Patreon Q&A - March 2025 - collecting your questions!
Added 2025-03-01 18:39:48 +0000 UTCQuick shoutout to those joining after seeing the 5 Pitchers I Like video. Use this thread below to drop your 1 (one) question for this month's Patreon exclusive video Q&A! Feel free to ask me about the upcoming season, Youtube, life, etc. I will be back with my responses in approximately one week.
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Have you noticed any change the sort of subjects you find yourself interested in Baseball Bits covering as you age? As a viewer, I've felt a subtle shift towards stories with a more human element to them.
Luke Nicholson
2025-03-07 03:57:07 +0000 UTCWhat do you think is better for baseball: umps calling all balls and strikes, ABS, or a challenge system? Which do you prefer as a fan?
Ishaaon Sivansh
2025-03-06 01:28:15 +0000 UTCHi Bailey. What is your opinion on Yuniesky Betancourt?
Will Sladich
2025-03-05 23:28:08 +0000 UTCWho are the most successful stat line scouting alums?
Josh Getto
2025-03-04 23:56:30 +0000 UTCWho is the most underrated player in baseball? Everyone said is was Jose Ramirez for the longest time, but obviously everyone knows he is awesome now. Who is the new face of being underrated?
Bo Brown
2025-03-04 20:41:12 +0000 UTCHi Bailey, what’s your outlook for Royce Lewis short and/or long term? I’m starting to get a bit of a fragile Gleyber Torres vibe from him, high power potential, struggle to find a good defensive home, just curious what you think
Robb LoCurto
2025-03-04 15:36:59 +0000 UTCHi Bailey, I remember you wearing an Atlanta United jersey in previous videos. Are you an appreciator of a fine jersey? What's your favourite jersey in all of MLB history and are there any you really like from other sports outside of baseball?
Dan Russell
2025-03-04 09:33:31 +0000 UTCWhich active players could you see in the following roles after they retire? Manager GM/President of baseball ops Commissioner?
Tristan Morgan
2025-03-04 00:54:00 +0000 UTCAs a Braves fan, which Braves season do you consider to be the most underrated? The season with the largest disparity between being aesthetically pleasing, and given actual recognition from the general public?
Ryan McGovern
2025-03-03 22:37:20 +0000 UTCHey Bailey just want to ask you to take a look at my twitter DM to you about the WAR league I mentioned a couple months back, thanks. Free feel to count this as my question, but here another one just in case you saw it already. Do you score baseball games? Personally I love to score and I'd be curious to know if you enjoy it as well, also shoutout @MLBScoringChanges on Twitter
Nolan McDermott
2025-03-03 22:02:28 +0000 UTCWhat do you think the Mariners ceiling could be, given that the entire starting lineup could average at least a 100 OPS+?
Jerod Himmist
2025-03-03 19:38:28 +0000 UTCHey Bailey! Who are some players that you think will have an out of nowhere breakout season? Relievers, starters, and/or position players; can’t be someone with previous success as a full-time player in the majors, just journeymen, role players, players who are considered busts or never reached their potential, or prospects that aren’t highly ranked. Basically this season’s Jurickson Profar.
Francis Alipranti
2025-03-03 19:22:28 +0000 UTCHello Bailey, I would love to hear your thoughts on the current health of baseball as a sport. My whole life people have been talking about how baseball is dying, but college students across America are flocking to college baseball games and maybe it’s my own personal bias, but social media seems full of young people going to MLB games to eat a hot dog and drink a beer. I know attendance numbers have been fortifying every year since the pandemic ended. That’s being said blackouts are still an issue and I believe ESPN sabotaging their baseball coverage is not a positive for the league. Do you think the future of baseball is healthy?
Jeremy Jones
2025-03-03 14:47:02 +0000 UTCWho sank the USS Liberty?
Hank Will
2025-03-03 04:43:50 +0000 UTCWhat is one important truth about baseball that you believe is true that very few others agree with you on?
L3on L1ur
2025-03-03 04:15:16 +0000 UTCWill Abner Uribe be an effective high-leverage RP in 2025?
Maxwell300
2025-03-03 03:05:26 +0000 UTCDoes Dollander have what it takes to be successful at Coors? How do you feel about his outlook?
