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Chat with MLBTR's Steve Adams: 1/23/24
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Stan
1:32
Why do Giants fans think Bart has any value?
Steve Adams
1:34
Same reason most fanbases overrate the trade value of their former top prospects. It's not unique to the Giants.

Bart's value is pretty much in the gutter, trade-wise. He's out of options, he's been pushed aside by Bailey and he hasn't come close to expectations associated with being the No. 2 overall pick and a Top-30 prospect in the game.

It's not like he's reached "this guy will go unclaimed on waivers" status yet, but he's not going to be a meaningful piece in any trade of note. Moved on his own, he might get a middle relief type of arm or a marginal prospect or two that won't meaningfully improve SF's system.
O's - Cle Trade
1:35
Bieber for Santander and Stowers, Does this work for both sides?
Steve Adams
1:36
Doubt the Guards do that. Santander walks after this year. I'm not a huge Stowers guy
qube
1:37
Marco Luciano for Jesus Luzardo. Who says no?
Steve Adams
1:37
Marlins
Trader Jerry
1:37
Could a trade of DJ Lemahieu and cash for a package centered around Bryce Miller work out?
Steve Adams
1:37
Mariners aren't giving up Miller even if the Yankees eat all of LeMahieu's contract
Suarez
1:38
Wouldn't Cease be a better trade chip in May after he's made 5-6 starts to show that he still has the juice, coming off a down year?
Steve Adams
1:40
The overwhelming interest in him right now is enough to indicate that teams don't feel he's lost all that much. He probably never replicates 2022, but he's certainly much better than 2023's ERA. It's all a staring contest, and with Burnes unlikely to go and Bieber not on Cease's level, Cease is the best arm with a real chance to move... White Sox have more leverage than the interested parties right now. At least in my eyes.
Cubs Options
1:40
Does the Busch addition make a Morel trade for SP/RP more likely? If so, how could they target?
Steve Adams
1:42
Both Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins downplayed the chances of trading Morel pretty heavily. I don't think he'll move (though I listed him in my thing on the Mariners' potential infield targets... in part because I knew lots of people would ask why he wasn't included if I omitted him, ha)
Dave
1:42
Speaking of unclaimed former top prospects, are you surprised no one is rolling the dice on Keston Hiura? Shouldn’t teams like the A’s, Nationals and White Sox be rushing to offer him a minor league contract?
Steve Adams
1:44
Who's to say he doesn't have minor league offers? All we know is he hasn't signed. Could be holding out hope for a MLB deal. Could've been talking to teams in NPB/KBO. The timing of these things is never all that odd to me. If it's June and he's unsigned, yeah that's a little weirder.

