Middle infielders come to the Mets and their career goes into the toilet.
Meg Rowley
4:51
I think it is going to be fine. I think the dip in Lindor's Barrel% isn't great, but I think it's going to be fine.
Chris
4:51
Vlad Jr has been living up to the hype of 2 years ago. Will we ever be able to guess how much was needing MLB At Bats, how much was getting into better shape, how much was attitude? He seems to be better at D because he says he tries to make plays, not avoid missing them.
Meg Rowley
4:53
I'm not sure we'll ever know the exact mix. I also wonder how much it helps that he's not the only bat anymore, which I don't say to suggest Vlad caves to pressure or whatever, but it has to be a lot of pressure to be the only guy.
reg mowley
4:53
An apple is an objectively better fruit than a pear, why is this?
Meg Rowley
4:53
Easier to predict optimal ripeness.
Guest
4:54
Outside the Rockies, what is the next front office that does not follow or get input from a metrics point of view?   Also if you could own one MLB team which one would it be?
Meg Rowley
4:55
Not every team is the Dodgers but there really wasn't another team like the Rockies. They were just so... weird.
And if I could own any team, it would be the Mariners. It would make my family very happy to have a winning Mariners team and I would feel very fancy walking around town after my Mariners made the postseason.
Joe
4:56
I have baseball fans not quite interested in metrics , what primer or books do you think would be a good intro for them.
Meg Rowley
4:56
Do they want to be interested in advanced stats?
4:57
Start there! Might be weird for the managing editor of FanGraphs to say but... not everyone has to look at baseball like we do. I think it is good for front offices to do that, and it enhances my understanding and enjoyment of the game, but my grandpa has no idea what wRC+ is and has a great time at games.
Johnny5Alive
4:58
Sporer chatting at the same time, what a jerk?
Meg Rowley
4:59
Not a jerk, just probably got delayed from earlier. Now everyone can go ask him their fantasy questions. Everything is coming up Meg, really.
Blues K-Lews
4:59
Where do the Mariners spend money next offseason? The farm has a lot of promising pitching and outfield prospects, Evan White is locked in at firstbase, they've committed a lot of time into developing JP Crawford and there aren't many exciting thirdbasemen on the free agent market next year.
Meg Rowley
5:02
Pitching. They could spend it on pitching. They will still need pitching. Why not more pitching? Beyond that I'd see what Travis d'Arnaud is up to and look to the shortstops anyhow. If you can get Story or Correa, you just do it. Seager is actually my favorite of those bats and he probably has to move to third at some point anyhow, but who knows how keen on Seattle he would be after Mather shit-talked his brother.
They really should have just given Kolten Wong an extra year last offseason but
Me Growley
5:04
Sadness and disappointment is as inevitable as a Keston Hiura strikeout. All things are relative in this most relative of all worlds. Does success for my Brewers count if it is merely being the top of the NL Central dungheap?
Meg Rowley
5:05
I think the divisional context should perhaps inform how competitive you think they'll be in October assuming they win but yeah, it counts.
5:06
Take it from someone whose childhood team hasn't been in the playoffs since she was still a kid: it counts.
RH
5:06
Do you know if pitchers are hitting in the high minors in NL on NL matchups this year?
Meg Rowley
5:06
I wasn't totally sure about this but asked JJ Cooper, who said: Default is pitcher hits in NL-NL AA and AAA but at AA, teams can agree to use DH.
Guest
5:07
Bartolo- athletic, or not? Someone on Twitter (granted, a cesspool) called him unathletic this morning, and when challenged to justify it, they mentioned his weight- which feels awfully lazy. He always seemed pretty spry to me, even towards the end.
Meg Rowley
5:09
Yeah, I think there are a lot of ways to be athletic. Setting aside that most all pro athletes are more athletic than most all of us, certainly softer-bodied guys can be just plain out of shape or have limited range of motion etc. but not by default.
Catcher is a really clarifying position when it comes to this I think
Ok all, I'm sorry for what I didn't get to today, but I have to scoot so I can prep for a podcast.
5:10
Thanks for all of the questions, and until next time, be well!
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