MLB Opening Week Overreactions, The Blue Jays Have A Pitching Problem & The Dodgers Are Inevitable With Fangraphs' Jon Tayler
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Fangraphs' Jon Tayler to talk about the first week of the new MLB season, if the ball is juiced, stolen bases being up, the Pirates sneaky good bullpen, TakeGraphs!, the Blue Jays terrible starting pitching, a deep dive into the Dodgers and Phillies, the Rays are for real, the Red Sox are awful and the Braves should move around their lineup.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Jon Tayler
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all, thanks for checking out Hour One here on the Thursday, April 6th, 2023 edition here on the Chase Homas podcast. We got two-hour show for you guys today. Hour one, we've got Fangraphs John Taylor. Yeah, it's Thursday. So that means John Taylor is here to talk all things. Major League Baseball. We have baseball to talk about because it was opening week. And we got into some overreaction takes. we invented |
| 0:21.7 | uh |
| 0:22.4 | uh |
| 0:23.3 | what do we call it |
| 0:24.4 | uh baseball to talk about because it was opening week and we got into some overreaction takes we invented |
| 0:21.7 | what do we call it uh not takes what do we call this oh take graphs instead of fan graphs uh because |
| 0:29.6 | fan graphs john taylor was here and uh this is going to be fun to do uh all season long take graphs |
| 0:34.9 | as john and i workshop um some fun major league baseball. Pirates bullpen looks pretty good. Stolen bases are up. Is the ball juiced? It's popping. Right out of the gate here. Early pitch clock. Reviews, Dodgers and Phillies deep dive here. Rays, they're for real. |
| 0:54.5 | The Red Sox, they're terrible. The Braves are going to be just fine, but they probably want to move around this order a little bit. Just Matt Olson, the two-spot. It's just, I don't like that long term. Like Matt Olson, he's great, but the 50% K percentage right now and the home runner bust and just how a Kunier is at the top of the order, I don't know, I would move it around. |
| 1:11.8 | So we get into all that here on Hour 1. or bust and just how a conier is at the top of the order. I don't know. |
| 1:11.7 | I would move it around. |
| 1:17.3 | So we get into all that here on hour one here on the Thursday, April 6th, 2023 edition here on the Chastmos podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | So thanks for listening. |
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| 1:41.3 | And as always, if you have any mailback questions you have in terms of Major League Baseball. |
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| 1:50.1 | You can email us your MLB questions at Chase Thomas Podcast at gmail.com. |
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