That said, I'm also just not a big Hiura believer. He has consistently failed to make contact and make the necessary swing adjustments to get his astronomical strikeout rates in check. I was not surprised when no one claimed him last spring.
GinjaNinja
1:45
Why are the Astros looking for a LH OF? That is what all their top prospects are....
Steve Adams
1:47
Jacob Melton has 13 games above A-ball. Zach Cole hasn't played above A-ball. Joey Loperfido got 32 games in AAA last year and hit poorly. Getting a LH OF with some speed and defensive capability right now is about deepening the mix -- not signing Bellinger for a decade and blocking one of those kids or anything.
1:48
Nationals are signing Joey Gallo, per Andrew Golden of the Washington Post
One year, $5MM
Orioles
1:48
How disappointing has the off-season been for us?
Steve Adams
1:48
So far, incredibly. But there's still more than two months until Opening Day
Larry
1:49
Will the Albies contract go down as the worst player contract of all time?
Steve Adams
1:49
Salvador Perez's first extension with the Royals was five years and $7MM!
1:50
With three club options, I think. That was basically all his arb years, but to give up so much free agency for that guarantee, woof. Royals reworked it before that contract was done
Guest
1:51
Love that the Pirates are making the pen a strength: Bednar, Chapman, Holdermann.  Would Clevinger, Lorenzen, etc make solid sense for them?
Steve Adams
1:52
Yeah, any of those remaining veteran arms out there (Clev, Lorenzen, Ryu, Alex Wood) makes sense for the Bucs
Cmon Yanks
1:53
Yankees need another starter. Any of Cortes/Rodon/Stroman won't pitch more than 150ip and would be happy if they averaged 125ip on the season. Knowing this the Yankees are happy to let the likes of Gil/Beeter/Warren/Pottitt/Weaver or whoever take the ball for the remaining 150 missing starter innings. If just 1 starter gets hurt it falls apart because they are going beyond replacement innings I'm comfy with from the youngins. Less pitchers are available at the deadline, and just as many teams are interested, AND you can't just sign them anymore teams must trade. They need to sign a starter now I don't care who, somebody who is major league serviceable. Schmidt can work out of the pen again and take the ball as a starter mid season if he needs to.
Steve Adams
1:54
I agree, generally speaking. They're banking a lot on Rodon/Cortes being healthy and Schmidt holding up for another 32 starts. I don't love the rotation depth there
bobsquad
1:54
Any predictions on the contract Tim Anderson lands?
Steve Adams
1:55
One year and $8-10MM?
Trade team omission?
1:55
Earlier today, MLBTR posted options for Seattle's infield. Wouldn't Luis Arraez from the Marlins fit the bill there? Maybe even in combination with Cabrera? Arraez in the leadoff spot and Rodriguez right behind him could be spectacular.
Steve Adams
1:57
He would, sure. Anthony Franco suggested I include him on the list. I just don't find it as feasible that the Marlins move him after only one year, and it obviously wasn't intended to be an exhaustive, all-encompassing list of every single trade possibility out there. I went with a handful of names I deemed more plausible, but if the Marlins were really going to entertain trading Arraez, of course he fits with Seattle (and like 10-20 other teams)
John B
1:58
Your article on the Giants last week was spot on. Echoed fans frustrations over the last few years. Zaidi talks big at the start and then reverts to his comfort zone. Do you see them as fringe contender or deadline seller?
Steve Adams
2:01
Is this in reference to the one I sent out to Front Office subscribers? Appreciate the kind words, if so. (Drawing a blank on the one you're referencing if not, ha)

As currently constructed, I don't think they're a fringe contender, but I also just don't see how they can be done yet. They can't be. You can't start an offseason saying "it's time to think differently" and specifically reference the roster construction .... then go out and (as my colleague Anthony Franco put it when we were discussing that piece I wrote) "have the most Giants offseason ever."

Signing an oft-injured reliever to plug into the rotation, trading for an injured Cy Young winner, and spending nine figures on a KBO star with questions about his power potential in the Majors ... that can't be all that's in store here.
2:02
The Giants have one clear MLB starter right now: Logan Webb. Everything else is a total question mark. If they actually forgo additional meaningful acquisitions, they'll deserve all the flak that's coming their way.
Curious
2:03
Any thoughts on Rendon's "the season should be shorter" comments?  What would actually be the case against, say, a 150 game season?
Steve Adams
2:04
Shortening the season would just mean 12 fewer games for all parties involved to make money (specifically ownership, in terms of ticket sales, concessions, parking, broadcast rights, etc.)
Ooklah the Mok
2:05
HOF gets announced today. Beltre is a lock. Do you think Helton and Mauer get in this year? Does Utley get in down the road?
Steve Adams
2:08
Beltre, Mauer and Helton all seem like they'll get elected today. Wagner could go either way, but he's only at 78.4% of publicly known ballots right now, and a lot of the voters who don't release theirs early are the ones who do insane things. I think Wagner should be in but think he'll fall just short.

Utley has a long way to go at only 40% right now and likely a good bit less than that once all ballots are known. I'd lean against, but I think he's a perfectly defensible HOFer.
liptowi
2:09
Can’t Boras and Cashman figure out how to get to $200m for Snell subject to IP contingencies?
Steve Adams
2:10
If you're Blake Snell and you just won your second Cy Young Award, I don't think your thought process is "Yes, I'll sign a deal that meets my asking price ONLY if I pitch X number of innings." He's looking for the full guarantee and understandably so.

Besides, while it's not like the GM/president of bb ops isn't going to be involved in talks at all, Boras is going to be pitching Snell more directly to owners than to front office folks who are less inclined to do something silly.
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