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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat - 10/31/23
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Judge
3:22
Who's the best comp for how I age going forward? Frank Thomas? He was pretty productive into his late 30s
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:24
No, Judge is far more athletic than Thomas, who by the time he was 30 was DHing far more often than he was playing the field. Dave Winfield comes to mind, though while he was 6-foot-6 he wasn't as jacked as Judge.
Abe
3:24
As I sit here still moping about the Yankees missing the playoffs in a year where it was so wide open, give me one trade target that you think makes sense for them this winter.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:27
The Juan Soto rumors make sense, though he's a short-term fix since he can be a free agent after next season. If I'm the Yankees I might see what it would take to acquire Fernando Tatis Jr., who's owed a boatload of money and coming off a completely lost year and a good-not-great one and would have to move positions again — but boy does he have a lot of upside still.
Jason
3:28
Should expectations for Arizona be higher for next season after this playoff run? Or perhaps due to the fact that so many key contributors are under 25?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:29
I think it's the youth, and the possibility of guys like Pfaadt (a top-20 prospect coming into the year) building on this late-season success
Harper and Trout
3:29
This question assumes both make the HoF. If Harper and Trout finish their careers with similar HR, RBI, and hit totals, who gets a higher HoF vote? Will Trout’s advantage in rate stats and peak value outweighs Harper’s postseason heroics in vote percentage?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:30
Trout and yes. There's such a big gap in regular season value, and while Harper obviously runs laps around Trout with the postseason stuff, that isn't enough to overcome a gap of nearly 40 WAR.
3:31
OK folks, I gotta head for the showers here because trick-or-treat time comes early for 7 year olds. Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy the rest of the World Series, and please have a safe Halloween.
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