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Patreon Q&A - May 2025 - Collecting your questions! (Patreon)

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2025-05-02 01:29:49
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2025-05
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Hey hey hey. Time to submit your (one please) question for this month's Patreon exclusive Q&A. Feel free to ask me anything about baseball, Youtube, or life. As per usual, I'll be back in about a week with my response.

You can view a playlist of previous Q&A's (all 36 of them!) here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3lJFzNSaN7SE7AAWRLGyfnf4S2oONOm-

Comments

Luca G

Hi Foolish Where is the saviour of SF Jung Hoo Lee on the Bailey+ leaderboard so far this season?

Zach Robinson

Have there been any scoutline scouting players that you were surprised either didn't make the bigs or probably won't? If so, who?

alursai

Bubba Chandler MLB comp? Better than skenes? O'Neil Cruz finally breaking out?

Jack Friedman

Feelings on Mackenzie Gore? His stuff legit or just a fluke?

Francis Alipranti

What is your thoughts on the Braves-Acuña situation? Some parts (his complaints about Freddie) remind me of Jazz’s problems on the Mets where a respectable veteran does something that the younger crowd would deem unnecessary or uncalled for. Thoughts?

ad23

Is it crazy to think that the tigers aren't as good as their record indicates? I do like their pitching staff, but I can't convince myself about their lineup.

Kevin Downey

For all the excitement about it, the WBC is not yet the World Cup in terms of geographical diversity. Is there any particular country or region you would love to see become a "baseball hotbed" in the next few decades?

Maxwell300

Please tell me why the Brewers will win the NL Central (please).

Aaron Gordon

Hey Bailey! What are your thoughts on using xERA vs. xFIP vs. FIP to evaluate pitchers? It seems like incorporating the statcast data from xERA would have advantages, but on the other hand, it seems like there's a lot of randomness in the contact quality pitchers allow. Any preferences between them?

Graham Clendenning

What is something (baseball or otherwise) that you think you have more nostalgia for than the average person?

Twins Fan Patron

What in the world is happening to the Twins? they're better than this, right?

Dan Russell (Bolly)

Which player, be them former or current, is your personal biggest "What If..."?

Leo Thomas

Game 7 of the WS. You're managing a team with a pretty sketchy bullpen. Your starter gives up a home run on the first pitch of the game, and then the second, and then the third... which pitcher would you allow to stay out there the longest and how long (assuming they keep giving up home runs on every pitch) before you pull them?

Paul Bauer

Not sure how familiar you are with the minor leagues of a divisional rival, but the Mets have a glut of (unproven) talent nearing the upper echelons. What 2-3 big moves do you think the Mets should make this year for a serious World Series push?

John Blouch

What is the most ridiculous/contrived baseball stat that's (relatively) commonly used

EoghBass

Any thoughts on Christian Walker’s slow start to the season? Is it age, mechanics, new team/ballpark?

Ethan Pope

What on earth is wrong with Atlanta United? And do you think they will right the ship in time for another playoff run? IMO they have the talent (Latte Lath could be MVP caliber) but no synergy.

Jon Wondrasek

What are your breakout/fakeouts of the Cubs young guys? Is PCA better than Ohtani? Is Matt Shaw a bust? What is Amaya’s true level?

Anthony

Love the Bits videos! When a company like Factor sponsors a video, do you get a ton of free frozen meals? Do you have a special freezer for all of the Factor frozen meals? Or do you only get like 2 frozen meals??

Theo

who is the worst/weirdest/most obscure player in MLB currently who you think has a real chance at landing on a HOF ballot?

Bo Brown

Sheblankin Onmyblank is a utility guy who plays average defense around the field with around a 125 OPS+ in 130ish games. He also throws around 45 middle to high-leverage innings out of the pen to a 125 ERA+. Would pitching and hitting, but at a "dang that guys a good ball player" level get MVP consideration? Is this a $300M guy assuming sustainability?

ajnrules

The Rangers have plummeted from being one of the best offenses in 2023 to below average in 2024 to being one of the worst hitting teams in 2025. Was the 2023 Rangers offense a fluke all along?

Josh Getto

Can you explain the why the torpedo bat is so effective? Is it going to be effective for all batters or does it lend itself to one style of hitter?

gene

life advice for a recent college graduate?

Alex Sutherland

While LaMonte Wade Jr. started the season off with some bad plate appearances and his walk rate has been getting closer to his average, it feels like he has some really unlucky at bats recently. What do you think he will look like the rest of the year? P.S. Since the Giants want to save Flores' legs and have him as a DH only, it seems like we are going to have some weird situations at 1B when facing lefties

Nolan McDermott

Any advice for applying to MLB front office analytics jobs? I was a CS/Math major and spent a couple years working as a software engineer in the financial sector but I still can’t seem to make my resume stand out.

