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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 8/7/18
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Meg Rowley
3:31
I don't find traumatic brain injuries funny myself.
Mike
3:31
Do actual Mariners fans get grumpy about the Jays fans swamping the stadium once a year? Marco Gonzales said a thing, but it seems like Seattle's front office actually encourages this to an extent.
Meg Rowley
3:32
I think it is a combo of some genuinely unpleasant behavior, and the unfortunate fact that the Jays have won a bunch of these games lately. I think if they were winning more, it would feel more fun. It's never nice to have a rude guest in your house.
Brian CashGod
3:32
Technically some teams have been publicly owned, in that they were subsidiaries of public companies. The braves and blue jays I think?
Meg Rowley
3:32
That's isn't quite what we mean.
HappyFunBall
3:32
Juan Soto update: With men on 2/3, 1 out the Braves just IBBed Soto, hitting in front of Rendon and Harper.  That's ... it's amazing.
Meg Rowley
3:33
Every year, there are a couple of players who break out and make you realize how fun baseball is, and he is one of them.
If anyone missed Jeff's piece yesterday, I highly recommend it: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/juan-soto-looks-like-the-best-teenage-...
You can read it after this when you want to keep avoiding work :)
Ken
3:34
So in other words, if we don't believe what you believe, we are wrong or are being disingenuous? no wonder why this country is so divisive these days.
Meg Rowley
3:35
Ken, he served a 75-game suspension. His court case is still active, yes, but MLB saw fit to treat this with a great deal of seriousness. We can draw some conclusions from this. I simply ask that fact be acknowledged.
Bread Gardner
3:35
Who would win an arm wrestling contest?  Judge, Stanton, or some other dark horse?
Meg Rowley
3:35
Stanton, though I wonder how Joey Gallo would do.
Meg's brother
3:35
Should the Mariners harvest Chris Rowley from the scrap heap?
Meg Rowley
3:36
Mariners please give me a reason to by a jersey with my name on it, even though Chris Rowley and I are not, as far as I know, related.
Morton Salt Girl
3:36
PED suspensions are imposed after the player has tested positive for using a substance that (in theory) impacts the outcome of a game.  Suspensions for off-the-field behavior could very-well involve actions that turn out to be not-illegal and aren't undertaking for the purpose of cheating at the sport.  The idea that a sports governing body will take cheating in the sport itself more seriously than actions which the courts would intervene in shouldn't be this hard for someone as smart as to grasp.
Meg Rowley
3:37
They decided to be moral leaders by proactively adopting a DV and sexual assault policy. Asking them to do a good job of it isn't unreasonable.
3:38
And as a woman, I gotta say, this stuff makes me pretty angry and dampens my enthusiasm for baseball. There is an impact on the league, not to mention the awful impact on victims.
Moelicious
3:38
Why are the Mets using Jose Reyes?
Meg Rowley
3:38
Truly one of life's great mysteries.
Davy
3:38
At what point do we start talking about the fact that Scherzer and DeGrom are have been leading the NL in WAR all year? I would love to see one of them take home the MVP.
Meg Rowley
3:38
I want deGrom to be the NL MVP so badly. I think about it at least twice a day.
john cale
3:39
which AL and NL franchises have the bleakest future outlooks after his season? i'd say the mariners and the reds
Meg Rowley
3:39
Hey there now, the Orioles and Marlins exist!
J-co
3:39
The difference between the Astros and Jays morally on Osuna is that the Jays options were to pay Osuna and play him or to pay Osuna and not pay him.  The Astros had the option to both not pay and nor play Osuna.  Those are very different ethically.
Meg Rowley
3:39
This is well put.
lOsing Season
3:39
except for the Mariners (which would be quite the story), what realistic WS matchup is most appealing to you this year?
Meg Rowley
3:42
Well, I liked that Astros team a lot but now I'm mad at them (which, man, you guys blew it, you'd convinced a Mariners fan!). So I will say Cleveland, because I love Jose Ramirez and Lindor, and am now less afraid of their bullpen and... ummm... Brewers or Diamondbacks? Yeah! Cleveland vs. the Brewers or the Diamondbacks. I guess those two aren't so realistic, so Dodgers, but I'd prefer a different thing.
john cale
3:42
definitely forgot about the orioles...
Meg Rowley
3:43
In your defense, that might be a good act of self-care.
CapnZippers
3:43
So I wanted to see how insane DeGrom's win stat was. Fun fact of the day, of all starting pitchers in the last 10 years, Jake DeGrom and Noah Syndergaard are 2nd and 3rd lowest Wins/WAR. The lowest? Cliff Lee
Meg Rowley
3:43
Baseball is amazing and so, so damn mean. We know Wins are dumb, but they matter a lot to players. Just very, very mean.
Moelicious
3:44
With Dave Cameron gone who is the Fangraphs expert on financial planning?
Meg Rowley
3:44
Please talk to a real financial planner!
James
3:44
Who catches for the Angels next year? Any chance Angels swing a deal for someone like Sanchez for a change of scenery (guy got blasted for not running hard when he had a torn groin)?
Meg Rowley
3:44
I don't think the Yankees are going to trade Gary Sanchez.
3:45
Ok, I have to get going. Thanks for hanging out, and for dealing with our wonky schedule the last few weeks.
I'm sorry for what I didn't get to, and hope you all have a good day!
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