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Ford
12:45
Any go to meals during quarantine?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:47
I do a thing that is, appropriately, untitled. It's Polenta, cherry tomatoes, onion, eggplant, baby bok choy and okra covered and baked with shredded smoked cheddar. It's good, but I need to name it.
Doug
12:47
Hey Eric, hope you are well. With only five rounds, do you think teams will still theoretically pick the best player available or will they adjust strategy to address perceived weak spots in their farm system?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:47
Teams don't draft for need
Mordecai and Rigby
12:47
When will MLB officially announce the date and number of total rounds for the draft? Next week hopefully?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:48
People anticipate a month's notice on the draft and its various details, which means finding that stuff out soon if the draft date isn't moving
Mordecai and Rigby
12:49
Hey Eric. Have you gotten around to reading your good pal Keith Law's book The Inside Game?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:49
No, still waiting for my copy to be delivered
GSon
12:49
How fair is an 80 game suspension (Emmanuell Clase) in relation to a truncated season?. More than half is more than what was intended?. or will the suspension be truncated as well?.. If the suspension bleeds into the 2021 season.. is it the 2020 or 2021 season that he is ineligible for the post season?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:51
Great questions that may be rendered moot if the season is long enough. He was going to miss like 3 months with a teres major injury anyway.
Roger
12:51
Does the probable lack of a milb season affect a team's willingness to take some risk on draft signability? (ie, if he doesn't sign, there's not much difference in playing time between this guy and next year's replacement pick)
Eric A Longenhagen
12:52
Yes, but I've also been suggested the inverse: that some teams might pop, say, Burl Carraway or some other college power arm, with an eye on him maybe contributing in a bullpen capacity right away.
Horst
12:53
Before you publish the Indians list. Add OF Trenton Brooks to your others of note. You'll thank me later
Eric A Longenhagen
12:54
He's on there. Liked him at Nevada. Cocky two-way guy with contact skills.
Roger
12:54
I've seen reports that some players are still at complexes.  Do we know who and whether it's allowing them to get more work in than the typical player stuck at home?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:55
Yeah, some guys are throwing bullpens with a bag of balls off on their own, others taking BP from a machine. Some players at home with someone have throwing partners, varied access to home gyms, flipping tires in a junkyard somewhere...all over the map right now.
A AE X-12
12:55
Along the lines of the "Stanford swing" question, why did/do top prospects continue to go to Virginia and Stanford when they had such poor track records of preparing players for the pros? Is the allure of Palo Alto that great?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
I don't get it, either. They're both great schools, it's true. But so is Vandy, so is UCLA, and lots of other places with better recent dev track records.
Jon
12:57
Any solo podcast coming soon?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:57
Yeoman's Work has a chance to turn into something like that
Keith
12:57
which guys from this class will be the quickest to the MLB?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:58
Tork for the hitters, you could probably pick any of 10 college arms and be right. Detmers as a starter, lots of potential quick movers as relievers
Alvin
12:58
This is awfully granular but when you say for instance that Zac Veen would rank 80th on THE BOARD, is that with or without other draftees like Torkelson and Martin slotting in ahead of him? Thanks!
Eric A Longenhagen
12:59
good question. It is without the draftees in there, it's just as if I dropped in that individual.
Insert Clever Name Here
12:59
Re: Alexander Guillen, I understand if he was left off the 2020 COL prospect list as a minor league free agent, but since he's back on the Rockies, would there be a case for putting him back on The Board between his 2019 updated placement and his strong 2019 performance in general?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:59
There would have been, but I saw him pre-shutdown and his stuff had regressed substantially. I was bummed.
Colin
1:00
Where do Batman vs TMNT and Batman Ninja rate on the 20-80 scale?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:01
I haven't seen either yet, probably wouldn't watch turtles one. The artistic style of Ninja seems cool.
Reese McGuire
1:01
Has your opinion of the Orioles player development improved at all? You were pretty down on them about a year or two ago, but they at least have some talented guys coming up for sure...
Eric A Longenhagen
1:01
Yeah, based on the Elias/Sig track record of developing pitching, you'd have to think differently about it now.
Lark
1:02
This may be a dumb question, but I’d appreciate getting a better sense of what a starter in the majors who had “reliever risk” looks like- I know the McCullers types, but is there many who have totally broken out of that mold? It helps to calibrate expectations for some of these draft picks in particular- I tend to think of everyone with reliever risk as just being destined for the pen
Eric A Longenhagen
1:03
There are a couple sub-groups I want to address as I answer this question because I think why any individual player is considered a relief risk is as important as the notion that they are a relief risk. SO...
1:08
Size: Stroman, Sonny Gray
Mechanical Violence/Xenophobia: Sale, Scherzer, Castillo
Most of the guys with an injury history or command issues end up in the bullpen, just glancing at the starter and reliever WAR leaders
Buehler had a pre-draft medical but he had the one TJ and that's been the extent of it, I think.
Guest
1:08
Is Roderick Arias linked to the Yankees
Eric A Longenhagen
1:08
yah
:Fangraphs reader
1:09
Super minor point, but you have Ralph Garza on the others of note for the Astros section, but you don't include anything about him in the writeup
Eric A Longenhagen
1:10
I'll add something post-chat. He's 90-95 with big underlying traits, had nearly 20% swing and miss rate on his fastball last year
What
1:10
Xenophobia? What?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:10
Like, scared that the delivery is weird/unique
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