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Guest
4:26
Really sad no one is calling this a joust, LANCE Lynn vs. LANCE McCullers. BECAUSE THAT IS HILARIOUS.
Joey Caltrain
4:27
Sorry if I missed some news, but why isn't Andrew Vaughn in the lineup today?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:29
Likely because he doesn't hit righties (.221/.277/.332) and Adam Engel does
AvatarJon Becker
4:27
I'm assuming this is just to get another lefty (Sheets) in there against McCullers
Luke Hooper
4:27
Yea, I definitely did not get the joust joke earlier. I get it now.
4:28
Vaughn has a 31 wRC+ since I wrote about him in August. I'll take the L on that one Sox fans.
Guest
4:28
Vaughn has also been battling injury and ineffectiveness over the past month or so, while Sheets has consistently produced when given a shot.
James
4:29
Any thoughts on the guy with the highest WRC+ among players  still in the playoffs batting 7th?
AvatarJon Becker
4:30
Re: Tucker, Owen had a great explainer on that at the end of last month https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-tucker-is-hitting-seventh-and-thats-f...
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:30
Feels like a throwback to the time when Dusty Baker's batting orders made very little sense.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:32
But the above article (which I hadn't seen previouslY) offers a reasonable explanation.
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:31
A quick programming note: Washington Post national baseball writer Chelsea Janes is one of the guests on tomorrow's FanGraph Audio episode. She covered both Wildcard games.
Joe
4:32
Are the White Sox the coolest team left?
AvatarJon Becker
4:32
Very high Fun Differential
4:33
Aaaaaaaand that's why you can deal with Maldonado's 63 wRC+
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:33
Did someone ask earlier about why Maldonado plays?
Luke Hooper
4:33
Amazing throw, perfect tag.
TKDC
4:34
All the people bashing analytics because Kevin Cash took Snell out early are praising analytics for Dave Roberts pulling Scherzer, right? Right? RIGHT?
AvatarJon Becker
4:34
Completely different scenarios, I'd say. Scherzer was absolutely laboring
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:35
yeah, Scherzer was a mechanical mess. Did a great job of keeping the Dodgers in the game but there was only so far Roberts could push that.
and the job that the Dodgers' bullpen did afterwards vindicated the move
Luke Hooper
4:36
Plus it gave us an all-time great coach/player mound interaction
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:36
With tonight's game in mind, the other Sox were easy to run against this season.
BringBackDeSpanielHair
4:36
"Prodigious" just got used properly on a national broadcast. This game is already delivering the goods
Jacob
4:37
I do think the Brewers are pretty cool with Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Hader, Adames, Garcia, Yelich, Wong. They are fun!
Luke Hooper
4:38
Brewers are definitely up there in fun factor. Losing Williams and his changeup is a big knock though.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:38
That Brewers pitching staff is sick. When I wrote about Devin Williams' injury, I noted that they had seven pitchers each with a pitch that was among the 33 most valuable in the majors according to Statcast https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-brewers-devin-williams-has-punched-him...
Guest
4:38
What happened to Christian Vázquez's arm?
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:38
A big part of the issue in Boston is that runners got good jumps, resulting in hurried throws.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:39
How about Bellinger running on Molina twice last night?
Luke Hooper
4:41
I wish we still had catcher poptime info on Savant.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:41
i forgot it was there TBH
AvatarJon Becker
4:41
Adam Amin talking about how Gurriel's only gotten better as he's aged, but I do want to point out how insane both he and José Abreu were in Cuba: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/should-yuli-gurriel-and-jose-abreu-be-hall...
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:43
I saw Gurriel play for the Cuban team during the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Went down to Puerto Rico for the first round of games. That was freakin' cool.
TKDC
4:43
I didn’t say they were the same scenarios. I didn’t say Cash didn’t deserve criticism. The bashing of analytics was what was stupid.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:43
this is re Scherzer/Snell
"analytics" often functions as a Rorschach blot for critics of whatever is transpiring. All we know is that those nerds need to pull their heads out of a spreadsheet and watch a ballgame
Here's Tucker batting 7th in a big spot
AvatarJon Becker
4:44
Good baserunning there by Alvarez, really tough for an OF to square himself to throw when his momentum's going in the other direction
4:46
Jake Meyers: 147 wRC+ in AAA, followed it up with 111 in his first taste of the majors: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jake-meyers/20308/stats?position=OF
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:46
Apropos of nothing, Lance Lynn's first career win came against the Astros back in 2011.
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