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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 5/7/19
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Meg Rowley
2:01
Hello all!
Welcome to the chat.
BEES
2:01
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bob
2:01
Big League Choo
2:01
Which weighs more: 10 pounds of baseballs or 10 pounds of bees?
Meg Rowley
2:02
On my soul? The bees for sure. Much harder to dodge.
Justin
2:02
In a Fantasy Dynasty league would dropping Keuchel for Whitley be a good move?
Meg Rowley
2:02
Sure! Seems logical, if one is constructing a dynasty. That is what one does in dynasty leagues, right? It's like Risk?
Lukas
2:02
Thoughts on the Padres?
Meg Rowley
2:03
They are tremendously fun to watch. Especially when Paddack pitches (more on him soon, I promise), but even when he doesn't. I picked them in Sam, Ben, and I's Fun Team draft on Effectively Wild, and I am quite content with my choice.
Chris
2:03
Is Domingo the second coming of Nelson Cruz. By that I mean a guy who is the rare full time DH type who occasionally can play LF. Seems like the mariners should trade Healy/vogs too and open up that spot completely
Meg Rowley
2:05
In this run environment, I mean, maybe, but he's different than Cruz in that Cruz is more consistent producer, and his power profile isn't as reliant on the current state of the ball.
2:06
I have seen three people hit the ball out of what was then Safeco during BP: Nelson Cruz, Giancarlo Stanton, and Mike Zunino
Just clear on out of there
That is hard!
Zorak
2:07
How many scouts are re-evaluating Vlad after his truly putrid start to his ML career? He's looked completely and utterly lost. He's chasing bad pitches and when he does make contact it results in a groundball.
Meg Rowley
2:08
It's been what, 37 PAs? Would we have all preferred he immediately light the world on fire upon coming up? Oh sure. But he's gonna be just fine.
Bryan
2:08
Amed Rosario for Andrelton Simmons.  Who says no?
Meg Rowley
2:08
The Angels.
TwinsWin
2:09
Martin Perez was at best mediocre. He added a cutter which has been very successful.  Can he continue success, or will the hitters eventually catch up?
Meg Rowley
2:11
I'm pretty encouraged. Hard not to be when you couple the jump in strikeouts with the decline in home runs, which, how is that working in 2019? I need to dig on him further (I've only seen parts of two of his starts) but early returns look really promising.
If a Martin Perez led rotation helps fell Cleveland... Jeez, baseball rocks (sorry Cleveland fans).
JS
2:12
we are hear to talk about Chris Paddack, right? good. the most beautiful thing from my perspective is that you can create tension without headhunting.
Jason N
2:12
How long does Paddack have to keep it up before he’s recognized as a true #1?
Meg Rowley
2:13
Paddack was my ROY pick going into the season, not because I am so smart or fancy or anything, but because that fastball is just good, good fun, and I like good, good fun, and it's boring for our staff to pick all the same guys. I feel very smart and fancy now. How he sequenced stuff yesterday was so impressive. That command is greattt fun. And yeah, the flare is good, too.
2:15
He's going to need to go longer than this to be in the No. 1 convo in a real way but he's near the top of our leaderboards for a reason.
Johnny5Alive
2:15
Mets doing last year met things. Glad brodie traded prospects for all this 'depth' #lolmets. Silver lining is maybe callaway is a goner.
Meg Rowley
2:16
I know I snarked on the Mets last week, and they are quite snarkable, but I think this is perhaps an overreaction. Depth is good, even if they aren't playing well right now, and even if they are making some goofy lineup/reliever usage choices.
Gaslamp Gary
2:17
I am probably the ONLY one who will ask a Chris Paddack question...   He already has a 1.4 WAR. The best Padres pitcher last season was Joey Lucchesi with 1.0 WAR. Over the whole season. Paddack will be the best Padres pitcher since Jake Peavy. This year.
Meg Rowley
2:17
He is Very Good and Very Fun, and almost so much of both that I am willing forgive the young man choice of the full sheriff ensemble, which could read as deeply silly but which I now like.
Sunday German
2:18
Domingo German. He's been fantastic this season, and now he's coming off a great game against a strong Twins lineup. How real is this start, and how much do you think the Yankees might want to manage his innings as the season wears on?
Meg Rowley
2:19
Quite real I think, and I'm sure, given both his prior season highs for IP and the general state of their rotation, that they'll be careful, or at least, as careful as that rotation's health allows.
Sung Min wrote a good thing on him a little bit ago: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/domingo-german-is-finding-consistency/
You should read that, I think.
Big League Choo
2:19
What if a certain batter got really good at appearing to be hit by pitches that really just miss him. Like Oscar-worthy performances that were good enough to fool the umpires 20 times a year. Would this be praised as a cool skill like pitch framing, or considered poor sportspersonship?
Meg Rowley
2:20
So in this scenario, do we know he is faking, but he is able to continue faking?
2:21
I think more than pitch framing it would be something an ump would be on the lookout for, should a batter develop that reputation. It's a much rarer event, so it wouldn't require the vigilance framing stuff does, plus HBP is a reviewable play, so you know the other team would be on watch.
The Human Rain Delay
2:22
Feels like you missed on the question the other week about how best to amass 50 WAR in a career -- even considering the money you'd leave on the table and the brevity of your imaginary career, the answer is clearly to do it all in one season, right?
Meg Rowley
2:22
My answer was, if you recall, predicated on the idea that feeling lousy at work is pretty terrible and a thing to be avoided.
Jessica
2:23
Can you explain the Wander Javier meme to me? Because I... don't get it.
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