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Steve
1:25
Seems like the Mets have taken a lot of unnecessary abuse for this Beltran saga.  It feels to me that they did the right thing firing him and Rojas was the right choice with his experience managing (and maybe should have been hired in the first place.)  You agree?
Keith Law
1:26
Their mistake was hiring Beltran in the first place, because he has no experience whatsoever. They have since done all the right things. (Also, if I were Beltran, I'd offer myself to any interested club as a manager in the minors this year. Go get a year of experience and odds are you'll get interviewed for every opening next October.)
Kevin W
1:26
What is longest home run you have ever seen in person?
Keith Law
1:27
I'm not sure about in-game but I saw Barry Bonds take BP in Toronto in 2003 and hit one off the restaurant in CF that is the hardest-hit ball I think I've ever seen. Gallo at the Futures Game might be the longest HR in a game.
Dusty
1:27
I appreciate the candidness in your newsletter about the difficult moral judgments involved in voting for the Hall of Fame.  I just wanted to say that I appreciate having you as a voter and I hope you will continue to vote, as I feel like you give a voice to those of us who read you regularly and there need to be more voices like yours and not less.  Either way, I respect your decision and the thoughtfulness and openness with which you wrestle with it.
Keith Law
1:28
I feel like voting is a privilege and a responsibility. If I can't fulfill the duties of a voter to my own standards, I won't vote.
Beau
1:28
Chris Murphy (BOS) have any chance of remaining a starter? Didn't seem to walk as many as expected in his prob debut.
Keith Law
1:28
Yes, definitely.
Kevin W
1:28
Do you think the best movies today are better than the best movies of 70’s and before?
Keith Law
1:29
Yes, but the gap between the best movies and the most commercially successful ones has widened.
James
1:29
My first Klawchat since you joined the Athletic so want to start off saying congrats. I'm seemingly one of the few who have no issue including Francisco Alvarez in a deal for Starling Marte. In brief, him being 3-4 years off at best, the overall "failure rate" (for lack of a better term) of catching prospects, and Marte's no doubt talent and fit on the win-now Mets roster are all reasons why I see his inclusion as a headliner as a no-brainer. Am I crazy?
Keith Law
1:30
Crazy, no. But I don't think I'd do it.
Not saying I wouldn't trade Alvarez, just that I wouldn't do it for a year of Marte. Plus, you just traded Kelenic in a deal that was an abject disaster ... don't further gut the system for more short-term help.
Kevin W
1:30
Do you think cora gets a lifetime ban?  And should altuve and bregman (and whoever else) be punished if they are caught cheating?
Keith Law
1:31
I hope not (for Cora). The players got immunity; we can't change that now.
Matt
1:31
I watched American Factory last night. What a dystopian movie. And it's REAL! How on earth can those workers justify not having an union when they went from making $30 to $14? I just don't get how people fall for this garbage.
Keith Law
1:32
People falling for propaganda and voting against their own interests has been going on in the U.S. for over a century. It's particularly stark now because, at least in my opinion, better information is available, and it's easy to see how corporate money pushes its messages more strongly than, say, the pro-union forces were able to.
(Also, no idea how that movie didn't immediately result in NLRB investigations into Fuyao. Its executives violated federal labor laws on camera!)
Steve
1:33
My wife is due for our first kid in two weeks. Any advice on fatherhood?
Keith Law
1:33
Get The Happiest Baby on the Block. And help your wife get as much sleep as she can.
Vincent Adultman
1:33
Has Josh Breaux passed Anthony Siegler (even if neither look like starting catchers) and does Antonio Gomez have a higher ceiling than both?
Keith Law
1:33
No.
Vincent Adultman
1:34
BA's recent mock draft had Pete Crow-Armstrong falling to the Yankees at the bottom of the round- leaving the team pairing aside, has he "fallen" this much in the eyes of evaluators (or is it that deep of a draft) and if he fell that far, would you expect him to go to college?
Keith Law
1:34
He's not a top half of the draft guy right now; I'm not sure he'd make my top 30 if I wrote one today.
Joe
1:34
Please explain how Sammy Sosa is not a HOF ?
Keith Law
1:35
58.6 career WAR with a short peak is actually on the low side for Hall of Famers.
Roger
1:35
What do you make of Coors field splits? Arenado's BA and OPS are pretty staggering such that I'd be very cautious in a trade, no?
Keith Law
1:35
Plenty of evidence that Rockies who leave Coors outperform their road stats from when they were with Colorado.
Alex
1:36
I 100% agree that a discussion needs to be had regarding DV and the HOF.  As a family law lawyer, though, I struggle with the suspensions that leagues hand out to players that involve withholding their pay.  In a lot of these cases, the victim is awarded a percentage of the abusers earnings as spousal support, child support, etc.  By docking an abuser's pay, you are taking money out of the victim's pocket.  That isn't ideal.  Of course, a domestic abuser getting to appear on the national stage isn't ideal, either.  What's the answer?  The suspension holds but equalizing payments are made to the victim directly from the team withholding salary?
Keith Law
1:37
I appreciate the insight & sentiment in your proposal, but in the cases we've had so far, many of the victims have stayed with the suspended players, so I'm not sure how you could pay a player's wife while he was suspended without pay.
lucas
1:37
If Amed Rosario struggles again at SS this year (acknowledging he improved in the 2nd half), would you move on, knowing Gimenez and Mauricio are knocking on the door?
Keith Law
1:37
He was much better in the second half. I'm not giving up on him.
Jason
1:38
What is  the ceiling for Luis Urias?
Keith Law
1:38
Above average regular. Curious to see how Milwaukee gets him 500 AB this year, which he needs.
Brandon
1:38
Related to my Fire Bridich question--Bridich said, regarding Arenado's opt-out, that it was Bridich's suggestion.  Two questions: (a) if that is true, is there any rational justification for the team to suggest a player opt-out unless needed to make the deal; (b) if not true, is there any good PR reason for the team to assert that the opt-out was the team's idea.  Thanks.
Keith Law
1:39
I have no inside knowledge on this but I would be shocked if Arenado would have signed an extension without an opt-out.
Kevin
1:39
To the people who think Scott Rolen is not a HOFer, but vote in Omar Vizquel....what is wrong with you
Keith Law
1:39
A great question.
Joe
1:39
Disney+ will preface these movies now acknowledging they're from another era.
Keith Law
1:40
Yes, and I'm not sure if that's the right approach, or if they should do what they did with Song of the South, which is bury the movie below a million copies of the E.T. video game.
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