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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 1/14/2020
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Dave
2:49
What do you do to feel better on sad, cold, wintery days?
Meg Rowley
2:50
I remember that in a little less than two months, I'll be standing on a backfield in Arizona watching young dudes throw indistinguishably bad breaking balls.
Meg: does she love baseball, or just being warm/near good tacos?
Fast Ed
2:50
How long before Hinch and Luhnow work again in baseball. a) 1-3 years b) more than 3 years c) nevah?
Meg Rowley
2:51
I think Luhnow is done. Hinch I'm less sure.
Billy Beane
2:52
Hey Meg, you, perhaps INTENTIONALLY? Allowed us access to font stuff in this chat. I think it will be abused by the incoherent masses fun.
Meg Rowley
2:52
I think JotCast underwent an update
Dave C
2:52
Assuming Cora is suspended and eventually fired, should the Mets do the same with Beltran?  Only other person singled out in the report
Meg Rowley
2:53
I think there is a real difference between a player and a coach occupying the roles they each did in this. I don't think you change your stance on suspending players based on one of them now being a manager, though boy howdy, I'd be nervous about it.
Guest
2:53
The Astros can still sign Free Agents that would sacrifice draft picks with the result of delaying the punishment. Isn't this an easy way to diminish the value of losing the draft picks?
Meg Rowley
2:54
It can delay the forfeiture, but the memo is clear that the loss is of regular first and second round picks, and that if such a pick doesn't exist, the next class when it does will suffer the penalty.
LLW
2:55
What percentage of the David Peralta extension can be attributed to being a good clubhouse presence? I want to know the exact dollar amount awarded for getting Zack Greinke to do the driving the bus thing
Meg Rowley
2:56
heh, I don't know that exactly, but I do know that they just love him, so let's speculate wildly and say all but $5 of it
Guest
2:56
If the Astros sign a FA that would cost them a draft pick every year until the new CBA, don't they just subvert the punishment all together?
Meg Rowley
2:56
Find it very unlikely that they willingly do that.
pumpsie
2:57
One year of Betts over two of Bryant? Disagree.
Meg Rowley
2:57
Go vote!
Andrew
2:57
Do you think the pacing and value of free agent signings this off-season mitigates, to an extent, some of the fervor for a players strike?
Meg Rowley
2:58
A robust FA market helps, but doesn't address serious issues like how little young players make
So some but likely not enough
brad
2:59
Meg the person who profited literally the most in all this is Crane, but he gets off scott free... If you really wanted to send a message you force him to sell the team.
Meg Rowley
2:59
I think that is about as unrealistic as vacating the title, but yeah, pretty I said that part was insufficient
Chris
3:00
Will anyone sign today?
Meg Rowley
3:01
Truly the best part of yesterday was actually the A's trading for Tony Kemp amidst all of this
Crane
3:03
Let me know the next time someone takes $5 million out of your pocket and says you got off scott free.
Meg Rowley
3:03
Jim Crane is worth $2.5 billion
Them
3:03
Was the fact that Beltran was the only player named due to his being previously mentioned in public reports, or should it suggest that he had a larger role than other players?
Meg Rowley
3:04
I think it was because he had been previously named
Alex
3:05
I think most people simply assumed Manfred would take away IFA pool money for multiple years from the Astros. Why didn't he take this course of action as well when he has with other organizations? It's clear that the Astros are now going to try to load up on IFA $ to counter there draft pick loss.
Meg Rowley
3:05
I was surprised there wasn't an associated IFA punishment also, though good to remember that pool isn't limitless
Alex
3:06
apparently Justin Verlander and Alex Bregman have everything to say and love jumping in front of the cameras...except when they’re caught red-handed cheating. Bauer’s tweets last night were so on-point.
Meg Rowley
3:07
There is an obvious if unsurprising hypocrisy there, though we could all stand to be less impressed with fiery tweets from Trevor Bauer.
Ok pals, I gotta get rolling and run the ol' FanGraphs. Thanks for all the good questions, and sorry for what I didn't get to this week.
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!
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