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He Hate Me

9:32

Freeland with 50 pitches thru 4 IP. Over/under 2.0 times through the lineup for him?

Craig Edwards

9:32

Over.

KhrushOakland

9:33

How many more outs do you give Freeland if he continues like this?

Craig Edwards

9:33

all of them.

or maybe through 7.

Nick Powels

9:33

Who will be the Patrick Mahomes over baseball in 2019?

Craig Edwards

9:33

Pat Venditte

Mitch

9:34

Am I crazy for liking Alex Rodriguez do this baseball commentator thing?

Dystopian Future

9:34

Between the Cubs and Rockies, who has more to lose this game? Is it the Cubs under the big media market pressure, or the Rockies because they might get bumped in the WC game again?

Dan Szymborski

9:34

I think Rockies do.

Craig Edwards

9:34

I agree with Dan.

Meg Rowley

9:34

Though the expectations for them were lower, I agree.

Dan Szymborski

9:34

They're running out of time with Arenado and they have a real confusing disinterest in addressing difficult decisions with their team.

9:35

They essentially need two MVPs a year in the lineup to get the lineupa round league-average. That's hard to sustain.

Meg Rowley

9:35

Easy to fix, annoyingly unaddressed.

Manny Pete

9:35

Cubs definitely they are not getting any younger

Meg Rowley

9:35

None of us are.

Dan Szymborski

9:36

Says you. I'm hoping to get back into my thirties in 2019.

PitchClocksPlease

9:37

Freeland has not faced 30 batters in a game all season. Last 3 starts...28, 29, 29. Coincidence or is that perhaps an actual limit the Rockies use on him?

Craig Edwards

9:38

He also pitches in a home park where you get fatigued more quickly. But somewhere around there is probably the limit, yes.

He Hate Me

9:38

The funny thing about the Rockies is that everyone hates the moves they make but somehow they've been top-5 in the league two years in a row. (And I'm not a Rockies fan.)

Meg Rowley

9:38

The Rockies play half their games in Coors, and had a team wRC+ of 87 this year.

Dystopian Future

9:39

Another question. When we look back in 3 years at this rotation who will we say was the best starter of the Rockies' bunch? Gray, Freeland, Marquez, someone else?

Dan Szymborski

9:39

And that's an 87 with *two* legitimate MVP candidates in the lineup.

Craig Edwards

9:39

I'd lean Marquez right now, but Gray is close.

Dan Szymborski

9:39

That's like running a 12 minute mile when you're allowed to DRIVE A CAR HALF THE WAY

Anonymous

9:39

Coors penalizes wRC+ overly harshly

Craig Edwards

9:39

I think it penalizes it the right amount.

Dan Szymborski

9:39

That effect is exaggerated - the Coors hangover theory is wortha few points

9:40

Not enough to make them remotely good.

Meg Rowley

9:40

As a weird bit of roster construction, I don't dislike them being led by pitching because that is weird, and I like weird stuff. But this is... not good.

Dan Szymborski

9:40

We're talking that *maybe* 80 wRC+ were truly, say, 83-84 guys. It doesn't make Desmond or Parra or Cargo or Wolters etc. etc. good.

Guest

9:40

Does ESPN have their own WAR metric? Some of these are crazy.

Dan Szymborski

9:40

They use BR, I believe.

Craig Edwards

9:41

I don't believe so. I'm guessing they use baseball reference, which uses DRS, which has a wider range for players that will lead to some big swings.

Lunar verLander

9:41

Any idea why they use BR instead of Fangraphs?

Meg Rowley

9:41

They dislike me personally. I have apologized to my coworkers.

(no, I don't know)

He Hate Me

9:42

David Bote with the David Bowie walk-up music. Can't argue with that.

Craig Edwards

9:42

I'm partial to Ziggy Stardust myself.

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