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Front Office Chat: September 19th, 2025
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Darragh McDonald
1:21
You can debate whether that's an exercise which should even take place, but it's a helpful shorthand.
1:22
In 2015, Andrelton was worth 3.1 fWAR. That made him roughly the 70th most valuable position player that year.
1:23
Harper and Trout tied for the lead with 9.3 fWAR each.
1:24
Again, it's not perfect, but it is helpful in quickly illustrating "this guy is elite" and "this guy is pretty good" and "this guy sucks" and whatnot.
1:25
There's lots of room for debate and different websites have their own formulas, so it's not an exact science, but it's useful for starting conversations.
RAGBRAI
1:27
Has the bye, overall, been an advantage or disadvantage for teams?
Darragh McDonald
1:27
This is a very interesting question.
1:28
Mike Petriello had a piece on this a year ago, without reaching any definitive conclusions.
For me, I would take the bye every time.
The idea of losing momentum is interesting but hard to qualify.
1:29
The thing for me is that the baseball playoffs are chaotic. Crazy stuff happens. Good teams lose to bad teams all the time.
1:30
A team will crush homers all year and then have three homerless games and the season is over. Or a team has a dominant bullpen all year long, but then they choke twice and it's golf time.
1:31
To win it all, you have to survive four separate series without a crazy thing taking you out. Getting a bye drops that to three, so one less chance that a crazy fluke thing destroys your soul.
CardinalRed
1:31
Have the Cards ruined any hope for Jordan Walker to stick on the club with the oddly public comments about his training approach? Could they get anything out of a trade at this point? Maybe a couple lottery tickets from the Braves?
Darragh McDonald
1:31
The Cards are weird about this stuff, aren't they?
Marmol dragged Tyler O'Neill a couple of years ago.
1:32
They signed Willson to be their catcher and then jerked him around, made him DH only for a while, then put him back behind the plate again. Now he's just a first baseman.
I don't really know what to make of it.
1:33
Though with Walker specifically, whether he's traded or not depends on what Bloom thinks of him.
1:34
He probably still has a bit of value since he has an option left and is only 23, but it's not great.
1:36
Okay, I've got to pivot to news coverage.
1:37
Sorry for all the questions I couldn't get to.
As far as I know, Anthony will be back next Friday. And Steve should also be doing another Front Office chat at some point.
Thanks as always for supporting the site! You folks are awesome!
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