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Keith Law
1:37
Maybe there never were.
Blake F
1:37
Usually in the draft, the Nationals like to go for players who have dropped a little due to injury and chase their ceiling. But I can't see an obvious candidate for that at #17, so where do you see them going in round one?
Keith Law
1:37
Next mock will be Tuesday but I think there will be enough famous, higher-ceiling guys around for that pick that they'll get a typical Nats guy.
Brian
1:37
The Phillies system seems to be off to a rough start. But are there any players who you have heard good things about in the first two months?
Keith Law
1:38
Unfortunately the answer was Spencer Howard but he's still on the IL.
AJ
1:38
Which 2nd base prospect do you think will stick this year - Biggio or Urias?
Keith Law
1:38
Biggio isn't a 2b.
BigDaddeh
1:38
What's the deal with this Callihan that the Yankees are connected to? Seems like a stocky LH hitter with no real defensive position?
Keith Law
1:38
One of the best pure hit tools in the class. Stocky might be misleading - he's strong, and not fat or heavy or anything.
paul q
1:39
Niche request, but who are some of the top prospects coming out of the AAC this year and what are their landing spots?
Keith Law
1:39
Hoese could get into the first round, very likely top 40. Brickhouse and Feoli should go in rounds 3-4.
1:40
(I had to look at the list of AAC schools. I'll never keep that conference straight.)
Paul
1:40
On the earlier question about Vlad, would the front office ever relay to a manager not to bench a certain player - or advise them to bench that player on the road?
Keith Law
1:40
Of course. All the time.
Joe
1:40
Martin Pérez? Real or fake?
Keith Law
1:41
I think the breakout is real. Using that cutter like a third of the time (HT to Aaron Gleeman for tweeting that stat) and it's a legit weapon for him - especially since his lack of a real average breaker was always a problem.
Eric
1:41
If you were Rick Hahn/Nick Hostetler and Adley and Witt were off the board, who would you select?
Keith Law
1:41
Vaughn. Big gap between him and next best available player.
Dylan
1:41
Does Gilolito getting it back together cement your status as not just a genius but certainly a very stable genius at that?
Keith Law
1:42
I'm very calm. Aren't I calm? Dylan, tell them I was calm.
Rick
1:42
I'm having my "no more kids" surgery next week and figured that weekend would be a good time to start getting back into reading. What are a couple of good, immersive/enthralling books you've read over a few-day span recently that you'd recommend?
Keith Law
1:43
Shame Alex Speier's book Homegrown isn't out yet - I just tore through it in about 36 hours. Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood are two of the best books I've read this year.
Adam
1:43
We got Pandemic, got Catan, got Ticket to Ride - family loves all of them. What’s the next family game to get?
Keith Law
1:43
Splendor, Azul, Stone Age (longer playing time), 7 Wonders (I think you need kids to be at least 10 to grasp it).
Joe
1:43
Too early to give up on Austin Hays?
Keith Law
1:44
I don't want to, but he looked terrible rehabbing here with Frederick.
jbar
1:44
Higher upisde, Michael Busch or Logan Davidson?
Keith Law
1:44
Davidson has more upside but I would pick Busch.
Eric
1:44
Bundy's high school coach is who should be to blame, right?
Keith Law
1:44
Yes, but his father has to take some of that too - especially when, at the time, he would talk openly about how durable Dylan was.
Ridley Kemp
1:44
'bout time The Verve got some love (and money).

As an unabashed fan of Good Omens, I have to ask: Did you laugh when you got to the bit about the four other bikers of the apocalypse? That one gives me the giggles every time.
Keith Law
1:45
Yep, that was a bit of genius. The book is a little uneven, unsurprising with two authors and a bit of a slapdash premise, but there are some parts that are really brilliant.
RJ
1:45
In the scenario where Vaughn falls to Detroit, I assume you'd take him over Greene?
Keith Law
1:46
Yes. I would probably take Adley 1, and then if he's gone, Vaughn would be the next name I'd take over anyone. When I posted my top 100 this Tuesday, that is my best approximation of what my board might look like if I ran a draft room (bearing in mind that an actual scouting director would have seen all of the candidates for his first pick, and has an entire team of scouts plus an R&D department to help build that board, not just me playing pretend).
Ryan
1:46
Has Biggio changed something this year to lower his k%? Is it real?
Keith Law
1:46
Yeah, he got to AAA where the ball is different and lots of not very good hitters are going off.
Dave
1:47
If you could un-do one prospect injury from the last 10 years and see how the player would have turned out, which would it be?
Keith Law
1:47
I will always wonder what Fernando Martinez's career would have looked like without the leg injury/issue that more or less ended his career.
HankQQ
1:47
Braves at 9. If not hunter bishop, who do you think they would take?
Keith Law
1:48
Corbin Carroll. Could be a wild-card third name in there, I'll hold that till Tuesday because I'm not that certain.
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