Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to live baseball chatting

Jeff Sullivan: Today I’ll be your tour guide through this chat, but not through any others.

Jeff Sullivan: I think I need to give the queue a minute to fill out because holy crap it’s the middle of February

Comment From GSon
a week and a day until Pitchers and Catchers report to Spring Training !!.. wooot !

Jeff Sullivan: Every year I check to see if this is exciting to me. Unfortunately, still no. It’s a milestone — it’s one more step having been taken toward the regular season — but I haaaaate spring training 🙁

Dan Szymborski: Happy afternoon start! Well, for those in the good time zone.

Dan Szymborski: I woke up early for me and was surprisingly productive – wrote a Shields piece, set up some presidents *and* showed up for chat!

Comment From Maxamuz
When will I be able to export ZiPS projections into an excel spreadsheet for further analysis?

Dan Szymborski: Not too long – weekend or early next week

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Kiley McDaniel: Today’s schedule involved a bunch of calls and one got moved and one went shorter than expected so here I am. Good catchphrase, right?

Comment From Chris (AL)
Have you heard of this Moncada guy?

Comment From RotoLando
It’s that time of the week. Legit questions only, please

Kiley McDaniel: Nice to see the sarcasta-bots are out early today

Comment From RotoLando
Any new predictions on where the Cubans land?

Kiley McDaniel: I wrote this one yesterday, so I hope I don’t change my mind that fast

http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…

In fairness I narrowed it down to two likely options, which is really the most you can do at this point. The other Cubans’ market is still wide open.

Eno Sarris: be here soon. feeling like some hip hop today

{“author”:”uNiqueTaMere”}:

Comment From Guest
Missy Elliot owned that halftime show y/y

Eno Sarris: Well my boy was mesmerized by Katy Perry and the sharks and lions but yeah Missy did pretty well.

Comment From Cronut Burger
Does Hamilton’s injury equate to an uptick in CJ Cron’s fantasy value? Given the current power drought, is he worth gambling more than a few bucks at the auction?

Eno Sarris: I think he’ll basically full time DH to begin the season, and if you value him at like .260/15 I think you’ll own him and there’s a little upside left.

Dave Cameron: It’s Wednesday, so let’s chat about… James Shields, I guess? Or maybe my get-rid-of-the-draft proposal, which you can read here: http://www.foxsports.com/ml…

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s do this thing.

Comment From Vslyke
Do you think Mike Minor gets dealt at the deadline if he rebounds? He’s older than most of the Braves staff and will be a FA after the 2017 season.

Dave Cameron: I’d imagine pretty much any Brave not named Freeman or Simmons having a good year could be trade bait.

Comment From Kris
Why not lump everyone together and allow the draft picks to be traded among teams while keeping the slot’s in place?

Dave Cameron: If the function of the draft can be replicated without the process of assigning picks — and it can be — then the picks are useless, and come with negative side effects like we saw with Brady Aiken this summer.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Jeff and I will be here at 9 pm ET to answer all of your base-and-or-balling queries. See you soon!

Paul Swydan: Hey guys, one minute and we’ll get started.

Paul Swydan: OK, here we go. Jeff is making more polls.

Paul Swydan: Glad to see BU is leading the Beanpot poll (of the four schools anyway).

Comment From Rated Rookie

Paul Swydan: I forget why he does this. This is from Fletch right? I need to whip out that DVD again soon.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to live baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Approximately nothing has happened in baseball for a couple of weeks, so this ought to be gripping

Comment From Tony G.
Are you surprised that Shields still hasn’t signed?

Jeff Sullivan: I think everybody is. I usually don’t worry about these things when they drag out, but there’s something about the calendar flipping to February

Jeff Sullivan: I think it’s in some way an encouraging reflection of the baseball market — teams are less willing to pay for what a player has already done. With Shields, you sell the durability, the innings totals, but teams now are genuinely afraid of what all that durability might mean now

Dan Szymborski: Whew, just barely made it!

Dan Szymborski: Stupid post-Super Bowl oversleeping.

Comment From Dan
It’s actually still a dream.

Dan Szymborski: I’d make a joke that I’m posting naked, but I don’t want to give you guys nightmares.

Comment From Mike T
Snowing and sleeting here… need baseball to get here soon!

Dan Szymborski: I get post-sports affective disorder between football and spring training.

Kiley McDaniel: I have the least snappy intros in the prospect chat game and I’m gonna keep it that way

Comment From Total Clown
Hey Kiley, is that prospect you just wrote about legit?

Comment From Pale Hose
Is Carson Cistulli legit?

Comment From RotoLando
Hell yeah, it’s time for the legittest chat on the internet

Kiley McDaniel: Good to see you guys have your game face on

Comment From CoolWinnebago
Keith Law’s (Sorry!) top 100. What are your feelings on it? Im no expert but parts of it just seem nonsensical to me. Ex. Joe Ross at #63 and Matt Wisler omitted. Judging from your org write ups your list will have many disagreements with his.
Also, remind me when your list is coming out.

Eno Sarris: I’ll be here shortly shorty

Eno Sarris: Let’s start off mellow

{“author”:”Billy Valds”}:

Comment From Carl
You can target one player in a trade — are you going after Paul Goldschmidt (8th round keeper) or Anthony Rizzo (20th round)?

Eno Sarris: Give me Rizzo and the 12 rounds!

Comment From Miketron
How intrigued are you with Travis Snider now that he is in Baltimore?