| 9:03 |
: Hello friends |
| 9:03 |
: Welcome to Friday baseball chat |
| 9:04 |
: Bartolo Colon is objectively better than Nathan Eovaldi change my mind |
| 9:04 |
: I neither want to nor have to |
| 9:04 |
: Have you figured out how I can get Syndergaard yet? |
| 9:05 |
: Well, you have the most valuable farm system in baseball |
| 2:01 |
: Good afternoon from Tempe. here are some links to things:
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| 2:01 |
: I wrote up the Luplow/EGon trade here: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cleveland-and-pittsburgh-swap-surplus-…
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| 2:02 |
: There’s been a ton of prospect stuff on the site this week. Short of linking all of it, I’ll just point you to the prospect land page where you can find all of it. https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/
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| 2:03 |
: What’s currently keeping you from hanging a 50 FV on Nico Hoerner? Would you need to see more power out of his bat to justify him inevitably moving to 2B?
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| 2:03 |
: He might move up when we do the Cubs list
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| 2:03 |
: The power he’s shown here in AZ has been surprising
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| 12:31 |
: Hi folks, and welcome to today’s chat. I’ll be along in a few minutes after I dot the final i’s and cross the final t’s on my Lee Smith Today’s Game profile. Apologies for the delay…
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| 12:34 |
: Ok, I’m back! Let’s get to this.
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| 12:35 |
: Hi Jay, Among the southpaws, would you rather have Keuchal, Paxton, or Corbin?
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| 12:37 |
: They’re all a bit imperfect, aren’t they? If we’re talking for a single game today, I’d take Corbin, who’s coming off a strong, robust season of 200 innings. If we’re talking for the next few years via trade or free agency, think I’d lean Paxton, who despite being fragile is the one who misses bats with the most consistency, giving him the most margin for error as he ages.
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| 12:37 |
: So Fox reups for 7 more years. About another 200 million per year- so a good 6.5 million more per team. Some rights bubble heh?
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| 12:37 |
: Reports of baseball’s death have again been greatly exaggerated.
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| 12:11 |
: Hello! Movers just left so I’m mostly settled in here in Atlanta. A quick rundown of all the content we’ve been publishing since the last chat: |
| 12:11 |
: All findable here at the prospects main page: https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/ |
| 12:13 |
: I introduced our updated prospect asset value concept in the context of a JT Realmuto trade, after last week’s chat was chock full of JTR questions: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/so-you-want-to-trade-for-j-t-realmuto/ |
| 12:13 |
: we have the new scouting primer: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-new-fangraphs-scouting-primer/ |
| 12:13 |
: prospect graduations from the 2018 season: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/2018-prospect-graduations/ |
| 12:14 |
: Craig Edwards’ 3-part series where he tells you how we put a asset dollar value on every prospect in baseball: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/an-update-to-prospect-valuation/ |
| 2:00 |
: Hi all– allow me one moment to respond to a Very Pressing Email.
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| 2:01 |
: Ok, all set! Welcome to the chat. Let’s see what nonsense we can get up to today.
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| 2:02 |
: …you’re not REALLY out of coffee, are you? That’d be some kind of nightmare-ish hellscape…
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| 2:02 |
: No, thank goodness. I made more.
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| 2:02 |
: Any chance Paxton rumors / action heats up again soon? Or does all the “dust” need to settle for Ms FO makes any more moves (assuming they’re still around)?
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| 2:03 |
: I would imagine that it might delay for a day or two, but MLB has announced an investigation, and it seems almost certain their trade activity won’t wait for that to conclude.
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| 12:00 |
: It’s a’ me, Mario!
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| 12:00 |
: OK, not really.
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| 12:01 |
: I’m going to hold off the off-topic questions until we get to the Lightning Round.
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| 12:01 |
: do you think “extremely available for trade” Kole Calhoun has a market? and does the Angels trying to trade him give indication of their actions in the FA market?
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| 12:02 |
: I think he has *some* market, but I think it’s wishful thinking on the Angels if they think someone’s going to pay as if the first half of 2018 never happened.
