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JR
2:21
The Mets signing Mcann feels very much like the old Mets regime. Overpaying for a fringe backup player to fill an open position rather then getting the top dog or waiting on the market (or even a GM) to see if you could get a better option. Hopefully a blip in the road and not a sign of things to come.
Keith Law
2:21
I largely agree with this. It also is a weird bet on very tiny samples, and that seems like the sort of thing teams did 20 or 30 years ago.
Dallas
2:21
What level will the top HS picks from 2019 start at this year? I assume the top picks (Witt, Greene, Abrams, Baty, Cavaco, Carroll, etc) were part of the 60-man pools so I'm curious if that allows them to possibly start at 2A (maybe even the Majors for Witt). Thanks.
Keith Law
2:22
There is no chance Witt starts in the majors. He hasn't played above short-season ball. I doubt any player you listed starts above high-A.
John
2:22
Happy Holidays, I hope you and yours are safe and healthy this season.  When are you estimating you'll get a COVID vaccine, I'm hoping I get the full treatment by mid-summer but recognize that thankfully many more people need it before me?
Keith Law
2:23
I will get it as soon as I'm allowed, but I'm not in any category that would put me in the first or second tiers - not an essential worker, not old enough, no known comorbidities, not working in any settings where I'd be justified in skipping the line.
Claudio
2:23
Ciao KLaw! I get I might be biased (Braves fan) but I don't get how Andruw is so far away from the threshold. 10 years average of 34 HRs and 103 rbi, 10 straight gold gloves while playing one of the best (if not the best) CF in history. Are his last few years enough to discourage writers to vote him in? I don't get it.
Keith Law
2:25
RBIs don't matter, Gold Gloves are stupid (although he is, IMO, the best defensive OF of all time), but his career was basically over at age 31 because of knee problems. I think he's very borderline, but have voted for him because his impact on baseball in Curaçao and Aruba has been enormous. Without him, we may not have Xander Bogaerts, or Andrelton Simmons, or Ozzie Albies.
Brian
2:25
Am I going mad?  I thought you had a Twitter link to a rule 5 article on the Athletic...which was not there when I sighted in...
Keith Law
2:26
I didn't write up anything on the rule 5 other than a 'brief' where I mentioned that the two best guys taken were probably Akil Baddoo and Jose Soriano, both of whom are recovering from elbow surgery.
Jason S (Brewcrew)
2:26
How broken is the league? I just honestly dont understand Rob Manfred anymore. I am an accountant. To me-- he's running the league from the standpoint of a PE exec, not someone who loves baseball. I hate Roger Gooddell, but at least we know he loves the game.
Keith Law
2:27
Well, he's not extracting money from teams like private equity folks do, at least not yet. I don't get a lot of what Manfred does and says, though.
Beeds
2:27
vladdy looking fit! This the year he gets in the Acuna Tatis stratosphere?
Keith Law
2:27
I still think he's going to be an offensive star, but these news stories are just early "best shape of his life!" folderol.
Kevin
2:27
What length of contract/$$ would you be comfortable giving Springer if you were Jared Porter??
Keith Law
2:28
I would give him the largest contract of anyone this winter - which is why I ranked him #1 - probably six years and something in the $30MM/year range, although the market may not support it this year.
Beeds
2:28
Fit Vladdy! Assuming he now stats to reach his Offensive potential how “good” of a defender at 3B does he need to be to be plus plus value?
Keith Law
2:28
Same question twice, sort of, but I don't see any way he plays third base.
Patty O'Furniture
2:28
Is there any chance the Reds would be interested in moving Eugenio Suarez to a team that falls short on a trade for Kris Bryant (Braves, Nats, etc.)
Keith Law
2:29
They should, and then put Nick Senzel back on the dirt where he belongs.
That Guy in Detroit
2:29
Tuberville is a place where fantasies become conspiracies
Keith Law
2:29
His election is proof that you could run Mickey Mouse on the right party ticket in a strongly red/blue state and he'd still win.
Chuck S.
2:30
Feelings on "separating the art from the artist?" Because this new Ryan Adams album is damn good.
Keith Law
2:31
That's a great question to which I don't have a great answer. My personal policy has been to avoid spending money on art from artists whose behavior are so odious - I won't pay a dime to watch anything with or by Mel Gibson, for example. Is Adams over that line? I feel like he probably is. But it's also hard for me to forget that I loved some of his music before we knew who he really was.
Kip
2:31
Happy holidays.  When your daughter was younger how did you maintain your reading habit?  We have an infant with another on the way and it's incredibly difficult.  I've tried reading a set number of pages per night but it feels like work.
Keith Law
2:32
The year she was born was my personal reading low, as in the fewest books I've read in any year since I started tracking how many books I read a year. By year two, I was traveling a good bit more, though, and I read a lot while I'm on the road.
Shane
2:32
Josiah Grey a #1?
Keith Law
2:32
I don't believe so.
Kevin
2:32
So obvioudly the NL needs the DH to continue but it looks like Manfred might use it as a "bargaining chip" in the next CBA so it won't be there in 2021.  With that in mind what should the Mets do for 2021 with Dom and Alonso.  Just hold onto both and wait for 2022?  Personally I would love for them to see what Alonso would get in a trade but I doubt they will do that.
Keith Law
2:33
I'd hold on to both - I can't see them dealing Alonso, given his popularity and value.
Jim
2:35
Keith- big local Trenton Thunder fan here. What is the viability of the MLB draft league?
Keith Law
2:37
I don't know what their economic model will be now - I assume from the minor league teams' perspective, their costs are going to be pretty similar, since they weren't paying the players' salaries as minor league affiliates, and now the draft league players won't be paid because they're amateurs. How much will revenues decline with the new model? These teams certainly lose out on the annual boost when, say, Aaron Judge comes through for a couple of rehab games, and that's probably a decent part of their annual revenues. If their average attendance in 'regular' games goes down as well, are they no longer profitable?
I don't know. Nobody really knows, but I have my doubts that all of these dis-affiliated teams will survive.
Guest
2:37
Keith, why does it take the Cleveland organization 1-2 years to change the racist name of their baseball club to the "Cleveland Spiders?"  It should be done yesterday.
Keith Law
2:38
Yep. They have probably 90 days or so until anyone is reporting to spring training. They could get it done if this actually mattered to them.
Matt
2:39
Should Andrew Vaughn be slated to start the season in Chicago?  Pretty big hole at DH on the south side
Keith Law
2:39
No, since there's no real reason to think he's ready for the majors.
Prospects aren't ready when you want them to be; they're ready on their own timetables. Rushing them doesn't change that, and there's always some small chance that it ends up slowing their development.
Tommy
2:40
Played settlers for the first time over thanksgiving and loved it. im sure you've played a ton but where does it rank all time for you?
Keith Law
2:40
I just happen to have a ranking of my top 100 games right here for you.
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