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Ben Clemens
8:14
Josh was on the side of reason the whole time. Lukewarm or nothing.
Savi
8:14
Biggest name non-tender candidate? Addison should have been cut last year but he looks like a stone cold lock to be dumped this year
Josh Herzenberg
8:14
This is true
Ben Clemens
8:14
Okay back to baseball-ish content, sorry for the extremely long digression.
8:15
I'll be honest with you, I haven't done a ton of research, but looking through arb estimates now.
Are there any TJ guys? That's a classic case.
Wire Fan
8:16
Is Treinen a non-tender candidate?  For could the A's get someone looking to buy low on him?
Ben Clemens
8:17
Treinen will get tendered.
Too tantalizing to try to fix him.
Josh Herzenberg
8:17
Agreed
Ben Clemens
8:17
They might try to trade him for peanuts, but you have to tender him.
8:18
Depending on what your view of Derek Dietrich is, he'd be iffy, but he didn't accumulate enough PA to be in line for a big raise.
So I think that's quite unlikely as well.
Belli Flop
8:18
Would the Dodgers consider this a "must-win?"
Ben Clemens
8:18
No, but a "we'd-sure-love-to-win-this-strasburg-is-good"
8:19
Is Maikel Franco a big name?
He's in danger.
Fangraph's Lurker
8:20
Making good on your promise to attempt to dethrone kiley and dan as the kings of weird turns I see, Ben
Ben Clemens
8:20
I try.
Gunther Centralperk
8:20
On a scale from 1 to 10, how fair is the the flak that Kershaw gets for his postseason performance? I say a 2; his K-BB% and WHIP are consistent but only slightly worse than his regular-season numbers and we know about his luck with inherited runners scoring (to say nothing of Mattingly and company running him out there on three day's rest).
Ben Clemens
8:21
I think it's between a 1 and a 2. He's better than people think in the playoffs, and pitches in harder spots than you think on less rest than you think. He's had some bad games, but some good ones too.
Belli Flop
8:21
What an inning for Max
Savi
8:21
Forgot about Maikel. He's a nice buy-low candidate for a dreadful team like the Tigers
Ben Clemens
8:22
Yeah he started slow but he's been dealing. Also he hit 98 on a pitch to Pollock.
8:23
Might get in hot water with Meg for this one, but Mike Zunino
The Rays haven't generally been in the business of paying money for baseball players.
Unless they absolutely have to.
Wire Fan
8:26
Do you guys buy into Tauchman's year?  Useful 4th OF going forward?   More than that?
Josh Herzenberg
8:27
Do I buy him sustaining a 5+ WAR pace? No, but I do think he can play everyday
Savi
8:27
Rockies a good fit for Dom Smith? They need something out of 1B with that park and he's still young
Ben Clemens
8:28
The only problem with this is that if the Mets and Rockies traded, one of them would necessarily have made a good decision, and I'm not sure the universe could allow that.
Josh Herzenberg
8:28
Haha
Ben Clemens
8:28
(In all honesty that makes a lot of sense and I don't think BVW is shy about trading guys if they don't fit the blueprint)
8:29
Meanwhile In Play, Run(s) has happened.
Gunther Centralperk
8:29
What kind of pitch count if any will Verlander be on for Game 4? 90?
Josh Herzenberg
8:29
I don't think there will be a pre-set limit on him
Jeff
8:30
What are the Cubs getting for Contreras? Tell the Braves to send Waters, Anderson/Wright, and Muller maybe throw in Inciarte or swap Newcomb for Muller
Ben Clemens
8:31
My hot player-valuation take: I think that teams don't like Willson Contreras that much. The Cubs talk him up a lot but he has the exact kind of skillset that would lead to the league having a lower valuation than we all think.
Not that he's bad,
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