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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 12/4/18
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Meg Rowley
2:00
Hello all!
And welcome to the chat.
ChiSox2020
2:01
Trade proposal - Carlos Rodon for Nick Senzel.
Meg Rowley
2:01
But not like, a serious one, right?
CamdenWarehouse
2:01
Meg, I've been waiting all day to ask you: What did Jerry Dipoto do?
Also every time Seattle makes a big trade, that song bounces around my head for a couple days. I am quite unhappy with Baumann.
Meg Rowley
2:02
And it feels kinda strange to joke about with the investigation looming, right? That's not meant to chastise you at all. It's an earworm of the highest order.
Lord Farquaad
2:02
meg have you ever fortnite????
Meg Rowley
2:03
I have played exactly three video games in my life: Half Life, Frogger, and a Star Trek: Voyager game where the goal was to defeat the Borg.
Make of that exceptionally strange trio what you will.
Xolo
2:03
Kiley said the Mets are trading Syndergaard and BVW said they're probably not. Who should I trust?
Meg Rowley
2:04
Both are shifty sorts, now aren't they? (kidding) I think it is useful to remember that this stuff can move very quickly. It doesn't mean anyone is fibbing, though it can, but just that stuff changes.
Xolo
2:04
What's the smart move for the Padres this winter? Go big (trade for Syndergaard, bribe Eovaldi away from Houston or Boston), go medium (Kikuchi? Leake?) or just chill out and wait to see how things look at the deadline or next winter?
Meg Rowley
2:06
I know there have been rumors but I would be surprised if they went Very Big as their prospects aren't quite cooked yet.
2:07
(apologies for the delay there-- was answering some Writer Questions)
Mandy is 92% Fresh
2:07
Is taking on portions of bad contracts for prospects the new currency of baseball?
Meg Rowley
2:07
It isn't a new phenom.
2:08
I do wonder if, with so many in various modes of not trying to win right now and so a less obvious (or at least) certain path to the number one pick, if we'll see more of it as a way to extract prospect value. That's not a fully formed thought yet.
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe
2:09
Goodbye to Paxton, Cano, Diaz, Segura, Pazos, Zunino...who is your favorite player on the Mariners next year if Mitch Haniger gets traded too?
Meg Rowley
2:09
I don't think Haniger will get traded BUT Wade LeBlanc
just cuz
Grover
2:10
Should the Dodgers seriously consider making Bellinger a permanent corner OF?  He is obviously more than capable.  Could that open up the opportunity to add an impact bat at 1B (or 3B if they move Turner to first for his final 2 seasons)?
Meg Rowley
2:12
Even if you assume Muncy will regress some next year (which is fair), I don't think they're looking to rush out and sign a 1B, especially with looming decisions on Turner. The versatility is a good thing, so unless there is something they know about how the switching impacts performance (which they may!) it seems like it's fine now.
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe
2:12
Meg, if I may humbly request, now that you are upper-upper management at Fangraphs, you should bring back the "business word" segment in chats or pods.
Meg Rowley
2:12
Sometimes bits run their course.
Brodie is looking pretty cute rn
2:12
Is Jeff Wilpon's statements about payroll indication that the Mets might start acting remotely like they're a team based in NYC?
Meg Rowley
2:13
Could be! I will believe it when I see it, always a good course of action around teams and promises of payroll increases, but could be!
Red Shoe
2:13
I like the Segura deal for Seattle? Crawford was a top 20 prospect this time last year and it shouldn't be difficult for Dipo to flip Santana.
Meg Rowley
2:14
I think Jeff made a good point (I mean, he made several) in his post, which is consistent with what I had heard before the deal went through, that Segura's market was very small.
2:15
Now, we can all ask whether we think that trade was necessary, but given some of the scuttlebutt on him, I think they felt this was the best they'd do. I don't see them winning the trade, even though I find Crawford interesting still and think Santana will be useful for them if they don't move him. But I understand the logic of it.
John
2:15
Is it just me or are J. Happ, C. Morton and A. Ottavino being massively underrated? Seem like great value buys
Meg Rowley
2:16
I don't think we can reasonably say we know how they're being rated yet.
Brandon Nimmo
2:16
Not that it will happen but are the Mets one Bryce Harper away from being NL East favorites? The Cano trade will be even stranger if/when it's the headlining move of the offseason.
Meg Rowley
2:17
I don't think they're one Harper away, though some of that is because they're still being weird about Syndergaard, and some of it is because the rest of that division is likely to do much more/is good now.
Meet the Mutts
2:17
Do these trades actually improve the Mets playoff chances? Are they actually going for it this year?
Meg Rowley
2:18
Somewhere in all the back and forth on this, folks have somehow forgotten that Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz are really to really, really good at baseball.
kingofdanger
2:18
Hockey in Seattle!
Meg Rowley
2:18
I am Very Excited.
2:19
I don't know hockey super well -- I have mostly watched college hockey, and not much of that, but I am jazzed.
A Regular Ol' Plumbus
2:19
Do you have any advice on working in baseball with non-MLB teams. Are there any other ways to get involved to build the resume? Other companies, platforms, etc.? I thought working with two teams and an advanced degree would help me stand out, but I'm generating zero interest.
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