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Nick
2:43
In reference to your Eric Davis response as to players you wanted to see without injury…is Buxton on that trajectory?
Keith Law
2:43
I certainly hope not.
Tom
2:43
Think with emerging SP's bailey ober and Joey Ryan, that the twins can emerge to be competitive in 2022?
Keith Law
2:43
I don't believe those guys are the answer.
Tom
2:44
Anything to Jon Singleton getting buff this offseason? Are you buying him?
Keith Law
2:44
Meh. He'd be a great story, but the odds are well against him.
Sedona
2:44
Trevor Story's away stats are atrocious.  Especially last year.  How much will teams take this into consideration when offering what seams will be a long term deal
Keith Law
2:44
Most Rockies hitters have had large home/road splits that have closed at least partway when they left Denver.
Adam
2:46
Growing up did kids ever sing “ i fought the law and the law won”?
Keith Law
2:46
Not really. I'm the wrong age for that. Lot of "Breaking the Law," though.
Dude
2:46
Hamilton’s faster than Gore?
Keith Law
2:47
I've timed both guys multiple times and Hamilton was consistently faster home to first.
Guest
2:47
Should the dodgers move will smith   off of catcher? If so, which position?
Keith Law
2:47
Why?
Like, did something happen with Smith that I missed?
Sedona
2:48
Do you have a favorite off the radar / non pedigree prospect?
Keith Law
2:48
I love seeing guys who weren't high picks or big bonus guys come from nowhere to become real prospects. Someone mentioned Walter above. Matt Brash is another. Players do change in unexpected ways. That's the fun way to be wrong.
Appa Yip Yip
2:48
Didn't they drop the curtain when Bud Selig was elected to the hall?
Keith Law
2:48
Every Commissioner gets in, right? Except Fay Vincent, because he dared to go against the owners.
Will Smith
2:48
Cartaya is coming up and Smith’s bat plays at other positions.
Keith Law
2:49
Cartaya looks like a superstar in the making, but he's not exactly MLB ready now.
Chris
2:49
do you agree with the Yanks' plan of going stopgap til Peraza/Volpe are ready, given their massive long term commitments to Cole and Stanton aleady, w Judge possibly coming? (proviso obv they could do all of it)
Keith Law
2:50
It's risky, but I understand it ... at some point, you do have to decide THIS prospect is the one you're going to let develop.
xxx(yyy)
2:50
what is the story with Profar? was he just not able to recover after the injury? were folks too high on his floor?
Keith Law
2:51
I feel like it was the two lost seasons. That's the most parsimonious explanation.
Matt
2:51
How did a guy like Mike Piaaza get drafted in the 63rd round? And as a favor to Tommy Lasorda more or less. Like, how do so many scouts miss that?
Keith Law
2:53
Scouts didn't miss anything there. He was awful his first two years in the minors, too. He repeated high-A and suddenly had huge power, and that carried over as he moved up the ladder. He didn't play at all as a freshman at U Miami, then went to junior college, so who knows how much he was even scouted as an amateur.
Brutus Beefcake
2:54
Apologies if I've missed it already, but do you plan to publish a column explaining your HOF votes?  I know in years past you've contemplated not voting at all but I take it from your mention of not voting for Schilling that you did vote this year.
Keith Law
2:54
I have voted every year, and I will absolutely reveal my ballot. The Athletic just wants us all to reveal ours at once, I think next week?
Appa Yip Yip
2:54
Is Nate Pearson the Jays closer for the next five years (or until his arm explodes)?
Keith Law
2:55
I wouldn't give up on him starting yet. I understand the reason for the question, but consigning him to a 70 inning a year role really cuts off a lot of upside.
xxx(yyy)
2:55
ballpark, how often do NPs actually make the major leagues? 1% of the time? 3%? 5%? less than 1%?
Keith Law
2:56
I would bet under 1%. One in a hundred sounds aggressive. If you're calling 1 in every 50 future big leaguers a non-prospect, you need to adjust your bar.
Henry
2:56
I've always found Gary Sheffield to be an interesting HOF candidate, but his defense was beyond atrocious.
Keith Law
2:56
It was, but if he were a DH, he would have probably sailed into the Hall - or at least gotten in sooner. His WAR numbers would have been much stronger and enough voters lean on that now that I think it's worked against him.
Joe
2:57
There's one anti-vax meme I've seen that says something along the lines of "If the vaccine is free to keep the nation healthy, then why aren't chemo and insulin free?" It's a meme that just blows my mind that they think that's an argument in their favor. The anti-vax voters are the ones who are electing Senators who refuse to address the cost of medicine.
Keith Law
2:58
That's almost true, but there's also a sizable chunk of anti-vaxxers on the far left too. Strange bedfellows etc., but not every anti-vaxxer is a Q-supporting nutjob. (they're all nutjobs, though.)
Marani
2:58
Which is more irksome:  the HOF voter who doesn't vote for Jeter, Seaver, Pedro, et al because "nobody deserves to go in on the first ballot", or the guy who tosses a vote to Tim Salmon or Tony Phillips because they were super nice to reporters after the game was over?
Keith Law
2:58
The latter. Don't care about unanimous votes. Mariano didn't get a special plaque, did he?
But don't cheapen the process by voting for a player who was nice. If that's how unseriously you take it, don't vote.
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