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Zach

9:58

So MLBTR says the Twins are going to pursue "impact" pitching. What kind of contract would they have to offer Cole to get him to sign there instead of, say, NYY or HOU?

Dan Szymborski

9:58

I think if the money's right, anyone will go anywhere

Dodger fan

9:59

The 1b injury thing was about a specific thing. Bellinger has a history of with his shoulder on diving infield plays directly to his side.

Dan Szymborski

10:01

Strasburg first game on the left, this game on the right.

10:01

Nick I’m having a brain lapse...who’s that kid the Jays have in AA ball who has Syndegaard type heat but still real raw...Pearson?

Nick Dika

10:02

That's him!

Nate Pearson - he'll probably be a top-10 prospect soon if he keeps it up.

Dan Szymborski

10:02

Look at outside corner against righties in each game. Almost nothing horizontally right off the plate

compared to the first game. You can see how much easier it is to lay off these curves than in first game

Hire Joe Morgan?

10:03

Dan, what are we looking at? Aside from a couple fastballs up, the distribution looks awfully similar to me.

Dystopian Future

10:03

Outside off the plate to righties. Strasburg only working up-down right now. Easier to lay off when it's one-plane, I think?

Wire Fan

10:03

And right on cue...Wil Smith says "Hey Dan, hold my beer"

Dodger fan

10:04

The version of that chart with balls, called and swinging strikes is probably even more revealing

Dan Szymborski

10:04

I'll go grab that too

10:04

Looks like the targets from the shooting range during Lethal Weapon (Glover on the left, Gibson on the right)

Dodger fan

10:04

Big difference in the change up usage. Maybe because a less left-handed lineup with Hernandez?

Nick Dika

10:06

There's that lower-outside edge curveball to a righty again.

Dan Szymborski

10:06

Dystopian Future

10:06

There's an outside curveball, and it gets a helpless whiff; granted, against a pitcher.

Dan Szymborski

10:07

Game 1 on left

Hire Joe Morgan?

10:07

There was an outside curve. Is the change a function of how he pitches at different times? Maybe he starts working outside as the game goes on, the way some pitchers work in another pitch?

Wire Fan

10:08

So what is Strasburg looking at in FA? 6 years/160-170M? More?

MAXIMVS MVNCIVS

10:08

Dan which of the Mozart Piano Concertos has the highest WAR?

I still love the No.20 on the Fortepiano (period instrument)

Dan Szymborski

10:08

If that's what floats your boat, Bilson/Gardiner

Matt

10:09

Is there anyway for us to come back from needing "do not attempt" printed at the bottom of the commercial where the guy falls out of a high rise window?

Nick Dika

10:10

Smells Like Teen Spirit was playing over the PA. Walker Buehler was born three months after Kurt Cobain died.

Dan Szymborski

10:10

Dodgers swung at 45 of Strasburg's 85 pitches in first game, 33 of 73 tonight.

Hire Joe Morgan?

10:10

Will Buehler break Hersheiser's record in the postseason?!? (At what point does it become a streak?)

Dan Szymborski

10:11

Probably not. It's a streak!

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

10:11

Dan, Nick, everybody, are we really all brought together by the crunch of delicious Utz Quality Foods, Inc. snack foods?

Dan Szymborski

10:11

I'm just noting.

Yup, I'm eating crab chips

Nick Dika

10:11

I had not consumed an Utz product in many years. I'm a Humpty Dumpty cheese stick man.

Dystopian Future

10:11

Who's the best looking baseball player?

Dan Szymborski

10:12

My girlfriend's super into joey votto for some reason

Nick Dika

10:12

Trea Turner is super good looking

Dystopian Future

10:12

And why is it Kevin Kiermaier

Belli Flop

10:12

Utz makes me make the sound of their name

Hire Joe Morgan?

10:12

I am crunching delicious salty peanut butter pretzels. They are not Utz.

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