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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/17/22

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Welcome to a no doubt very upbeat chat!

Sirras

12:01

If MLB made an offer consisting of:

Ownership can only fire one player per month, where "fire" means lighting a player on fire.
The CBT threshold is lowered to $10 and players on teams over the threshold are subject to daily whippings until the team gets below the threshold

Then:

How likely do you think MLBPA would be to accept?
Why won't the players negotiate in good faith?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

lol

12:02

Dan please, I am starving. A ZiPS top 100 Jays teaser, I need it.

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Hey, we gotta keep you guys coming back for SOMETHING. It's just next week!

Mike in Cleveland

12:02

Do you have ZIPS projections for everyone involved in the labor negotiations?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Joe

12:04

Granted if they want they COULD sign both, if they can only sign 1 what makes more sense for NYY to go long term with Correa or Judge given what they stand to earn?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Probably Correa - he's younger. Though it depends on just how much Judge wants

Jeff

12:04

Who's the best hitter in baseball at this very moment

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Soto

goodfor

12:05

What does ZiPs say is Wander Franco's 90th percentile projection?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

317/381/616, 6.6 WAR

Appa Yip Yip

12:05

Hey Dan, have you thought about using ZiPS to find the ideal post-lockout free agent candidate for each team? I'd imagine Carlos Correa would show up a lot but it would be interesting to see.

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I'm doing my favorite homes for each of the top FA tomorrow and Monday.

That approach probably should be done earlier in the offseason

or as you guess, I'll end up mostly with Correa and some Freemans.

12:07

And I'm not doing strictly the BEST ZiPS home, because then the article will be mostly just be Red Sox and Phillies

Manny Trillo

12:07

There seems to be a lot of unrest with the players with salary growth (and therefore CBT) not rising with revenue. While a fair point, wouldn’t somehow tying at least CBT or somehow broader spending to revenue would help solve this

Dan Szymborski

12:07

MLB won't do it

Even the *MLBPA's* proposal has CBT growing slower than revenue historically

12:10

Let's put it this way: MLB's revenue nearly tripled from 2003 to 2019

12:11

CBT threshold has less than doubled.

Teddy

12:12

do you like footlongs?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

This seems sexual, but if it's food, then yes

Joe

12:12

Who’s an under the radar Orioles prospect that you see as a potential regular?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Does Henderson count?

Breezy

12:12

ZiPS believes in Fried with a 1.12 WHIP projection while Steamer and THE BAT do not with a 1.29 and 1.30 respectively. Maybe there's not a question here, so .. what up with that?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

It's always hard to say as I can not tell you *exactly* what they do differently

14343

12:12

What version of JV do you expect to get this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Very good, but distinctly below his best

Jfast

12:13

Who is the best fictional ballplayer of all time