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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 9/10/19
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Meg Rowley
2:51
Imagine his feet are mostly the same size as they were before.
stever20
2:52
because folks have absolutely no interest in watching 20 man bullpen games like what Boston is doing this month.   Because September baseball should be gasp just about like March-August baseball.
Meg Rowley
2:52
I do mostly want to watch those guys, so when asked, that's what I said.
Parth
2:52
Not sure if you've answered, but how do you think Zaidi will go after the Giants offseason? TOTAL rebuild? Or kind of piecing together chips?
Meg Rowley
2:53
I think they'll start to rebuild in earnest. I think baseball ops wanted to at the deadline.
Minor Leaguer
2:53
what is a living wage? state by state cost of living is very different. Would the wage be based on the state my team is located, or where I live in the off season? Do I only make that wage during the season (like teachers) or do I get paid 12 months out of the year while I am under contract?
Meg Rowley
2:58
Whatever "doesn't have to drive uber/be a substitute teacher/drive cattle in the offseason" money is. We can quibble over what that exact dollar amount is, but MLB lobbied to get out of paying minor leaguers minimum wage during spring training in Arizona. The minimums in A-ball are $1,300. That's hard to live on anywhere even during the season, and then you're pulling them away from baseball to make ends meet in the offseason.
Cespedes U Bum
2:59
Where do you stand on the Syndegaard - Ramos, personal catcher situation? The disparity is pretty large, and it doesn't seem like too much of an effort to align Ramos' off days with Noah's stars
Meg Rowley
3:00
It doesn't. I find litigating that stuff publicly to be kind of strange -- imagine if you called your local paper when Kevin forgot to wash his dishes in the break room *again* -- but at least by our metrics, Ramos is their worst framer by a not small margin.
KCCub
3:01
Do you expect Vogelbach to be starting for the Mariners in 2020? He's taken a big step backwards since the All Star break so am wondering what his future looks like.
Meg Rowley
3:02
Starting, perhaps not. But honestly, what do they have to lose? They won't be good next year.
Looch
3:02
Why not solve the September roster issue with hockey rules?  You can expand your roster but you can still only dress 25 for a game.  You want to carry 20 relievers on your roster, that's great - you'll have fresh arms - but you can still only dress 25 players for each game.  Rotate some rookies through, give them a little exposure, etc. and keep bullpen arms fresh at the end of the year without diluting the games that matter so much at the end of the season.
Meg Rowley
3:03
Yeah, I mentioned the NFL version of this as a possibility on EW. The bullpens are as much about modern usage as anything else -- deal with that directly, imo.
Guest
3:03
Musing: self-care is good; the term "self-care" is bad.  Thoughts?
Meg Rowley
3:04
Overused, and used to broadly, but I don't take issue with the term itself.
Guest
3:04
What sample size do we need to say with *some* confidence that a pitcher pitches better/worse to a certain catch than to others?
Meg Rowley
3:04
I mostly would just look at a catcher's defensive production generally.
Nate
3:05
As a Texans fan, wish I could raise a beer right now to your thoughts on analytically backwards football teams. Haha
Meg Rowley
3:05
Hey, they let your mobile quarterback pass the ball. It's something.
Ok all, I need to get rolling. Sorry for what I didn't get to, and have a good week.
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