Steve Adams
- Good afternoon! Hope the weekend treated everyone well. I'll get started at about 2pm CT (give or take a minute or two), but feel free to start asking questions in advance, as always.
- Greetings! Let's begin
cambo
- How do you see the Rockies 1st base gig shaping up all season?
Steve Adams
- I assume you're going to see at least four guys with 20+ starts there: Edouard Julien, Troy Johnston, Blaine Crim and TJ Rumfield. Charlie Condon could be an option later in the year, too. I'll go with Julien as the 1B leader among the guys listed here, with Rumfield in second. Julien can't be optioned and is a poor 2B defender, so I think they'll just stick him at 1B if he hits at all.
Bill G
- Prediction Time: Why is it easier to predict who will come in last in each division than it is those who will come in first?
Steve Adams
- A bad team is only going to get worse due to injuries. Tougher to tell which good team(s) are going to fall victim to that randomness. Plus, most truly bad/last-place teams don't have a lot of depth or good farm systems on which to draw (which is part of why they're predicted last in the first place).
Stealing Home
- I've been listening to fantasy podcasts and one thing I don't understand is the love for Cory Seager and the fear for Trevor Story. Can you explain this? CBS actually went as far as to say even if you only get 3/4 of a season out of Seager it's better than most SS behind him over a full season, where Story landed on their dud list. I know both have great talent, roughly the same age and have been injury prone in their careers, but are they forgetting the great fantasy season Story had? Very similar to Lindor but he's being drafted 10 rounds later. To be fair Seager is being drafted around where Story is. If I knew both would stay healthy, I would be hard pressed to pick one over the other.
Steve Adams
- Story's season last year was both the first time he's taken 400 plate appearances AND the first time he's reached 20 HR or 20 SB since 2021. Last year feels like a ceiling year for Story, who's 33 years old and has the type of K-BB profile that's inherently going to leave him with a much lower floor than someone like Seager.Seager has his own durability concerns, but he's a perennial monster in the batter's box. He strikes out way less, walks way more, hits the ball harder and generally does everything better than Story. He's more than a year younger, too.
- The only way I'd ever take Story over Seager would be if you told me Seager was only going to play 70 games and Story would play 150. Even then, I'd be tempted to take Seager and just piece SS together (or fiendishly use that crystal ball outlook to trade him after 67 games, haha)
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