Jimothy
2025-03-03 02:42:28 +0000 UTCWhat's your favorite historical era of Major League Baseball in terms of the style of play?
Sam Aronow
2025-03-03 02:07:21 +0000 UTCWho do you think is the least talked about current player who will likely make the hall of fame?
Ethan Guinness
2025-03-03 01:42:38 +0000 UTCHey Bailey have you ever thought about redoing a video and providing updated knowledge on a video you didn’t have or believe at the time if so or if not which one would it be?
Colby2148
2025-03-02 23:57:07 +0000 UTCIf you could wave a magic wand and make one player of your choosing hit .400 over 150 games this season who are you picking?
Leo Thomas
2025-03-02 22:42:45 +0000 UTCHey Bailey! What is your input on the Red Sox situation? Alex Bregman is having an amazing spring when writing this (3/2/25). He's 5 for 10 with an OPS creeping towards 1.400 (small sample, but still mashing). Kristian Campbell has been struggling to get things going. 0 for 11 with little plate discipline (8 K's to 2 BB's). Should it be time to start considering that Bregman should be the Opening Day 2B and Campbell should remain at AAA? Should he Kristian Campbell hype die down? Does this put Devers in a better position to keep his 3B role even though he is terrible defensively? Let me know!
DialedinDiv
2025-03-02 22:28:39 +0000 UTCHi Foolish. Is there a pitcher today who profiles similar to Marco Estrada (low fastball velo, extreme fly-ball ball pitcher, and not very K-heavy)?
Gabriel Arrigo
2025-03-02 21:26:33 +0000 UTCHi Foolish, as I’m sure you’re aware, the dominant perspective in baseball journalism (particularly on the national level) is that of “I’m not a particular fan of any team, I just report relatively neutrally”. In general I think this view has a lot of upside, but I found it coming up a bit short recently. In the wake of the Sasaki signing, the media landscape didn’t really seem to be able to effectively address fans’ frustration with LA’s dominance in the FA market. There was a lot of “all teams can do this, be mad at your own ownership for not doing it” takes going around. This is technically true but it doesn’t really address that most fans are mad about their ownership but remain essentially powerless to change anything about that. At the time, I felt that a lot of the reporting was fairly callous toward a lot of fans’ frustrations with the situation. Are situations like this just a matter of having the lesser of two evils when it comes to reporters’ voices coming through in the media? I don’t think that Passan should’ve been out there writing about how he’s done with baseball until there’s a salary cap, but is there a middle route that more honestly deals with the frustration that a lot of people in the fanbase are feeling without becoming overly emotional about it?
Paul
2025-03-02 13:57:03 +0000 UTCHi FB, Patrick Bailey of the Giants over the last 2 years has really dropped off in the second half. First half the savant will all be red, then he'll go 1/50 at the plate. I'm aware the Giants have had a dodgy backup catcher situation, but have you ever seen players overcome the long season dropoff in offensive production? If he's not catching as much as possible then he's not accruing that sweet sweet dWAR so I know the Giants want him out there.
Luca G
2025-03-02 03:31:27 +0000 UTCHi Bailey. With Wagner finally making the Hall of Fame, I was curious if there were any other relievers you believe belong in the Hall? I know you've mentioned Tom Henke and Joe Nathan in the past and have said you could be convinced of a case for K-Rod.
Sean Forrest
2025-03-02 03:25:31 +0000 UTCYour dream starting rotation for Team USA at the 2026 WBC?
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2025-03-02 02:52:04 +0000 UTCThoughts on an MLB rule change to incentivize pitching behavior that will reduce the rate of throwing arm injuries and increase starting pitcher innings thrown? For example, stuff like keeping your starter in for 5 innings or lose the DH (https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40847173/mlb-rule-changes-2024-six-inning-starting-pitcher-injuries-tommy-john). Do you think MLB can realistically make reductions in TJ surgeries through rule changes (the above example or otherwise), or are we too far along the 'velocity at any cost' path?
James A
2025-03-02 01:00:01 +0000 UTCBreak the tie, who is your 1979 NL MVP?
Tom Kennedy
2025-03-01 23:18:23 +0000 UTCWhat are your thoughts on Justin Verlander this year? He’s reportedly trying out a new sweeper, and a lot of his underlying metrics last year were better than his results would suggest. A new pitch? In his 40s????
