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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat -- 12/1/17
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Magic 8 Ball
9:46
Giants taking on salaries of both Stanton and Gordon in a trade for Panik and a boatload of salary relief seems like a huge gamble for a team already saddled with bad contracts and an aging core. Does it make sense to you for them to go all in before Posey and Bum start fading?
Jeff Sullivan
9:46
There's legitimate reason to see some parallels between the Giants now and the Tigers a year or three back
9:47
Now, the Giants effectively print money for themselves, and they can spend a lot on the roster. But a Stanton trade would really have them leaning in to the shorter-term future
Mike
9:47
How would you describe your feelings when you discovered the O'Brien twins thing?
Jeff Sullivan
9:48
Deeply excited in a way I could never fully convey to my girlfriend
DJ
9:49
You can start a new team and hand pick 3 current players (and their contract/age/etc) - who are you taking
Jeff Sullivan
9:49
Leaning toward Judge/Correa/Trout
Pedantic
9:50
Why do they call it a "leg kick" when you can't kick with different body parts? It's just a kick!
Jeff Sullivan
9:50
I don't even think it looks that much like a kick in the first place
What kick? You're just lifting your leg up and putting it back down again
It's not a leg kick, it's a knee lift
Niki
9:51
What is your opinion on the ph
Jeff Sullivan
9:51
Neutral
groucho
9:51
Why would Stanton wanna go to the Giants?  They look like they're destined to be like the post Ryan Howard extension Phillies...
Jeff Sullivan
9:51
They made the playoffs just one season ago, they play out west, and, very importantly, they're not the Marlins
Greg
9:52
Should the Braves sign a reliever or two even if it's multiple years for solid money? They could always flip them at deadline if team isn't doing well.
Jeff Sullivan
9:52
I'd be more inclined to take chances. Instead of, say, spending on Anthony Swarzak, find a candidate to be the next Anthony Swarzak
Go get Trevor Cahill and make him a multi-inning reliever and find out what happens
Stan
9:52
Do you think Ohtani will only go to a contender? The information we have is very limited but that seems like a clear answer.
Jeff Sullivan
9:52
I don't think we know this for sure
9:53
I don't think we could rule out, for example, the Padres
Carl
9:53
Matt Adams is available and, presumably, cheap.  The Red Sox need power.  It seems to me that picking him up is a no-brainer for the Sox.  It might mean Hanley gets upset, but who cares?
Jeff Sullivan
9:53
I feel like it's important to understand that Matt Adams isn't very good
Jon
9:54
What would you rather see, assuming no injury risk: a home run derby with pitchers, or an All-Star game entirely pitched by the hardest throwing position players?
Jeff Sullivan
9:54
The former
Niki
9:54
What is your opinion on the purported haul for Stanton?
Jeff Sullivan
9:55
If you're referring to Panik/Beede/Shaw and the Marlins picking up like $45 million, I think it's neutral-ish for the Giants, but Panik is a weird inclusion
Why subtract if you're going to add? And why would the Marlins want Panik right now anyway?
Kevin
9:55
How does AA get rid of Matt Kemp, he said his #1 priority is improving team defense.
Jeff Sullivan
9:56
Cut him
He projects to be worth 0.0 WAR
Over the past three years he's been worth a combined 0.6 WAR, and now he's 33
He's useless
9:57
I know it seems like we're always overly harsh on Matt Kemp, but, I mean, how couldn't we be?
Statcast has basically proven that his defense is as bad as the other metrics say it is
Kimball
9:57
Are you surprised by how many "names" say they're persuaded by Bill James' criticism of WAR?
Jeff Sullivan
9:57
There are a lot of people predisposed to dislike WAR in the first place
Lou
9:58
If Stanton said he only wanted to play for the Dodgers and the Dodgers wanted him, could he force the Marlins to take a really lousy deal?
Jeff Sullivan
9:58
That would be up to the Marlins. Would they rather take a bad deal, or keep an unhappy Stanton around for another season?
9:59
But if Stanton really wanted, here, he could have almost all of the leverage. If he *only* wants to play for the Dodgers, he can just about make that happen, and the Marlins would be left picking between two awful choices
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