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Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning from Tempe, everyone.

Eric A Longenhagen: It’s the last day of Extended Spring, my target game got moved to 6pm so here I am. Let’s talk prospects and whatever else your heart desires for about an hour…

Buff Chick: Cubs or Brewers list first?

Eric A Longenhagen: Brewers

>this guy<: Eric are any of the prospect bonus demands starting to leak out and are those causing people to allegedly rise or slide according to #sources?

Eric A Longenhagen: Nothing beyond the handful of guys who already have very strong commits or who had bad springs. If there’s one player who’s the inverse of this it’s FL prep SS Jonathan Vastine (Vandy) who sounds more signable than we thought a couple months ago.

Dan Szymborski: CHAT BEING NOW

DAN: Do you think the Giants rotation is going to sustain this success with the substance crackdown and/or escape more injury (such as the yearly Alex Wood 60-day trip)?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have a real basis for saying which team will benefit from this really. It’s all an unknown right now

Dan Szymborski: But the Giants have enough wins bagged that they probably just need to go .500 the rest of the way to make the playoffs

Seth: Has perception of Christian Pache’s FV slipped due to his struggles offensively at the beginning of the season?

Dan Szymborski: He’s been lousy enough that you *should* think a little worse of him. But not *that* much.

Jay Jaffe: Hey folks, good afternoon and welcome to my first chat of June! I’m on something of a working vacation with my family’s annual trip to Cape Cod. Got a bit of sand between my toes, a bit of fried seafood in my stomach, and some local craft beers as well.

Jay Jaffe: (not yet today, last night that is)

ChuckNChino: Missed you last week — hope all is well.

Jay Jaffe: Thanks. Missed last week due to festivities for the end of my daughter’s school year and thus her preschool experience. It was pretty emotional but in a positive way

Slapshot: I saw your retweet yesterday of MLBN’s question about who is leading for AL MVP between Vlad and Ohtani.  Assuming they keep up their current pace (Vlad for hitting, Ohtani for both sides) with fairly close WAR, who do you see getting the title between those two at the end of the day?  Also, do you see writers giving Vlad more of an edge if he somehow nabs the AL Triple Crown along the way?

Jay Jaffe: The MLB Network screenshot was incredibly inane

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning from Tempe, give me one second to adjust The Board to reflect the Wisler trade…

Eric A Longenhagen: okay, thanks, let’s get to it…

Mike: Any draft rumors for the top 5 picks (Red Sox rumors specifically would be appreciated)?

Eric A Longenhagen: We’ll have our first mock early next week. Think PIT’s desire to cut at 1 means we won’t know who they’re on until the mixes behind them really solidify. Think Watson has a chance to be in the mix at two in addition to the obvious names. Boston I think would just take Leiter if there. Teams have BAL wanting to cut, too, prob w/ prep bat. It’s super early still

Mike: Anything on Spencer Strider this year? Stats seem impressive, does the scouting report match it?

Eric A Longenhagen: It’s basically what I have on the Braves list (he was 22nd entering the year, 40 FV) except now he’s backed up the velo spike he showed during instructs by holding it to start this season. Still relief probability there.

Dan Szymborski: dangit

Dan Szymborski:

Dan Szymborski: There we go, third time’s the charm!

Jon G: Has Kris Bryant played himself back into $200M+ on the open market?

Dan Szymborski: Doing a piece on the Cubs Big Three FA for tomorrow!

Max: How are you (and zips) feeling about Jared Walsh? Is the sample size and eye test large enough to say “all-star first basemen for many years for the angels?”