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Chat with MLBTR's Steve Adams 3/17/20
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Steve Adams
5:01
Apparently the shutdown is just going to make me lose all concept of what day it is on a weekly basis. Sorry for another delayed start, ha. Let's get underway!
Barrelman
5:02
Now that the Nationals got theirs, which will be the next franchise to win its first World Series?
Steve Adams
5:03
Rays' roster and farm is too stacked for me not to pick them, but I wouldn't fight you if you said the Padres. Gonna be a long while for the Rockies.
reds 2020 🥺
5:03
steve, i need baseball
Steve Adams
5:03
You and me both :-/
William
5:04
Is there any chance the yankees german could have his suspension shortened bc of baseball starting late?
Steve Adams
5:04
The league isn't going to lighten the punishment for domestic violence because of a global pandemic, no. He was suspended 81 games and will serve out the remainder of those 81 games when the season resumes.
John
5:05
Who's the odd man out of mets rotation
Steve Adams
5:07
deGrom-Thor-Stroman-Matz-Porcello for me, with Wacha in long relief -- IF they go with a traditional rotation setting. Could also use Matz/Wacha in piggyback fashion, based on some prior reports, but I don't have tons of faith that Wacha's shoulder holds up in a full starter's role.
Ken
5:07
Is there any chance that it could be talked about not having a season this year? That would be pure torture
Steve Adams
5:08
I think it's certainly a possibility, although there's obviously no way of knowing right now. I definitely don't think it's going to start in mid-May
John
5:09
What team benefits the most from having a shortened season?
Steve Adams
5:10
We're actually going to roll out a series taking a team-by-team look at how the delayed start to the season impacts all 30 clubs.

Immediate, off-the-cuff response would be the Yankees, getting Judge and Paxton up to speed, but I'd need to take a closer look if I'm picking just one definitively.
Kiss Me, I'm Irish
5:11
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Steve Adams
5:12
Think this is going to go down as the tamest St. Patrick's Day in quite some time for a lot people, haha.
JV
5:13
Any further clarity on what Verlander's groin injury was?  A 6 week timetable to return to action sorta sounds like a sports hernia.  And any idea if 6 weeks means 6 weeks until ready to start activities or 6 weeks until fully ready?  Obviously, nobody is playing in 6 weeks, but I'm bored here...
Steve Adams
5:15
Astros merely announced that he had a surgical procedure on his right groin. The six weeks comes directly from James Click's quote -- sounds like he'll be ready to resume baseball activities in six weeks but not ready to pitch in a game setting
DeadPoetic
5:17
Is the next season they play the season Eugenio Suarez finally gets his due as a premier tier player? I know he isn't Mookie or Trout but he should definitely be in the Anthony Rendon Kris Bryant tier right?
Steve Adams
5:18
He doesn't play defense like Arenado and doesn't hit as well as either. Not that he's not a very good player -- he is -- but Suarez's peak seasons have been in the 134 wRC+ range -- Bryant has beaten that every season but 2018.
Oh you said Rendon -- not Arenado, ha. Reading is hard.
5:19
Point still applies -- Rendon has been a better hitter in recent years as well. Suarez isn't putting up .400+ OBPs
Again, he's really good. He's just a step below that level for me.
Guest
5:19
I am booked for Cubs in London.  You think I'll see Cubs baseball in London in mid June?
Steve Adams
5:20
I'm not terribly optimistic about that, no.
MLB the Show
5:21
what would it take for MLB to play out the season on a video game? Every team’s designated best gamer could go head to head
Steve Adams
5:21
They should do that during the shutdown even if they have the season. People would watch.
(Well, probably not for 162 games, haha -- but some kind of tournament)
sup dawg
5:21
what would a short season mean for the trade deadline?
Steve Adams
5:22
I'm sure they'd push it back to the midpoint of the year (or close to it). It wouldn't be July 31.
TigerDoc616
5:22
How will this effect the draft.
Steve Adams
5:22
They're debating that right now, but I can't see any way it happens as usual in June.
Nick Madrigal
5:23
Does this mean that, no matter when I come up, I won't get a full year of service time? Not that I expected to start the year with the team anyway, but you never know...
Steve Adams
5:25
I never thought of Madrigal's timeline as service-related. He's still only played 70 games above Class-A Advanced.

There will have to be some kind of alteration to the way service time is calculated this year; there won't be 172 days in the season so there can't be a full year of service for anyone under the typical rules.
Ramon the pool guy
5:26
Can't MLB just extend the season? Still play all 162 games.
Steve Adams
5:26
Doesn't really work that well for northern clubs with open-air stadiums once temps drop into the 20s/30s and/or it starts snowing (Yankees, Red Sox, Twins, Indians, etc.)
5:27
That'd also radically shorten the offseason, assuming a normal start time in 2021
Ordinary Joe
5:28
Is there a limit on the amount of non roster invitees that a team can have in spring training? -- I'm curious about this for some reason and can't find my answer
Steve Adams
5:29
To my knowledge -- I admittedly haven't checked the CBA -- there's no limit. But if you start inviting too many guys, you're facing more and more limited time to evaluate them.
Blooper
5:30
Feels weird to talk baseball... but I suppose it’s better than cleaning product effectiveness.
Steve Adams
5:31
It's definitely a bit odd, haha, but I plan to keep hosting chats so we can all feel a little bit normal here and there. The longer it goes, the more and more we'll be discussing total conjecture and fantasy concepts haha, but hey, have to do something while we're all quarantining ourselves
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