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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 5/7/19
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Meg Rowley
2:23
Me either.
Getting Ahead of Myself
2:23
When was the last rookie pitcher to start the All-Star Game?
Meg Rowley
2:25
hmmmm
2:26
Mark Fidrych?
Did Mark Fidrych start that All-Star game for Detroit?
2:27
(sorry, I thought that would be a simpler search than it proved to be)
Gaslamp Gary
2:27
How long do you wait to take a team seriously? 40 games? 50? Padres have weathered some storms (losing streaks, Tatis injury) and are still 4 games above .500. Could they really contend?
Meg Rowley
2:28
At this point in the season, projections are generally more reliable, so stuff doesn't meaningful start to shift in my heart or head til mid season, honestly.
Unless you have a realllly extreme performance
James
2:29
Whoops, my Gallo question got cut off. It seems like he's made a conscious decision to just stop swinging at outside pitches. His contact is still bleh overall, but it looks like he's doing better with pitches on the zone. Do you think he can post a 130wrc+ at the end of the season?
Meg Rowley
2:31
assuming there will be some return to earth (even if not all the way), but that the plate discipline changes are real and he keeps hitting for monster power, yeah, that seems about right
hooha
2:32
Domingo Santana has -1.3 Bsr runs this year, yet he has 4SBs and no CS, what am I missing?
Meg Rowley
2:33
It also takes into account things like grounding into double plays and base running advancement
A good explainer can be found here https://library.fangraphs.com/offense/bsr/
Pitch_Out
2:34
Will Caleb Smith be pitching for the Marlins after 31 July? Could he be the next in line to be sent away for an underwhelming return?
Meg Rowley
2:35
I honestly don't know what the Marlins are doing anymore, but I'd think him being 27 maybe means they don't expect him to be a part of the next good Marlins team. How good the return is remains to be seen. He's been quite good this season.
Lou
2:35
Looks like the Yankees copied the Dodgers model of building incredible depth.
Sorry, didn't finish the question.  Is the the advantage of big market teams that smaller markets cannot emulate?  Incredible depth?
Meg Rowley
2:37
You don't have to be a big market team to develop depth-- the Rays are lousy with depth in the minors and the Rays. But it helps. If you can, for instance, pay for free agent help, you don't have to trade for help, which allows you to hold on to guys.
KitchSinky
2:37
14 team league QS instead of W, stash Josh James for a possible starter later on or pick up Nick Anderson or Andrew Miller for ratio help now?
Large Margevicius
2:37
Better fantasy 2B for rest of season: Travis Shaw or Ketel Marte? (H, R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OPS)
Meg Rowley
2:38
Beg of you to ask a fantasy chat, if only because I care about both of you personally.
YDG
2:38
Which Avenger is Mike Trout most like?
Meg Rowley
2:38
Captain America, I will take no questions.
Big Joe Mufferaw
2:38
Judge hit it out of Safeco in game FYI
Meg Rowley
2:38
That didn't leave the park, but it was very close. Poor Andrew Moore.
Mickey Callaway
2:39
Which struggling Met ends with the most WAR this season: Nimmo, Rosario, Ramos, or Cano?
Meg Rowley
2:39
I'll go Cano then Nimmo.
Dan
2:39
I was talking to someone who moved from Russia to Texas and wanted to become a baseball fan. The best advice I could think to give her was come her and ask Meg. In my mind you’re the expect on being excited about baseball.
Meg Rowley
2:39
Go with her to some games!
2:40
Let her ask questions!
Probably helps to get the basics down before the intro to advanced stats, but what fun. I think introducing someone to baseball would be great fun. I've enjoyed it with my niece but she is also three, so the conversation often shifts to Dora.
Jerry B
2:41
It's amazing that Trout has about a 2:1 BB:K ratio right now. And then I look at Barry Bond's page and see that he maintained that ratio for basically his entire career!
Meg Rowley
2:41
Yeahhhhhhh.
Spahn and Sain
2:41
This is the adjustment part of the year where Pete Alonso and Daniel Vogelbach get figured out a little bit, isn't it?
Meg Rowley
2:41
I mean, partially that. I am just glad Vogey is getting the playing time for us all to see what he is.
KD
2:41
It seems likely the Kendrys Morales will be DFA'ed today.  Is there a good landing spot for him?  I really don't find any when I think about AL teams.
Meg Rowley
2:42
He doesn't fit in Baltimore, like, at all, but doesn't he feel like an Oriole? Or perhaps he can be a Tiger. They love DHs on that Tigers team.
Confused Guy
2:42
Richard Justice listed Joey Gallo as an MVP candidate thus far over Hunter Dozier. Not that Gallo has been bad (because he definitely hasn't), but isn't that ridiculous?
Meg Rowley
2:43
I don't think either will much staying power in that convo, honestly.
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