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Craig Edwards FanGraphs Chat--7/11/2019
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Davis
2:50
You’re really not that slow
crayyyyyg
2:50
just messing w u. thx for answering all these q's
Cardinals
2:51
Where would you rank availbale Cardinals players on the trade market; Wacha, JMart, and Wong. Any others I'm missing?
Craig Edwards
2:56
There's not a market for Wacha. The market for Martinez should have been greater last offseason, but they couldn't move him and now he's got a .140 ISO. The glove doesn't play unless he's hitting a ton of homers. There isn't much value there. As for Wong, the second base market has been flooded the past few years. Teams would certainly want him as he's a valuable player under contract for two more years, but he's not going to get a ton on the trade market. If the Cardinals want to make a trade from the major league roster and get a lot back, it's basically DeJong and Flaherty with Bader and O'Neill having some value. Everybody else already has a market value or worse contract.
Dr. Bob
2:56
If STL traded for Leake then they would be paying themselves for playing him.
Craig Edwards
2:56
I think the Dodgers might have actually done that with Kemp.
VP215
2:57
Is this version of Scott Kingery for real, or a BABIP-fueled anomaly?
Craig Edwards
2:59
The version that walks 6%, 28% K, .369 BABIP isn't going to work going forward. Walking 9% of the time with a 25% k-rate and a .330 BABIP might get him close to the same results though.
Wilson
3:00
Is it more beneficial to grow homegrown talent when building a team because of the options it allows for the future? A good farm system can be converted to good trade building and possibly re-feeding the system when a qualifying offer can be extended netting compensation picks.
Craig Edwards
3:00
If you are building a team, the homegrown talent has the benefit of being cheap so you theoretically conserve resources for later when you are more certain you will need them to contend.
3:02
I wrote about where teams have gotten their talent today: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/building-a-baseball-team-through-free-agen...
One other plug before I stop because I hear a baby crying, but here's our franchise draft, where I took Vlad, Jr. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-2019-fangraphs-franchise-player-draft-...
Thanks for the questions. See you next week.
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