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ca$hman
12:50
Andujar for Machado.  Who says no?
Travis Sawchik
12:50
Yankees
We (Well, Kiley and Eric) had Andujar as a top 10 overall prospect entering the season
12:51
Yankees have been pretty patience in their retooling. As great as Machado is, I would be kind of surprised if they traded that control for half a season of Machado
Also, the Orioles might simply never make a trade with the Yankees. So they might actually say 'no' too
Bo
12:51
What should the Braves do with their catching corps? Stick with Suzuki or go with Flowers?
Travis Sawchik
12:52
Catching is a time-share by nature, so there's room for both. Suzuki has been amazing
Mountie Votto
12:52
So is Tyler Mahle a strikeout pitcher now? He was always a command/control, middling-K guy in the minors, but he's rocking a cool 10.3 K/9 on the year so far
Travis Sawchik
12:53
Very intriguing start for Mahle. If he can miss bats a little better than we expected to go with that command maybe the Reds have a quality mid-rotation arm
Brad
12:53
With regards to Braves being buyers, they certainly have tons of capital to spend. How do they make the most of the 7 or so (Soroka, Anderson, Wright, Toussaint, Fried, Gohara, Allard) 50 FV starter prospects they have?
Travis Sawchik
12:54
I guess you start with the highest impact pieces and work form their and that would be the best SPs available
canofcorn66
12:55
Who do you have in the battle of the Matts: Olson, Chapman, or Davidson?
Travis Sawchik
12:55
Oh man
That's tough
12:56
Olson looked like Babe Ruth last year, now Davison is amazing
I'd go with Chapman who rates as an above-average defender and is raking
All interesting
Matt
12:57
Why do grumpy old men who say things like "they need to hit the ball in the air" get angry when someone measures the extent to which a hitter is hitting the ball in the air?
Travis Sawchik
12:57
When a computer can measure what the expert has always said, that's threatening
Bo
12:57
How might pitchers start to combat the "launch angle" revolution?
Travis Sawchik
12:58
Pitchers did try to go up last year, but it didn't work
Probably worth following up on
Geust
12:58
I know I'm only allowed to talk about Acuña and the brand new hotness, so please do not take note that Rhys Hoskins, Tommy Pham, Mitch Haniger, and, you know, a few others, are performing well this season.
Travis Sawchik
12:59
Don't ruin this for everyone
Bill
1:00
Is Cavan Biggio a potential top prospect, or just a legacy with good pitch recognition?
Travis Sawchik
1:01
He didn't make our Blue Jays list
But what a name
The 14% walk rate is interesting
Rock Kickass
1:01
Any buy low players you can think of off the top of your head? Slow April stats but you expect to rake once the weather warms?
Travis Sawchik
1:02
There might be some frustrated Anthony Rizzo owners out there
Mountie Votto
1:02
Please tell me Luis Castillo will be ok :(
Travis Sawchik
1:03
This is why the Reds cannot have nice things
It's be really ugly
Silver linings: swinging strike and chase rates are up
Everything else? Awful
Probably not a guy you want to sell at this low a point, though
Mountie Votto
1:04
Remember when everyone was freaking out about Joey Votto?
Travis Sawchik
1:04
There should be no baseball "takes" or blog posts or newspaper articles in April
54
1:05
I heard that Buck won't play Chance Sisco more because every time he gets a big hit they play the Thong Song on repeat in the clubhouse afterward, and Buck HATES tacky hip hop. Any veracity to this rumor?
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