JotCast | FanGraphs After Dark All-Star Game Live Blog - 7/12/16

FanGraphs After Dark All-Star Game Live Blog - 7/12/16

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TengoPreguntas

9:11

If you don't have neon cleats, you are a ZERO

Jeff Lunhow

9:12

Jim Bowden is reporting that we will be calling up Bregman sometime this weekend. This is not a drill

Paul Swydan

9:12

Jimmy Dollars!

If you guys have never read the Jimmy Dollars post, get on that right now. Dayn Perry at his finest.

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/internal-monologue-jim-bowdens-night-out/

Geoff

9:13

"This is the closest some of these folks will have been to playoff baseball" or whatever Smoltz said is the second dumbest thing that's been said tonight after remarking on how Ortiz leads in OPS, SLG, _and_ OPS, right?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:13

On Manfred comments, I was just looking back at the FB% data. If my quick check is correct, this is the first season when FB% and HR/FB have both increased in the same season

Paul Swydan

9:14

I haven't been the biggest Smoltz booster, but I've heard good things about him this year. Cautiously optimistic.

The Cincinnati Kid

9:15

Forget Robot Umps, can we get Robot Announcers to replace Buck?

Cowboy Joe Mae West

9:15

What are your two guys favourite style of articles on fangraphs (not written by yourselves)? Batting adjustments, potential trade articles, right fielder positional rankings, fantasy stuff?

Paul Swydan

9:16

My favorite stuff is usually the stuff that Jeff or August or Dave do where they pull out something random and go really in depth on it, but not so in depth that it doesnt feel trivial.

Nice send off for Papi!

Jeff Zimmerman

9:16

I like prospect stuff and whenever we can get Bill Petti to write something

Paul Swydan

9:17

Yeah, but that's down to almost once a year now.

TengoPreguntas

9:17

So on a real note, why does this exhibition game count for something that (at least seems like) is a big deal like hofa in the ws?

Paul Swydan

9:18

Because baseball is slow to change and no one wants to say that Selig was wrong.

#KeepNotGraphs

9:18

that Dayn Perry link is wonderful

Paul Swydan

9:19

It truly is.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:19

Great stuff

Paul Swydan

9:19

Hosmer making a bid for MVP.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:20

Not until Salvy doubles

JBJ

9:20

Am I the only one who doesn't get the Ortiz love? Between PED stuff, calling out media and umps and temper tantrums on the field he comes across as a jerk

Paul Swydan

9:21

No you're not the only one. Lots of people believe in PED boogeymen because old guard media trained you to believe in them. It's not your fault.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:21

Because most people care about the game on the field, not the rest of the crap

The Cincinnati Kid

9:21

Which FG writer has the single biggest grade tool?

Paul Swydan

9:22

It'd be hard to have a higher generall baseball knowledge tool than Dave Cameron. Dave not only knows everything about every player and team, but he also knows the industry's opinion on them because he has contacts at every team.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:22

Cameron's speed. His ability to type an article is insane, inhuman.

Paul Swydan

9:23

And his talking too. My wife and dad and sister came to Pitch Talks last week, and none of them could get over how fast he talked. I don't even notice it anymore, but he does talk really fast.

Heathcliff Slocumb

9:23

Paul, one a scale of 1-10, how pissed should we be as Sox fans if Wright doesn't get at least an inning tonight?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:24

1, I see him as the extra innings guy

Paul Swydan

9:24

1. He's not pitching tonight. He's the emergency guy. No one wants to catch a knuckleball in an exhibition game if they don't have to, and this is Wright's first time.

Yeah Jen McCafrey actually reported earlier today that he's the emergency guy.

Cowboy Joe Mae West

9:24

His playoff hitting and public actions after the Boston Bombings brought Ortiz a lot of support. His HOF case will be fascinating

Paul Swydan

9:25

It won't be fascinating. He'll get in first or second try. By the time he's eligible, Edgar will be in, and no one will be stigmatizing the DH as a Hall of Famer anymore.

Ortiz won 3 World Series and is in the top 25 in home runs all time. He's more or less a shoo in.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:26

The "Wil" fact was useless

Paul Swydan

9:26

No way you can rationalize the DH being out but not relief pitchers.

TengoPreguntas

9:26

august's weirdness has to be an 80

Paul Swydan

9:26

Poor August, he's just young. He's only 21-22, and most of the rest of us are much older. At least among full timers.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:28

Sanchez seems a mess right now

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