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Keith Law
1:36
If the DH is permanent in the NL, as it will be sooner or later, he should be their 1B full-time, with Alonso the DH.
Guest
1:36
I know you are always pro-player (as am I), how would you have felt (in Clev's case) / do feel (Pleasac) about keeping them down long enough to delay FA by a year as punishment, given how egregious their behavior was?
Keith Law
1:37
I would have been fine if the team or MLB had suspended them the rest of the year for putting their entire clubhouse at risk through deliberately reckless actions. I am pro-player. I am not pro-asshole.
TP
1:37
SSS or is this the Dom Smith you have been waiting for?
Keith Law
1:38
It's SSS, but I am at least pleased that the Smith we're seeing matches the guy I expected him to be. He just has to do it for a longer period before I can confidently say yes, this is him.
Mac
1:38
Do you think there will be a fall league this year?
Keith Law
1:38
It sounds like it.
Brian
1:38
Maybe I read it wrong but I thought I saw an article where Fowler and Flaherty ok’d the Cardinals playing. Which if that is the case does that change your mind saying they are doing what their teammates thought was ok.
Keith Law
1:38
No, it doesn't, especially because we don't really know what that sounded like - or whether they felt pressured to absolve their teammates of any obligation to sit out with them.
Joe
1:39
Pretty sure I saw that the Reds broadcast of the Royals game on August 19 suddenly isn't available on the MLB.tv archive... I wonder why?! It's one thing to erase it but it did happen...
Keith Law
1:39
Maybe just edit out Brennaman's slur, but leave the apology?
Cam
1:40
Should Whitley's injury issues be concerning at this point? Doesn't seem like he could even have a shot at the MLB for another couple years.
Keith Law
1:40
Another couple of years? If he's really just out with a forearm strain, as the Astros have said, why couldn't he compete for a job in February? His last eighteen months have been a hot mess but there's also nothing here to point to him being unable to pitch in the long term.
Jim
1:40
Do you see anything that might have Jays fans optimistic in the Taijuan walker acquisition? His career numbers (although small sample size) are not that good against AL east teams.
Keith Law
1:41
I love the arm and the athleticism. For what I assume is minimal cost, he's a great pickup. I do worry about his homer-prone tendencies and the park in Buffalo, which seems to be very favorable to LH power hitters.
Dylan
1:42
What caused the White Sox to give up Luis Basabe?
Keith Law
1:42
Been hurt a lot, body has been slowing down, and no place to play in their system.
Carson Fulmer
1:42
What happened to me?
Keith Law
1:43
Violent deliveries often have bad outcomes. I never believed he was a starter, and maybe all the time he spent trying to be one ended up reducing his odds of being an effective reliever, either through wear on his arm or the mental toll of trying to do something he couldn't?
Uli Jon
1:43
Observation I've had at a sadly late point of my life.  Black friends always have literature regarding the history and figures around what it means to be black in America.  I think the problem is that whites in America do no such self-reflection, either personally or in school. Look to Germany, which kinda sorta had a horrid history but has reckoned with it on a national level.  I'm a 50ish straight while male.  My ancestors were not here until the 20th century, but I 100% have profited from the ways in which this country has continually tilted towards me.  I have to recognize my culpability and ensure it stops. Now.
Keith Law
1:44
Well said. And, as someone who reads a ton, I agree that the American canon doesn't have much to offer the privileged class (to which I also belong) that would force us to rethink our positions and/or encourage us to actively seek and push change.
Michael
1:44
Not a boycott, withholdinig labor is a strike.
Keith Law
1:44
I believe I said that too.
Mac
1:45
Thoughts on Brady Singer?
Keith Law
1:45
I love how he competes, but his results so far haven't been great, and that's even with some good luck against LHB (for whom he doesn't really have an effective weapon).
Mark
1:45
Thoughts on Julian Merryweather? He's looked great in small busts, think he can hold up as a starter or is he more of a high leverage multi-inning reliever upside?
Keith Law
1:46
The latter. Did throw hard as a starter, but didn't have much else to support that role.
JT
1:46
Am I wrong to think of all unwritten baseball rules as just white supremacy in action? Fernando Tatis cannot help being better than everyone. He simply is. Behold.
Keith Law
1:48
I believe unwritten rules exist to enforce traditional power structures. Ever play any of those card games (often drinking games, at least in college) where new players don't know the rules, and the existing players get to make them up as they go along without having to tell the newbies? If you have, think of how they allowed you to arbitrarily target or favor certain friends or other players. I know that's a frivolous example, but I think the analogy still works: The beauty of unwritten rules for the powerful is that such rules can be applied however they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want - or ignored as the enforcer chooses.
1:49
Also, Tatis Jr. is a fucking star and should be allowed to swing 3-0 and run like his hair's on fire and make every highlight reel he can, because MLB is far better off when players like him and Javy Baez and Francisco Lindor and Yu Darvish and Luis Robert are doing amazing things on the field.
Brian
1:49
Can baseball erase Aubrey Huff from the record books permanently?
Keith Law
1:49
The less we pay attention to him, the sooner he'll go away.
Kas from Fort Worth
1:50
What does Leodys need to hit to be considered a legitimate starting starting CF with the defense he brings
Keith Law
1:50
Not much, really. And I think he can get to a .340+ OBP which would make him a regular.
Cal
1:50
Is Gavin lux finally out of the dog house?
Keith Law
1:51
I assume he'll be called up in the next few days, although I wonder where he'll end up getting AB.
David Fletcher
1:51
What do you see as the biggest cause for the Angels failure this season? What would you do to improve the team going forward?
Keith Law
1:52
Lack of starting pitching. They did make a run at Cole and didn't get him; that was the free agent who'd make the biggest impact on their season and playoff odds.
Amir
1:52
James Kaprelian maintained 95-97 mph during his brief MLB appearance. If he can maintain the velocity, can he become a useful bullpen arm?
Keith Law
1:52
Yes. All about health with him, I think.
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