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2018 Opening Day Very Long Chat
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Craig Edwards
12:16
Happy Opening Day everyone. We've got Cubs Marlins starting shortly and Carlos Martinez against Noah Syndergaard also coming up. The queue is open for questions and comments. Meg Rowley will be here for the early games as well. We will get started very soon. Baseball.
Meg Rowley
12:18
Baseball!
12:30
Hello! We are back! Thank you for chatting with us! Exclamation point! We have a full day of chat ahead. Craig and I have you covered for the early games.
Travis and Jay will sub in for the midday games.
Sheryl Ring and Roger Cormier will take the late shift.
12:31
And Jeff Sullivan and Eric Longenhagen will make appearances at some point as well.
So much baseball chat!
andy
12:32
yes hello craig, can you please expound on the greg holland contract at some length and possibly with profanity
Craig Edwards
12:35
Let's get this one out of the way. So the Cardinals are signing Greg Holland for about $14 million plus losing their second round draft pick with a slot value of around $1 million, which likely has a value of about five times that. That means, they valued Greg Holland, a player with very little market given it is Opening Day and won't be ready for a bit, around $20 million for one year. That seems like a lot to pay for an okay closer. The Cardinals seemed to have done fine filling roles with quantity and this undoes that a little.
Thanks for the chat!
12:37
Chance Ichiro pitches this year?
Dave53
12:37
Either Longenhagen or McDaniel recently mentioned that Mitch White hadn't been assigned to an affiliate.  What does this mean?  Extended spring training to work on conditioning or mechanics?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:37
He has a back issue
Meg Rowley
12:37
Eric!
Eric A Longenhagen
12:38
Breifly, headed to Dbacks backfields for intrasquads.
Then I'll be back.
Meg Rowley
12:39
re: Ichiro, the Mariners used (checks notes) 1 million pitchers last year. Will there be opportunity? I mean, maybe. Will Ichiro be on the roster long enough to pitch? .... that signing has the potential to feel very icky pretty quickly.
William Ashley
12:39
What are the odds of Scott Kingery matching/ improving upon Chase Utley's career?
Bort
12:39
With the Cardinals signing Greg Holland, are they going to re-think their decision to promote Jordan Hicks? Or will they punt one of their lesser relievers?
Meg Rowley
12:41
re: Kingery, I think we forget how crazy good Utley was when he was crazy good. So maybe but it is a pretty high bar to clear.
Also, we will try to stagger these questions and answers a bit better.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:41
Yeah it's pretty unlikely Kingery is a fringe HoF
Craig Edwards
12:41
Re: Hicks. It is kind of too late to rethink that. He's on the 40-man and they took Valera and Lucas off the roster. Does it maybe make it more likely that he gets sent to the minors sooner than later? That depends on how he pitches, but they are going to have to use him to figure that out.
12:42
Derek jeter sighting on WGN.
Meg Rowley
12:43
It's all Happ-ening, you guys.
Craig Edwards
12:43
that was some first pitch. Your 2018 Marlins ladies and gentleman.
Not Finnigan
12:44
Ian Happ: not bad
Meg Rowley
12:44
Can confirm.
Henry
12:44
Any comment on Salvy tearing his MCL moving his suitcase?
Meg Rowley
12:44
What a damn bummer. Being alive is so much harder than we let ourselves remember moment to moment.
Craig Edwards
12:45
That's not the way you want to get Salvy rest early in the season. He might actually have a better second half, though.
Riley
12:46
Let’s talk about Blaze Jordan. How much of this hype is to be believed? I know the trendy thing is to say “temper your expectations, there’s only one Bryce Harper,” but didn’t everyone say the same thing when he was the chosen one on Sports Illustrated?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:46
He's 15. He can hit the ball really far for his age with an aluminum bat. That's all I know. He'll be, what, 18 and a half on draft day? Fair chance he's just physically mature for his age. That we know his name at 15 is promising, but I wouldn't classify him as Harper 2.0.
Babip Roberts
12:47
Do you have a favorite player archetype? Ex: Rangy centerfielders with moderate power...15-HR/45-double first basemen...High K relievers with funky deliveries...
Craig Edwards
12:48
I would say pitchers who throw hard with a lot of movement and 20/20ish players who might turn a double into a triple.
Rizzo got hit by a pitch. The season has officially started.
Meg Rowley
12:48
Drink!
Eric A Longenhagen
12:48
Glove-first shortstops and eccentric relievers
Babip Roberts
12:49
Which team in the 16-30 range of reliever rankings has the best chance of an out-of-nowhere top 5 bullpen?
Meg Rowley
12:49
Really, realllly good framing catchers, and weird-ass relievers for me.
Craig Edwards
12:49
I think the A's have a decent shot at it.
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