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Eno Sarris: no fear I’ll be hear shortly

Comment From John Farrell
Where does Eno see Rusney Castillo starting the season? If your answer is in the minors, what are your overall thoughts on that?

Eno Sarris: Rehab assignment? When he’s healthy I think he’s up.

Comment From Rob
How worried should we be about David Robertson right now? Should Robertson owners be scooping up Zach Duke just in case?

Eno Sarris: Not if it means dropping a starter or an actual closer. If you dropping someone like Ken Giles, then yeah, do that. Safety first.

Dave Cameron: It’s the final Wednesday before we have actual baseball, so let’s do our last offseason chat of the year.

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s fire this thing up.

Comment From dom
Carlos Martinez has a ___ % chance of becoming a very good MLB starter

Dave Cameron: 25

Comment From Pale Hose
If you are the Cubs 25th guy would you have beef with the union supporting Bryant?

Dave Cameron: I wouldn’t look at it that way. Their statement was a PR move as both sides seek to gain public ground supporting their positions in the upcoming CBA negotiations.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

I haven’t talked to Jeff yet, but assuming he is in, tonight will mark the glorious return of the Menage a Chat! That’s right, Chris Cwik, newly of Yahoo! Big League Stew but always a FanGraph’er at heart, will e back in the building!

So get your questions in, and we’ll see you at 9 pm ET. And remember, this time next week there will be baseball on. As Luke Cage/Power Man would say, Sweet Christmas!!!

See you soon.

Paul Swydan: Hi guys! The menage a chat is back!

Chris Cwik: What’s up, nerds?

Jeff Zimmerman: Who let Chris in?

Comment From Dylan
Oh god, not Cwik.

Comment From charles darwin
micah johnson? next big 2B??? whats your take???

Kiley McDaniel: Hello. Kiley is here.

Comment From Nick
Nick is here.

Kiley McDaniel: Good to hear from you Dr. Nick. Hi everybody.

Comment From Jared
Can you remember a draft class where so many top prospects have suffered injuries?

Kiley McDaniel: I can’t, but it always bothers me when Bill Simmons announces every NFL/NBA season is the craziest one he can remember, so I don’t want to fall into that trap. Maybe it’s the normal amount of injuries, but since this class kinda sucks, we’re just noticing it more since top 10 guys are going down instead of fringy first rounders.

Comment From sir nerdlington
How do you see an international draft being implemented?

Dan Szymborski: I am here, LIVE FROM SUPLEX CITY

Comment From RotoLando
I’m here for the free breadsticks

Dan Szymborski: Crap, was I supposed to get breadsticks?

Dan Szymborski: I’m saving the complete non-baseball Qs for the Lightning Round

Comment From Xander
I’m not well versed in statistics but is there some measure of confidence that zips or steamer calculates with each player’s projection? If so, is this published on the internets somewhere?

Dan Szymborski: I publish probabilities of various levels and milestones on the spreadsheet, but not a specific 95% confidence interval or something

Paul Sporer: Hey y’all, we’ll get going soon! I know there are a number of drafts coming up this weekend, so I’ll be here for quite a while taking your questions today!

Comment From Jon
Who do you like more for this year and forever Shane Greene or Chase Anderson in a deep dynasty league?

Comment From Baseball Lover ATX
Cant wait!

Paul Sporer: Probably Greene, but it’s really close between those two.

Comment From neal
more WAR in 2015: Bartolo Colon, or Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, and Brandon Phillips combined?

Paul Sporer: Hahaha, that’s a great question. Gimme Sizemore & Phillips (I’m not expecting anything from Lee).

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Eno Sarris: be here at noon ET

Comment From Alex
I know you love Hutchison, but unless I’m missing something, he jumped over 100 innings last season. is that a concern?

Eno Sarris: When you have TJ, it’s inevitable. It’s not like a rookie going from 60 to 160.

Comment From Shawn
Thoughts on Kendall Graveman? The next Doug Fister?

Eno Sarris: Not a lot of Doug Fisters, so I’d rather I knew his stuff was good. I know his command is good, and the shape of his pitches look good in PFx, but he’s thrown two changeups. I’m going to wait to see more.

Dave Cameron: It’s Wednesday, and Kris Bryant hasn’t yet homered today. Let’s chat before he hits one of us with a baseball.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open.

Comment From Grand Admiral Braun
Would the Reds have been wise to trade Cueto this offseason or did the 2nd WC change their thinking? It seems to me the Reds have one of wider ranges for win-loss records this season. They could lose 95 games or win 88.

Dave Cameron: I think they should have more aggressively picked a side; they need a lot to go right to contend this year, but they also gave up a prospect for Marlon Byrd. It was a weird winter.

Dave Cameron: That said, Cueto will have a lot of value at the trade deadline.

Comment From Vslyke
Do you see the Braves trading Kimbrel at the deadline? And if so, who gets the higher return, Chapman or Kimbrel?

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! 9 pm ET, with me and possibly Jeff. Get your questions in the queue now. See you soon!

Paul Swydan: One second!

Jeff Zimmerman: Waiting on Paul

Paul Swydan: Sorry!

Comment From daneyko
Mat Latos: Over/Under 3.30 ERA. Why?

Jeff Zimmerman: Over, the loss of velo is troubling.

Kiley McDaniel: Kiley here, just wrapping up some editing on the debut piece from one of our new prospect writers, who saw Matuella back to normal last weekend

Comment From neal
i really hope this aiken thing doesn’t end up being horribly depressing

Kiley McDaniel: Yeah the indications are that it’s headed that way. Radio silence from his camp, as you’d guess. Teams and media and public will figure out what this is, hopefully just arm soreness, when the Aiken family wants to tell us.

Comment From Prospect Guy
Hey Kiley! You had Albies and Margot ranked 34 and 35, respectively. I’m curious what you see as Albies ceiling (AVG/HR/SB) vs. Margot. Also, earliest MLB debut for each is 2018?

Kiley McDaniel: SB is hard to call as that’s more a choice than a direct math problem from raw speed. That said, at these two links, I grade all the tools and then at these next two links I break down in more depth along with their projected path/time to the big leagues

http://www.fangraphs.com/st…
http://www.fangraphs.com/st…

http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…
http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…

Comment From Adam
What would be a realistic expectation for what Rodon can do as a ML starter this year?