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Kevin Goldstein FanGraphs Chat - 2/24/2021
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bb
12:56
Favorite Altman movie? M*A*S*H has aged very poorly, but I have 3 Women on tap for next weekend.
Kevin Goldstein
12:56
The Player.
Guest
12:56
Keibert Ruiz  .280/.350/.450  in 2022?
Kevin Goldstein
12:56
I'll take the under. Not crazy under, but under.
Frank F
12:56
Hey Kevin, Why isn't the MLB draft more like the NFL where players and draft picks can be traded?
Kevin Goldstein
12:57
Yeah, why isn't it?
Chaz Borth
12:57
Pirates recently hired a new player dev team dedicated to maintaining alignment between top and bottom levels of the org, as well as between dev/scouting/analytics etc - Are they catching up to other teams, or is this a relatively new concept?
Kevin Goldstein
12:57
Catching up. Having alignment from the DSL to AAA is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve and maintain, but also essential.
Appa Yip Yip
12:58
Zack Greinke once called a mound visit because he wanted to ask about a fantasy football trade.
Kevin Goldstein
12:58
Oh man, I was just doing baseball. They ALL play fantasy football.
comish4lif
12:58
Kevin, since players not on the 40 man will still be in Spring Training, if the CBA isn't settled soon, will MLB teams host the  games already on the schedule and play them with minor leaguers?
Kevin Goldstein
12:59
No. Minor league games will happen on the back fields. I'm sure some teams will use the stadiums, but they will not be in place of the major league schedule.
Mitch
12:59
Do teams have specific documentation about trade discussions from the past even if the trades never happened? For example, could a team come up with some kind of 'availability' score estimate for a player based on a team's trade willingness of said player in prior discussions?
Kevin Goldstein
1:00
Sure, they track it. All of a sudden you want to initiate a talk with a team and you know who they've shown interest in during past discussions.
John Van Benschoten
1:00
Will we ever hear the other version of the intro music?
Kevin Goldstein
1:00
I've used them at the end of a few shows, actually.
Mitch
1:01
While you were with the Astros was there ever a time where your org thought of one their own prospects as 'overrated' in a sense that the Astros weren't as high on him as some other teams, public lists, etc. were? And I guess part 2 of that question is did HOU actively look to trade said player?
Kevin Goldstein
1:01
Absolutely and absolutely.
Sullen in San Diego
1:01
There has to be a way to trade Hosmer, right?
Kevin Goldstein
1:01
There is always a way to trade any player.
Greg
1:02
What, to you, would be an encouraging headline to come from today's CBA meetings that you feel is actually realistic?
Kevin Goldstein
1:02
Just any sort of progress on any major issue. I'm not especially optimistic.
NotAA
1:02
Do you think the Carlos Correa move of switching agents right before a big payday will create a negative perception of him within the industry?
Kevin Goldstein
1:02
No.
Sullen in San Diego
1:02
So which team might want Hosmer?
Kevin Goldstein
1:03
That's not the question. So which team would want Hosmer for $X (with SD picking up the rest of the money) gets them some options.
Eugene
1:03
What future does Freudis Nova have in HOU? Is he up this year with Correa out?
Kevin Goldstein
1:04
He had a really really bad 2021. He's nowhere close to the big leagues and his stock is plummeting.
Mac
1:04
If the universal DH is agreed to it would have to be for the '23 season, correct?
Kevin Goldstein
1:04
Most likely.
21jbreen
1:07
Do you expect any changes to the draft in the new CBA?
Kevin Goldstein
1:07
Hard to say. The draft is usually one of the last things they deal with.
Mitch
1:08
Thoughts on robot umps to be installed in AAA this year?
Kevin Goldstein
1:08
I don't know. It doesn't bother me and it doesn't excite me. The technology isn't ready for prime time yet, but they need to keep real world testing it to get it there.
Coach Maddux
1:10
Someone mentioned Strom to ARI, and I know one of the CLE pitching coaches went to SD. Any other impactful coaching changes jump out to you?
Kevin Goldstein
1:10
Just because I saw him work in person, but Jeremy Barnes with the Mets is something I'll be watching.
Legit?
1:10
As a Black baseball fan, I mostly ignore baseball befor 47 (or really the 50s). I am deeply aware of the history and stats, but those years feel so much less legitimate to me. Do you feel this is a fair stance to take? I am far less compelled by anti-PED moralizing than this actually-immoral period.
Kevin Goldstein
1:11
Totally fair stance to take. There's a legitimate argument to be made that Major League Baseball in the 20s and 30s wasn't even the best quality league during that time.
Alex
1:11
How do MLB teams scout players in smaller baseball countries like Curacao, Panama, or Nicaragua?  Do they have local guys they trust, or do the players have to go to a "bigger" country to get looks?
Kevin Goldstein
1:12
Both. Many teams have part time guys watching those places but most of the really good ones end up in the DR at some point to provide more convenient looks.
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