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Mark P
10:51
Symphony #9, Movement #4 of Dvorak's "New World"
Guest
10:51
Do you think Kris Bryant is a $300 million player?
Mark P
10:51
nope
10:52
He is a very good player, but he won't land a $300MM deal in free agency
Drunk Cards Fan
10:54
The Cards should offer Puig a 1 year, $10M deal. Change my mind.
Mark P
10:54
The Cardinals have enough question marks in their outfield already.  Puig is a more proven MLB commodity than most of the St. Louis outfield options, but I don't see it happening
King Kelly
10:56
Your prediction about Matt Boyd?  Do the Tiggers hold on to him until the trade deadline, or was his 2019 H1 an illusion?
Mark P
10:57
Boyd seems like a solid rotation piece more than a top-of-the-rotation type to me
If he posts only "solid" numbers, Detroit could still deal him, just for a more realistic asking price
The Show
10:58
If you’ve been to Spring Training, what is the best part was the best? (For Florida and Arizona)
Mark P
10:59
I've been to Spring Training twice in my life, once for a week-long trip to Dunedin when I was a kid, and one game at the Tigers' camp in Lakeland (a game that was rained out in the third inning).

I highly recommend that any baseball fan should check out the ST experience at least once.  It's a fun environment.
Antonin Dvorak
10:59
Wow! Thanks!
Mark P
10:59
New candidate for "most famous person to ever participate in an MLBTR chat"
King Kelly
11:00
Would you be in favour of letting mlb teams trade draft picks?  All picks, not just competitive balance ones.  Other sports ...
Mark P
11:01
Absolutely.
Blue
11:01
Betts will re-sign with Dodgers?
Mark P
11:02
Betts allegedly wanted over $400MM in any Red Sox extension, and if that's his actual asking price to step away from free agency, that's a number Los Angeles can afford right now, since they don't have much on the books past 2021.
Travis
11:03
Favorite baseball book? I read Eight Men Out last year and have been wanting to read another one lately
Mark P
11:04
This isn't a book "yet," so I imagine it'll eventually be collected into some kind of volume.  But, Joe Posnanski of The Athletic has been writing essays for the last couple of months (one per day) counting down a loose listing of the top 100 players in baseball history.  Every single piece has been a great read, and i'd highly recommend the series to any baseball fan
QUEUEBD
11:06
The Giants haven't had a decent home grown OFer in actual decades. Can you tell me anything soothing about Ramos and/or Hunter Bishop?
Mark P
11:07
Both seem like very nice prospects.  The Giants needed a lot of work to rebuild their farm system, but they're already making good progress
Steve
11:07
Do you see either Pederson, or Puig as fits for the Jays?
Mark P
11:07
Pederson moreso since he can play CF
Ross Atkins
11:08
Ive seen all this talk of me drafting  Asa Lacy with the 5th pick, but why wouldnt i draft Garrett Mitchell with so many question marks in our OF throughout the Organization?
Mark P
11:09
Baseball prospects generally take so long to develop (and the draft process is such a crapshoot in general) that every team generally just deploys the "Best player available" strategy when picking.  Trying to draft to pit a positional need today doesn't make much sense when that player might not be in the bigs for 4-5 years, when your needs might have entirely changed
Big Mike
11:11
Obviously the Brewers will need to trade Yelich if not next off season, but by All-Star break because they cannot afford a 35 million/year contract. How much do they get back?
Mark P
11:12
Yelich is under team control through the 2022 season, assuming the Brewers exercise their club option.  I don't think they're in any rush whatsoever to trade him
Blue
11:13
Why MLB reduced September roster to limit to 28 players?
Mark P
11:14
A desire to shorten game-times, since having 40-man rosters meant a lot of September pitching changes, and a lot of elongated games.  Plus, many people within the sport found it silly that rosters suddenly expanded during the most important time of year for pennant races, giving some teams competitive advantages
Logan
11:15
Don’t you think the Reds are being overrated? Flashy offseason but the team as a whole, on paper, is underwhelming
Mark P
11:16
Given the number of teams who "win the offseason" and then fall flat in the actual season, you're not wrong in being cautious about what the Reds can do.  Certainly, they have some question marks (shortstop, catcher, their younger outfielders) and some of their bigger signings some with defensive issues, like Moose as an everyday 2B and Castellanos as a full-time outfielder
11:17
That's all for me tonight, thanks for the questions!
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