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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat - 7/23/21
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AvatarJay Jaffe
3:13
I'm sure SD will have to part with at least one key prospect if they land Gallo, but they apparently (and understandably) weren't willing to part with Abrams and (or?) Campusano last summer when the two teams explored a deal. Maybe that changes if TEX takes on some amount of Hosmer's deal but I genuinely don't know.
Dan Grat
3:15
Did the Rays sell low when trading Hill to the Mets? Tommy Hunter is on the IL and Matt Dyer isn't MLB-ready yet.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:18
It feels a bit low, yeah. But Matt Dyer not being MLB-ready isn't a bad thing; teams deal for low-level guys all the time. I don't have a great sense of what the prospect hounds think of him but he was a 4th round pick and obviously something about him stuck out to TB's scouts and FO..

I got a bit of a sense from watching a few outings that despite Hill being on a short leash in LA previously, he didn't like the way he was used in Tampa Bay any more than Snell did.
Guest
3:18
What do you think about Cards trading fro Joey Bart? they reportably had scouts at Giants org and need a young catcher. Would Edman, Gallegos and Kizner do it ?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:21
The Giants need a young catcher, too, maybe not today but soon, and Knizner ain't it.
3:22
and Edman has really stagnated.
Max Muncy
3:22
Does he have a shot at NL MVP? He doesn't get the hype Tatis does but they're neck and neck in both bWAR and fWAR
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:25
I think Muncy's comparative lack of flash and peoples' lack of faith in defensive metrics — which show him to be sneaky excellent (+10 DRS) and Tatis to be meh (-5 DRS) would make a Maximum MVP an unlikelihood
Jay Giraffe
3:25
How worried should I be about Bellinger and his HoF chances after these past two wasted seasons.........
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:25
We're a long way from talking HOF regarding Bellinger
Bad Bill
3:25
Ref. the Bart to STL trade: isn't Ivan Herrera knocking on the catcher door for St. Louis?  Why trade for someone who's not an obvious improvement and is years older?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:26
there's that too.
HappyFunBall
3:26
Dyer is 40-man safe (TB needs those) and Patino switches right in to Hill's spot for now with Archer coming back soon.  This is just TB doing what they do to shuffle pieces around because they can.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:27
more or less along the lines of what i noted with the additional point about the 40
45 lost bigly
3:27
Hiura and Robles are broken beyond repair….right?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:27
Hiura yikes, i don't know what's going on there.
I mean, I looked, as have my colleagues, and still, just a disappointment.
Who Me
3:28
Who gets Starling and what do the Marlins get in return?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:29
I keep hearing Giants, or maybe Yankees. Offhand, i don't know what the return looks like but he's on an expiring contract so I think we're talking talking maybe a 51-100 prospect plus something else
3:31
OK folks, I can only calibrate so many trade packages, and I've got an upcoming spot to record, so I'll hit it for now. Thanks for stopping by. My regularly scheduled chat will not take place next week due to the trade deadline, but we might have a group chat going on at some point on deadline day.
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