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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 5/23/18
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Meg Rowley
12:00
Good morning, and welcome to the chat!
12:01
I am clearly not Kiley, who is off watching college baseball.
I am a sad Mariners fan, which the queue has clearly guessed at. Let's get started.
The Old Buccaneer
12:01
Is the Mariners’ second base situation worse than the Dodgers’?
Meg Rowley
12:02
Let's assume that the world isn't so cruel that Gordon's injury will require more than 10 days. In that case, no, at least not among starters. Dee Gordon is good!
12:03
Obviously losing Cano until August is this horrible, devastating thing and I am sad about it every day, but if Gordon is back soon, they're probably better off than what Utley and Forsythe offer? Maybe? Let me have this, ok?
Jerry DiPoto
12:03
Will the Rays have traded Joey Wendle or Brad Miller to the Mariners for Ariel Miranda or chasen Bradford by the end of the week? Rays seem to have an extra 2b and the mariners clearly could use one.....
Meg Rowley
12:04
I would think not, though it would hilarious if Jerry *now* saw Brad Miller as a viable second base option.
Christian
12:05
Hey Meg, how sad does the Mariners second base situation make you?
Meg Rowley
12:05
Ok last one of these for a while.
12:06
This isn't an especially revelatory statement but Cano in conjunction with a banged up Gordon, and now Cruz and possibly Haniger and Segura (good freaking grief) highlights the thing that, apart from the rotation, was always going to be the Mariners greatest weakness: there is just no depth.
12:07
No depth to back up stars who are out with injury, no depth to trade from for any really useful pieces. Just very little depth.
The 2018 Mariners: These are the Mariners
Moltar
12:07
Get u a partner that loves u like the mets love washed up veterans
Meg Rowley
12:07
There appears to be a diagnosable pathology at work at this point.
James
12:08
Scioscia's seat getting warmer? Team's key players are healthy but team is floundering after hot start.
Meg Rowley
12:09
I wouldn't think so, at least not this early. I don't say this with special knowledge, but they all seem to get on pretty well there, and the Angels are only 2.5 games out of the second wild card with literally the Cano-less Mariners in front of them.
12:10
He's in the last year of his deal and at some point you'd think the guy would get tired, and managers do get blamed for stuff, but he didn't put that rotation together.
Put me in coach
12:10
A rotation of Newcomb, Folty, Gohara, Soroka and [insert Teheran/Allard/Wisler/5th starter] can be an above average group for not that much more than the league minimum, right? That's pretty crazy.
Meg Rowley
12:12
I liked the Braves position players at the start of the year and was very skeptical of the pitching. We're not necessarily far enough in to erase those concerns, and some of those pieces are more proven than others, but they've out performed what I thought they'd do for sure.
Tied for 10th I think in pitching WAR with that lineup. Not bad, not bad at all.
Oyster Burns
12:13
Who is your favorite of the recent call ups?
Meg Rowley
12:14
*Extreme Recency Bias Alert* Soto? There is something so cool about guys who are that young doing this. What a neat thing.
The real answer is probably Acuña but Soto has been a fun few days.
Wes
12:14
Angel Hernandez had a .115 WPA last night on one pitch. How bad is he for baseball?
Meg Rowley
12:15
I'm going to say two things that sound like they're in opposition to one another but they aren't really.
12:16
I think that as fans and analysts we are way too hard on umps. Umpires have a really, really hard job and they actually do it pretty damn well. They do their job and still get booed because that's what happens when you make occasional mistakes and your role is to be a bummer.
12:17
And so realllllly bad calls like Hernandez's are painful because they are slightly more than occasional and give ammunition to folks who think all umps are terrible because their job is to be a bummer.
12:18
I wouldn't go so far as to say he is capital b Bad for Baseball, but he's making it harder for a bunch of other dudes who do their jobs pretty well.
Price
12:18
What's the one article you want to write but don't think the editors will approve?
Meg Rowley
12:19
Baseball Prospectus let me write a piece on whether or not Adam Lind farted so forcefully that we could see it and Carson okay'ed 4000 words on manager ejections. My editors have been hilariously indulgent.
CamdenWarehouse
12:19
Are there plans for more stops for the full cast Fangraphs Meetup?
Meg Rowley
12:19
Nothing official, though in my experience of these things, folks tend to linger and subgroups emerge as people decide they want to keep having a good time.
12:20
Just remember, you're drinking at altitude, so you'll get tipsy more quickly and should drink twice as much water.
Concerned Reds Fan
12:20
Is Harvey’s resurgence for real? Very small sample size, but it looks like the Reds might have found themselves a viable trade chip for the deadline. What kind of return could they expect if he keeps up his perfromance as he has with the Reds?
Meg Rowley
12:20
Allow me to look something up
12:24
Harvey went four innings vs. the Dodgers; he went four innings vs. the Giants. He did manage six against the Pirates. The biggest knock on Harvey is going to be the effect the injuries have on his durability. I don't think we know enough to say that's behind him and it isn't like the 28 other teams (I am assume he does not go back to the Mets) don't know his story.
He might be the subject of a trade just because the Reds are terrible, but I would temper your expectations of the return.
Mariners
12:24
It's sounding like Jayson Werth might be a Seattle Mariner today, how sad does that make you.
Meg Rowley
12:24
2018 is freaking wild times.
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