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Does anyone know why none of my comments ever appear in the live chats?
The only questions/comments that show up are the ones that they choose. They receive hundreds of questions and can only select a few of them to answer.
Because he there are 1000s of questions and the chats don’t last 17 weeks.
He always answers mine.
Q: “Am I crazy to think at all that the Reds have a legitimate chance to land Keuchel?”
A: “He’s from Oklahoma, so geography is fairly favorable. If they’ll outbid the market, seems plausible. Not sure they will or should.”
Tulsa to Cincinnati isn’t exactly “close”.
They’re almost out of that Homer Bailey deal – so that future money is burning a hole in their pocket.
I have zero qualms with the idea of the Reds signing Keuchel.
You lose your top ten pick for a guy that won’t help the reds enough to be in contention with the Cardinals and Cubs let alone Yankees Dodgers Red Sox nor the Brewers in our own division
If we get a compensation pick that is not top ten pick
I don’t really have time, always, to explain everything in full detail. I just said “fairly favorable.”
The point is, there’s a reasonable proximity there. Sometimes guys have a strong preference for a specific part of the country to be relatively close to family. If Keuchel does, then Cinci would fit the bill better than most places. At a minimum, it wouldn’t seem to be a particularly poor fit. That’s all I was suggesting.
As I’ve said, I have no qualms with Keuchel to the Reds. It’s a good fit.
I just don’t find the geography argument very compelling. It’s over 600 miles to most baseball cities. That’s not close, at all. If he really is interested in playing “close”, he limits himself to about 4 teams.
I don’t think it’s very compelling, either. It’s just … when you’re looking for reasons why that kind of player might consider going to a team in this competitive position, that’s a part of the checklist. Obviously quite a few other much more important factors, but we don’t know if they like him and whether they’ll be top bidders. It’s plausible they will.
I guess, for me, I usually avoid the “geography” discussion unless a) it’s super close or b) the player has specifically stated they’d like to play somewhere (i.e. Charlie Morton).
I hope you don’t think I’m telling you what you can or can’t say. I don’t care and greatly appreciate your work.
I was simply confused by that statement in the chat I also recognize that you don’t have the time to explain everything in the chat, or else you’d get through three questions.. Thanks for responding.
It’s all good. I was just reaching for something to say about Keuchel/Cinci, really, other than him being a good pitcher and them needing such things.
I just wish the MLBTR staff would stop answering bad questions, like no, you aren’t getting Arenado without giving up your best 2 prospects plus more, I dont care what team it is, “Can we get him without giving up Adell?” no, please grow up. Your team isnt getting stars for free, or without players that make you go “that stings”, thats not how baseball works. Stop wasting time with this crap.
Arenado is great but I think I’d take Adell over a one-year rental who is going to make like $26m next year.
So much so this!! It just irritates me to see people getting the chance to ask questions, and they waste that chance on questions with the most obvious answers!!
If you, as a fan, like the package your
Theoretically giving up for a star player, it’s a vast underpay.
You have to understand the way it works from my end, though. I am scrolling through, reading and processing. Sometimes by the time I have read a possible question I already have an answer fully formulated and it’s pretty easy just to go ahead and take it. Other times, I might click on it before fully processing it.
Basically, it’s not a perfectly efficient process, but it probably isn’t much wasted time to grab a question like that since I just put a quick answer together.
Idk what “wut” means. Who hangs up first on the Myers/Bailey trade?
Bailey went 1-14 with a 6.09 ERA who the heck would trade anything for him, especially on a 1 year $23 million contract
1. Citing his record ruins your comment no matter how good the rest of it might be.
2. A team that wants to get rid of a good-not-great player who is owed $74m over the next 4 seasons and doesn’t have a position.
Sorry, I wasn’t going to use his record but it caught me so off guard and was so bad that I had to.
Either way, if the Padres are trying to get out of his contract for the reasons you listed, why would anyone want him? Besides the fact that he does still have value (of course with his salary its nothing to write home about) and Bailey has little to none, I just don’t see any way this scenario would ever be necessary. I guess to answer your question both teams slam their phones down equally as hard and fast? Maybe the Padres think about it a bit more but still I don’t think this would ever come close to happening..
