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Lzfreak
8:01
Hell yeah! Chats are back!
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:02
Greetings all. Go Astros. Go Phillies. Go baseball.
8:04
I got both a flu shot and a Covid booster yesterday, and am really dragging today, but fortunately I have a few energetic colleagues joining the chat shortly.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:04
Greetings peoples!
Justin Choi
8:04
Good morning from South Korea!
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:05
Man, Justin. I remember us getting up with you in 2020 to play KBO DFS.
Belli Flop
8:04
Baseball is so special.  Thank you to everyone at FanGraphs and in the community for helping make it so!
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:05
David. Justin. I believe Alex is joining us too at some point?
And there he is!
This has been a long stretch of no baseball
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:06
I talked to my wife!
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:05
Yes, I'm here! Sorry. Having an internet hiccup.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:06
Those are the worst! I had a real hell of an internet time the first few games of the playoffs.
Chris
8:07
Dusty Baker brought up Bill Cosby today... Oof
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:07
He's a bit behind with the news!
Rays stan
8:07
Don’t let this WS distract you from what Evan Reifert is doing in the Arizona Fall League
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:07
I just spent a week at AFL games. Don't believe I saw Reifert. Did see some greta baseball. Highly recommend the AFL.
The Stranger
8:07
Ugh, I did the flu/covid double vaccine and it knocked me out for a week.  Hopefully you do better than I did.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:08
My sister just got her second stint of COVID today. If she thinks I'm visiting or babysitting for like the next month, she's mistaken!
Devil Ray Jay Johnson
8:08
What order would you use the Astros relievers (assume Verlander goes 5 IP)?
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:08
Verlander has more of his own leash to any modern pitcher. Even in the postseason. Even in the World Series.
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:08
I think Verlander's outs prop was 16.5. I didn't make any bets on this game, but that could be close.
Lzfreak
8:09
Is this the most seemingly lopsided WS matchup in recent memory?
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:09
I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but in World Series history, the team with the better cord has won just over half the time.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:10
They never really describe someone as an incomplete player
The 6ix
8:10
Verlander’s career World Series ERA is astounding. Cue the Small Sample Size song.
Devil Ray Jay Johnson
8:10
For big games like this Ken Rosenthal should wear a spinning bow tie
Justin Choi
8:11
He should wear a bow tie-shaped suit
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:11
"Blurred vision" Good one, Joe.
Yo-Yo
8:11
Do you think the age of "get in and get lucky" is overblown, particularly in the NL? 5 of 6 NL playoff teams had a top 8 in MLB  payroll, with 4 in the top 5. The team that particularly builds for barely getting in (STL) is 1-9 in their last 10 playoff games.
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:11
Kind of amazing that the Cards have that record, but baseball will baseball.
Justin Choi
8:13
There's an argument to be made that in the playoffs, depth is less important than top-end talent, which can only be acquired through spending
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:12
I wasn't looking at the screen and I thought that was a new age Meow Mix commercial.
The Stranger
8:12
I could definitely see They Might Be Giants writing a song called Small Sample Size
Lzfreak
8:13
If you had to, how would you rank the careers of Verlander, Kershaw, Scherzer, Greinke?
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:13
I don't know but Kershaw's firmly first and Greinke's firmly last.
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:16
Best part of the days off is that the rotations align. Ace vs. ace and so forth. I'm a bit old school like that.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:16
Altuve is usually just around league-average for rate of swinging outside the strike zone. In Statcast, it's his lowest out of zone swing % since 2012.
Justin Choi
8:16
Nola's command is so good, it's unreal
Tigers2123
8:18
Well.....I thought he was overstating Altuve's free swinging a bit much but he nailed the call on the vulnerability to the outside pitch
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