BigOlBard

Is the production that the Cubs are getting from Colin Rea and Matthew Boyd sustainable? They'd been invaluable additions so far, especially with Steele going down for the year. Additionally, should any of us have predicted Carson Kelly doing...that?

Brandon Perez

Who is a player you’d like to throw into a completely new position just to see what they’d be like? (IE mookie, javy, or Oneil)

Sean Forrest

Do you think there's any chance of the Cubs extending Tucker during the season like the Blue Jays were able to with Vladdy? Or do you think he's 100% wanting to go to free agency? Personally I think he and the Cubs have been a perfect fit and I would love to see him play there for the rest of his career.

Jason Coppe

If MLB did an all-star skills challenge, like the NBA does, how would you want to see that challenge set up, and who would have the best shot at winning?

Slubkid

A big discussion locally is that buster posey has not promoted or demoted anyone with options. He’s giving unproven guys a super long leash to struggle and figure things out. For certain players like Fitzgerald, this worked out beautifully as they got out of their slump. For other players like Matos, it really seems like they need to be sent down to figure out their swing. Thoughts? I know it depends a lot on the players and context.

Ryan McGovern

Is there any incentive you can conjure up that could make managers keep their starting pitcher in for 7+ innings in not so close games ? Or should 2000s kids like me quit drinking the nostalgia juice, and come to grips that pitchers' commitee baseball isn't going away anytime soon?

Gaermph

Good day foolish! What’s your all-time “injury-prone” lineup?

Paul

As a Twins fan, I’ve had the misfortune of watching a lot of poor offensive performances this year with weak pop-ups and routine grounders being defining elements in that performance. One thing I’ve noticed in this stretch is the sheer number of broadcasters who are convinced that the way out of a team-wide hitting slump is focusing on contact, hitting the ball the other way, and “not trying to do too much with it” which rings hollow to my ear when a lack of power/damage is at the root of the problem. We know that hitting the ball harder and in the air are two of the best ways to improve batted ball outcomes. Do you think this will ever become widely-accepted among commentators? If so, when? Will we have to wait for Votto to step into the booth?

L3on L1ur

hey Foolish is there an app/website/game/tool related to baseball that you wish existed? (for example a website that searches for a PA based on order of pitches that you used in the Timothy Chalamet video). I wanna find a cool baseball-related project to work on – can sound super wild and impossible!

dazogog

Hey Bailey, thoughts on the early success of the giants this year? Most interesting to me is Wilmer Flores with 1.3 (at time of writing) WPA on the year with only a .1 war.

Gabriel Arrigo

If you have a non-Ohtani two-way player who is a league-average bat/baserunner, do they still get the DH spot on while pitching? Assuming they can play a corner outfield or infield position at a major-league level, do you play them at that position on non-pitching days? And how bad would the any of the these four aspects (pitching, hitting, fielding, baserunning)have to be for before you would shut down the two-way play.

Burt Oldirty

Who is a current player that is overrated because they play for a good/big market team/Who is a current underappreciated player on a small market team team?

Michael White

In your opinion what player had most impressive single-season stat line that also ended in a Mathis? My vote would go to Juan Pierre's 2000 season where he hit .310 and got ROY votes with a OPS+ of 58.

Ishaaon

What do you think is healthiest for baseball long term: salary cap, salary floor, both, or neither? Do you have a personal preference?

Chris Waind

Do you think that Julio Rodriguez is due to explode this year, his walk rate has basically doubled, his strikeout rate has lowered by 5% (as of writing he hasn’t struck out in May yet) and his BABIP is 80 points below his career averages I understand it’s a relatively small sample size but one of his weakness was plate approach and discipline, if the walk and strikeout rates stay the same and his BABIP normalises, could this be the year he realises his MVP potential?

Foolish Baseball

going a little slower on this than usual but will post sometime next week

JonJonH

I recently rewatched the video about run support (the anti-deGrom) and have been concocting ways pitchers can earn runs for the themselves, short of going out to bat. Here's my crazy rule idea, idk if this has ever been thought of before. If the starting pitcher pitches 7+ innings, he earns 1 run for his team. Thoughts? How horrible of an idea is this?

Luke Nicholson

what determines a maxo vs a william kage video?

Will Whitis

Do you play fantasy baseball? If so ROS Matt Chapman or Lawrence Butler

Michael Donnelly

I know he wants to be a switch hitter, but do you think Jasson Dominguez should just focus on hitting lefty with his splits?

Evan Flechsig

I left my Foolish Baseball hat on a flight. I'm sure it found a good home, but now I'm bummed. Any plans for selling another batch?