Steve Adams
- Happy Monday! We'll get going in about 90 minutes, but feel free to send in questions ahead of time.
- Hello! Let's get underway
Rafael Devers
- (Sorry for the old news but it’s still hot for a lot of us.). Is my contract “under water”? Some reports say yes, the market (I.e., the Giants) apparently say no. Great hitter but not much more. Is there surplus value in the contract or not?
Steve Adams
- I wouldn't say it's underwater. Devers is an elite hitter, top-10 in the sport, who won't turn 29 until October. We just saw Guerrero get a $500MM contract and Soto $765MM. Devers is owed $238.5MM beyond this season, starting with his age-29 campaign. That's older than Soto and Vlad were when they signed their contracts, of course, but if you asked me whether Devers would clear $238.5MM as a free agent this winter, I'd say he would, yes. Maybe not by leaps and bounds, as many teams would view him as a DH, but yeah, I think he'd get more than that in the open market still.
Knock-Knock
- Are there ever thoughts about changing All Star Voting? I think the starters should be based on stat leaders at each position and then reserves should be who the fans vote for. Too many homers vote for their favorites when clearly, they aren’t the best. This year is better than past years (so far) but not totally true to who is playing the best at each spot.
Steve Adams
- I doubt there will be, but yeah, I said last week in a chat that I don't really care about the All-Star Game whatsoever, in part because I find the voting process so stupid in the internet/social media era. It's always been more popularity contest than anything else, but it's just so exacerbated now.It'd be more appropriately labeled the "Fans' Choice" game or "Fan Selection" game, but in general, I don't find much excitement in it. I'll watch it if I have nothing else going on that night, but I find the All-Star Game less exciting than just tuning into a random Pirates/Reds game to watch Skenes vs. Greene or something.But it's also probably not aimed at the hardcore fan or a baseball sicko like me who consumes as much baseball content as I do. So maybe I'm just jaded and grumpy, haha.
What about Ann?
- Tyler Fitzgerald a fit for Braves 2b?
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With Chapman out, and Devers maintaining he WAS a 3B in Boston; is he such a butcher at Third that the Giants are not using him there despite the disappointing offense from 3B??
Giants are not going to play Devers at 3b. Schmtt is a Gold Glove candidate and when Chapman returns, Schmitt slides over to 2b giving the Giants a great defensive infield, especially when Dom Smith is playing, although Flores is adequate there.
I had to laugh when I read a Rockies fan ask if their team was the most dysfunctional. I certainly sympathize with your pain, but I think I heard jerry reinsdorf ask someone to hold his beer. It’s not just that the white sox are a laughing stock, but the bulls are a rotten mess as well. It takes a special kind of clown to muck up two teams in professional sports like he has