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Patreon Q&A - April 2024 - Collecting your questions! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-04-02 02:54:52
Edited:
2024-04-02 02:55:31
Imported:
2026-06

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The season is here! To those of you new here, one piece of exclusive content I do is a video Q&A. Please leave your question pertaining to baseball, Youtube, or life down below. I'll return with my answers in 7-10 days.

Best,

Bailey

Comments

YoungPhillyKing

If you could bring on a player to discuss any one of their seasons in baseball, dead or alive. Who would it be?

genderdruid

What is your dark horse team for the season/who do you think will overperform public perception the most this season?

Nelson Chen

What are your thoughts on the Cubs? It feels like they have NLCS upside, yet I can also see them missing the playoffs entirely.

Maxwell Bach

I run a fantasy league 10T H2H 5x5 Categories. Hitting: R, TB, RBI, SBN, OBP Pitching: IP, K, ERA, WHIP, SVHD 2 Divisions such that 5 teams draft NL Only and 5 teams draft AL Only before the full league is integrated and any MLB player is eligible to be added to any roster. Here’s my question: is Foolish Baseball or Foolish Bailey your main channel?

Lane Estes

What are your thoughts on the Braves' 2 big off-season acquisitions (Sale & Kelenic)? It looks like Sale will pitch well, but do you think there's a solid chance he stays healthy? And with Kelenic's alleged swing changes, do you think he hits for solid offense?

Henson Burk-Fawcett

Whats the best performance by a player in the only career game the player played for that team?

Robert Matheson

Baseball is on the rise and I think people like yourself are definitely in part to thank, but what's something the league isn't doing that you think would grow the game more than anything? Do you still stand by the "weekday games should be free" take?

Nick

Did Andrew Bailey already fix the Red Sox rotation

Joshua Watkin

Thoughts on the conspiracy that the A’s sent Esteury Ruiz to AAA Las Vegas for wearing a “Last Dive Bar” bracelet?

Carl Mizell

Does Carson Kelly have enough of a body of work for me to credibly believe he's a Comeback Player of the Year candidate? Or do we call it a "breakout" if he goes on to have a strong season?

Evan A

What is one baseball related and one non baseball related thing that is on your bucket list?

Eli Harden

Which Atlanta pitcher do you think will exceed expectations?

Eli Harden

Should Pete Rose get into the Hall now that MLB is scrambling to protect their biggest star?

JP Stroman

Favorite video games, baseball or otherwise?

Stephen

How impactful/valuable are hitters that see a lot pitches per ab on average?

Chris Waind

I have taken on your advice regarding the ‘she blank on my blank till I blank’ format, specifically using Dom Canzone and I would like some feedback. ‘She smothers me with her chest, call that Domming with her Canzone’ Keeping on a dominating theme if you are into that kind of thing, I also thought of ‘Call her Phil Niekro the way she knuckles my balls’. I do have an actual question this time, Pedro Astacio had a 5.9 fWAR - 5.04 ERA (115 ERA+) season in 1999 with the Rockies and it’s sort of the inverse of Dante Bichette’s 1999 with good counting stats but a negative WAR, what’s the ‘worst’ good season and ‘best’ bad season you can find? (Using Stathead with code ‘Foolish20’).

bobby witt jr truther

you must survive 2 weeks trapped inside an MLB stadium during the offseason, and you must subsist only on what you can scavenge within the stadium, which ballpark do you think gives you the best odds of survival? also imagine for a minute if all the players wore really short shorts on the field at all times, i think that would be really cool

Leo Thomas

Let's say Ohtani stays with the Dodgers until retirement - what is the best the rest of his career could play out while still seeing him enshrined into the hall of fame wearing an Angels cap?

Allen Gary

How do you think deferred money will affect the landscape of free agency and payrolls going forward?

Tristan Morgan

Hi Bailey, hope you are well. Switch hitters are interesting and fun to have in the game, but sometimes it can seem like a bit of a gimmick that the media/front offices will bring up to talk about a player. Does WAR or any other advanced metric add anything to a player if they are able to switch hit? In addition, would a player like Aaron Judge or Mike Trout gain any additional value if they suddenly learned to switch hit, but their L/R splits remained the same?

Alexander Abbott

Hey, Bailey! Just wanted to say thank you for doing this kind of thing. You are a great person to follow for baseball content, and I appreciate all the work that you do! I want to hear you talk about books and reading. I would love for you to recommend three books that you really enjoy or enjoyed...bonus points if one of them is related to sports. And, if you feel like it, tell us one book that you don't recommend. Thanks again for everything you do!

Michael Luker

Has the right on right change-up made a resurgence in baseball? For the Astros specifically, Valdez, Javier, and Blanco have added it and the returns on stuff+ are great.

Harrison Bosque

Have you ever played Fallout 4 and if so, who would be the best player in the version of baseball that Moe Cronin describes?

Joey Killmer

How do guest appearances on other shows work? Are they scheduled? Contracted? Do they just randomly happen? Is there compensation? Just a curiosity.