Slubkid
2025-03-01 23:08:36 +0000 UTCThe next two years have a really weak group of first-year Hall of Fame candidates. How do you see that affecting the guys currently on the ballot? Andruw, for example, has really stagnated the last couple of years, but does the lack of other options drag him across by year 10? Does Utley make huge gains by 2027?
Evan A
2025-03-01 22:59:49 +0000 UTCWho will hit the first cycle of 2025? Elly, Witt, Giancarlo (lol)?
Jamie
2025-03-01 22:46:47 +0000 UTCFavorite outlier savant page? Mine is Tyler Rogers because of the crazy movement profile.
Henson Burk-Fawcett
2025-03-01 22:09:24 +0000 UTCHow many wins do you think the Dodgers will finish with?
Ezra Mendelson
2025-03-01 22:05:31 +0000 UTCWould you rather throw a perfect game in the regular season or hit a walkoff grand slam in a playoff Game 7?
BigOlBard
2025-03-01 20:08:06 +0000 UTCHi Foolish! In an era of pitcher load management I’ve gotten a weird fascination with pitches per plate appearance. Fun sort of impossible to answer question: let’s say there’s a corner outfielder who’s a league average hitter and defender. BUT he’s guaranteed to have 8 pitches per plate appearance (just over double the mlb average most years), regardless of outcome. How valuable might this player this be?
Gaermph
2025-03-01 20:07:49 +0000 UTCWhy do we often hear about free agents not wanting to play for a team with a hitter/pitcher-friendly park (for pitchers & hitters respectively)? Surely they & their agent realize that teams have more than enough sophistication to (and certainly will) evaluate their performance in the context of their ballpark.
Stephen
2025-03-01 19:56:22 +0000 UTCI've always thought that if a pitcher commits an error that leads to a run that it should still count as an earned run since the mistake is on the pitcher. Is there a flaw to this logic?
Robert Matheson
2025-03-01 19:28:05 +0000 UTCWhat do you think about how the ABS Challenge system has been implemented in Spring Training, and would you suggest MLB make any changes before using it in regular season games?
Mitchell Israel
2025-03-01 19:24:05 +0000 UTCWhat digital media have you consumed lately, baseball-related or otherwise?
Jon Wondrasek
2025-03-01 19:18:12 +0000 UTCWhich of the “throw a bunch of shit at the wall” Braves NRI relievers do you think has the best chance of making the team?
Robert Walker
2025-03-01 19:07:11 +0000 UTCWhich of the red sox big 3 prospects do you think will accumulate the most WAR by 2030? And do you think Teel or Montgomery will out pace them?
Kevspan
2025-03-01 19:05:55 +0000 UTCWhich team do you think will finish the regular season with more wins, Mariners or Diamondbacks?
genderdruid
2025-03-01 18:59:59 +0000 UTCAs a Braves fan, which winless franchise winning a World Series would you get the most happiness out of? Feel free to include teams that haven’t won in a lifetime (e.g. Cleveland not winning since 1948) in this.
Kevin Downey
2025-03-01 18:55:35 +0000 UTCLord of the Rings or Original Star Wars trilogy?
RainmanMP
2025-03-01 18:54:10 +0000 UTCHi Bailey, brand new sub here. Could you please predict for this upcoming season (player who does it optional): Farthest hr distance Hardest hit ball Fastest pitch mph Biggest star traded at deadline
Zack Landy
2025-03-01 18:48:16 +0000 UTCthoughts on braves catcher drake baldwin?
Josh Jensen
2025-03-01 18:44:10 +0000 UTCDo you have a favorite, like, "outlier season" but it's just one nicher statistic? Like, for example, Robbie Ray's 90% LOB rate in 2021 or Yoan Moncada's .408 BABIP in 2019.
Avery
2025-03-01 18:42:44 +0000 UTCWill the big boy baseball awards be making their triumphant return after the upcoming season?
Ryan Keating
2025-03-01 18:42:17 +0000 UTCPlaylist of all 35 past Q&A's here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3lJFzNSaN7SE7AAWRLGyfnf4S2oONOm-
Foolish Baseball
2025-03-01 18:40:34 +0000 UTC
