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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 7/10/18
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Meg Rowley
12:19
I would expect the answer is that, at least for games played out of division and absent some change to how many games teams play or how many opponents they play, it would mean collapsing what is currently a home and away series into one team's home series. The White Sox don't enjoy playing the Yankees, but they want them to come to town, you know?
tb.25
12:20
I went to click on the FG header 'Meg Growley will be chatting' but I got sent to Justin's chat. When I returned to the homepage, your header got replaced by his. Doesn't FG know I would rather discuss Mariners and the woods over fantasy sports?!
Meg Rowley
12:20
I brought this up with Carson and I think we're going to tweak the schedule so that one of us goes a little later in the afternoon so we aren't double booked. I know it can be confusing and also splits the audience.
tb.25
12:20
Also, welcome back
Meg Rowley
12:20
Hey thanks!
Ben
12:21
Is 250 PAs too small to call Dom Smith a bust yet?  It's been real ugly.
Meg Rowley
12:21
Yes. I'm not like, super high on him, but yes.
Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes
12:21
Do you know if MLB had the authority to prevent the incredibly tone-deaf selection of domestic abuser Aroldis Chapman to the ASG? The legal system and the league's domestic violence policy have finished with him, but there is absolutely no reason he needs to be paraded around for marketing purposes. The union might not like it, but I and countless others prefer our baseball without people who fire guns into the garage while the partner they allegedly choked hides in the bushes.
Meg Rowley
12:23
I understand what you mean. But I think that if I were going to make one change to the league's DV policy, it would be to make the player ineligible for the postseason in the year they're suspended. It would reduce some of the icky incentives around trading those guys and sends a message it is as at least as important as PEDs.
12:25
Most DV advocates will tell you that zero tolerance policies aren't the way to go. That leaves us to navigate these icky moments. I'd like to think about it more, but I'm not sure that if guy serves his suspension and doesn't reoffend, that banning him permanently from the All-Star game is the right move. And his presence in the league, on a team like the Yankees means he is being used for marketing purposes.
2-D
12:25
Cleveland lost a game earlier this year 2-3 despite outhitting Chicago 14-4. What do you think the difference in hits need to be to all but guarantee a victory?
Meg Rowley
12:25
Allowing no hits would probably help?
12:26
Let me see if I can do a quick B-Ref query.
12:27
Hmm this is taking too long for the chat. I wonder what the greatest differential is.
Nate
12:27
I'm going to be visiting Safeco Field later this month for the first time (12th ballpark for me). What points of interest should I see at the stadium?
Meg Rowley
12:28
If you're a beer person, there is good beer (I'd look in the ballpark app and see what's local). If you're sitting on the club level, there is a very good salmon sandwich. It is very fun to watch BP from out by the bullpens. And take some time to do a lap of the upper concourse. The city views are amazing.
Also they are playing relevant baseball. Just the wildest thing.
Rockie Dangerfield
12:28
If you take into account how much All Star selections matter in salary negotiations, I reckon the roster construction actually has greater consequences than the game itself.
Meg Rowley
12:29
I think it matters a lot to the players, too.
We tend to be down on the whole enterprise and for good reason, but I bet it really does bum Blake Snell and Jean Segura out that they didn't make it.
You go to just one All-Star game and we call you "Former All-Star So and So" when you retire. Just one!
Josh
12:30
Is Aaron Hicks a Top 5 CF in baseball all of a sudden?
Meg Rowley
12:31
Top 3 by our numbers! Hicks strikes me as the sort of guy we don't talk about enough just because he's on the Yankees and they have so many dudes worth talking about.
But he is quite good.
And Cain at two. What a nice pick up by the Brewers, my stars.
Zachary
12:32
Do you think teams that are “buying” at the deadline would be able to get pieces for cheaper than most years due to the fact that there are fewer contenders at this point that in most years?
Meg Rowley
12:32
Maybe some, but remember, teams don't have to sell now. They can always wait until the offseason, when more teams (at least in theory) will believe they have a shot at 2019.
Poised
12:32
Would extending Trevor Story and letting Arenado walk be a wiser strategy for the Rockies?
Meg Rowley
12:34
Trevor Story is having a fine year but also, one of those players you named in Arenado. Now, I will also admit that I have a hard time getting a beat on when the Rockies are really out of it, or about to be for a while because they play baseball on the moon and sign some truly bad deals. But Arenado's only 27 and he's really good and those are guys you want. Who are they getting to play third who's better?
Kvn
12:34
I think that the best sign for any O's fan on 8/1 would not be a successful Machado trade (which has essentially been mandated), but a successful trade of a controllable piece like Gausman or Givens. They won't be around by the time the team is competitive and it would at least signal that the people running the franchise are facing the reality of that franchise's future. Do you agree?
Meg Rowley
12:35
Honestly, I think they should try to move any player with value. They are a bad team.
Cool
12:35
Since the ASG is purely exhibition now what's stopping there from being huge expanded rosters so that players like Blake Snell are always on the team?
Meg Rowley
12:36
I think there's some value to the idea of these guys being the very best. But then they should work harder to pick the very best.
Friar Fanatic
12:36
I'm a Padres fan. My crush loves baseball but is a Dodgers fan. Why is life unfair?
Meg Rowley
12:37
You get to have a crush and you share a common interest. Life seems pretty good!
Crushes are so fun, and so it baseball. (Almost) everything is coming up Friar Fanatic!
Bad Natitude
12:37
If you could add another skills-based competition for current MLB players to the All-Star weekend festivities, what would it be and who would you invite to compete in DC next weekend?
Meg Rowley
12:38
Personally I would like to listen to a player panel discussion of why they like Twin Peaks, but I'll concede that would have limited appeal.
stever20
12:38
Will folks finally start not talking quite as much about Tyson Ross as being a top target for the trade deadline?  He's got a 6.26 ERA in the last 8 starts- and trending worse.
Meg Rowley
12:38
Are folks talking about that much?
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