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Ben Clemens

1:20

ooh, good one. Griffin would surely go #1

I bet Burns would still go #2. He's right up there, the Reds clearly like him

so like, no I guess, but close to it

hrs1

1:20

You were pretty clear about being lower on catchers in general. Among sources who were not, where would the highest ranked catchers fit in?

Ben Clemens

1:21

mid-20s area

maybe upper 20s, move the big contracts down and put dingler next to McLean?

crossedup

1:21

Thank you for your contributions to helping people make both the best and worst trade offers.

Phil

1:21

Missed the chat last week when this would have been a more pertinent question, but with the crowd TV game, I really struggled with guys like Trout. Well, with Trout. Would I rather have Trout on my team than Chase Meidroth? Sure, but Mr. Reinsdorf would presumably disagree. Does he actually have negative trade value?

Ben Clemens

1:22

yeah, more or less

1:23

it's taken a long time to get here, but we have him down for like... 6 WAR the next four years? maybe 8 WAR if you think our aging curves are too harsh

and he's making like 140 million over that time

would you give him 4/35 this winter? I probably wouldn't. and that's with including some upside for the fact that employing Mike Trout soudns fun

1:24

yeah it's tough though!

because I don't know that I'd feel the same way about a guy who is younger and projects better

but I do think ti's a fun question

trade value is in the eye of the beholder, and i think that it accrues disproportionately, on the high end, to the very best players

and at that point contracts start mattering a bit less, because they're all huge bargains

1:25

but for guys like Trout who are not among MLB's best (anymore, obviously he's generational), that calculus stops working

if you're not great ,the salary starts mattering MUCh more

ransohs

1:25

first of all, how dare you

Ben Clemens

1:25

delightful

what a way to end the chat

thank you all for hanging out, and I hope you enjoyed the list

My regularly scheduled chat will be Monday at 2PM ET, and then we'll have a wrap-up of the crowdsourced trade value results next week as well

1:26

as always, thanks for all your feedback and intereste

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