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Chat with MLBTR's Steve Adams: 2/11/25
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Steve Adams
8:22
Good morning! Happy spring training for Cubs/Dodgers fans, and happy almost spring training for everyone else! As usual, I'll get going around 1pm CT, but feel free to ask questions ahead of time if you're so inclined. Looking forward to it!
1:01
Greetings!
Dan S.
1:01
At this point could Pivetta take a 2-year deal with a lower salary in year one to account for the lost draft pick? Maybe 2/35 broken down like $15M in 2025 and $20M in 2026?
Danielito
1:01
Is Nick Pivetta an option for the Sacramento A's?
Mark Cherry
1:01
Why hasn’t Boston signed Pivetta yet? Since they’re the only team that won’t have to give up a draft pick to sign him it makes sense, right?
Michael
1:01
Thanks for doing the chat.  Do you think Pevetta is a candidate for a post-draft signing?
Steve Adams
1:01
Just a few questions about Nick Pivetta, ha
(There are many, many more)
1:03
I do think a two-year deal is possible, if not the likely outcome for Pivetta at this point. I could see a lower-cost three-year in the Tyler Anderson/Zach Eflin range as well, I suppose ($39-40MM).

I don't think the Red Sox are going to bring Pivetta back, having already added Crochet and Buehler. They're getting Giolito back as well. That trio joins Tanner Houck, Brayan Bello, Kutter Crawford and a whole bunch of solid AAA depth options (Quinn Priester, Cooper Criswell, Richard Fitts among them)
1:04
I do think Pivetta and the A's make for a good matchup. They'd only need to give up their fourth-round pick to get him, because of their status as a revenue-sharing recipient, and I do think they need another starter.
With the draft moving into mid-July, I generally don't think we're going to see players wait until its completion to sign. We haven't seen that since Dallas Keuchel/Kendrys Morales anyway. I think that was back in 2019?
1:05
(Yes, it was 2019. Suppose I could've just looked quick before sending that message, ha)
60 day IL
1:05
For those placed on the 60 day IL this week to open up roster spots, when is the soonest they can be activated?  And can clubs later place rehabbing players like zach neto or robert stephenson on the 60 day IL retroactive to this week?
Steve Adams
1:06
It's 60 days relative to Opening Day, not this week. However, all MLB injury placements can be backdated up to three days (if the player hasn't appeared in a game during that time), so it's technically 57 days from Opening Day
BartoloHRball
1:06
Dylan Cease...comparable trade package for him? He isn't Burnes, but rumors are SD are aiming high.
Steve Adams
1:08
I actually prefer the present version of Cease to the 2023-24 version of Burnes, so yeah, I think the Burnes template (Joey Ortiz, DL Hall, comp balance draft pick) is pretty applicable.

I've been saying it over and over, but since the O's seem hell bent on not giving Heston Kjerstad a full-time look, I'd build a trade package around him if possible. Maybe add Dean Kremer to give them an immediate replacement and then a lower-tier prospect.

I know the Padres have reportedly asked on Basallo, Mayo, etc. -- but that feels to me like it'd be a nonstarter. San Diego's urgency to trade Cease (or their lack thereof) will become more apparent as spring progresses.
jrspringer.15@gmail.com
1:08
Ok. Who the hell is signing Bregman?
Steve Adams
1:09
Hard to answer a question that Alex Bregman himself probably doesn't even know the answer to!
Guest
1:09
What's the #1 storyline you are looking for coming out of Tigers spring training?
Steve Adams
1:09
Whether Jackson Jobe grabs a spot in the Opening Day rotation, off the top of my head
(In addition to the ongoing Bregman drama)
Angelsfan
1:10
Who do you think fits the angels better? Nick Pivetta or Jakob Junis. Junis could be used as a back end rotation guy or reliever
Steve Adams
1:10
Pivetta. I still don't understand the quick jump to add Kyle Hendricks in November, but the back of that rotation looks so rough (and I say this as an eternal Reid Detmers optimist)
Todd’s Time
1:11
Does George Springer have any trade value?
Steve Adams
1:11
Ask yourself whether Springer would get two years and $45MM this winter if he'd been a free agent and the answer will become quite apparent.

(He does not.)
Chris
1:11
David Robertson fits for a lot of teams, do you still see him getting 1yr/10mil as predicted or with it already being spring training will his price likely go down?
Steve Adams
1:12
I think it'll be in that range, yeah
1:13
Yankees just claimed LHP Brent Headrick off waivers from the Twins, per Phil Miller of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Not sure what that's a corresponding move for. Twins already announced the Bader/Coulombe deals. Intrigue! (Or maybe just trying to free up some general roster flexibility)
Talking Baseball
1:13
The Mariners are winning the AL West with that starting rotation. Am I right, or am I right?
Steve Adams
1:14
I am a forever Mariners optimist as well, so long as they have that quintet. I cannot quit them.
Angels
1:14
Kochanowitz / Detmers as your 5 doesn’t scream rough to me. Jack looked incredible after his call up and Detmers is just a shrink away from figuring it out imo. Mix in Silseth, Bauchman, Klassen, Aldegheri.. and now you have some promise if guys underperform/ injury
Steve Adams
1:16
Kochanowicz had the worst strikeout rate in the majors and the seventh-worst swinging-strike rate. I don't see any way he replicates his success, regardless of the impressive velo. I shouldn't have said "back of the rotation," because the whole thing looks rough. Anderson can at least eat innings, and Kikuchi can be dominant but can also enter prolonged stretches where he's immensely homer-prone. I like Soriano well enough, but they need help, badly.
Yankees announced the Headrick claim. Owen White DFA'ed
Frustrated Fish
1:16
Are the Marlins going to sign anyone to a full major league contract this offseason? They are trotting out a Triple-A roster it feels
Steve Adams
1:17
I think they'll add one of the remaining starters on a cheap deal. Not sure giving Ross Stripling or Cal Quantrill or someone of that ilk $4-6MM makes their offseason any less frustrating, but I think they'll bring in someone at around that price point
wrights_Back
1:18
D Peterson straight up for D Cease....who says no?
Steve Adams
1:18
The Padres, convincingly. Peterson only has one more year of control than Cease
Mike
1:18
The Nats and Nathan Lowe are going to arbitration apparently.  How does a team that has no history with a player take them to a hearing?  Isn't that an uncomfortable way to start a relationship?
Steve Adams
1:20
Sure, but they're all professionals. And honestly, the lack of personal relationship might even make it a bit easier since you haven't been watching the kid develop personally since he was high school or college age. When I was writing a piece about arbitration back in 2015, then-Angels AGM Matt Klentak told me this about Matt Joyce (who was in a similar spot):

“I still haven’t met Matt Joyce. I’ve negotiated his contract with his agent, we’ve traded for him, but I’ve never personally met him. … I’d really have hated for the first time I met this guy to be wearing a suit, sitting across a table, arguing over a million dollars. But, that is easier when you don’t know the person.”
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