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Chat With MLBTR's Steve Adams: 2/1/18
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Steve Adams
3:08
Greetings world. I'm filling in for Jeff today, as he's busy being a proud new dad for the third time. (Weak excuse, if you ask me)
3:09
So, you'll be subjected to multiple chats with my inane commentary in them this week. I rule the MLBTR chat sphere this week -- sorry folks
Theo
3:09
I'm still in the lead on Yu, right?
Steve Adams
3:10
There's no one really "in the lead" on Yu, unless you simply mean "the lead" in media mentions connecting the teams. He's reportedly gotten multiple five-year offers, and he's waiting for a team like the Dodgers or Yankees to clear some cash and jump in, pushing the offer up to six. Whoever goes to six years is "in the lead" immediately, and probably just signs him.
TimmyP in DC
3:10
So Nats signed Montero.  Does that mean anything with regards to their pursuit of Realmuto?
Steve Adams
3:11
If they'd signed him to a Major League deal, maybe. But they invited him to camp on a minor league/non-roster deal. Just because they're pursuing bigger fish doesn't mean they can't still add some depth. The signing doesn't impact their Realmuto pursuit in any way
Toby flenderson
3:11
any way the dbacks could get Santana from the brewers in a deal including Corbin?
Steve Adams
3:12
Four years of Santana for one year of Corbin isn't a deal the Brewers will want to make, and it's not a great framework for kicking off a larger package either.
Darren
3:12
Teheran for Domingo Santana?
Steve Adams
3:12
Maybe for 2016 Julio Teheran, but his stock took a hit last year.
Hosmer etc
3:13
When a free agent doesn't sign a lucrative offer like the Royals or Padres have allegedly offered to hold out for more, does that signal they are potentially only about the money?
Steve Adams
3:14
95 percent of free agents (probably more) sign for the most money. Many of them sit on lucrative offers for weeks and months at a time. Hosmer's situation is more public, but it's not unique. I don't see anything wrong with holding out for as much as the market will bear. I'd do the same thing in an effort to set up multiple generations of my family financially.
Phil
3:15
Do Mets wait out and snag lucroy and moose/Frazier on team friendly deals?
Steve Adams
3:15
Sandy said early in the offseason they're going to go with TDA and Plawecki, and he said earlier today that there are a number of reasons he's not interested in Moustakas.
Frazier, perhaps, but I feel like he'd have to be willing to take a one-year deal for that to happen. And at that point, I imagine the Yankees may outbid the Mets.
KH
3:16
Do you think there is a team out there that would take Kendrys Morales if the Jays paid the remainder of his contract?
Steve Adams
3:16
If the Jays are eating the whole contract, it doesn't matter if someone else would take him. At that point you just release him.
But, to your point, yes someone would take a league-min flier on Kendrys
argenys
3:17
Any truth to Darvish waiting longer to see if Dodgers or Yankees clear some money as he prefers those two teams?
Steve Adams
3:17
Even if he doesn't prefer them, it'd behoove him to have both clubs in the mix, driving up the prices from more serious bidders like the Cubs and Twins.
Paul Molitor
3:17
Who is my opening day starter?
Steve Adams
3:18
Probably Darvish if they sign him. Otherwise I'm betting on Ervin regardless of who is signed.
Royalsfan
3:18
What are your thoughts on the Brandon Moss trade?
Steve Adams
3:19
It was a fine means of cutting some cost and getting some cheap rotation candidates. I've never loved Buchter all that much (my esteemed colleague, for whom I am filling in today, would disagree), so it was fine for the Royals to me.

I think connections to how it frees up money for Hosmer are overstated. Kansas City offered seven years long before they traded Moss.
MinnBaseball
3:19
Lance Lynn or Alex Cobb...who do you prefer?
Steve Adams
3:20
Cobb, but I'm not particularly enthralled by either.
I mean, would I sign one of them for like 2/25 or 3/36? Sure. But at the prices they're seeking? Hard pass.
John
3:20
Is Archer holding up the free agent market, or is the free agent market instead holding up any possible Archer trade?
Steve Adams
3:21
The fact that the Rays have no desire to trade Archer is the only thing holding up his trade market. And I don't think that's really applicable to the free-agent market at all. Most teams don't think Archer's going anywhere, it seems.
Cowboy's Ghost
3:21
If the Angels can get a full season of starts out of some combination of Richards, Ohtani, Bridwell, Heaney, Skaggs, Shoemaker and Tropeano, they should be pretty good, right?  Or am I fooling myself?
Steve Adams
3:22
That might be true, but to expect that group of pitchers to remain healthy teeters on insanity, given their recent history. Bridwell and his 5 K/9 and pronounced fly-ball tendencies also scream for regression
EXTRA INNINGS
3:23
What is your take on starting a runner at second base in extra innings?
Steve Adams
3:23
Hard nope.
Bravos
3:23
Heard a Ronald Acuna comp of Gregory Polanco. Should ATL be happy with that?
Steve Adams
3:24
All that column said was that the tools between the two at this stage of their career (i.e. pre-Majors / this age for Polanco) are similar. Acuna is currently more highly regarded than Polanco ever was.
Dan Duquette
3:24
What am I doing?
Steve Adams
3:25
The same thing as always -- waiting out bargain free agents. He just has a hell of a lot more company this offseason than in most others.
FishFried
3:25
Pache, Allard, and a lower level prospect for Realmuto?
Steve Adams
3:25
Don't think that's enough.
TimTebow#1
3:25
At what point do the Cubs look beyond Jason Heyward? Every spring it’s “if this guy could hit...” he fails to show improvement in contact rates and discipline.
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