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| 12:02 |
: I’m not sure it makes a lot of sense for the Angels to trade him.
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| 9:00 |
: Hello friends |
| 9:01 |
: Welcome to Friday baseball chat |
| 9:01 |
: I made it on time to this one! Take that, haters |
| 9:01 |
: Fangraphs has the Padres projected at 77 wins with fairly pedestrian Steamer numbers for all the big rookies. With that in mind, wouldn’t it make sense for them to go after a guy like Corbin now and see how it goes? |
| 9:02 |
: I do think the Padres are likely to target at least one interesting and talented pitcher, but I don’t think they’ll want to pay what Corbin will command |
| 9:03 |
: If you figure Corbin will get an offer from, say, the Yankees, the Padres would have to offer more on top of that. The Padres can’t compete with the Yankees’ budget. I’m looking for San Diego to target a cheaper starter, with a couple years of team control remaining |
| 2:01 |
: Howdy howdy howdy, let’s do the thing…
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| 2:01 |
: What is your take on the Farhan Zaidi hire for the Giants and the sentiment that he could move Bumgarner?
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| 2:03 |
: I dig the hire, Zaidi seems capable of helming a club. I’m skeptical that about Bum being good when the Giants are good again, so I think it makes sense to explore the idea of moving him.
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| 2:04 |
: What’s the buzz around JB Bukauskas in Arizona? The stuff has looked very sharp from what I have seen.
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| 2:05 |
: He looks good. 94-96, t98, four pitch mix, everything has flashed plus. Changeup hasn’t been as good nor used as heavily of late. Don’t think the fastball plays like 95+ because this is a small guy who also has a short stride and I tend to think of him as a nasty multi-inning relief piece more than a true 170+ inning starter, but he is good.
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| 2:05 |
: Have you gotten to see much of Daz Cameron in the fall league? What do you think the Tigers have in him?
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| 12:01 |
: Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to another offseason edition of my Thursday chat series. I’m immersed in the Today’s Game ballot, the third installment of which just went up this morning https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/thrills-provided-by-carter-and-clark-n…
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| 12:02 |
: what surprises, if any, did you have with the award finalist announcements on Monday?
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| 12:07 |
: While it took me a day even to get to looking at the list of finalists because of how immersed I was in the Hall stuff, I guess the biggest surprise — but not all that big of one — was that Chris Sale didn’t make the AL top three in Cy Young voting, owing to his late-season absences. That’s not to begrudge Verlander, Snell and Kluber their spots, it’s just a gauge of the steep cost of Sale’s absence and subsequent struggles upon returning.
Beyond that, slight surprise Lorenzo Cain slipped out of the NL MVP top three and Javier Baez in, but both had great seasons. Not a major quibble, though. |
| 12:08 |
: Do you see the Zunino/Mallex deal as one likely to work out for both teams?
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| 12:10 |
: quite possibly. I think Zunino’s ongoing ups and downs on the offensive side are indicative that a change of scenery could help. Smith turned in a nice season and fills a hole that the Mariners have really struggled with in recent years.
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| 12:10 |
: Thoughts on Bill James’s statements? https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/11/07/red-sox-senior-advisor-bill-james…
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| 12:13 |
: Hello all from the almost empty Atlanta house, which will hopefully be filled by next week’s chat |
| 12:14 |
: ICYMI, we posted a top 50 free agents thing that I did the rankings/predictions for: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2019-top-50-free-agents/ |
| 12:14 |
: And then all the stuff Cistulli wouldn’t let in the formal rankings, including buzz on timetables and under the radar spending teams went here: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-free-agency-analysis-fangraphs-doe… |
| 12:14 |
: I’ll have one more offseason-focused article probably going up tomorrow and I’m editing a podcast with some FA talk as well |
| 12:15 |
: Now to your questions, which also appear to be offseason-focused |
| 12:16 |
: Do you think a Donaldson three year deal to the Padres makes sense? |
