Steve Adams
- Good afternoon! We’ll get going at 3pm CT, but feel free to start sending in questions now.
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Cat_Herder
- Harris/Greenburg/Hinch on the bubble after the way this season has gone? Or would you give them a pass with a whole starting lineup on the IL?
Steve Adams
- Harris has been on the job for less than four calendar years. He inherited a last-place team with a middling farm and a bleak long-term outlook, and the Tigers have made the playoffs twice under him already. I understand frustration surrounding this season, but I don’t think he’s on the hot seat at all.
Arizona
- Buyers?! Are they watching the same team everyone else is? Or is this a “hot seat GM” trying to protect his job?
Steve Adams
- The D-backs have basically never rebuilt under the Hazen regime. Owner Ken Kendrick has said he has no appetite for a full rebuild in the past. The Snakes are always going to be in some form of win-now mode — or at worst maybe a short-term sell off in the summer when they’re way out of contention.They’re two games over .500, half a game back in the Wild Card. Zero of 30 baseball ops leaders in this situation — in mid-June, no less — would say anything other than they think they have a chance to win and are going to buy.
Giant’s Dugout
- Devers, Arraez, Adames, Chapman, Ramos, Lee, Webb, Ray:
Steve Adams
- I’d be shocked if anyone took Devers or Adames, and only slightly less shocked on Chapman. Can’t imagine them trading Webb.Arraez and Ray are gone, barring some huge winning streak. Lee, I lean toward staying because the contract isn’t great and the opt-out gums it up, but it’s plausible he moves.
Ramos isn’t all that exciting but if you need a RH bat to platoon in LF/at DH and pummel lefties, I could see some interest. Probably not a big return, though… feel like he’s a year or two from being a non-tender candidate. Low-OBP corner/DH bats on the short side of the platoon aren’t valued highly in the market.
Sam
- Hey, Steve. How would you break down the odds that A) Joe Ryan gets traded, B) Joe Ryan gets extended, and C) Neither, he stays in Minnesota until he hits free agency?
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