Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Jeff Zimmerman: Yo

Travis Sawchik: Happy Monday, folks

Travis Sawchik: Let’s get started ….

Travis Sawchik: Oh, and this is a GoT-free zone

Hot Dogs are Sandwiches: Should the Jays buy, sell, or retool for ’18?

Travis Sawchik: We have the Jays with an 11 percent shot to reach the postseason http://www.fangraphs.com/coolstandings.aspx

Travis Sawchik: Not great

Dave Cameron: Happy Friday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: While Wednesday’s site outage kept me from chatting mid-week, this works out better anyway, as I can now answer questions about the whole list.

Dave Cameron: We’ll focus primarily on the Trade Value series, but I’m sure there are plenty of Jose Quintana questions too, so we’ll work those in.

Dave Cameron: And maybe some other deadline stuff.

Mike: Is the only thing keeping Judge from being #1 another 3 months of sample size?

Dave Cameron: Well, depends on what he does in those next three months. If he puts up another +5 WAR second half, then yeah, he might fight Correa for the top spot. If he turns into something closer to what the projections are forecasting, then he’s probably still not cracking the top five. Keep in mind, he’s as old as Trout is.

Dan Szymborski: FanGraphs works today!

Dan Szymborski: And the thunderstorm hasn’t knocked out my power.

Dan Szymborski: So I’ve dodged all of Cistulli’s best weapons to get here today.

TimMorris: Zack Britton as a Dodger is highly unfair.

Dan Szymborski: I’m not sure the Orioles are truly motivated enough at this time to pull triggers for real.

Julio Pepper: Is a team that’s 41-39 one game over .500, or two games over .500?

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Jack: Ronald Acuna worth keeping over Ray at same price ($1)

Paul Swydan: Couple of non-ASG q’s before we get started.

Travis Sawchik: Greetings!

Travis Sawchik: It appears the chat did not post early (probably user error) so I will check back in a few minutes after some questions have entered the queue …. Thanks for your patience

Travis Sawchik: Tarp is coming off …. Chat will resume at 1215 pm est

Travis Sawchik: BTW, happy Trade Value week

johnny5alive: who wins tonight

Travis Sawchik: Judge has to be the favorite, right?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Sorry for that delay, was finishing a podcast

Stuafoo: Dave made an interesting claim recently that Brandon Belt might be the player who is hurt most by their home ballpark. Who else would be on that list?

Jeff Sullivan: So I actually kind of disagree with Dave there

Jeff Sullivan: It’s true that Belt has hit twice as many home runs on the road as he has at home, over his career. But his career home wOBA is .359. His career road wOBA is .348!

Eno Sarris: Saw these guys along with Andrew Bird, Weezer, Mumford… and they were clearly the best in show

Tumbler, Whiskey: #VoteHos

Eno Sarris: #LoveHos

Biden the Dog: More like Dellin Becanthitthestrikezone am I right?

Eno Sarris: It was the reason he didn’t start, right?

Asdrubal: Fister, Gossett, Lively, Butler – I dare you to rank them.

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: Have my first post-op meeting wth my orthopedist today, so will have to wrap things up a little before 1 pm, but I’ll go longer next week to make up for it.

Pablo: Think the Brewers will make at least a minor trade to try to compete this year? They have a ton of outfield depth in the minors they could deal.

Dave Cameron: Yeah, they keep hanging around, and barring a huge collapse, definitely won’t be selling now. I could see them going after a Jason Vargas type, the kind of guy who would upgrade their rotation more than some other teams, and who might be able to crack their playoff rotation but wouldn’t in some other cities.

Dave Cameron: I’m sure they’d prefer a controllable guy, but I would imagine they’ll get outbid for the likes of Gray and Quintana.

The Toe: Should the Cubs try and sell Arrieta and Davis at the deadline? No team has ever won the WS being below .500 on July 5th.

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning. Quick one today for obvious reasons. Perhaps not so obvious, the AZL schedule is very staggered today giving me a chance to get to four games today. They start at 10am here, so let’s boogie.

Tommy N.: How far away is Jacob Nix from your top 100?

Eric A Longenhagen: He’s probably already there

Steven : Is Alex Speas expected to come up as a reliever for Texas?

Eric A Longenhagen: Worth trying to develop him as a starter and I think he has a shot, even if it’s only 30 or 40%, to be one.

Eric A Longenhagen: Also, even if you think the player ends up in the bullpen, starter development gives them more chances to work on the secondary pitches.