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Chat with MLBTR's Steve Adams 3/24/20
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Adam
5:31
Andrew Friedman brilliantly has the Dodgers following the 90's Braves' tried and true method for winning the World Series: lose the WS, lose the WS, lose in the NLDS, shortened season, win the WS.
Steve Adams
5:31
Friedman is playing 3D chess while the rest of us are playing CandyLand
Not A Famous Person
5:33
How does a short season affect a club like the Mariners, which (generally) planned to use 2020 as a developmental year and aim at 2021 contention?
Steve Adams
5:35
The Mariners have to be on the short list of clubs who are screwed most heavily by this for that very reason; they can't get the extended looks they want at guys like Shed Long, Jake Fraley, Kyle Lewis, etc. -- and they'll soon have other guys knocking on the door behind them.

They're not the only team, of course -- every team is screwed to varying extents for varying reasons -- but the Mariners shortened look is pretty unfortunate for them.
Mets
5:35
When does Noah come back in 2021? May 1st realistic timeframe?
Steve Adams
5:35
May or June -- I'd lean closer to late May/early June, but May 1 isn't impossible or anything
Jeff
5:36
Isn't everyone always having a development year in the new MLB?
Steve Adams
5:36
Sure, but few teams are basically treating their entire roster as an audition of sorts (Kyle Seager, Marco Gonzales notwithstanding)
Erik
5:37
are We going to see a bunch of TJ surgeries that we might not have seen
Steve Adams
5:39
I don't think so; Tommy John surgery is an invasive procedure that obviously comes with a nonzero chance of complication and no guarantee that the pitcher will come back healthy and effective. Pitchers get Tommy John surgery when two or more of the country's foremost medical professionals agree that they have no other recourse. It's not something they or team officials take as lightly as the average fan seems to.
pete v
5:40
Expecting any big moves or are teams going to stand pat due to uncertainty about the season... ( once word is to resume )
Steve Adams
5:40
Stand pat for the most part
comish4lif
5:41
The Nats had a terrible start last season – primarily because of their bullpen.
Is the current crew of Hudson, Doolittle, Will Harris, Roenis Elias, Tanner Rainey, and Wander Suero an improvement?
Steve Adams
5:42
It's an improvement but it's still not exactly a lockdown unit. I wouldn't be surprised if they're looking for 'pen upgrades again prior to a theoretical new deadline
Bob's Your Uncle
5:43
What's happening with spring opt-outs? You said last week you were going to look into it didn't you?
Steve Adams
5:44
From what I've gathered -- most clubs are being somewhat flexible and agreeing to push back spring out dates if the player doesn't plan to use them or is uncertain of wishing to do so. Pirates, Phillies, Blue Jays are among the clubs doing this -- Royals, perhaps, as well. We'll probably write something on this in the next day or two.
AZRawce
5:44
Gut feeling ... are we playing meaningful ball by Memorial Day?
Steve Adams
5:45
Nope
FindingNimmo
5:45
Who are the remaining starters in free agency?
Steve Adams
5:46
Clay Buchholz, Andrew Cashner, Clayton Richard, old friend Jason Vargas
Erik
5:47
In regards to TJ surgery, I meant do you think more pitchers and teams have kept arm injuries on the down low.  Take Sale and Thor, both had down years. Perhaps they could have had the surgery last year but didn’t want to miss a season?
Steve Adams
5:48
That was my point; Sale didn't have the surgery because renowned surgeons recommended rest and rehab. Syndergaard's ligament damage arose this spring. Tommy John wasn't recommended to either last year, so they didn't have it.
Meaningless
5:48
A chat on baseball rosters when there are such logistical concerns seems a complete waste of time!  Who cares if there is no baseball!?!
Steve Adams
5:48
Ok?
5:49
Obviously some people care, and this is a chat for those who do. If you don't... then... don't participate? Seems fairly cut and dry.
Boomer
5:49
How does the Orioles starting rotation look like going into the season?
Steve Adams
5:50
It looks really bad -- no sense sugarcoating it.

John Means, Alex Cobb, Asher Wojciechowski, Wade LeBlanc seem like they're in .... maybe Tommy Milone in the five spot?
comish4lif
5:51
Counterpoint: A chat on baseball rosters is a welcome distraction.
Steve Adams
5:51
I like to think so.
TLane
5:51
Who has the beat rotation in the AL?
Steve Adams
5:51
Morton-Glasnow-Snell-Chirinos-Yarbrough is pretty stacked top to bottom.
All around me are familiar faces
5:52
Have you learned any new skills during the great distancing?
Steve Adams
5:53
I've refreshed myself on the rules to many board games while sitting in my apartment with my fiancee -- and learned some new ones! Ticket To Ride, Azul, Sushi Roll, Takenoko, Kingdomino, Queendomino -- several others. Playing any of our many iterations of Pandemic feels too eerie right now.
Jake
5:53
How many Baseball Reference pages have you looked at in your life?
Steve Adams
5:53
Holy moley I couldn't even count.
BenG.
5:53
Doesn't seem much of a chance of Syndergaard getting an extension prior to Free Agency now, does it?
Steve Adams
5:53
Does not seem that way, no
What gives?
5:55
You guys always say you can have up to 1,000 questions in the inbox and then you answer the "Is Syndergaard happy that he doesnt have to throw to Wilson Ramos in 2020?" one.   Why waste your time with that?
Steve Adams
5:56
Because taking a second to inject some brevity is helpful on our end and doesn't meaningfully shorten a chat -- which we aren't required contractually to do and often conduct for well over the hour we typically set aside for them?
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