SunsetMooseTaco

With the rule changes last year to bring speed back into the game (bases getting larger, limiting throws to first, etc), we've seen an explosion of stolen bases. Are there any players where this change added a speed element to their game that wasn't there before? Sure the fast guys got more stolen bases but I'm wondering if there are players who rarely stole that are now getting double-digit steals.

Paul Bauer

If you could design your perfect playoffs, what would it be? Lower seeds in round one must with one, but favorites win two one for example? More teams, less teams? Etc.

Francis Alipranti

Hey Bailey! What do you think about the Dylan Cease trade? Being a Padres fan, I personally really disliked it. What would you say the best case, worse case, and most probable case scenarios could be for how this trade ends (not including injuries)?

Harper-Leighton Scott

Hello hello foolish how do I convince others that Scott Boras is a labor hero and not some greedy villain? Or are those guys already lost?

Fred Rio

What are your favorite/least favorite statistical anomalies from the 2020 season? Outcome metrics were obviously all over the place, but despite the smaller sample were the more 'under the hood' numbers from that season still good predictors for 2021?

Bo Brown

Baseball websites/pages power rankings? Thinking stats/journalism/YT channels/etc

nick podd

Hi Bailey, what is the position-advanced defensive metric combo you put the most stock in, and the one you put the least stock in? (Example: centerfield/OAA, catcher/fWAR)

Phil Caldwell

Kind of a weird question, but don’t you think the OPS+ formula should divide by two instead of subtracting 100? This would give an actually accurate representation of how good a player is compared league average(% wise) which would not only eliminate the wonky negative OPS+s but would generally help people better understand how similarly good hitters are to each other.

Dan Russell (Bolly)

What's your favourite wacky abbreviation in baseball? Mine's gotta be the TOOTBLAN

Jeremy Jones

Hi Foolish happy baseball season. Of the MLB free agents who wanted big deal and took short term contracts (Belli Montgomery Chapman Snell) who got the best deals and who got the worst deal? Follow up, who is the “blame” for these guys getting shafted, themselves agents teams or THE MARKET

Jeremy Jones

Also I know we’re only allowed one question but what is the most recent hat you purchased/acquired

Sam Holtz

Who do you think is the best pitcher to never win a Cy Young award not named Nolan Ryan. Not including pitchers from before 1956 because there was no award to win. Personally I think Chris Sale is the best out of the current era of pitchers without a Cy Young award

Theo

What are your feelings toward the expanded playoffs we've seen in recent years? With it being generally understood that baseball is inherently more random than some other sports, do you like that October can now be more chaotic with 12 teams having a chance, or would you like to see the regular season matter more in terms of who can win it all?

Seán Meehan

Early thoughts on the Cardinals and Diamondbacks? Very different approach the getting new starting pitchers during the off season.

thefuturenow

Help me settle a debate. How would you define the term “dirty inning”?

Brady

Juan Soto had an OBP of .500 over the last 100 games of the 2021 season. Do you think he’ll ever do it over a full season, becoming the first to do so (clean) since 1958? [Bonus Trivia: name the two guys in 58 that did it]

Luca G

Hello from Australia Foolish, my first time participating in the joyous Q&A so I've got a few small questions: -What are your thoughts on players like Terrance Gore? Bench guys who pinch run and maybe score high in Vibes+. T Gore has more World Series rings than career RBI's, fraud or unknown chad? -Can you recommend a good evergreen style Baseball book? I've only read Athletic articles so would love to read more quality pieces of work -Whats your baseball viewing schedule like at this time of year? Warm Regards

Burt Oldirty

Who won the 2021 World Series?

Brandon Perez

If you had to make a feature length baseball movie about a subject that has not been focused on yet, what would be your pick?

Paul

Lou Varland was on a recent episode of Chris Paddack’s podcast and one of the things they discussed was their shared experience of coming out of the bullpen for the first time late last year. They agreed that one of the benefits to that experience was learning that you don’t need to be working yourself into a mental lather for four days to be successful on the mound, you can make your pitches and get good outs with a much shorter mental build-up. Do you think that the mystique of starters (you don’t talk to them on start days, etc) might actually be getting in the way of mental performance? Maybe it would be better to treat a start day like just another day at the office instead of this massive deal.

Graham Hillmann

Who are your all-time favorite players from the Negro Leagues?

ZVN

Foolish, I finally read Lords of the Realm and loved it. My question: have John Fisher’s antics been the most embarrassing to the lords at large and the league? For as much as Charlie O embarrassed the A’s and the league, at least he built a winner and was a great showman. John Fisher just seems like a genuinely dumb person.

Braden

Hey bailey, I have a few Reds and Foolish 50 themed questions: 1) You had talked about luis castillo being narrowly left off of the foolish 50 this year and I was curious what factors are keeping him off the list 2) How do you view Joey Votto’s HOF case when he eventually ends up on the ballot (i.e. 1st ballot, 5th ballot, etc) and who would be a good example of his sort of profile to look at from the past and 3) There weren’t any Reds on this years foolish 50 and I would be curious to know who you would choose if you had to pick one

mahlen

What do you think about the relationship between the pitch clock and pitcher injuries?

Jonnymo

Who is your under the radar team to squeeze in a postseason spot and maybe make a run this October?