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Kiley McDaniel Chat - 11/6/19
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Dan
12:57
Are you hearing any names connected to the Pirates GM job? Will Bob Nutting's thrifty ways scare off decent candidates? Who would you hire?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
12:58
Heard Marc DelPiano (I think that's been reported?) will interview, saw Matt Arnold mentioned (makes total sense) and Tony LaCava (many thought he'd get the job when Huntington landed it, he's from PIT)
1:01
Delp used to work in PIT and it sounds like Nutting likes him, he left to go to Miami and is now a top pro scout for NYY. Fair or not, the industry belief is Nutting hates paying two people to do one job, so the thought is he won't pay top dollar or get a top candidate, since the job isn't the most attractive and he isn't seen as interested in paying for a top candidate. Arnold is probably in that higher tier, so it wouldn't shock me if he passed. I would guess Chaim Bloom would've passed on the PIT job if they asked to interview him.
1:02
LaCava, like Delp, is a long-time scouting exec that's very respected. Arnold is the AGM in Milwaukee, who is maybe the second-most progressive club behind Houston, but he has a scouting background, so you can see why lots of teams would be interested in him.
2-D
1:02
How are teams viewing the proposed minor league contraction plan?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:02
Sounds like this is even less concrete/more subject to adjustments than the int'l draft, so not a ton of strong opinions out there yet
1:03
Teams do have at least a couple dozen players that they think have no chance of making the big leagues, so reducing the number of players under contract, using that to pay players more and then the marginal players/better affiliates that get left out get kicked to a more robust indy league system...it all makes sense logistically, though it isn't a perfect answer obviously
1:04
Like just pay the players more
Ben Her!tzberg
1:04
Asking what everyone here wants to know: when should we expect team prospects lists to start publishing? Thanks for all the hard work, appreciate it.
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:05
We have a meeting on the books about this in a few hours. I would guess Nov 18 they start.
LudeBurger
1:06
Please have every question be about your backsplash (I am serious)
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:06
sorry to let you down
Martian aka Jasson Domingguez
1:06
Can I move up next year on Fan graphs prospects rankings if I have a good year in minors ? Can I be good as Wander Franco and better than him? Do you see me moving number #1 prospects rankings in future ?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:06
Not to be the over the top guy excited by the new shiny thing, but it's Yes x3
hello there
1:07
As a well known "prospect guy," do you ever feel like you need to have the most realistic, practical, or, perhaps, conservative assessment of any given prospect or do you let yourself get carried away sometimes? And if you do, who's a guy you got too excited about too quickly that actually panned out? One that flamed out?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:08
I think we tend to be a little more conservative the more we're in the game and that sometimes means we're a little late on really weird outliers like Juan Soto, getting him into the top 10 overall prospects only once he's in the big leagues. Guys going from 50th to 5th in a month doesn't really happen, so the more history you get, the more skeptical you are when an outlier presents itself. I think we're getting better at making those big adjustment midstream since we've noticed this.
Matt W
1:09
Better backsplash than backlash!
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:09
Just pointing this out so people are aware that I don't exclusively own the worst puns
frenzy Popeyes chicken sandwich
1:09
Talking about Frenzy, how about Popeyes bring back their Chicken Sandwich , have you tried it yet?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:09
I haven't but probably should
Randy
1:10
Why would the Rays not seek compensation from the Red Sox for Chaim Bloom?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:11
Teams typically don't stand in the way of a promotion. Sometimes teams will turn down permission for a rival to offer a promotion, then offer the promotion themselves. Rarely, but sometimes, if the person is under a multi-year deal, the GM doesn't tell them or compensate them about asking permission. This is a great way to get your employees to hate you and leave when their deals are done. I'll let you guess who has done this a few times.
1:12
And Farhan LAD/SFG last winter was the same deal, no compensation, but LAD didn't let him bring anyone with him. Would expect the same terms with TBR/BOS
Austin
1:12
why do teams have access to trackman data and agents dont? that seems like an unnecessary information gap, especially when it comes to free agent negotiations
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:13
The teams pay 6 figures for access and the agents don't pay. I mean they also don't have the opportunity to pay for it, but that's how labor kinda works. Management gets more information than labor.
Josh
1:13
I see he's kind of held serve on THE BOARD, but can I get a scouting report on Blaze Jordan?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:14
R/R 1B, big power, hits in games, super young for the class so will be friendly to draft models for facts 3, 4 and 5, while facts 1 and 2 will be held against him. Late 1st to comp round or so at this point
Nolan
1:14
are you familiar with the website 'baseball trade values'? I stumbled upon it recently and have enjoyed playing pretend GM. Obviously I take it all with a grain of salt, but is there an industry consensus on it? Way off?
AvatarKiley McDaniel
1:14
Seems like it's the same basic surplus value type math that we do here, so not bad to have all the values in one place
1:16
Alrighty well that's all for this week, I'll see you guys next week and also don't forget about our NYC live event where I'm sure to say something controversial, maybe even on purpose!
we're almost sold out
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