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Kershaw Future
4:54
Next year, would you give Clayton the Clemens treatment? Playing half the year. Or the Ohtani schedule? Pitching every 6 days. How else could he get through the season and October?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:54
We'll see what they do in free agency (if Kershaw even comes back, which isn't a given) but with so many of their youngsters in play for rotation spots, a 6-man rotation might make some sense when it comes to managing workloads. That said, Kershaw has been very effective in recent years, but he's missed big chunks in the middle of the season, and I'm not sure the end result would be better than just getting the best 22-24 starts out of him that you can even knowing he'll probably need a midseason IL stint.
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:55
Only once have I deleted a short interview from my recorder while I was walking away from the conversation. It was with a NYY prospect in Double-A close to a decade ago. He made Derek Jeter's careful answers sound unscripted and daring by comparison.
Chip Locke
4:55
He was rightfully overshadowed in the rookie scene this year, but I'm looking forward to Julien's rise in the next couple years. Maybe, just maybe, he can replace Votto as The Walking Canadian?
Princess Leia
4:57
Anyone else just want to see Jays Vs Rangers to see how much bad blood is left over from The Bat Flip
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:57
I think Josh Donaldson and Marcus Stroman are the only active players left from that series (are there more?) but neither is on either team, so, uh, I doubt there's any real bad blood.

Fun fact, my wife and I covered that series for Sports Illustrated. She got the better end of it, with the Toronto games. I just got some decent BBQ and beers with a few friends in Texas
Nat
4:57
How do we feel about City Connects in the playoffs.
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:57
I'm not in favor. That said, Minnesota's are among the better ones; Texas's are the worst.
Brian
4:57
So Royce Lewis question then... it is a remarkable story of overcoming adversity and literaly everyone seems to like the guy. Is there any comp for a player overcoming that injury history and being a stud/star player. I really hope he does.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:58
he's been amazing
Wireless Joe Jackson
4:58
So it's good that Royce Lewis got healthy.
AvatarDavid Laurila
4:59
Meanwhile, talking to players in-game during the postseason is not something I'm in favor of.
Wire Fan
4:59
So why did the Yankees trade Monty away again?   Too solid of a pitcher and they preferred massive injury risks. In guys like Montas and Rodon?
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:00
They needed to get Judge out of center field and liked Bader's defense. Unfortunately he couldn't stay healthy and his offense went to seed. I didn't like the trade given the state of the Yankees' rotation at the time — and it looks even worse even now that Montgomery's ERA has gone above 1.whatever it was in the first few starts after the deal
MLB Expansion
5:00
4 new teams would make the trade deadline more interesting. Do you see MLB doing a 90’s type expansion? 2 times in a decade? Would 4 new teams in 5 years be too much too fast?
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:00
No, they'll add two teams and be done for awhile. 32 is a very easy number to manage for divisions, 34 is a mess.
bosoxforlife
5:01
Sorry David but the atrocious blue and yellow RED SOX are far and away the worst.
AvatarDavid Laurila
5:01
Not a fan of those either.... although, as you know, they have a good record while wearing them.
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:01
I'm really going to hate eight four-team divisions
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:02
actually, it's gonna be 16 two-team divisions
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:03
32 one-team divisions and the four best division winners in each league play each other!
Brian
5:04
32 1 team divisions would be best!
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:04
dangit, brian bea tme to it (the message was at 5:02
Ben Schneider
5:04
I wrote about possible realignment last week. Don't put it past Manfred to just tack on a sixth team instead of making divisions symmetrical
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:04
I like it better!
4 divisions
5:06
Will the Rockies be saved from the NL west? They might fit better with the NL central teams.
AvatarDavid Laurila
5:06
Something that irked me all year was certain Red Sox scribes repeatedly referring to them as a last-place team. While technically correct, they were usually middle of the pack record-wise in what is now a balanced-schedule league where records within the division aren' close to as important as they once were.
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:06
The Rockies land as the only team in NL Mountain. And they somehow lose the division in their one-team division
Jeremy
5:08
What non Hall-of-Famer spent the longest period of time as the best player in baseball? I know a bunch of non-HoF players spent a year as (arguably) the best player in baseball, as evidenced by the fact that they won MVP awards (e.g., Josh Hamilton in 2010). But has any non-HoF player been the best player in baseball over some much longer span of time?
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:08
I assume we can't count A-Rod and Bonds?
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:08
Dan, didn't you do something on this in relation to when Trout would no longer be the best?
Chip Locke
5:09
RE: Rockies moving divisions - My grandfather used to say "you can move anywhere in the world but you can't move away from yourself"
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:09
Yeah
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:10
Bonds and Ruth had the longest runs by WAR
Schmidt and Mays the other top post-integration guys
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:11
Basically, only two non-HoFers who aren't in for PED reasons were projected as the best in baseball at any point
Ben Schneider
5:11
Regardless of the format I hope Montreal gets a team again
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:11
Hey, the Rays are getting half of the stadiums they need to pull off the two-city plan!
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:11
either by ZiPS or a Marcel-like method
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