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Chat With MLBTR's Steve Adams: 5/15/18
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Steve Adams
3:05
About 12 hours before Dylan Bundy had the worst start of the past 70 years in MLB, I had a back-and-forth on Twitter about his emerging status and trade value.

Yesterday, I had an exchange about how Robinson Cano has been every bit as good in Seattle as he was in NY.
I'm just going to stop tweeting about players.
Let's chat!
Guest
3:06
What moves do you think the Angels make at the deadline?
Steve Adams
3:06
Doesn't seem like Middleton will be back anytime soon, and the 'pen was already kind of thin. Rotation, too. I expect that they'll be looking for arms in both roles.
Pat
3:06
Yankees get Corbin for Wade and or Drury
Steve Adams
3:07
The D-backs have the best record in the NL West and second-best in the entire NL. Their rotation is already thin. There is a zero percent chance right now that they trade Corbin.
Tim
3:07
Vlad or Acuna for your fantasy team?
Steve Adams
3:07
Acuna is in the Majors right now. Acuna.
Dipoto
3:07
Do I save $12 mil with the Cano suspension?
Steve Adams
3:07
It's something like that. Gimme one second and I'll calculate the exact figure
3:09
I actually get $9.9MM with the few extra days added to the 2018 season. Still a significant amount of cash
$9.83MM*
Bryce
3:09
Does Britton resume the closer's role when he returns?
Steve Adams
3:10
Probably not immediately, but I'd imagine within a couple weeks of being active he'll be closing, so long as he's reasonably effective. If he comes off he DL pitching like Greg Holland did early with the Cards or something, then no he's not going to jump into the ninth obviously.
Marc Downs
3:10
So the Mariners could technically go get a pitcher now with the extra money
Steve Adams
3:11
if there was a pitcher out there who only cost money, sure. But they'll need to give up prospects, too, and there aren't really any legitimate rotation upgrades available in mid-May, and when they do become available, it's likely that other interested teams will be able to outbid them.
Guest
3:11
Is there any way Franmil Reyes carries the padres to a national league pennant This season
Steve Adams
3:11
I'm going to assume this is in jest. But no, there is not.
Rocky Mt. High
3:12
What do we do with the albatross that is Ian Desmond?
Steve Adams
3:13
There's not much you can do except hope he turns it around. But at a certain point you've just got to stop giving him regular ABs if he can't right the ship in the semi-near future. It's a brutal contract that didn't make much sense at the time he signed it.
James
3:13
Are PED users from 1995 viewed in a different way from PED users of 2015?
Steve Adams
3:14
Jeff and I were just chatting about this a little bit before my chat started. I think HOF voters will generally be more willing to overlook the guys that were doing it before clearer regulations were in place and when PED use was rampant than someone like Cano, who tested positive for a masking agent and then gave what was basically a bullshit excuse in an era where there are very clearly defined rules.
Ender in the 9 hole
3:14
I was killing it in the 9th spot, why have I been moved around recently?
Steve Adams
3:15
Because lineup placement has little if any actual correlation with productivity, and Inciarte is too good a hitter to be getting the fewest PAs of any Braves regular in the lineup.
mike
3:15
who has been worse Morales with Toronto or Calhoun w Angels??
Steve Adams
3:16
At least Calhoun can play a good right field. He's legitimately great out there even when he's not hitting.
Morales just isn't providing value in any facet of the game.
Calhoun Defense
3:17
Did you see my throw last night though?
Steve Adams
3:17
I did not, but whether it was excellent or atrocious -- one isolated incident doesn't really have a bearing on a player's overall value at a position.
Chris
3:17
This Robbie news makes me sad, he was my favorite Yankee while he was there, and still one of my favorites.  I assume the Ms cannot activate him off the DL after 10 days and let the suspension burn some of his recovery time. How does MLB police this when he's injured for an indeterminate length of time?
Steve Adams
3:18
By not appealing, he's able to begin serving the suspension while on the disabled list. He still won't be paid, of course.
Trey
3:18
Just got a notification from bleacher report that Cannot "tested positive for diuretic used for medical issue, not performance enhancing drugs" what's the truth and what's the untruth?
Steve Adams
3:21
That information has been on MLBTR for the past half hour, as has the excerpt from the Joint Drug Agreement which says testing positive for a masking agent (in this case, the diuretic) doesn't result in a suspension. It results in a retest, and a suspension only occurs if the masking agent is determined by administration to have been in use for that purpose.

In other words, Cano can claim it was a diuretic all he wants, but he wouldn't have been suspended if he'd simply taken a faulty diuretic in a one-off isolated incident.
Curious in birdland
3:21
Extend Gausman or trade him for prospects?
Steve Adams
3:21
Trade everything that isn't nailed down.
Rick in Atl
3:21
Mize goes #1 in draft?
Steve Adams
3:23
That's what everyone who actually gets paid to follow, focus on and report on the draft exclusively is saying right now. Obviously things can change in the next three weeks -- injury or a sudden downward spike in velocity or something -- but I trust those who are paid specifically to focus in on that event this time of year. (I am not)
Charlie F'in Morton
3:23
Will I ever get my due as a true and legit Cy Young candidate?
Steve Adams
3:24
If he keeps a sub-3.00 ERA and continues racking up K's at this pace, he'll be in the mix
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