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Will

2:36

Brandon Marsh is not playing well at all. Even with the IL stays of Trout and Upton, is there any probability that Marsh will be sent back to AAA, before the minor league season ends?

Anthony Franco

2:36

Yeah I wouldn't be shocked if this happens. His Triple-A experience is still pretty limited

Will

2:37

Regarding Ted's question about the Tigers' timeline, what if they are able to reconnect with Verlander AND get one of the shortstops?

Anthony Franco

2:38

Helps but I still wouldn't pick them as a playoff team going into 2021. Verlander has basically lost two full years and he'll be 39 years old

2:39

Not saying I wouldn't want to take a shot if I were Detroit, but there's real downside potential too unfortunately

mmddyyyy

2:39

How many games do you watch everyday?

Anthony Franco

2:39

Start to finish? Zero on most days

2:40

I'll typically have one on as background when it overlaps with my shift for coverage, but I bounce between games based on the score

J J

2:40

How well do you think MLB handled the Field of Dreams game?

Anthony Franco

2:40

Case in point

2:41

Didn't see the whole thing, but I watched a couple innings and thought it came out surprisingly well

2:42

I don't like the movie, and so I wasn't all that excited for the idea. But the aesthetic worked better than I expected and people seemed to love it. I like it as a once-a-year kind of thing and hope they do more stuff at different locations

Paul

2:43

Once you add Wild Cards, and thinking of competitive fairness, (I know, not an MLB criteria as compared to economics and profitability), don’t you have to go to a balanced scheduled, or at least a much more balanced schedule? for instance, as an analytical exercise, how many times would the Jays have made the playoffs since 1993 if they had been in the Central? (Don’t think that can be done, because one would have to adjust for strength/weakness of schedule, but hopefully, the point is clear). But if the AL East and NL West migh both supply two Wild Card teams, with an unbalanced schedule, doesn’t that say something? And if it does, what does it say?

Anthony Franco

2:45

It doesn't really bother me; I'd be cool with either. I think that division rivals always playing one another makes for more drama. But yeah, balanced schedules would probably make for fairer races as you said, so that'd be fine if they went that way

Bob Graf

2:45

I saw the Atlantic League is moving the mound back one foot so MLB can evaluate the results. If Manfred wants more offense, he should mandate underhand pitching and aluminum bats. Problem solved. In my opinion, this Commissioner is a joke. I wouldn’t let him run a yard sale.

Anthony Franco

2:46

I'm not Manfred's biggest fan either, but I don't hate that they're experimenting with stuff in indy ball

2:47

A lot of people don't like the way the extremity of the modern game (deeper counts, strikeouts, homers, etc). But I have no reason to believe teams or players are going to course correct on their own, because pitchers' strikeouts and hitters' homers correlate better with winning games than contact

2:49

Well, not entirely -- wish I could edit that final sentence -- but hitting for power at the expense of an uptick in strikeouts is often more valuable for hitters

2:50

So at that point, I think the league should be willing to step in and play around with the rules (even stuff like banning the shift I don't personally support) to try to get a more entertaining on-field product

Greggo

2:50

What are the current odds for winning the World Series for the Giants

Anthony Franco

2:50

FanGraphs has them at 5%. I think that's low

2:51

I'd probably have them at like 10%

Guest

2:51

DIDN’T LIKE THE MOVIE!!!!????

Anthony Franco

2:51

Lol I figured I might get one of these

2:53

I'm not big on sports movies generally. They get a little too sentimental at times and I'm not a huge fan of dramatized underdog stories, since I can watch real sports and be more surprised by the wild swings and chaos

mmddyyyy

2:53

Do you think 2 is the most games you could expect a team to play in a day? Doubleheaders are pretty taxing, especially as rosters are currently constructed, but how much worse would a tripleheader be?

Anthony Franco

2:54

Yeah the players would absolutely hate this haha

Bullpens would be wrecked, per-game attendance would be really low, everybody would be exhausted

Tony

2:55

Does it count as one of the allowed mound visits when the manager comes out and removes the pitcher?

Anthony Franco

2:55

Is it me or….

2:55

….or are all the Mets hitters streaky (minus Nimmo, Davis). Could that explain their low Batting average with RISP?

Anthony Franco

2:58

I think you're trying to attach a narrative that's not really there. Guys like Conforto, Lindor and Alonso have all had better seasons hitting with RISP in the past

2:59

The lineup's been really disappointing this year overall and I'm not really sure what happened. But I don't think they're inherently more streaky or less clutch than other teams, since those guys have been good before

Alright everybody, gotta run to take over the main feed

3:00

Always enjoy talking with you all, and you can hit me with any questions on Twitter @affranco10 during the week

Have a good weekend!

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