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Kiley McDaniel Chat - 10/10/18
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Jeff
12:41
Do you look at a pitcher's defense when scouting and would it affect your grade?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:42
Almost never is even an consideration, unless it's a 20 athlete that will have trouble with bunts
J
12:42
Re: That Indians story about analytics in the clubhouse-how many teams have a clubhouse analyst? (IIRC Ben Lindbergh wrote about the Pirates having one, and obviously yesterday the Red Sox will be getting one)
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:43
Pirates were the first team to really have that position and use it, but every team has some version of that, though some clubs use like the clubhouse video guy as that person, while others have an advance team of 4-5 guys and one person whose only job is to lead that charge and present the info an a conduit from front office to manager. I'd guess 12-15 teams have that one specific person?
DJ Tanner
12:44
Once Vlad, Eloy, and Senzel graduate early next season, who would you say are next up as the best batters in the minors?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:44
Victor Robles and Kyle Tucker would also go on that list of soon-to-graduate
12:46
And Luis Urias as well.
As for best hit tool outside of that group, I'd go Royce Lewis, Wander Franco and Nick Madrigal as the athletic up-the-middle types with elite contact skills and Alex Kirilloff as the corner type with the pure bat.
Slothrop
12:46
If you were Billy Eppler and Trout came up to you and said "I will play on this team forever if you let me choose the coaching staff every year" do you say yes?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:46
Yeah, knowing you have Trout forever (I assume at a reasonable salary) is more valuable that the couple games a year that the manager may affect
12:48
Well, unless Trout's pick is like a total idiot that has no interest in doing the right thing...but as long as it's someone that's actually qualified to manage. I'd imagine Trout's pick (in this odd scenario) would be based on wanting to win and don't think he would just pick a friend and ensure that the team is worse
12:49
So I'd take a less progressive guy if forced
ugh, fire alarm just went off BRB
okay, false alarm
Rob
12:50
Can one reasonably expect the Mets to build a winning organization - not just a winning season here or there - at any point while the Wilpons retain control?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:51
I tend to say no because the history of terrible, meddling owners with lots of history of being terrible and meddling...then turning into even decent owners is basically zero. I mean give me some examples but did Donald Sterling, Dan Snyder, Peter Angelos, etc. did they magically start running successful, winning franchises after a long stretch of being bad?
CNB
12:52
Is Brendan McKay tracking more toward a SP first, hitter second?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
NihilistDuda
12:52
If you were a Wilpon (yes, I realize you might need to shower after that horrifying thought) who would you be looking at to run the baseball ops for the Mets?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:53
Look at the teams with good processes that also tend to spend money well when the spend it and find a #2 with some history to suggest they are a part of the trend b/c they've been in other smart offices or run good departments. My best examples would be Matt Arnold with MIL and Mike Elias with HOU, which have both been mentioned a lot this offseason for similar reasons.
RS
12:54
What do your fantastic sources say about the Giants front office position?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:56
Similar to what's been reported. Sounds like they want to pick someone in the mold I described above and that's what they've said publicly, but some are skeptical they do that given the sort of guy who they've had running things in the past when they've been successful. In Elias/Arnold's favor is, while they've been with progressive clubs, they've both run the scouting departments for those teams, so it isn't hiring the "Ivy League dork that's only pushed paper" type that I think some owners are hesitant to pick
Open up and say
12:56
Does Jo Adell stick in CF long term?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:56
We think RF, but should be above average there
DaveRobertsThrowingDarts
12:56
Keibert Ruiz or Will Smith? Boxers or Briefs? The Sopranos or The Wire? Dave Roberts or Joe Girardi? Bunt or Swing Away?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:56
These are all covered on THE BOARD if you look closely enough
Drake
12:57
How would you rate the early returns and upside of the Royals 2018 draftees: Kowar, Lunch, Bubic and Isbel? Would you have any of them as fringe top 100 guys?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:57
We like Lynch the most, but he isn't quite top 100 yet. I could see Singer getting there this winter--we had him in that 135-170 tier pre draft and he's starting to throw the changeup more now while some guys have graduated since then.
i guess
12:58
does the dodgers hesitance to trade verdugo for yelich look a little crazy now?? win some (bellinger), lose some (verdugo) in hoarding prospects?Is hind sight 20/20??
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:59
Well it would've been Verdugo and a couple more good pieces, not straight up. Verdugo, for me, was a better piece than Brinson in that trade, but there were two other top 100 prospects in that trade (Monte Harrison, Isan Diaz). That's not the kind of trade the Dodgers have made under this regime and they also didn't pay a premium for Greinke, etc. More moderate approach that's focused on quality depth and selling mid-tier prospects, which is also what NYY is doing. And I'd say you won on the Buehler aspect too, who may have been in a Yelich deal.
Astro
1:00
Kiley, were you able to get eyes on Freudis Nova and Jayson Schroeder?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:00
Not this year, but I've seen both and like both, could be arrow up guys early next year b/c there are definitely tools. Schroeder appeared to clean up the delivery a good bit this summer from the video we saw, which was his concern pre-draft.
Jason
1:00
What are your thoughts on Touki and Fried?  Should they be part of a 6 man rotation going into 2019?   Or are they high leverage bp arms
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:01
Fried feels more like a swiss army knife lefty matchup guy that could also be a true setup guy or go multiple innings. I know Andrew Miller is the lazy comp for that sort. Touki could be a starter or, if we continue with the indians comps, be like a Cody Allen type relief ace. They'll both be real contributors on a good team
Sean
1:02
Nate lowe or jake bauers?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:02
Bauers
More D and more hit tool and has proven it at higher levels
michel
1:02
Also wanted to know, who's your #1 farm right now?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:03
Don't know for sure at this moment, but we're working on a unique way to answer this question going forward
JB
1:03
Among prospects not in the top 50 per The Board!, which few guys would you say have the highest ceilings (regardless of risk to reach those ceilings)?
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