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Front Office Chat: 6/21/24
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Anthony Franco
5:05
Believe I've mentioned this before but Baseball America's "Future Projection" is the other baseball pod that I subscribe to. Carlos Collazo and Ben Badler get pretty deep into the weeds on prospects and the draft, so it's not ideal if you're just looking for MLB coverage, but they're really good and it the deep-cut prospect stuff is a blind spot for me
5:07
I don't listen to a ton of baseball pods otherwise. That's not a shot at anyone -- I used to listen to Effectively Wild religiously, for example -- but I've scaled back on them in favor of other stuff because they overlap closely with work for me
Cecil
5:07
Who has the most long term upside between Chourio, Merrill, Langford?
Anthony Franco
5:08
On upside alone, I'd probably take Langford. Feels like Merill has the highest floor given the bat-to-ball skills and how quickly he acclimated to CF
Tom Fonthill
5:08
In your opinion,  how do the Blue Jays hitting coaches rank ??  I heard an opinion that the kids up from Buffalo over the last year are being tutored by Matt Hague, whom they also had last year in Buffalo as their coach.  Would there be a difference from what he is teaching vs. what G. Martinez is teaching;  there seems to be a difference in results so far,  or have MLB pitchers not adjusted to the new kids yet ???   Although Don Mattingly is the Offensive Coordinator, has he ever had much success with hitters with the teams he has coached, such as in Miami ??     Thank you.
Anthony Franco
5:10
There are so many moving parts that I don't feel like I can have any kind of accurate read on a team's hitting or pitching coach. Even managers are so hard to evaluate unless you're interacting with the team on a daily basis
5:11
Mattingly's teams in Miami were never particularly good, but he had success with the Dodgers before that.
Unhealthy Medium
5:11
I like that mediocre teams are disincentivized from all-out tanking now, but it feels like the new plan is just the 89-win system of trying to win enough for a playoff shot and see how luck turns out, which leads to a thick middle of .500 teams and general stagnation. Am I wrong about this?
Anthony Franco
5:11
No, I think you nailed it
5:13
There's just too much variance in the playoffs to incentivize teams to build great rosters so long as the field keeps expanding. The bye theoretically helps a little bit, but it hasn't really played out that way over the last couple years (particularly in the NL), so it's easy enough for a front office and ownership group to shoot for being good-not-great every year
5:14
While he didn't word it in the most artful manner, this was basically the crux of Jerry Dipoto's 54% comment last offseason. Most teams feel the same way as Dipoto does, even if there aren't as many who'd say it publicly
Hoster Tully
5:15
If the Cardinals offered to give away Nolan Arrenado, would there be any takers?
Anthony Franco
5:16
Not for the entire contract. There'd be interest but it'd require the Cards to eat some money and/or take back some level of underwater deal in return
5:17
Alright I've gotta wrap up here and take that Vinny Nittoli DFA
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