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Jeff Sullivan

6:27

Green did exceptionally well to escape the jam in the first, but when relievers lose their steam, they lose it in a hurry

Uncle Jimbo

6:28

This is basically the alternate channel.

Johnny Bench

6:28

if Gary Sanchez can't block the plate, how did he save 8 runs on defense?

Travis Sawchik

6:28

And what a channel

Jeff Sullivan

6:28

Blocking isn't very important, relative to throwing and framing

Travis has a very pleasing voice. It's one thing you're missing in this text-based format

Anonymous

6:29

What's the cliff's notes skinny on Berrios?

Jeff Sullivan

6:29

Very good breaking ball, struggles against lefties

Travis Sawchik

6:29

Jeff has The Face for TV

Avi

6:30

Didn't MLB stream a couple games as "MLB Now" last year and had the MLBAM guys on to talk sabermetrics on the broadcast? Supposedly the numbers were so bad, hence they stopped it almost immediately.

Jeff Sullivan

6:30

I don't have The Suits

Travis Sawchik

6:30

But they didn't have us

Jeff Sullivan

6:30

Yeah, they did some...MLB Plus? or whatever it was called, but again, not much demand, unfortunately

Jhey

6:30

This is fun...too bad I won't be able to stay up past the 5th

Sharp

6:31

What role does CC serve being on the roster?

Jeff Sullivan

6:31

Starting games

Travis Sawchik

6:31

How many kids on the East Coast will see the end of this game?

Jeff Sullivan

6:31

Or you mean tonight? Just insurance

Travis Sawchik

6:31

Pays to have 30 ft/sec Sprint Speed

Jeff Sullivan

6:31

There's that Buxton speed!

RyanW

6:32

Is 25 still a kid? Either way the answer for two thumbs here is "unlikely"

Jeff Sullivan

6:32

Really nice job by Gregorius, not that it mattered

Travis Sawchik

6:32

Baseball does have a pace problem

Hugh

6:32

The MLB Plus whatever was terrible. Nerds fawning over spin rate and other saber stats and not talking about the game. Watching one of those gave me respect for all the real TV and radio guys. It's a skill to weave a narrative and keep the audience engaged.

Jeff Sullivan

6:33

Ball in the dirt, Buxton moves up...

Travis Sawchik

6:33

So Statcast Vin Scully?

Jeff Sullivan

6:33

Something I wish more people would understand, like Hugh here: being an announcer is very, very hard. Tremendously underrated skill to be able to speak about a game for 200 minutes

Travis Sawchik

6:33

Pretty shocking that Sanchez rates as above-average framer

To me, anyway

Jeff Sullivan

6:34

There are times I think the numbers might be missing something

Travis Sawchik

6:34

Agreed

Jeff Vader

6:34

Depending on how many pictures the winning team has to go through tonight, I'm wondering what sort of downstream impact that will have on the upcoming divisional series

Lachlan

6:34

I have class in 3 hours so if this game could not go 18 innings that'd be great

Jeff Sullivan

6:34

Kids, win your divisions

Travis Sawchik

6:34

What kind of class? Where?

David S.

6:35

I still think there's a ton of noise in framing stats, like pitcher quality and really shitty umpires

Jeff Sullivan

6:35

I'm inclined to agree. I don't think the numbers do enough to control for pitcher identity

Travis Sawchik

6:36

I'd be curious to see how clubs are evaluating receiving

I assume some teams are having their folks go back and evaluate all framing chances

Jeff Sullivan

6:36

I imagine they check the numbers against the eye test. If you don't see the technique, you don't believe the stats

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