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| 2:06 | the one that asks the lunch query: What’s for lunch? |
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| 2:09 | Yeah Well Hiura Towel: Jay, how lengthy til we get a actual playing scandal in MLB? i.e. one truly involving gamers betting or offering insider information? |
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| 2:12 | Josh: Where are you on Andy Pages? Above-average common going ahead or nervous concerning the swing and miss, nonetheless? |
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| 2:15 | Talfred: Although Volpe has come again right down to earth after his scorching begin, have we seen sufficient to say with confidence that he’s a considerably higher participant than he confirmed final yr? |
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| 2:18 | BLEES: Edwin Diaz throwing a USDA Certified Meatball final night time was simply what the physician ordered for this Cubs offense. If they will cling above .500 till Belli and Suzuki are again are they the staff to beat within the NLC? |
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| 2:22 | Travis: Is it time to be involved about Acuna but? He seems to be rooooough and the numbers again it up |
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| 2:26 | Matt VW: Thinking about your article on under substitute degree vets, Xander Bogaerts is off to a fairly bumpy begin too. He’s not that previous, however is at a second in his profession the place we would infer the beginning of a decline section for a center infielder. Is this extra of an “it’s April” factor, or do the underlying date point out some trigger for greater than common concern? |
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| 2:29 | Travis: I imply, baseball gamers aren’t any smarter than another athletes and also you simply had a scandal within the NBA, and a number of playing suspensions within the NFL |
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| 2:31 | Underperforming Vets: What do you consider Arozarena and Bogaerts? Both have been brutal to start out the yr and we’re over the 100 PAs mark. |
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| 2:34 | Rick: You talked about Castellanos in your under substitute article and he does look horrible. Swinging at every part off the plate. Looks like Baez chasing. Not that way back he was a very good hitter. Do you assume he ultimately turns it round or completely cooked? |
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| 2:37 | MikeD: Aaron Judge is on tempo to hit into 48 DPs, which might shatter the MLB document, and has a BABiP 50 pts. under his profession common. Cause for concern, which means the primary indicators of age regression, or only a gradual begin? |
| 2:39 | Realistically, he’s by no means going to supply like 2022 once more, and his swing requires a good bit of upkeep however I hardly assume we’ve seen the final of him as an offensive power. |
| 2:40 | v2micca: It’s early, however final nights Braves Mariners recreation needs to be frontrunner for Pitching duel of the season. |
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| 2:43 | Anon21: The balls are deader. (37 PA/HR this yr, 33 PA/HR final yr over the identical interval.) Could this be disproportionately hurting groups just like the Braves whose strategy was optimized for the livelier ball? Just attempting to grasp why Acuña, Riley, and Olson are all doing poorly and seemingly getting worse. |
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| 2:48 | Sodo Mojo: The Mariner’s offense has been pretty woeful thus far this yr. Do you assume Garver, Raley, and Polanco will rebound or are the Mariners going to must do some important procuring on the deadline? |
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| 2:52 | M’s Fan: Once Woo returns, do the the M’s have the most effective rotation in baseball? |
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| 2:57 | Vance: With Holiday despatched down, what do you assume the probabilities are that Baltimore calls up Mayo or Norby over the subsequent month or two to take Urias’s at-bats? |
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| 3:01 | BLEES: Which NL staff outdoors of Atlanta and the Dodgers has the most effective shot to safe a bye this yr? |
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| 3:04 | danny: is Jo Adell lastly breaking out offensively? not an excessive amount of knowledge but however xwoba trying nice and okay charge drop particularly encouraging |
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| 3:07 | Crazy Question: What would Sonny Gray must do to get into the HoF? I see only a few SP from this period getting in except the requirements change. I don’t assume he at the moment has any likelihood, however he appears to be getting old like a positive wine. If he can put up a 5 WAR seasons with STL, after which stick round as a mean SP till 40, does that give him any shot? |
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| 3:09 | AL Central Casting: I’ve learn articles suggesting particular gamers quit switch-hitting as a result of they're significantly poor from one aspect. It appears to me there could be a troublesome studying curve to doing so, since they’d not solely be giving up the platoon benefits primarily based on physics and geometry, but additionally the truth that they’d be seeing same-side pitching for the primary time in an extended whereas (if ever). Wouldn’t it's extra useful to the staff to simply platoon them as a lot as doable? Related query: with the rise in specialization in baseball, will there be a time when switch-hitting is sort of extinct? |
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| 3:14 | Tommy: Which divisional race are you most excited to observe by means of October? Other than Dodgers most likely operating away with the NL West, the opposite 5 ought to have fairly tight races |
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| 3:15 | Elliott: How does Vladdy Jr. have a tough hit% of 54% and a .351 slugging%, unhealthy luck or one thing else? |
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| 3:17 | Re: Nats: With all these younger shortstops (Henderson, De La Cruz, Volpe, Abrams) what would their extension numbers be? Are all of them in Bobby Witt territory? |
| 3:22 | Anon21: I don’t imply that the Braves deliberate their strategy across the ball per se–I imply they’ve adopted a reasonably all-or-nothing strategy to hitting that’s predicated on the anticipated worth of the “all” (making good contact). If that anticipated worth has meaningfully decreased, it may depart them excessive and dry. |
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| 3:25 | Alex Anthopoulos: If you might be ducking since you vehemently acknowledged that Betts shoud have been the MVP, then you already know that one thing is just not proper in it. Care to broaden? |
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| 3:26 | Dilly Dog: Think PCA finally ends up going again down, or if he hits he sticks? |
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| 3:30 | Johnny: Is NOLAN JONES cooked – or is his horrible begin because of his damage? |
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| 3:32 | Joey Doughnuts: Has there ever been a place participant in MLB historical past with as steep of an increase and subsequent fall as Kris Bryant? I really feel like folks don’t speak about this practically sufficient. |
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| 3:36 | André René Roussimoff: Are the Daulton Varsho’s offensive enhancements for actual? Thanks, Jay. |
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| 3:39 | Tim: I actually just like the Mets metropolis join however others have ripped them. What say you? |
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| 3:40 | Re: Kris Bryant: Cody Bellinger? |
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| 3:42 | Re: Sonny Gray: I agree in the mean time Gray doesn’t have the numbers, however extra of a hopeful. He is ninth on the lively pitcher bWAR checklist wtih some certain hearth HOF above him however retiring quickly. Cole, Nola, and Wheeler are the one others from this era to look to also have a likelihood with good getting old. I don’t assume we'll see many pitchers placing up 50 WAR careers and it appears somebody hitting that mark may probably turn into the HoF standards if you need any pitchers in. |
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Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior author for FanGraphs, the creator of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame evaluation. He based the Futility Infielder web site (2001), was a columnist for Baseball Prospectus (2005-2012) and a contributing author for Sports Illustrated (2012-2018). He has been a recurring visitor on MLB Network and a member of the BBWAA since 2011, and a Hall of Fame voter since 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jay_jaffe... and BlueSky @jayjaffe.bsky.social.
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