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Klawchat 8/23/18
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Keith Law
1:01
Tell my friends to call me; I ain't accepting no letters. Klawchat.
tony
1:01
is it starting to become the time for the yanks to give up on greg bird for 2019? he's been very bad. Bryce has been taking grounders at 1b...
Keith Law
1:02
I've never bought Bird as a 1b. I think he has value as a DH, low average with walks and power. Harper at 1b wastes his athleticism.
PhillyJake
1:02
Trevor Williams of the Pirates has a 3.44 ERA and a 4.33 FIP.  Yet, with the Pirates being  a notoriously bad fielding team, wouldn't one expect the numbers to be reversed, in which the fielding would hurt his ERA and his FIP would be lower?
Keith Law
1:02
Not necessarily - one pitcher may happen to have good fortune or results with a bad defense. It usually evens out in larger samples but not always.
Michael
1:02
Is baseball in a better place than it was 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 50 years ago?
Keith Law
1:03
Way better place. It still has problems, and faces some ongoing challenges, but the sport as a whole is healthier than it's ever been.
J.P.
1:03
Would Wander Franco be considered a top 25 prospect in all of baseball right now, or is that being too generous?
Keith Law
1:04
He was already top 20 in my midseason update: https://klaw.me/2Nt4SLf
Tom
1:04
Hi Keith - have you ever posted anything on Twitter (either a tweet you fired off quickly or a response to someone on there) that you regretted? I am not asking this with anything in mind by the way. I am legitimately curious.
Keith Law
1:05
Yep, absolutely. I've deleted some stuff right away. I've had a few tweets for which I later apologized, but often left up as a record of my mistake. There's one in particular that still bothers me, even though I deleted it within 15 minutes. It was thoughtless, literally - I did not think about how it might upset someone specific that I know who had just been through a tragedy. I took it down.
Depressed Mets Fan
1:05
Could Pete get the call from Vegas next month? I need someone to get me excited again, and he could be the guy.
Keith Law
1:06
Alonso's a solid prospect, but Mets fans who keep trying to insert him into the "call this guy up, dammit" conversation around Vlad Jr and Eloy are probably setting themselves up for disappointment.
Frank
1:06
Would you consider the Rays a top 5 system right now?
Keith Law
1:06
No, but I also won't spend much time parsing systems until the winter.
Eric
1:06
Will we ever see a short season/rookie ball guy get awarded Milb POY in the experts' eyes? Obviously someone like Franco would have a case in a year in which Vladdy Jr had graduated.
Keith Law
1:06
You'd be basing it on something like 50 games. That's hard to support.
Frank
1:06
I'm guessing your review of Luis Medina will be less than favorable. Future RP?
Keith Law
1:07
Dude's walking 11 per 9. Real hard to look at that and say "starter."
ROY Speculator
1:07
Acuna or Soto?
Keith Law
1:07
Yes, definitely one of those two.
Nate
1:07
Late 2019 a realistic ETA on Pache?  Assuming at that time he’s in CF and Acuna in a corner
Keith Law
1:07
Yep, that's fair. Glove is ready now. Bat has come along quite well of late.
Ron
1:08
ETA of Lewis and Kiriloff to majors?  Late 2019 or is that moving too fast?  Thanks!
Keith Law
1:08
I'd put Lewis a year behind that. They're separated by a year, and Lewis has more work to do on defense - if he stays at short at all - than Kirilloff, who is clearly a corner OF.
Ben
1:09
Is this the most impressive the Appy League as a whole has been, in your memory?
Keith Law
1:09
Two scouts told me they felt the league was weak this year. I only saw that one game.
D
1:10
Highly recommend the book American War by Omar El-Akkad. No question, just that rec.
Keith Law
1:10
Oof, cli-fi. That's tough sledding for me. I'll put it on my list, though.
addoeh
1:10
Has there ever been a more successful "witch hunt" than Mueller's?  Lots of folks in the President's world that are made of wood and weigh the same as a duck.
Keith Law
1:10
Cohen even turned Gingrich into a newt. And he hasn't gotten better.
Nate
1:11
The White Sox have had a brutal season with prospect injuries.  Would you say they are still a top 5 system?
Keith Law
1:11
See above. I don't like giving flash opinions like that when the question requires more thorough study.
Dave
1:11
It looks like the Mariners are good but not good enough. Also old with a bad farm system. How do they approach yet another rebuild?
Keith Law
1:11
My guess is they go for it again this winter, but I have no idea what their plan is. A rebuild there is going to take a long time, and they could be Houston-bad for several years.
Eric
1:11
How surprised are you that guys like Touki, Allard and Wilson got the call ahead of a more seasoned guy like Wright? Scratching my head at that one. Please enlighten me.
Keith Law
1:12
Wilson is the one that surprised me, because he was farthest away from 40-man status of any of those four.
Jeff
1:12
Keith - In the past, you've stated that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (and I assume by extension his staff) have not done a good job of developing young pitching.  Does the success of Walker Buehler change that analysis at all?  PS: Sorry for the re-post
Keith Law
1:12
That's one guy, with elite stuff, so no, it doesn't. Losing Josh Bard helped them, though.
Brian
1:12
How does Jordan Hicks - who routinely throws 102, 103 - have "only" 7.7 K/9? Is it lack of command with his secondary pitches (so guys sit on his fastball)? Lack of deception or movement? Something else? And related: do you think he CAN be a lights-out closer in the future?
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