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Eno Sarris
12:44
Hoskins. I think this boy gonna be good. 50% fly balls and a 4% whiff rate? I know it's only 29 PA but those are the numbers that are meaningful fastest, and even the projected 21/24% strikeout rates plus his power would make him very interesting.
Fire Matheny
12:44
Why do we not have a standard, more quantifiable way of measuring a manager's impact?
Eno Sarris
12:44
I tried and Matheny was near the bottom or last when it came to: putting his best relievers in the right spots, showing flexability when it came to using relievers in roles, and putting his best players in the right spots in the lineups.
Norrin Radd
12:45
I have inadvertently followed Rajai's career very closely because he always seems to be the first guy to come up on waivers when I'm looking for steals. My future grandkids better be ready for Rajai facts.
Eno Sarris
12:45
Dave Cameronaunepetitegraine
12:45
Let's take a second to appreciate Adam Warren. The guy has a 1.73 ERA and 0.77 Whip. and is basically the 5th guy in the bullpen
Eno Sarris
12:46
I always said he'd make a good NL starter because he doesn't have a great fastball but has three good pitches.
Jimmy F
12:46
Which pitcher is most likely to get saves going forward that isn't currently closing?
Eno Sarris
12:48
cheating: Jeurys Famila. Otherwise: Blake Parker due to Cam injury, Jose Leclerc.
Gradually Gollum
12:48
With Eric's newest prospect list just coming out, I have a quick question.  Has anyone ever lookses back on old listses to see if there is a nasty prospect type consistently overrated in such listses, Precious?  Does nasyt, stinking little scoutses overrate a particular aspect of a prosp-GOLLUM GOLLUM!
Eno Sarris
12:49
I've seen some look at tools and how they translate -- Jeff Zimmerman does good stuff here -- and I think speed is tantalizing to some prospect listmakers and is the least correlated to success.
CamdenWarehouse
12:50
regarding deliveries - it has been suggested that Baltimore's recent sustained success from the pen might be the result of the pitchers all giving different looks
Eno Sarris
12:50
Yeah they do a great job of finding guys with weird looks. Hard to know if that means the other guys are better because of their weird looks, or if it just means they found undervalued good relievers that are good because they are deceptive.
Hadji the Cat
12:50
Thoughts on great hybrid beers? I've recently had local microbrew versions of a brown-sour and a Belgian-brown. Both were interesting and worked surprisingly well.
Eno Sarris
12:51
Hoppy sours are my favorite.
Joey
12:51
Have you ever given advice to a baseballer before? Maybe not so direct like, "You should try doing _____ ", but simply bring up something you noticed in their mechanics etc. that could be fixed?
Eno Sarris
12:51
More and more often. "have you ever considered..." if just to have them tell me why not.
LegallyEagle
12:52
If a pitcher had 80 command, is even 40 stuff fine for that pitcher to be good in the majors?
Eno Sarris
12:52
What number would you put on Kyle Hendricks' stuff?
Aaron
12:53
Favorite Nashville breweries? Been loving your sour-heavy PNW recs of Storm, Holy Mountain and Cascade (Cloudburst in SEA was great too)
Eno Sarris
12:53
Jackalope? I just don't remember the beer that fondly or well.
Nihilist Eno
12:54
I was upset because I was late to Eno chat as I'm traveling. The disappointment fades as I realize that eno chats are nothing more than an artifice to distract from our depressing reality. Baseball is cool tho
Travis
12:54
At what point should minor league performance matter? I understand a guy like Moncada has ridiculous tools, but shouldn't the fact that he hasn't actually been able to put those tools to good use matter? Shouldn't a guy like Acuna, who has similar tools but also has the performance to back it up, be thought of more highly?
Eno Sarris
12:54
Each prospect analyst has a different mix of projectability, tools, skills, and actual performance.
Marty
12:54
Thor may have the best pure stuff.
12:55
Honeywell will have to end up on the 40-man soon or else he's subjecet to the Rule 5 draft, right?
Eno Sarris
12:55
Yeah probably. But the Rays want to keep every last asset as long as possible, is the general answer.
Bitter
12:55
The best/closest thing to a bottle shop I've got is a Wegmans. I see rotating sours...they had Brooklyn's, they had Sexy Motherpucker, now Ommegang's sour pale ale, always have Sour Monkey, a bunch of goses, and a handful of others. But the Sisters are entering Seinfeld-White Whale levels
Eno Sarris
12:55
Weird. I'd pick Sour Monkey there.
Tim
12:55
Would it be fair to say what makes a good slider is also what makes it the biggest health risk?
Eno Sarris
12:56
... yes. Sliders generally put less stress on the elbow via MOTUS, but if you correct for velo, they put more per mph, so if you throw a 94 mph slider...
Sonny
12:56
Be careful, Dr Funk's phd is in comparative literature and she will be of no use to you in a medical emergency
Marty
12:57
Feels like Duda would make a good Boston FA signing
Eno Sarris
12:57
Yeah but they'll have the run of the place and can take their time.
Salvador on my DL too
12:57
Re: Albies/Altuve comp, does that make him a potential keeper in a 20 team keep 8? I get the whole "depends on your team" part of the equation, but just generally, a top 160 type in a keeper?
Eno Sarris
12:57
For me, yeah.
Dave Cameronaunepetitegraine
12:59
A.J Burnett had a solid career as a 2 pitch pitcher. Was his stuff so good that he was able to? (Better than all those "failing" 2 pitch pitchers)
Eno Sarris
12:59
Probably also helped that the second pitch was a curve (like Hill) and that he actually manipulated it a bit to throw a secret harder slider type curve.
get me into the playoffs!
12:59
Please help me with a decision for today Eno. My team is fighting to hold onto the last playoff spot this week (H2H), and I'm trying to decide whether to roll Taillon against STL today. I can afford to bench one of my remaining starts, and this would be the most obvious sit. What do you feel like his odds are of having a quality start, and of having a blowup?
Eno Sarris
1:00
I'd roll him. 15 K against 3 BB in last two starts.
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