“Andrew Jackson, in the primary lobby of his White Home had a giant block of cheese. The block of cheese was enormous, over two tons, and it was there for any and all who is perhaps hungry. Jackson wished the White Home to belong to the folks, so occasionally, he opened his doorways to those that wished an viewers…”
That’s the late, nice John Spencer as Leo McGarry in Season 1, Episode 5 of The West Wing, giving his Massive Block of Cheese Day speech to the senior workers within the Roosevelt Room. I like to consider this mailbag as FanGraphs’ personal Massive Block of Cheese Day. We open issues up for you, our readers, to ask no matter questions you could have for us, and like Leo, I comb via them and delegate a few of them out to our workers to reply. (It’s enjoyable to think about myself Meg’s chief of workers, and on this FanGraphs-as-West Wing analogy, Baumann is unquestionably Josh Lyman.) And as is the case within the Massive Block of Cheese Day episodes, we at FanGraphs at all times stroll away extra enlightened baseball followers after answering your questions.
Massive Block of Cheese Day got here to thoughts for this mailbag due to a query I obtained this week that we’ll get to momentarily. However earlier than then, I’d wish to remind all of you that whereas anybody can submit a query, this mailbag is unique to FanGraphs Members. For those who aren’t but a Member and want to hold studying, you may join a Membership right here. It’s one of the best ways to each expertise the positioning and assist our workers, and it comes with a bunch of different nice advantages. Additionally, when you’d wish to ask a query for an upcoming mailbag, ship me an electronic mail at mailbag@fangraphs.com.
