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Keith Law
1:41
Yep. Soler, Mazara, Snell too.
Santos
1:41
Jim's question was how can MN trade a pick if trading picks isn't allowed?
Keith Law
1:41
Ah, I didn't follow. Competitive balance picks are tradeable. No other picks can be traded.
Cletus
1:41
Ryan Mountcastle an MLB regular?
Keith Law
1:41
Yes. Not sure at what position.
Orville Overall
1:41
Hans Crouse was out?  I thought he was slated to join Spokane when the Northwest League starts up.
Keith Law
1:42
Biceps something-or-other, I believe. Spokane doesn't start for 3 weeks, so he may be back by then.
Ryan
1:42
What if Heimlich got a full pardon from Trump, like Dinesh D’Souza did? Then can he play ball? Seriously, D’Souza - WTF?!
Keith Law
1:42
D'Souza, who helped out closeted LGBT students at Dartmouth and loves to repeat the conspiracy theory bullshit that Soros was a Nazi collaborator (he wasn't; he was 14 when WWII ended). Twitter needs to just kick him and his ilk off entirely.
Justin
1:43
How do you feel about the way baseball is discussed on general sports show on your network? On PTI for example there is a particularly disdainful attitude toward analytics/wins and RBI are still the measures of a player...
Keith Law
1:43
I don't watch any of those shows, sorry. I don't think I'm in their target audience.
Jonathan wants to know
1:44
Please provide a comp for Jonathan India, please?  Thanks!
Keith Law
1:45
I don't do player comps, sorry. I find them generally misleading. It's part of why I don't do player tool grades either - they became shortcuts that people tend to focus on to the detriment of the scouting reports as a whole.
Jason
1:45
I know you were high on him prior to the season, but has Adell answered the questions about his ability to make consistent contact? Where do you see his ceiling?
Keith Law
1:45
So far, yes. Could be a superstar with those tools and this (surprising) contact rate.
Tom
1:46
Can Spencer Torkelson be a GUY, or is he just a guy?
Keith Law
1:46
Just a guy.
Matt
1:46
How often do you go to games in the Cape Cod league? I’ll be out there in June and I am deciding if it’s worth a one of my few nights out there.
Keith Law
1:46
I love the Cape, but haven't been the last two years for various reasons.
TJ
1:46
Triston Casas - playable at 1b for a bit or is he a near term DH?
Keith Law
1:46
Fine at 1b, not good there, but not Vogelbach.
curt
1:46
Thought on Drew Waters from the Braves? Top 100 come winter?
Keith Law
1:47
Top 100? The bar is really high for that. I don't see him anywhere close.
Gene
1:47
Keith, love the chats.  I'm a depressed O's fan and an English Comp teacher.  I've always enjoyed your book reviews and wondered if you had any good banned novel title recs that I might incorporate into one of my classes.  My students already read Faulkner, Atwood, Chabon, Morrison, Toole, Vonnegut, Hemingway, etc.
Keith Law
1:50
Color Purple gets listed often as a banned/challenged title. A quick google search tells me Grapes of Wrath is often challenged - maybe for the final scene? (GTFOH, people.) One Hundred Years of Solitude is an amazing book often challenged. Are your students too young for Lolita? While very often banned, it's not actually explicit - it's disturbing AF, but that's part of its power.
The Great Alonso "Bohm"?
1:50
Are you a believer in what Peter Alonso is doing in AA at age 23 and if Bohm were to slip to the Mets, would they take him knowing they already have Alonso (plus Smith who is trying to play OF)?
Keith Law
1:51
I am a believer in Alonso, and Bohm would be in their mix but perhaps not their top choice. I think I can come up with six names I believe they'd take over him (which includes guys like Mize or Bart, who go before them in any scenario).
Chris
1:51
Do scouts look hard at level of opposition in minors? Like if a top prospect is belting all of his home runs off non-prospects, does that lessen his value? Or too hard to quantify?
Keith Law
1:51
Yes, absolutely.
Scott B
1:51
As a Red Sox fan, now living in Delaware, I was able to catch Salem this weekend in Wilmington. I came away unimpressed with what I saw. Any prospects of note that maybe had a bad weekend?
Keith Law
1:52
That's a bad team.
Tom C
1:52
I spent too much time thinking about Molly Knight's question the other week about who is the most famous current MLB player. My immediate thought was Jeter, which, umm.. Anyway, I went with Aaron Judge based on 1) plays for NYY, 2) hits home runs, 3) has really cool name. Who would you say?
Keith Law
1:52
I think Harper or Altuve. Altuve's surprisingly well known ... I run into people who profess they're not fans of baseball but know him or ask about "that short guy in Houston" or something like it.
RW
1:52
Can an NL team draft Seth Beer with hopes that maybe he fits in at 1B or, wishcast on him in LF?
Keith Law
1:53
They can do that. There is no rule against them doing so. There's also nothing stopping me from laughing at them.
Chris
1:53
Have you heard anything from scouts about Richie Martin? Is this just some random SSS, or has he rediscovered his swing from The Cape?
Keith Law
1:53
Guy repeating the level, plays 34 games this year, with 82 last year of awful performance. I'm not saying this year isn't different, but the evidence before us should discourage you.
Bobby Bradley's 40-time
1:54
Are you a fan of Vonnegut?
Keith Law
1:54
Yes. I read every novel of his but the last one, I believe.
Jim
1:54
Hate to whale on the moribund equine, and can take this to the comments later, but the transaction notice doesn't say "compensation pick" (as they usually do), and the 74th pick comes out to late second/early third round.   That sounds like a regular draft pick, unless I'm missing something.
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