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Paul Swydan

9:51

I think "now" is probably however long they think the tail end of Pedroia's prime is going to last/when Mookie and Xander hit free agency. Which I think is roughly 2019 on both counts? I have to look up the latter.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:51

I don't know, but it seems like the Red Sox have a better talent pipeline and will try to keep it going.

bob

9:51

thank you for having faith in me as a reliever Paul! I actually broke my arm 4 months ago, my cast was on for too long....but now I throw 100! Thinking of trying out to be the Cubs closer....but strike people out with my eephus/slow pitch softball lob

Paul Swydan

9:52

You'll be rookie of the year. :-)

Jeff Zimmerman

9:52

Sid Lynch clone

Frank Drebin

9:52

The 16 Cubs had a good amount of injury luck Schwarber notwithstanding. Am I correct? Also, if you see a group of people in togas in a public park, what's your response? Asking for a friend....

Jeff Zimmerman

9:52

Sid Fynch

Paul Swydan

9:53

I believe that is correct. As for the togas question, I'd see if they had any beer. And also make sure I could pick one out that I could beat up, just in case. :-)

Jeff Zimmerman

9:54

Their pitchers help it together which is never certain. I would move away from the toga/cult crowd.

cashman

9:54

Do you guys think the yankees should trade gardener and/or headley? Should they open up playing time to see what they have with judge?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:56

I don't think anyone listed is a guarantee. They will need to find the hot hand in order to win.

Paul Swydan

9:56

I believe RF is already open for Judge, so they don't need to trade Gardner for that. I'd hang on to Gardner and let Clint Frazier force his way onto the team.

EbenezerBatflip

9:56

Will Rogue One be better or worse than The Force Awakens?

Paul Swydan

9:57

That's a tall order. I'm going in hopeful, but not that hopeful.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:58

I don't have a good feel for Rogue one yet

Chim chimney

9:58

Are new age/non competitive gms pushing their players to steal more bases to increase future player value? Or is it just a tactical run producing move ? In your opinion.

Paul Swydan

9:59

There's so much going on in this question. Which GMs do you think are non-competitive? You don't get to be GM if you're non-competitive. Second, I think tactical. I don't think teams would be fooled by a player suddenly stealing 20-30 more bases, especially if they wouldn't have such a green light on a new team.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:59

I think it is more manager based, but I have a feeling SB may eventually trend up with catchers being valued for their framing instead of controlling the running game.

Joshua

10:00

If we assume that WAR is correctly evaluating the power hitting/no other skill set like Mark Trumbo (barely an average year with 47 HRs!) Would it be surprising to see him and his ilk go into SPring Training without any good offers. Don't all the teams know what his true value is, despite the agent and TV screaming about his 47 HRs?

Paul Swydan

10:01

No, because supply and demand still bears into the equation.

Jeff Zimmerman

10:01

No and I think Jose Bautista may be without a team for a while.

Connor

10:02

The Force Awakens was more like a Happy Days reunion special than a movie

Jeff Zimmerman

10:02

So?

Paul Swydan

10:02

I can't decide if this is an insult or not. But either way, I think we're going to leave off here. Thanks for hanging out tonight everyone. Probably one more chat next week before we break for the holidays. Wayyyyyyyyy more questions than we could answer tonight, so sorry if we missed you.

Night!

Jeff Zimmerman

10:03

Bye

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