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AvatarJay Jaffe
12:41
Happy Opening Day 2019 v2.0, and welcome to our Very Long Chat. Craig Edwards, Paul Sporer and I are warming up at our respective keyboards, practicing our quips and disses, and crunching all kinds of numbers in order to scientifically predict every aspect of the baseb — wait, scrap that last one, it still can't be one in 2019. In any event, we'll get things started here around 1 pm, give or take, but feel free to fill the queue with your questions in the meantime.
Craig Edwards
12:48
We have lineups for actual baseball games that start during my normal waking hours, and in 15 minutes, we are going to be able to watch those games. Get excited.
12:53
Which early game are you watching?
Orioles-Yankees (21.9% | 44 votes)
 
Mets-Nationals (65.7% | 132 votes)
 
Both (12.4% | 25 votes)
 
Total Votes: 201
FrodoBeck
12:56
I have done nothing at work all day and I blame baseball
Craig Edwards
12:56
Your afternoon doesn't look much better from a productivity perspective.
12:58
Yankee stadium's pump up music for the National Anthem is Daft Punk.
AvatarJay Jaffe
12:59
Daft Punk is Playing at Babe Ruth's House
Jeff
12:59
no kyle schwarber?! ugh...i get it's lefty/lefty, but heyward is also lefty...i don't like it...
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:00
It's always good to get that first complaint about the lineup out of the way early.
Craig Edwards
1:00
He now knows how many games he'll be starting this series so maybe that plays into it.
Wolfes
1:00
What could ( relatively realistically) happen today that would cause you to declare this the best Opening Day ever?
Matt
1:01
Yanks against Cashner in the Bronx. Who scores more runs today, the Yankees, or the other 3 ALE teams not in this game combined?
Craig Edwards
1:01
The other ALE teams. Maybe Cashner surprises.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:01
Multiple no-hitters would do it for me as far as Best Opening Day ever. That or a 5-homer game by somebody, or two 4-homer games in the same contest
1:02
I would also accept Vlad Guerrero Jr. tunneling up to home plate despite not being on the roster, and hitting a home run
I'm Not Happ-y
1:02
Ian Happ can't homer on the first pitch today :(
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:02
I'm taking the Yankees in that one. Cashner isn't somebody I expect to catch lightning in a bottle
FrodoBeck
1:03
Who is the most underrated player in baseball?
Craig Edwards
1:03
Mike Trout
Matt
1:03
The Pirates will make the world series behind stellar pitching, Kang's return, and a deadline trade for a bat to boost the lineup.  Am I crazy?
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:03
Jose Ramirez, who's placed 3rd in the AL MVP voting in each of the past two seasons, gets my vote for most underrated
Craig Edwards
1:04
Probably, but the Pirates are a decent team and with a few breaks they could get in the playoffs. It's possible mid 80s win gets the wild card with how close all the teams are.
concerned cubbie
1:05
how concerned should i be that the chicago cubs are starting david bote and mark zagunis on opening day?
Craig Edwards
1:06
Based on the questions we are getting, Cubs fans are in for a very stressful season no matter what happens. It's Opening Day. Try and enjoy it.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:07
Maybe it's the lack of familiar faces but I find the current Pirates team to be their most depressing collection in years. Outside of Chris Archer and Jameson Taillon, I can't get excited about anyone on that roster, and I think they'll bring up the rear in the NL Central by a much wider margin than we've projected.
Somebody will have to convince me otherwise.
Tom
1:07
Play Ball!
Anonymous
1:07
base ball base ball base ball base ball base ball
Ian
1:07
Happy baseball, everyone!
Craig Edwards
1:08
Scherzer gets today off to a great start.
Mitch
1:08
Merry Baseballmas, Jay and Craig and Paul!
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:09
First pitch at Yankee Stadium coming from Unanimous Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, and I've got a case of the Feels
5 Run Homer
1:11
Lol that slider must have been a fun intro to MLB for Alonso
Craig Edwards
1:12
Alonso had as good of a PA you can have that ends at wailing away on a pitch well out of the strike zone. He got the count full and fouled one off at least. I don't think pitchers in the minors are throwing that Scherzer pitch on 3-2.
1:13
Robinson Cano gets the Mets on the board. The trade worked.
BigTuna
1:14
No Renfroe in the SD lineup. He's likely to be squeezed out this year, no?
RR
1:14
Is the Mets-Nationals pitching matchup the best opening day matchup in recent memory? All-time?
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:14
With the Rays' Blake Snell versus the Astros' Justin Verlander, and deGrom-Scherzer as well, this is just the second time that both Cy Young winners have faced their runners-up on the same Opening Day. In 1979, Ron Guidry (Yankees) faced runner-up Mike Caldwell (Brewers) and Gaylord Perry (Padres) faced Burt Hooton (Dodgers). Given that Caldwell was pretty much a journeyman who had a big year and that only one of those 4 wound up in Cooperstown, compared to the possibility of more (Verlander and Scherzer have moved into "probably" territory for me, and that's conservative), I'll say that this is a better slate than that. But without looking for something involving Koufax/Drysdale/Marichal/Spahn/Gibson, or, like, Mathewson/Three-Finger Brown, where both starters went to the Hall, I am not sure about the all-time answer.
Craig Edwards
1:15
That's a possibility, though there's usually a path to playing  for extra outfielders during the season.
Nate
1:15
Can someone tell the Baseball Tonight crew to tone it down re: Yankees. Yikes.
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