Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, This is the water and this is the well.

Eric A Longenhagen: Links!

Eric A Longenhagen: Today’s daily notes: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/daily-prospect-notes-725/

Eric A Longenhagen: I have posts in the queue about the Royals/Padres and Braves/Twins trade. If they get posted during the chat, I’ll add them in here.

Eric A Longenhagen: Also, I’m writing up all the trades that happened while I was away for posterity. Here’s the Quintana deal: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/belated-trade-analysis-white-sox-acquir…

Eric A Longenhagen: Ok, let’s drink full and descend.

Travis Sawchik: Greetings!

Travis Sawchik: Happy Monday, and happy trade deadline week …

String Cheese: Yesterday it was reported that the Tigers could be done dealing. Do you think a “stand pat” deadline strategy would be wise for Detroit?

Travis Sawchik: I’d be looking to move Justin Wilson …. lot of teams have been interested in impact bullpen guys

Jacket: Hey Travis, how well does Devers need to hit for me to keep him over Rob Ray or Alex wood at the same price?

Travis Sawchik: Quite a bit better than his Steamer projection

Dave Cameron: Happy Friday, everyone. Jeff and I switched days this week because he wanted to go climb something this weekend. I fully expect there to be 20 trades in the next 24 hours since he’s gone.

Charles the Cat: If the Cubs are to get one more starter, who do you think they get?

Dave Cameron: The rumor of the morning put them on Darvish, but there are diminishing returns on adding another guy at that level. You’re starting Lester/Quintana/Arrieta in the postseason, so if you pick up Darvish, one of those guys makes just one start in a seven game series.

Dave Cameron: So I’d think it would be more like an Estrada type, a guy who could potentially be a buy low and would give them depth if Hendricks has more problems, then could maybe be a reliever in October.

MK: With everyone focused on Nats bullpen issues, is adding a starter or left fielder the main priority now?

Dave Cameron: I don’t think they need a starter. They basically have a playoff spot locked up, and Scherzer/Strasburg/Gio/Roark is fine for the postseason.

Eno Sarris: This guy danced like this, sang like crazy, and ended up in a tree at some point last weekend at Pitchfork and we should all live so intensely

TimMorris: 7 game series who you got, Dodgers or Astros?

Eno Sarris: I’m going to take the Dodgers. Kershaw gives them two wins (I know it doesn’t work like that, but humor me) and that’s a nice bank. Not sure Sonny Gray changes that calculus.

Nick: Got offered Kyle Tucker and Schebler for Stras and Cahill and a keeper? Take it or leave it?

Eno Sarris: Eh. This run environment seems to create Scheblers left and right and if Stras is a keeper he’s best in deal.

Senor Crabs: I hate to be this guy, but I traded 4 years of Kris Bryant for 4 years of Gregory Polanco and 5 years of Maz and Aaron Nola. Did I do ok?

Dan Szymborski: MAIN SCREEN TURN ON

The Average Sports Fan: Do you think David Wright ever gets another MLB AB?

Dan Szymborski: I think he’ll make an appearance, but not many of ’em.

Guest: If you’re a White Sox fan, who would you rather not see blow games as their closer… Swarzak or Clippard?

Dan Szymborski: Clippard because you’ll directly remember Robertson

Nick: Outlook for Mags Sierra? Can he be an above average hitter?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to a weird one-off Wednesday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Back to normal scheduling next week. I’ve just wound up with two straight Fridays out of the house and off the grid

Carson Cistulli: Jeff Sullivan, making his weekly Friday appearance, On a Wednesday….? This commenter is intimidated – Dare I say – Threatened, yes threatened by change!

Jeff Sullivan: I should also note that Dave will be taking the Friday chat again. Next week, he’s back to Wednesday, and I’m back to Friday

Jeff Sullivan: Normalcy resumes, to whatever extent it ever can

Paul Swydan:

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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?