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Paul
11:25
Are you concerned about the Dodgers rotation
Anthony Franco
11:25
Not really. I guess it's a comparative "weak" point on the roster but I'd take it over most other teams' rotations
11:26
I'm skeptical of Heaney's results lining up with the K/BB rate. Tyler Anderson's whatever. But David Price could still be a capable back-end guy, Tony Gonsolin's pretty good, Dustin May should be back midseason
And obviously the top three (or four, if they keep Bauer) is excellent
Thigmus
11:27
Better- A team with high K fly ball pitchers and mashers who can't field.....or ground ball pitchers with great fielders who are low power contact hitters?
Anthony Franco
11:28
I think the home ballpark matters in this calculus. The A's have had a bunch of success with soft-tossing fly ball guys because the park's big and foul balls turn into outs a lot
The Cardinals have a great infield defense (most of whom can also hit but we'll set that aside) and went out of their way to get ground-ball specialists
11:29
I think either can work as long as you have the kind of coherent roster-building strategy you laid out. The 2014-15 Royals were in the latter bucket and won two straight pennants
I'd probably lean the second group personally
Harry Hooper
11:29
Can we get 1 bold prediction from you for the AL, and 1 for the NL for this season?
Anthony Franco
11:31
I had Wander Franco winning AL MVP, which I think qualifies as bold? NL, I don't know. One of the Rockies or D-Backs will stay within five games of whoever finishes third in the NL West? That's a lukewarm take probably
11:32
FanGraphs projects the Giants to finish in 3rd with 84 wins and the D-Backs in 4th at 70 wins, so maybe that's more bold than it sounds
I don't think either of those teams is a playoff contender but they're both vaguely alright in my view
RG
11:32
Longshots-one team in each league that NO ONE thinks has a chance, but if the stars align, they are a surprise Wild Card team. Thanks!
Anthony Franco
11:33
Kansas City, and ... Cincinnati, I guess? Do people consider the Reds dead?
Miami feels like the popular answer in the NL for this question but I think the Reds and Cubs are both better
Abe Froman
11:33
Did Hahn miss calculate the Rodon market by not extending him the QO? The sox are short on SP now and didn't even get a valuable draft pick as compensation.
Anthony Franco
11:34
Yeah I think that was just a whiff. Don't think Rodón was accepting a QO
Dylan
11:34
Are you surprised Conforto is still unsigned with games underway?
Timbo
11:34
If Conforto is healthy as Boras said, why hasn't he signed yet?
Dylan
11:34
Conforto to the Padres, right? They can’t have both Myers and Profar starting in the corners and expect to make a dent in the playoffs.
Anthony Franco
11:35
On the injury thing, yeah, I just don't buy it. He suffered this injury in January, but he'd been hitting for five weeks as of the third week of March
11:36
So he wasn't allowed to talk to teams until after he'd already resumed hitting, and the market's just been held up by his throwing arm not being all the way back? I'm skeptical, and that doesn't explain why things were seemingly so quiet pre-lockout too
11:37
I just think they overplayed it and thought there'd be more interest than there was. It happens
That's entirely speculative, to be clear. I have no inside info
11:38
As for the Padres, I agree they make sense on paper but the finances don't seem to work. Dennis Lin has reported they don't want to exceed the CBT, and they got the Twins to pay down basically all of Rogers' money this year. I just don't think the money's there
David Fletcher
11:38
if the angels' plan was always to play me at shortstop, why didn't they go out and get a better 2nd baseman? I can understand not wanting to commit big $ to a SS, but there could've been improvements made at 2nd base
Anthony Franco
11:38
I don't get it either
Yankee fan
11:39
trying to understand how the service time of Clarke Schmidt will work. He got 1 start last year and will probably be on the big league roster until the rosters get smaller again. Does this mean that this year will count for a full year against his service time clock? or only like 2 months
Anthony Franco
11:40
He only gets a full season if he spends 172 days on the MLB roster or injured list. Schmidt has 1.010 years (one year and ten days) already banked. So he'd need 162 days this season to get to two full years overall
If he sticks on the active roster for a month, then gets optioned out in May when rosters shrink, he'd have to be back up for good within like 3-4 weeks or his free agent trajectory would be pushed back another year
Bill
11:40
Order of preference as to projected 2022 performance: Ray,  Berrios , and Gausman?
Anthony Franco
11:41
That order
Nate Pearson
11:41
What am I going to have to do to catch a break?  I guess at least my DL stints aren't pitching injuries mostly.  But come on a broken arm from a line drive, a sports hernia and now mono!! Where do I even stand in the grand scheme of things??
Anthony Franco
11:42
I think he's going to end up being a reliever and it wouldn't surprise me if they trade him midseason to address other needs. It's been tough luck for that guy for sure
Robert Palma
11:42
With Bradley Zimmer being traded to Toronto ., Do you see the Guardians trading for another outfielder or maybe signing Conforto ?
Anthony Franco
11:42
They definitely should sign Conforto but there's been no indication they're willing to add $18-20MM to the payroll
11:43
Zimmer's just not very good and got passed on the depth chart by Kwan. They got an interesting bullpen arm for him. I like the trade for the Guardians but I don't think it's a precursor to anything special
Buckydent
11:44
Thoughts on Yankees improved defensive strategy?
Anthony Franco
11:44
IKF is fine, needed to push Gleyber off shortstop and Urshela wasn't a fit there. I think they should've gotten a better catcher than Rortvedt or Trevino
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