Patreon Q&A - August 2023
Added 2023-08-08 13:50:42 +0000 UTC00:00 - Intro
1:10 - Angels keep Ohtani?
1:55 - Favorite Taylor Swift?
2:35 - Dunning Kruger effect?
3:55 - Yankees get rid of Cashman?
5:05 - Hank Aaron video?
6:10 - Eduardo Rodriguez no trade?
7:20 - Daulton Varsho offense?
8:25 - Hypothetical stat?
9:35 - Reliever MVP?
10:35 - Verlander 300 wins?
11:35 - Trade deadline butterfly effect?
12:35 - Angels to playoffs?
13:50 - Glove-only infielder?
14:45 - 2024 season outlook?
16:30 - Vibes+ leader?
18:30 - Next season's deadline deal?
19:45 - More player inconsistency?
20:50 - Favorite old Bref page?
21:30 - Deal with the devil?
24:40 - What if baseball was weekly?
26:40 - New single-player games?
28:20 - AL Wild Card teams?
29:30 - New expansion market?
30:50 - Julio Rodriguez struggles?
33:05 - Sean Murphy MVP?
34:50 - Giants openers?
36:45 - Why are the Yankees?
37:35 - Framers vs yankers?
39:20 - Best minor leaguer traded?
40:20 - Ford C. Frick award?
41:35 - Ohtani not winning MVP?
43:15 - Next four-homer game?
44:25 - Berkman/Olson HOF?
46:20 - Colby Rasmus postseason OPS?
47:55 - What is Wade Boggs doing?
48:55 - Surprised by Padres?
50:05 - Average draft position?
52:20 - Foolish 50 positions?
55:00 - Yamamoto $200m?
57:25 - Cody Bellinger resurgence?
58:45 - Advanced baserunning stats?
1:00:50 - Plant or vinyl guy?
1:01:45 - What should Angels do?
1:03:35 - Bally Sports theme?
1:05:30 - Paul Skenes stuff?
1:07:55 - Mariners make playoffs?
1:10:10 - Padres deadline moves?
1:12:10 - Actual longest home run?
1:13:40 - Canzone/Bliss potential?
1:15:15 - Underrated deadline trade?
1:16:20 - Steve Cohen's tenure?
1:17:00 - Soft or hard shell tacos?
1:17:45 - Favorite SABR bio?
1:18:40 - Orioles future podcast?
1:19:40 - Favorite baseball book?
Comments
after hearing the question about the average draft round of players on 26-man rosters, I went and made that spreadsheet for as of today (8/10/23), based on data manually grabbed from Fangraphs RosterResource, here are some highlights: Of all players currently on a 26-man roster who were drafted: Average draft round: 6.74 Median draft round: 4 % of drafted players drafted in the 1st round: 28.55% % of players who were drafted out of all players on 26-man rosters: 73.11% Latest drafted player on a 26-man roster: Caleb Ferguson (RP, LAD, drafted in the 38th round, 1149th overall in 2014) Team with the lowest average draft position of their drafted players: MIL, 3.24 Team with the highest average draft position of their drafted players: DET, 11.05 Link to the full spreadsheet below if anyone wants to take a look or if anyone is curious about any other statistical thing from this data lmk and I can probably figure it out and answer here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NAp6484-ZMb9QyPxpwi_ZQn2-f8NqZkVXeugbhaeqfs/edit?usp=sharing
genderdruid
2023-08-10 23:59:25 +0000 UTCI felt great asking about the Angels right after the deadline when it looked like we might take a series from your Braves last week, but after the weekend I have been dreading the answer and had essentially abandoned hope for my boys by Saturday night. I appreciate the meager optomism even though I'd probably put the Angels' playoff chances at about 1/2 of what you said at this point. So long Shohei :'(
Brandon Lippincott
2023-08-08 21:32:14 +0000 UTCCrazy hearing Bailey answer my question and pronouncing my name impeccably ππ»ππ»
Francis Alipranti
2023-08-08 20:12:31 +0000 UTCThe pesΓ€pallo player converted to baseball pitcher you are referring to is Konsta Kurikka and he is currently contracted to Bonn Capitals in Germanys Bundesliga. He is rehabbing from arm injury so he hasn't played and he was supposed to take the mound in July but I don't think he has yet. He did play last year in Australia in Brisbane Bandits but I think he only appeared in second team matches. But he is only 22 years old and has stated that his goal is to play in MLB in 2027 so maybe he can develop. At least his fastball is topping at 94 mph and he has only pitched for like 3 years now so maybe there could be something.
Onni Peltola
2023-08-08 15:15:25 +0000 UTC
