Eric A Longenhagen: Morning, everyone. Would like to extend condolences to the family and friends of Kevin Towers, who people in baseball held in high regard.

Blooper: How is the outlook for Jose Siri? He crushed it last year

Eric A Longenhagen: I buy it. Think he’s talented enough to make the approach (which is horrendous) work.

Rick C: What would an Atlanta package have looked like to match what the Brewers gave up for Yelich?

Eric A Longenhagen: Not sure there’s a clear match on prospect quality/readiness and package depth. Maybe something like Soroka, Anderson, Riley and a 40?

Scuffy McGee: Do the A’s have a true top of the rotation guy in the minors? Puk is a little wild for that designation I think

Travis Sawchik: Greetings!

Travis Sawchik: Man, there are a still a lot of unsigned free agents …

Travis Sawchik: Including 11 of the FG (Dave Cameron) top 20 …

Travis Sawchik: Let’s talk it out ..

kevinthecomic: Is Miguel Sano’s “situation” the reason that the Twins haven’t done anything other than signing Addison Reed?

Travis Sawchik: Well, the Twins have signed Fernando Rodney and Zach Duke, too …. But wouldn’t Sano’s issues be more reason to kick the tires on, say, Todd Frazier?

Eno Sarris:

Matt: What’s your take on Ohtani’s cost in ottoneu? I initially put a $20-25 band on him at first pass, but now I’m wondering if I’m at least $10-15 low after reading reports…

Eno Sarris: I dunno. I mean, I’m excited, you’re excited, he just had elbow surgery last year and probably can’t throw more than 150 innings. I think James Paxton level is about right.

Blue Jay Matt: What’s your favourite type of cheese? Don’t say melted…

Eno Sarris: Just to like, pick up and eat? Emmenthaler, Gruyere — swiss.

Blue Jay Matt: What’s your snack food of choice?

Dan Szymborski: Commence the composition of our baseball quodlibet.

Jason: Hosmer to San Diego?

Dan Szymborski: If this happened?  ROFL Padres.

Roadhog: At what price point does Cain make sense for the A’s? 3/60?

Dan Szymborski: Not sure it’s relaly the best fit.  There are contenders that ought to be interested in him.

Eric Hosmer: Where do I end up and will I still get $200 million?

Kiley McDaniel: Hello from sunny Orlando. I am prepared to chat with you.

Jared: Hi Kiley.

steev: Hi Kiley,

Kiley McDaniel: You guys are so formal, you can just skip to calling me biased next time

Alex: Hi Kiley, what are your thoughts on Cristian Pache’s ultimate offensive ceiling? Thanks!

Kiley McDaniel: He’s an interesting one. I’ve joked that he’s an LSU wide receiver athletically, so almost anything is possible in the long-term. More practically he needs to refine the approach and lift the ball a little more, but he’s also a 70 runner and if doesn’t improve at all he’s something like Kevin Pillar, which may not be what Braves fans want but that’s an everyday guy.

Eric A Longenhagen: Oh hi hello, Eric Longenhagen here from relatively chilly Tempe (38 degrees this morning). I hope you’re all ready for baseball. It approaches.

Eric A Longenhagen: Some stuff really quick…

Eric A Longenhagen: I was on the pod with Carson: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/fangraphs-audio-luis-robert-and-the-wh…

Eric A Longenhagen: And wrote up Conner Greene, who was dealt over the weekend: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/scouting-the-talented-frus…

Eric A Longenhagen: Okay chat, let’s do this.

Greg: Favorite under the radar Braves prospect?

Travis Sawchik: Greetings!

Travis Sawchik: It’s been awhile with the holiday last week …

Travis Sawchik: But don’t worry, we haven’t really missed anything ….

Travis Sawchik: 29 of Dave’s Top 50 free agents remain unsigned

Baseball Guy: Best guess as to who’s still out there in, say, June, waiting for the “right offer”? I got Arrieta.

Travis Sawchik: I would be shocked if a top name was waiting until June … but I could see some high-profile March signings

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Although that’s Friday baseball chat with an asterisk: there’s a decent chance that in about half an hour I’m going to have to go give someone an emergency ride to a wedding

Jeff Sullivan: Not ideal! But here we are. I hope it works out

Bork: Hello, friend, and welcome back!

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

Estevao: Edgar

312/418/515
.204 ISO.  .405 wOBA.

Larry

313/400/565
.252 ISO.  .412 wOBA

Coors Field is obviously a factor,
Edgar 147 wRC+
Larry 140 wRC+

But any advantage Martinez might and probably had gets crushed in the overall value analysis, def and bsr big advantage Larry

Dan Szymborski: They should both be in the Hall.   I’m not going to suggest we dont’ vote for Edgar just because Walker can’t get in this year in all practical likelihood.

Bret: How do you evaluate the Blue Jays offseason to date?

Dan Szymborski: Incomplete.  This has been a slow offseason and I’m loath to give anybody a grade.

Dan: Devers’ projection is pretty crazy for a 21 year old.  What does his long term (~5 year) projection look like?

Dan Szymborski: Don’t have it in front of me, but quite solid!

Eno Sarris: is this title about my struggle against the beer belly or

Jimbo Slice: Why did the Pirates system fail Gerrit Cole?

Eno Sarris: I think they need to relax a bit on the four-seamer thing. They really pound four-seamers hard, to the point of taking away two-seamers from prospects, in order to promote good command. But then they need to learn two-seam command, or they throw the four-seamer more than they should, like Cole does.

John M.: Do you really believe the Cardinals will go with Gregorson as their closer going into April? I just can’t seriously believe that after stating they wanted to upgrade the pen

Eno Sarris: Maybe going into April, but they have some pieces, could be Cecil or Lyons depending on how good and healthy they are this year. I don’t think they want to pay full freight on Holland, and I don’t blame them with his mechanics and history.

Eno Sarris: Maybe they sign Bud Norris? Maybe they trade for Bearclaw, Soria, Herrera? Maybe they do both.