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Eric A Longenhagen
1:43
Correct.
1:44
There are probably folks in baseball who'd tell you that him striking out a ton in full season ball is dispositive and it would have been that way regardless of whether he had the opportunity to play in Bluefield for a summer.
I'm not sure that's right, it's a conveniently unprovable thing for the folks who've lopped off short season ball
Salty
1:44
On the 20-80 scale, how excited are you to be missing the latest version of Snowmageddon?  And if given the ability to teleport, but with only two options, would prefer to be jackhammer-free shoveling a foot of snow with temps in the teens or stay warm and dry with incessant hammering?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:45
It drizzled here last night so I feel like I'm one of you guys.
1:47
Actually my dad just had foot surgery and can't do anything for a few months. He's normally the guy shoveling the walks of his elderly neighbors (and both of my grandmothers) in Catty but he's on the 60-day and I feel pretty guilty about being in Arizona while they're all getting 15 inches.
(that's not an exaggeration, that's the forecast)
Oaktown Blues
1:47
Do the A's have enough intriguing pitching in the upper minors to make a run this year? Jump/Arnold/Nett/Lin feel like they could improve the staff in a hurry
Eric A Longenhagen
1:48
I agree, plus year two of Morales and all of their young hitters getting a little better... Sneaky sneaky A's
Swarm Legend
1:48
Thayron Liranzo and Josue Briceño have both been penciled in as Detroit's future backstops, Is it possible we could see Liranzo at 1B and Briceno at C..? Is it possible this season at some point..?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:49
I think the reverse (Liranzo C, Briceno 1B) is more likely. Probably not this year. Liranzo is going to be a slow burn, bet he doesn't really get consistent big league time until 28
Z
1:49
Where would you rate the nats farm system after the moves they’ve made this offseason? And any possibility Abrams gets moved prior to the start of the season?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:50
I've gotta think there's a shot CJ gets moved, especially if Ketel is truly off the market now. If it's a contending team they might anna move him to the OF and that might be a hurdle for completion if CJ isn't on board with it.
Guest
1:50
Hello Eric. What position do you suspect Leo De Vries will play when he debuts for the A's? Considering the A's have an All-Star occupying SS, which one will move to another position?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:50
2B
Bog
1:51
Where does Luciano end up when the carousel stops?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:51
Miami
David
1:52
Any insight as to what happened with Dawel Joseph? As he signed it sounded like there were already concerns about how he had developed since agreeing with the Mariners, and face planted about as hard as you could for a top 10-20 IFA guy after two years in the DSL
Eric A Longenhagen
1:52
A biproduct of agreeing to a deal when the kid has never shaved.
Guest
1:53
Normally in the write ups of teams you guys mention the strategies and how well they do on both the IFA and draft side. Was wondering what are the thoughts on both of those for the Blue Jays
Eric A Longenhagen
1:55
Like their recent approach in the early and middle parts of drafts; High ceiling HS shortstop early, then contact college bats, then dart throw at another 1mil bonus HS guy later mix of things they do, strike-throwing college guys you try to develop. Int'l they've had some high dollar whiffs.
Guest
1:56
Do you foresee Juan Sanchez getting on the top hundo this year?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:56
This is the one exception, and yeah he's a Pick to Click candidate.
Guest
1:56
People who know more than me suggest that, even with McLean and Tong graduating and Sproat being traded, the Mets have another wave of good pitching prospects in the upper levels. Who are the guys we should be most excited about? I hear Wenninger, Watson, Thornton, and Gordon's names a lot.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:56
I like Wenninger and Watson, yeah.
And they made something out of Aracena and traded him...
1:57
they're good at it.
I mean just taking a Harvard guy in the 12th round and in a few months changing him enough to be able to move him for LouBob? That's good stuff.
Nick
1:58
With Jefferson Rojas really struggling after the bump to AA, do you still view him the same due to his super young age or is he starting to fall in status?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:59
Still on him toward the back of the 100. Wrote up Aroon Escobar yesterday (Phillies list Monday folks) and Rojas and Aroon are a nice apples to apples pair to stack against one another. right in that 45/50 line area.
Sir Nerdlinton
1:59
No question, but the MLBPA is terrible at marketing. The talk of salary caps should be countered with equal revenue share arguments. Neither will be amendable, but it'd get the public to think from the player's perspective for a second.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:59
Marketing?
2:01
If what you're talking about is, "controlling online discourse" then I guess? But how would you like them to do that? People are pretty dumb, properly educating everyone about labor so that public opinion favors the MLBPA's aims seems impossible to me.
2:02
And I'm not sure public discourse matters. Like who cares if Stephen A Smith or Nick Wright thinks baseball should have a salary cap? Tony Clark shouldn't give af about that stuff.
The MLBPA needs to be good at negotiating, period.
Jimmy Crooks
2:02
How different would Yesavage grade as a prospect this year if he didnt have his postseason run last year?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:03
He'd still be a 60 I think but I think it's fair to say postseason performers who remain rookies have been overranked in general. Arozarena has been close to properly ranked, but Evan Carter nah.
Damon Sublett
2:03
Eric, Why are J15 signings weighted so much toward athletic position players vs. high ceiling pitchers like Defrank?  Seems very rare to see J15 pitchers get >$1mm.  Are the good athletes simply funneled toward SS in Latin America, and there's no such thing as an athletic pitcher-only at age 15?  I understand pitching development is much more non-linear than hitting development, do scouts simply perceive what's essentially a high school sophomore pitching prospect as necessarily risky?  Would a team ever consider going against the grain and targeting pitching talent in J15?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:06
Because of guys like Daniel Espino and Grayson Rodriguez and Forrest Whitley and Alex Reyes and Riley Pint and on and one. I like DeFrank a lot and he's a great prospect, but he's also going to be playing russian roulette with his joints once a week for the better part of the next half decade before he even sniffs a 40-man roster spot. Most of the Latin American starts in MLB were signed later, when the cement was more dry on their bodies and pitch ability, and their 40-man timeline coincided with a more reasonable pace at which a starter gets developed.
There are teams who basically won't do $X00,000 for a pitcher, ever, in that market.
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