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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 5/14/19
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Meg Rowley
2:00
Hello, and welcome to the chat!
It is rainy in Seattle today, and I have some sad tunes on. Let's see if a little chat can't shift the mood.
Confused Dodger Fan
2:00
Struggling with the Julio Urias news. I want to be able to like the players who play for my favorite team.
Meg Rowley
2:02
Drat. It's really a bummer. It is very hard for the continued existence of cases like this to not alter one's appreciation for the sport in a meaningful way. Or at least, it is difficult for me. This stuff care ware you out.
Professor Hulk
2:02
Is all hope lost of Keuchel and Kimbrel playing this season?
Meg Rowley
2:02
I don't think so.
2:03
Though, one does begin to wonder about how effective they are at the moment, and how long of a ramp up they'll need.
Tony Lancaster
2:03
Meg, thanks for the chats! What can MLB do to improve overall league attendance numbers?
Meg Rowley
2:03
Make it cheaper. Make it a lot cheaper. Make it much, much cheaper to go.
2:04
Having teams that are committed to winning helps a lot, but really, I think fans will go see a lousy team if it isn't prohibitively expensive to do so.
Xolo
2:04
The Padres started the season with Tatis and Paddack on the big league team (ignoring control concerns) but Urías has been left to destroy the PCL while Kinsler and Greg Garcia share second base. How does that make sense?
Meg Rowley
2:05
Because he was up for a little while and hit pretty poorly? He'll be back.
Larry
2:05
When watching a game, do you prefer the broadcast to show the strike zone overlay or not? I do prefer it, but then seeing missed calls just makes me more upset.
Meg Rowley
2:06
Where you'll really start to get steamed is when you realize that the overlay is often off a little. I tend to, when I want to check in on these things, look at the Brook's Baseball feed.
jesse
2:06
what do you think the ramifications of domestic violence should be on a player’s career ? i personally find it irredeemable , but clearly MLB finds suspensions to be sufficient. addison , familia , osuna , now urias ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i’m over it !!
Meg Rowley
2:08
It is a perfectly defensible position to not want to see these guys play again. Baseball is entertainment, and if you are not entertained because of the violence they have exhibited toward others, then you don't have to want to watch them. That said, the league's policy doesn't immediate escalate to zero tolerance because experts agree that those policies tend to reduce reporting.
2:10
At the very least, I think these dudes should be post season ineligible in the season during which the suspension occurs. We're always going to be left wanting more in the way of detail or explanation because there are aspects of treatment that we can't know about. But knowing the league has at least eliminated an arbitrage opportunity would be nice.
Gary
2:10
How do you rank Alex Gordon, Dwight Smith Jr, and Greg Polanco ROS? 7x7 R, H, RBI, HR, SB, Avg, OPS
Meg Rowley
2:10
This isn't a fantasy chat. Sorry!
wolfs
2:11
Buy or sell: Hyun Jin Ryu is the Dodgers best pitcher (on a per inning basis)
Meg Rowley
2:11
Buy, though I like Walker a lot, and of course, remain nervous about Ryu's durability.
taylor
2:11
i find the twins to be ... very fun. do you think this fun is sustainable ?
Meg Rowley
2:13
Maybe not quite to this level, but yes. I imagine they will need pitching help, though.
Steve
2:13
Hi, Meg!  General baseball question here.  Whenever I watch games with friends that aren’t fans, they almost always bring up the fact that this particular game in the middle of May doesn’t matter because it’s such a long season.  I disagree with this sentiment and explain that this one matters as much as the game in late September when there is a playoff fight; it just doesn’t feel that way.  Am I just blindly defending the sport I love, or is there validity to my argument, and how do you normally respond to this argument?
Meg Rowley
2:15
They all count -- and if you wanted you could say the ones in May really count because they not only count as wins and losses, but, along with the wins in april and june and july and august, determine if those ones in September are close pennant races, or long assumed post-season participants or tear-down candidates.
They don't actually count differently, but they go into our understanding of what September is, and that tends to matter a lot to people!
Mariners
2:16
Now that things have fallen a part as expected, what should the next step of the mariners be?  Is the right thing to do really just hang on with the older players until the trade deadline and hope you get a team's 20-25th prospect? Is it time to cut losses and let the younger players get more play?
Meg Rowley
2:17
I find it really, really strange that there seems to be a persistent narrative among Mariners fans that the team is going to get a large prospect return for Jay Bruce or Edwin Encarnacion.
like, sure maybe the 20th guy like you said, but some folks seems to think there is a red hot Jay Bruce trade market
2:18
They have no incentive to rush guys.
The org has known what this team is the whole time.
Big Joe Mufferaw
2:19
How awesome has the DJ LeMahieu been? When the Yankees signed people just said it was too much money for a guy that is a back up. 'tip o' the cap' to yanks and their DEPTH
Meg Rowley
2:19
Pretty sure folks did exactly that pre-season?
Joe Joe
2:19
Most likely to win AL MVP, Trout, an Astro, or field?
Meg Rowley
2:20
I mean, the field I guess, but Trout actually. I tend to think similarly performing teammates split the vote.
AM
2:20
I imagine this will be the Keston Hiura power-hour, but since the Brewers are playing the Phillies - have you downgraded your fun-ranking of the Phillies since their fans seem to be constantly booing their own players?
Meg Rowley
2:20
I went to college outside of Philly. I know about Philly fans.
dlate pliscipline
2:20
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did julio do this to my already fragile bullpen
Meg Rowley
2:20
Truly the least important part of this. Truly.
Automated Megssaging System
2:21
This is your weekly reminder that Meg will not answer your fantasy questions because she cares about you and thinks you should ask your question in one of the chats run by one of FG's fantasy experts.
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