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Paul Swydan

9:10

lol

Oddball Herrera

9:10

What is good in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the Dinelson Lametations of their women. (yes, this makes little to no sense, I just wanted to work a Conan quote into this chat if possible)

Paul Swydan

9:10

Noted!

Jeff Zimmerman

9:11

Great quote

Halp

9:11

What'a going on with the Tigers starters? It seems like everyone aside from Michael Fulmer has been giving up way more walks and being damaged with xBHs. I am still relatively new to watching baseball and don't have much knowledge on other team's starters, but the Tigers broadcast have been praising lately about how their pitchers record the highest velocities in their last few pitches while Norris, JV, and Fulmer has thrown multiple games with over 100 pitches several times (even a few past 110). If these guys really are saving their stamina throughout most of the game to go past throwing 100 pitches in their starts, is getting 2-3 more outs for a starter worth risking weaker performance? And is this supposedly normal for other team's starters as well?

Paul Swydan

9:11

Tonight's long question! Yeesh. Let me read this thing.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:12

I blame their dumpster fire for a bullpen. They just don't trust it (for good reason).

Paul Swydan

9:13

The Tigers SPs are definitely giving up too many walks - 8th most. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=sta&lg=all&qual=0&...

However, like Jeff said, they have to overextend themselves because their bullpen is not great.

iamyourlager

9:13

Hey Paul! Thanks for your chat as always. I have a few non-flyball revoultionaries who have been killing it on my fantasy team in Kevin Pillar, Nomar Mazara, and Josh Bell whom are all succeeding despite low average exit velocities. What are your brief thoughts on their sustainability going forward?

Paul Swydan

9:14

I LOVEEEE Josh Bell. Pillar I like as a player, but not really as a hitter. Mazara is in between. I liked him a lot last year, but the league seemed to figure him out in the second half.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:14

I think too much is being put into EV w/o context.

Paul Swydan

9:14

He is hitting for more power this year, which is good to see.

Theo

9:15

Ryan Schimpf to the Red Sox for two 10-30 prospects?

Paul Swydan

9:15

Schimpf isn't good enough to command that kind of return, and I don't see why the Padres want to trade a guy under multiple years of control like that.

They need more Schimpf's, not fewer.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:15

I don't see it.

IK21

9:15

Piscotty or Keon Broxton ROS in a redraft 12 team roto? Thanks

Paul Swydan

9:16

This is a ceiling (Broxton) vs. reliability (Piscotty) play. I'll take Broxton.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:16

Really comes down to needing speed (Broxton) or Power (Piscotty). Both will kill your AVG

John

9:17

So in general, barring any extra "baggage", 500 hrs, 3000 ks, 300 wins, 3000 hits, etc get you into the hof. Is there such a threshold for stolen bases? If so what is it? In particular, if Billy Hamilton steals 1500 bags in his career, does he at least make the ballot?

Paul Swydan

9:18

I don't think there is a commonly accepted threshold for SBs because no one has really gotten into the Hall JUST for their SBs. But I'll go on record as saying that Hamilton won't get anywhere near 1,500. That'd be 96 more than Rickey Henderson. That's ludicrous. Sorry.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:18

It's tough to not make the ballot with ~10 seasons playing. But I don't think there is a number. Raines took forever to get in.

Paul Swydan

9:18

Rickey had 3 years with 100+ SBs. Hamilton hasn't even made it to 60 yet.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:19

Paul went to ludicrous speed

Larping

9:19

Is it just me or is Trea Turner's spray chart...abnormal? It looks like every liner he's hitting goes straight to outfielders. Almost no gap shots at all it looks like

Paul Swydan

9:19

That could be a sign that he's ready to break out. They'll find the gaps eventually.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:19

Let me look

9:20

Just found an error on our site.

As Paul said, positive regression should be coming

Dickie Thon's Rage

9:21

hypothetical situation: Let's say MLB teams can carry 18 pitchers and every team does. Every pitcher pitches (1) inning every other game. Do league-wide ERA and WHIP go down? up? injuries? Just trying to extrapolate a "relief" driven paradigm to it's logical end-sum conclusion.

Paul Swydan

9:22

I think ERA and WHIP would be relatively similar. It's tempting to say that it would go down because guys could air it out more, but I think there would be fewer guys capable of 81 games like that.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:23

It will likely drop but the talent level for 18 pitchers needs to found for each team. I like this idea

Paul Swydan

9:23

For instance, only 3 pitchers reached 80 games last year -- Brad Hand, Zach Duke, and Addison Reed. Of the three, only Hand averaged more than an inning per appearance.

Zack Cozart

9:23

Hear ye, hear ye, am I a true 1.000 OPS or am I a master of smoke and mirrors?

Paul Swydan

9:23

Neither? I don't think it's all smoke and mirrors, but he also probably isn't THIS good.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:24

Probably somewhere in between.

Hannah Hochevar

9:24

Wondering about Xander and his barrel-less-ness. Think X Boogie turns it up as the temp rises (as promised) or is he going Boggs on us?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:25

Huh?

Paul Swydan

9:25

He has a .506 SLG in May. I realize it's tempting to say he's a singles hitter now because he has zero homers, but there are 2 other kinds of extra-base hits.

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