“Either way, if the Padres are trying to get out of his contract for the reasons you listed, why would anyone want him?”
To get out of one of their own bad contracts and add a guy with some actual upside.
“… I just don’t see any way this scenario would ever be necessary.”
Padres to clear up future salary and an outfield logjam. Reds to clear some short-term salary (Myers’ contract is backloaded) and pick up a change of scenery candidate with some upside (although it would largely depend on how they feel about their current corner OF options).
Meh. I’ll give you credit, it does make more sense for the Padres than I initially thought, but I still don’t like it, especially from the Reds POV. You’re finally getting out of an awful contract, and now you’re trying to get into another potentially awful contract? Sure he has some upside but would you bet $20 mil a year 2020-2022 that he’ll hit it? And just to save $18 mil this year? I mean could they use him on their team sure but he is nowhere worth the risk of becoming the next Homer Bailey contract for the Reds. I’ll actually change my answer. Padres may consider it, but the Reds laugh in their faces if they offer it.
Well the question was asked during a speed round of “Who says no?” so I guess the correct answer would have been “Reds” then.
Given just about any stat, real or imagined, Homer Bailey put up last year, I don’t think any team wants to waste a roster spot on him
Myers may be overpaid, but he’s at least worth a spot on the 40-man
I believe redrooster’s point was that Myers is going to take a spot on the roster for a prospect they could bring up, and that Bailey would be off the books next year and could be bought out or removed from the roster. I don’t think anyone is arguing that Bailey is a player a team would want.
I was just being cheeky in answering during the “lightning round.” Just trying to keep things interesting, and in doing so quickly, it doesnt leave time for fully thinking it out.
Myers is owed $64MM for the next four seasons, including a buyout on the 2023 option. It is suboptimal but I don’t think they are at the point of just dumping a huge portion of the deal. Bailey is owed $23MM plus a $5MM buyout.
guys, if your questions don’t get answered in the chat, just be patient. I asked like 6 times about the possibility of the Phillies trading Carlos Santana, and my questions never got answered. But, now I know why–Tim was working on a thesis-level research paper dedicated to this exact topic! In other words, just wait; maybe your question will turn into a full-blown article.
Loved the lightning round by the way. I’m still in love with Nomar Mazara (not sure why, exactly…) and I want my Phillies to swing a deal for him. TEX already has a bit of a surplus of lefty-hitting OFers, possibly opening up a Mazara trade. TEX is very short on quality arms, so do you think Velasquez & Eflin & and a lower prospect gets Mazara? Thanks guys!
I remember a couple years back I kept asking if Bud Black/Ron Gardenhire would have a managing job the following year. They wouldn’t answer that, but Steve once answered a question where I asked why they wouldn’t answer that question. These days, I have about half a dozen questions that I have been asking multiple times every chat I make it to for months now and have yet to be answered. I’m not sure if they are missing them or if they don’t think the question is worth answering.
Then again, once I tried to ask a question about Jake Arrieta and my phone autocorrected it to “Jake Artists” and they clicked on that question just to mock the autocorrect error, so if they’re gonna do that, they really has no room to say this or that question isn’t worth answering.
I’m trying to think of an analogy for what it’s like to run the chat. Remember the old game show, Supermarket Sweep? It’s that, in a newly laid out grocery story that stocks differing produce every week.
Sometimes, you see “Jake Artists” and find an opportunity to try to be funny. Sometimes that falls flat. Etc. It’s hard to do well … we try our best.
Not saying it wasn’t funny. I just don’t see how that is worth responding to but the Black/Gardenhire thing wasn’t.
I don’t know what your other question was, honestly. It is quite likely I did not see it at any point, even if it was posed several times. I will note that manager/coaching stuff is an area I rarely go into b/c I have little to offer on that front.
Are you the same guy that gets upset if you don’t get enough “likes” on your social media? Geez, give it a rest, or start your own chat.