JotCast | Yankees vs. Twins Division Series Game 1 Chat

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Meg Rowley

8:45

Hockey -- supposed to be better for your noggin, and I like my brain workin'.

Josh Herzenberg

8:45

Brains are cool

FanGraphs: pro-brains

stever20

8:46

what do you guys think of the Nats move to have Strasburg start tonight in game 2 on 2 days rest(with 34 pitches on Tuesday)?

Josh Herzenberg

8:47

Kind of a necessity. He hasn't relieved since he was a freshman in college, if I remember correctly, and didn't seem to have any trouble adjusting to it again this week. Perhaps he can make this adjustment, too. It's not ideal, but necessary

Juan Soto

8:48

Totally unrelated: who has a better fantasy outlook for next year, me or Rendon?

Josh Herzenberg

8:49

There are few things in baseball I know less about than fantasy. So, *shrug emoji* is my answer. Sorry

Meg Rowley

8:51

"gutting it up" sounds messy

Levi

8:51

Is Stanton usually this....slow?

Meg Rowley

8:53

still not totally healthy

Paul

8:54

Players look slower with baggy pants. This is a fact

Meg Rowley

8:54

are those pants considered baggy?

Josh Herzenberg

8:54

Last year he was an above average runner per statcast

8:55

73rd percentile 90 feet run time

Paul

8:55

^^^^ when he wore his socks high

Meg Rowley

8:56

Sure, but still, quite trim.

Jake

8:56

Meg how do you get all the info about the job postings you put up every day?

Meg Rowley

8:56

Teams reach out to me to get stuff posted.

Jake

8:57

That’s so cool

Meg Rowley

8:57

They've gotten some great candidates through our readership, which is pretty rad.

Jay Jaffe

8:59

Hey folks, I'm back, almost. Just catching up on this game via Tivo after an adventurous hour of trying to convince my 3-year-old daughter to go to bed.

Josh Herzenberg

8:59

Hello there, Jay

Meg Rowley

9:00

Hi Jay -- once Jay tags in, I'm going to tag out to go edit our Braves/Cardinals game piece.

Dystopian Future

9:02

For some number references, Stanton's 10ft running splits are 84th percentile, even though his 90ft splits are 73rd percentile, indicating some of of his "speed" comes from acceleration. He's been negative on both his burst and reaction in the field.

Jay Jaffe

9:02

and I'm up to live action just as Giancarlo Stanton makes a hash of things for the second time in left field. Woof

Meg Rowley

9:02

Ok pals, enjoy the rest of the chat -- might duck back in post editing.

Mad Joe-Don

9:02

Jay, does the li'l tyke still call home runs 'baseball runaways'?

Josh Herzenberg

9:02

Thanks Meg

Jay Jaffe

9:03

She does, and it's adorable. Which I try to remember in her less adorable times

Bye, Meg!

Josh Herzenberg

9:03

re: Stanton's run times - would be interesting to see if there's a correlation with body type and speed tendencies

9:04

(backpocket idea for a piece, perhaps)

9:05

Ottavino's SL horizontal movement is 116% better than league average

Lots of spin, lots of movement, lots of weak contact

Nico Robin

9:05

wow

Paul

9:06

Arraez's -8 DRS in 390 innings doesn't look like an aberration

Jay Jaffe

9:07

he's had a rough time out there from what I've seen. Gotta assume he's not 100% right now too. Rusty, at the very least. Hey, we saw Kolten Wong, statistically the best this year at 2B, have trouble yesterday as well

Don

9:08

Think the Yankees bring back Gardner next year?

Jay Jaffe

9:09

I suspect this is their last time around but I guess it depends on whether Hicks needs surgery. The roster really doesn't have a center fielder besides Hicks and Gardner, unless they can find all of Jacoby Ellsbury's body parts

Josh Herzenberg

9:10

Kahnle has more than doubled his changeup usage since 2017 and the average launch angle against it this year is negative. xwOBA of .192. Also in the 92nd percentile in fastball velocity league-wide. Should see a lot of high four seamers, low changeups here

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