Kevin Goldstein: Hi everyone. I’m here. Tess is here, Eric is here. We hope you’ve enjoyed Prospect Week and our Top 100 list. Thanks to Eric and Tess for all the work they put it, and thanks to behind the scenes folks on this like Meg Rowley’s gigantic editing load, Sean Dolinar’s crazy great tech work, and Luke Hooper’s wonderful design work.

Eric A Longenhagen: Hello from Tempe and thanks for joining us

Kevin Goldstein: Anyway, let’s chat!

Tess Taruskin: Hey everyone!

Guest: Luis Medina at 60 overall seems to suggest at least a reasonable chance of becoming a starter?

Kevin Goldstein: Reasonable chance, yes, but it’s far from a guarantee . . . very far in fact. Stuff is fantastic.

Jay Jaffe: Hey folks, good afternoon and welcome to my chat! I’m running a few minutes behind here as lunch just arrived and I had a home appliance situation to tend to . Gonna need 5-10 minutes to get settled

Jay Jaffe: your patience is appreciated

Jay Jaffe: OK, I’m back

Jay Jaffe: My piece on the Juan Soto extension offer went up earlier today https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-nationals-350-million-extension-offer-….

Jay Jaffe: Yesterday, we published my piece on S-JAWS and the dearth of Hall of Fame starting pitchers from recent decades https://blogs.fangraphs.com/cooperstown-notebook-the-incredible-shrink…

Jay Jaffe: And earlier this week I had a look at the owners’ CBA offer from last Saturday https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-owners-latest-offer-gets-us-no-closer-…

Dan Szymborski: Welcome to a no doubt very upbeat chat!

Sirras: If MLB made an offer consisting of:

• Ownership can only fire one player per month, where “fire” means lighting a player on fire.
• The CBT threshold is lowered to $10 and players on teams over the threshold are subject to daily whippings until the team gets below the threshold

Sirras: Then:

• How likely do you think MLBPA would be to accept?
• Why won’t the players negotiate in good faith?

Dan Szymborski: lol

bk: Dan please, I am starving. A ZiPS top 100 Jays teaser, I need it.

Dan Szymborski: Hey, we gotta keep you guys coming back for SOMETHING. It’s just next week!