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Paul Swydan

9:25

I'd like to say Machado, but the knee is worrisome. So I'll take Bryant instead.

You can't go wrong with any of the three, obviously.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:25

I think Machado. I think he may age better.

Jordan

9:26

Young guys like Conforto and Bellinger going to keep it going this year?

Paul Swydan

9:26

Bellinger probably isn't this good, but I think Conforto can keep it up.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:26

Maybe Probably not for the whole season. Who does?

James

9:27

Is Chris Taylor fureal? He's shown all the tools needed to be an above-average regular.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:27

Yep, he's a real major league baseball player.

Paul Swydan

9:27

I'm going to go ahead and say he won't run a .500 BABIP all season.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:28

Good call

Paul Swydan

9:28

But he could be a league average player moving forward.

jrambo5

9:28

I'm holding Thor, madbum, and Britton on my bench. Someone dropped madbum, so I snagged him to hold.

Paul Swydan

9:28

I get why you would want to, but can you really afford to carry 3 guys who won't play for 2-3 months like that?

That's a tough sell.

Billy

9:29

10 team league, When/if this staff is completely healthy, who are the lower two on the totem pole: Strasburg, Carrasco, Paxton, McCullers , Hill, Maeda, Nola, Urias, Walker

Jeff Zimmerman

9:29

You may try to move one or two.

Paul Swydan

9:29

Billy - Walker and Maeda for me. But maybe I'm just too high on Nola.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:29

Maeda, Hill , and Walker.

Vic

9:29

Do you see Lucroy as most likely to dominate at some point this year to maybe in a down year? Season is 20% over.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:30

Pass

Paul Swydan

9:30

First of all, saying the season is 20% over is depressing. Don't say things like that to me.

9:31

Second, I think Lucroy will bounce back. His .211 BABIP is 75-80 points lower than his worst BABIP season, and nearly 100 points lower than his career average.

He seems to be taking an extreme contact approach thus far though, and as such probably more of that contact is not quality contact. I guess we'll see.

Guest

9:31

Jameson taillon returns to the mound on....

Jeff Zimmerman

9:32

'18

Paul Swydan

9:32

Let's not put a timetable on it. Let's just hope he gets back to the mound eventually. Cancer sucks.

Rob

9:32

Is Jackie Bradley jr. in trouble? 3 straight games on the bench? Trying to hold strong over here....

Jeff Zimmerman

9:32

I think he must be hurt but haven't read anything

Paul Swydan

9:33

Farrell says he'll play tomorrow, but he also said that yesterday. I think he's fine, they're just trying to get Chris Young some playing time. CY had just 6 PAs over a 2-week stretch of games recently, which isn't nearly enough. And with Betts and Benintendi hitting, someone has to sit.

And that someone is Bradley.

cut and dry

9:33

Hey! How would you feel about moving Wil Myers for Cody Bellinger in a 10 team dynasty league?

Paul Swydan

9:34

I would want more than just Bellinger for Myers, given that Myers has a longer track record of success AND is still young.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:34

I like the move but I am really high on Bellinger.

Listen to someone sane like Paul.

Paul Swydan

9:35

Believe me, I love Bellinger too. I picked him up in the league where I could the second he was called up.

Germ

9:35

Hey guys it's been said minor league swstr% is available now but I cannot find said statistic and this saddens me. Might be a dumb question, but where can I find it?

Paul Swydan

9:35

Hmmm...

Jeff Zimmerman

9:35

OK, follow this

Paul Swydan

9:36

http://www.fangraphs.com/minorleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=2&qual...

Jeff Zimmerman

9:36

You have to add it to your dashboard

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