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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?

Eno Sarris: I’ll be here shortly!

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Eno Sarris: dude, my pancakes are almost ready

Comment From Tony G.
How worried are you about Cobb right now? Percentage chance he goes for TJS this season?

Eno Sarris: Well he gets hurt all the time, so lower than another guy that randomly gets this pain? 15%?

Comment From Larry David
How much do you love deGrom? His stuff looks nasty. I’ve offered someone Wright for deGrom in a keeper points league. I have Kris Bryant. I am afraid of nothing.

Dave Cameron: It’s Wednesday, so let’s chat. I’m actually going to start a few minutes early this week, so we’ll open up the queue now and start answering questions in 10 minutes or so.

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s get this party started.

Comment From Eric
Have a chance to catch Miguel Castro last night? Word is Jays want him to go 4IP next outing which is interesting considering he’s almost certainly going to make the team.

Dave Cameron: History says this probably won’t work, but it’s also maybe worth taking a shot; pitcher aging curves are weird, and guys do take huge leaps forward sometimes. If he looks like an A-ball pitcher in April, it’s not the end of the world to send him down.

Comment From @RFLRedZone
How are the Giants looking without Hunter Pence for a month or more?

Dave Cameron: Slightly worse, but a month without anyone won’t kill a contender.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! If you haven’t yet vomited up delicious green beer all over yourself, join Jeff and myself at 9 pm ET and we’ll cram some baseball in your various orifices. Until then, ponder the eternal St. Patrick’s Day question:

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Paul Swydan: One sec guys.

Paul Swydan: OK, let’s do this. Jeff will be along in a sec.

Comment From Vic
Drafting in a 15 team 5 x 5 this weekend…..I have pick 7. Abreu or Gomez? If you drafted 10 times, how many times would you take Abreu?

Paul Swydan: I would take Abreu….probably 8 times out of 10?

Jeff Zimmerman: Abreau

Kiley McDaniel: Alrighty sorry for the last start let’s get rolling

Comment From tigel
man this chat is pretty legit.

Comment From Bret
It can be hard to separate the media needing content in Spring Training from what the team is actually thinking, but there sure is a lot of talk about Miguel Castro especially, and even Roberto Osuna, breaking camp with the Blue Jays. Castro is even scheduled to go three innings against the Yankees tonight. Is this insane?

Kiley McDaniel: Well you want to see what you have in ST, so stretching the young guys versus top competition is your best indicator without adding them to the 40-man. Still hard to see either break with the club for development purposes, but good performances here will speed up their timetable.

Comment From meatballsfly
is there any chance daniel norris begins the year in the MLB?

Kiley McDaniel: I don’t follow the day-to-day buzz quite as closely as other writers here for MLB spots, but my assumption is Marco Estrada and Aaron Sanchez take the 4/5 spots and Norris is the top callup at AAA. Although he could take Sanchez’s spot and shift Sanchez to the pen if Norris really pitches well in ST.

Dan Szymborski: Just in time! I actually totally forgot it was Monday

Comment From mymaus
Given Xander Boagarts hits 8th in the order, do you like him better than the following SS who bat higher: Andrus, Rollins, Castro, Aybar?

Dan Szymborski: Assuming this is a fantasy question, ZiPS has Bogaerts slightly behind that group.

Comment From Dan
How’s the final zipsing going?

Dan Szymborski: Lots to do – too many damn reuqests.

Dan Szymborski: And at least half of them are nonsense – I’m not projecting 17 year olds with 20 GCL PA.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends, welcome to the newly regularly scheduled Friday live baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: For anyone who missed it, I’ve swapped places with Kiley, Tuesday < — > Friday, because Kiley is going to be doing a lot of Friday scouting

Jeff Sullivan: Also, a note: this is the last you’ll see of me for a few weeks. After this chat, I won’t be back on the FG pages until Tuesday, 3/31. Or never, in the event of a plane crash! Who’s to say

Comment From jocephus
you enjoy ferrells antics?

Jeff Sullivan: I wonder what the experience would’ve been in a world without Twitter. Twitter made me roll my eyes a lot sooner than I probably would’ve if I were just catching clips and live look-ins. See, Twitter has a way of beating anything into the ground within just the first handful of minutes

Jeff Sullivan: I didn’t stay tuned all day long, but I think overall it was well executed, and I’m not even that much of a Ferrell fan. Really captured the spirit of spring training. I was hoping for more opportunities for him to play defense

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Comment From Sir Nerdlington
Very impressed with Jayson Werth’s balanced approach when writing his own 2015 FG+ commentary. http://www.fangraphs.com/st…

Eno Sarris: That is an impressive typo.

Comment From Alex
Who has a bigger 2015 fantasy season, Albert Pujols or Carlos Santana?

Eno Sarris: I’ll bet on the younger guy, actually!