Eric A Longenhagen: Morning from Tempe. I’m gonna keep it tight to the hour today so I can, among other things, watch Kiley on today’s ESPN spring training broadcast.

Brendon: Looking forward to the Jays list! What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned after making calls about the system?

Eric A Longenhagen: That aside from Pearson, Roither Hernandez is the hardest-throwing dude in the system.

Vslyke: Curious why Nick Green didn’t make the Yankees list? Not a great 2019, but he was a guy FG had been fairly high on at one time.

Eric A Longenhagen: Could’ve been a 35. Like the ground ball-getting stuff, but two years of command regression on a 24y/o isn’t great

Alan: Likelihood that Franklin Perez debuts in DET this season?

Meg Rowley: Hello all, and welcome to the chat

Meg Rowley: Hope everyone is having a good week amongst all the stressful Real World things – a few baseball-related distractions:

Meg Rowley: Jay wrote about Cole Hamels and the Braves rotation: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/cole-hamels-cranky-shoulder-will-test-brav…

Meg Rowley: Craig has a double feature. First, on the Mets’ outfield situation: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-cardinals-messy-outfield-situation/

Meg Rowley: then on the injuries befalling the AL East: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/injuries-are-throwing-the-al-east-for-a-lo…

Meg Rowley: Also, yesterday Ben Clemens took a look at the dramatic spin spike Trevor Bauer saw last September: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/trevor-bauer-might-have-conducted-another-…

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, everyone. Let me tweet a chat link and we’ll get started.

Eric A Longenhagen: Alrighty then

Eric A Longenhagen: Let’s do some links…

Eric A Longenhagen: I was on the inaugural Keith Law Show over on The Athletic which they somehow cut down to 40 minutes. https://theathletic.com/podcast/168-the-keith-law-show/

Eric A Longenhagen: I did FanGraphs audio https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-audio-a-dispatch-from-prospect-w…

Eric A Longenhagen: There are two new lists which can be accessed via the prospects homepage https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects

Jay Jaffe: Hey hey, folks! Welcome to another edition of my Monday chat. I’m back from a week spent in sunny Siesta Key, Florida — no baseball, just family stuff like watching my daughter and her cousin splash in a swimming pool and build sandcastles on the beach.

I just finished making a presentation about baseball to my daughter’s preschool class, which was wild. We gave out baseball cards, popcorn, and sunflower seeds, and sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Did not get into the various flavors of WAR.

Jay Jaffe: Gah, the poll didn’t post there.

Jaffe rhymes with Taffy: Happy Monday!  The Astros are in for a tough year, especially on the road.  At what point in the season do you think we might start to feel for them for all the booing, vitriol etc.  Self inflicted of course…but….how long?

Jay Jaffe: Hmmm. I can’t see mustering much sympathy for the players who were involved if they’re getting razzed about it daily. I do think I’d reserve my sympathy for those who weren’t part of the 2017-18 teams and may catch some collateral damage.

Thank you for the chat!: Who ‘owns’ article series between authors and publications they work for? Do you agree on ownership before jobs? Part of exit negotiations? Also, how does it tie to book deals? Do you have to work profit sharing out with the publications? I imagine all this could get complicated

Jay Jaffe: It varies from publication to publication and sometimes from writer to writer. At Baseball Prospectus, the rights for each piece reverted to me after a period (18 months I think). At Sports Illustrated, they retain the copyright but are pretty cooperative about granting permission to re-use, such as for my book or to update as part of my JAWS series. Here, I retain the rights to my work.

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, chat.

Eric A Longenhagen: There’s watchable Major League Baseball on today, which is lovely. I’ll be back on the team list grind starting next week (Philly and other Tampa cluster teams are up) but for now let’s chat all things baseba..

Toshi: Hi Eric,

Thank you for the chat. While ago, you mentioned during a chat that the Mariners got much better at developing pitchers. Is that because of (1) hiring new people who are good at it, (2) started embracing new philosophy or technology, (3) got better at drafting, or (4) something else? Thanks!

Eric A Longenhagen: 1 and 2. I was in Peoria to watch George Kirby and Sam Carlson throw bullpens earlier this week and they have a rapsodo and edgertronic going in the ‘pen. The dev staff changes have worked out (mostly, one very prominent example did not)

Matt: Where would oscar colas rate by fv from what you’ve heard/seen? And any rumors on who lead(s)?

Eric A Longenhagen: 35, he’ll be on the list of whoever signs him in the honorable mentions. Had a director comp him to a lot of the DH-only type 4A guys