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Josh

2:37

Love the Showalter pick in New York, if anyone can right that ship, he could. Sounds like some recently retired Mets (Wright and Granderson) are being tossed around...but the notion of hiring beloved players who have no coaching experience, is exhausting

Anthony Franco

2:38

Yeah I think those guys came up in very early "throw a bunch of names at the wall" conversations but were never really in the mix

RenalRickets

2:38

Assuming everyone is healthy, who is the Mets' 5th starter? Someone already in the organization (Peterson, Williams, Megill) or an aquisition

Anthony Franco

2:38

I'm guessing they'll add somebody else

2:39

Not sure it'll be all that exciting, maybe just a Drew Smyly type or whatever. But I think they'll want a little more depth

Giants fan

2:39

Doesn't it make too much sense for us to take underwater A's contracts to get star big leaguers without overly gutting the farm?

Anthony Franco

2:39

I don't think Oakland's going that route

The only underwater deals they have are Andrus and Piscotty, both of whom are up after next year anyways

2:40

And Texas is paying like half the Andrus money. If they're attaching a $7.5M Stephen Piscotty to negate some of the trade value on Chris Bassitt or something, that's an absolute disaster

Anita

2:41

if the Jays get Seiya Suzuki for OF, could they land either Matt Chapman / Lou Trivino (A’s) for Jordan Groshans / Alejandro Kirk / Kevin Smith / Adam Kloffenstein / Anthony Castro or possibly Pablo Lopez (Marlins) for Alejandro Kirk / Lourdes Gurriel Jr / Cavan Biggio

Anthony Franco

2:42

I like the López/Kirk framework. Groshans headlining a Chapman deal? The A's might be able to do a little bit better, but I don't think it's crazy if you're including a real secondary piece as well

bobert

2:43

Mike Shildt took the Cardinals to the post-season 3 of 4 years; took a team with awful baserunning and defense and made them perform like Kristi Yamaguchi; was a manager of the year finalist multiple years, and won manager of the year once. But **three** teams needing a manager all passed on him this winter. What gives? Did his rapid unexpected firing and Mozeliak's presser poison his future prospects?

Anthony Franco

2:44

Yeah, I kind of think it might have. The messaging, at least from the STL front office, was that Shildt was a little too old-school and resistant to implementing data into his decision-making

2:45

The extent to which that's true, only they really know. But it's an alarming complaint for other front offices that, to some extent or another, probably all want some assurances the work of their analytics and player dev staffs are going to be implemented into daily decision-making

Giants fan

2:45

Why wouldn't the cubs just sign schwarber, Bryant and Rizzo at this point? Add a SS and they didn't even miss a beat

Anthony Franco

2:45

That requires spending a lot of money haha

2:46

They'd be respectable, but I don't know they'd be very good even with those guys. The pitching staff is pretty bad, and they were only OK with Bryant, Rizzo and Báez for the first half last year

Ella

2:46

Do MLB Network employees get paid during the lockout?

Anthony Franco

2:47

Yeah, it just seems that they're not really allowed to talk about players on teams' 40-man rosters right now

Jesse

2:47

What is the likelihood that Sean Manaea is traded this offseason? If the Mets were to get involved, would Ronnie Mauricio be enough to get it done?

Anthony Franco

2:48

That's a real boom or bust play, interesting framework. I'd lean no based on Mauricio's strikeout and walk numbers in High-A, but it's not a crazy idea

2:49

If the A's scouts believe there's significant projection on the hit tool -- and some public prospect evaluators would seem to agree there is -- then I could see them taking a shot, since they can't sign established stars already

2:50

And they have kind of leaned into guys with huge physical tools but hit tool concerns (Kyler Murray/Austin Beck in the draft, Robert Puason internationally) over the past few years

Hits Like Rays

2:50

Do players ever express any frustration or regret that their contract status, salaries, etc are so widely known? Especially compared to the relative lack of public knowledge about managements’ contracts and owners’ profits?

Anthony Franco

2:50

I can't recall an instance of this specifically, but I think your second point is a good one that probably causes general frustration at times

2:51

Teams don't really have to open the books, so you do get players sending snarky tweets when the league signs a mega postseason TV deal or something like that

It's not directly "I wish no one knew my salary," so much as it's "owners make a ton too, yet a bunch of casual fans don't care about that"

Chris

2:52

First time, thanks for taking my question. Die hard Mets fan who became a huge Stroman fan. Have a hard time understanding why Mets didn't pursue and let him walk. Thoughts?

Anthony Franco

2:52

New front office regime that I think just preferred a guy who misses more bats

Farhan

2:54

Hi Anthony! How do you think I should try to fill out my rotation? Besides going after Rodon, who do you think is a good trade candidate to replace Gausman in the 1-2 slot in my group of starters? Thank you!

Anthony Franco

2:54

Rodón's really it in free agency. Any of the Reds' guys make a bunch of sense, Montas too

Jung Bong Jovi

2:54

I don't get the uproar over Melancon signing with Arizona. He went to the University of Arizona, perhaps he just enjoys Arizona? Why shouldn't a player sign with a team of his choosing towards the end of his career, even if they may not be contenders?

Anthony Franco

2:55

I haven't seen any uproar personally, but I agree with your general point

Even if he'd had no connection to the area and just took the biggest offer, who cares? I have zero issue with players setting whatever priority they want in free agency

Jaysfan

2:55

JRam and Bieber for Gurriel, Biggio, Kirk and Pearson. Who says no?

Anthony Franco

2:56

Cleveland

luv da a’s

2:56

what’s your take on the a’s situation? how soon will they be back to being competitive? they have some great players to move & should expect great players in return. is eyeing a winning record in 2023 too early?

Anthony Franco

2:56

I think 2023's about right. Beane and Forst really don't do the full teardown thing, and I imagine they'll hold onto guys like Laureano and Murphy at the very least

2:57

Bring back a couple pre-arb big leaguers or prospects in the high minors, and I think they can be pretty good by 2023 if all goes according to plan

Peter

2:57

Is there clear, unequivocal, evidence that the new analytics like ERA+ or OPS+,actually predict next year’s performance better than traditional ERA., or OBP? Obviously the newer metrics do a great job in reflecting performance but how do they fare in predicting? Thanks

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