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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/28/2020

Dan Szymborski

12:01

And so starts the show!

Daryl

12:02

Who do you have the Reds taking with their first pick?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Eric's the mock draft guy!

It's hard to say depending on who goes there, but I expect the team to take a pitcher

Or at least prioritize a pitcher

12:05

Maybe if someone like Bailey drops to them?

Lisa needs braces

12:05

DENTAL PLAN!

Daryl

12:06

Top 3 pitchers in the draft after Lacy?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Depends if you like safeness or upside.

12:07

I think Meyers and Detmers fit here? But again, I'm not a scouting guru.

Pray for Mojo

12:07

Dan if MLB ever moves to robo umps what team is going to hack them first?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

You'd say the Astros, but their sign-stealing stuff was embarrassingly low-tech.

Joe

12:08

Temperature check on how bullish/bearish you are that we end up getting a season

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I'm still more bullish than most. I think both sides are giving their "yeah, we're not conceding anything" offers to quell their respective hard-liners.

Dbo

12:09

For anyone new to the chat here's a summary of Dan's food opinions

Sandwiches: Structural purist, sandwich must have 2 separate slices

Chili: Meat only, no beans or veggies. Also only can be beef

Salad: must be majority lettuce; tuna salad, fruit salad, and chicken salad are not salads. Has been oddly silent about coleslaw

Soups: Apparently they can be savory and sweet

Also, he refuses to take a stance on if a pop tart is a ravioli or comment on if grilled cheese can have a filling other than cheeser

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:09

Relegate Oakland. What a pathetic display, saving $1MM by cutting off your minor leaguers, who can't play elsewhere thanks to the league's increasingly suspect antitrust exemptions. Even purely from a baseball ops perspective, if you lose any fraction of a WAR from this (which you will, either from players walking away or the loss in nutrition and conditioning), you come out behind, to say nothing of the cost of the lost goodwill from the players when it's time to sign contracts or the public right now.

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I thought it was a crappy thing to do. It's literally a fart in the wind in their balance sheet to give their minor leaguers the minimum for the rest of the year.

And this is a team that in large part draws their revenue from *other* teams.

It's worse than Scrooge; Scrooge at least *earned* his money to start with.

Vroom Vroom Guy

12:11

Does ZIPS view Tulo as a pretty easy HoF selection if not for all of the missed time due to injury? Man was he fun to watch

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Subject of a future ZiPS Time Warp!

Guest

12:11

Thought that when you posted a soundcloud for the growing pains theme last week it was going to be you playing the piano, and was surprised but not disappointed. Can I request you to do the perfect strangers theme this week?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I guess I could.

We have time, there's no way we have enough questions to get to 1 PM without some filibustering.

Dbo

12:15

Hot dog Sandwich

I figured out how to upload pictures to the chat Dan, my time has come!

Dan Szymborski

12:15

This is a hot dog sandwich

Guest

12:15

What would Rickey Henderson’s stats be if his career was in the 2000s instead of the 70s to 80s?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Probably fewer stolen bases, but he'd still get a lot. He was so good at it that it would be hard to not let him.

brad

12:16

Dan, Clearly the owners are smarter than the players, the owners use the union not having minor as its members against them, now they are turning the players against themselves. Also for whatever reason and this includes my friends and family, everyone sides with ownership that even if Mike Trout is “ONLY” making $6M a year, he is still an employee who is making millions to play a child’s game, while many around the country have taken 50% paycuts or lost their jobs and it makes the players seem out of touch to try and hold onto their millions, and yes we all know owners have billions, but that doesn’t seem to matter. All this being said, it seems like the owners vastly being smarter or more strategic at some point yes these agreements favor them, but at some point they players may just refuse to play which hurts everyone, so do the owners give in even though they have the upper hand or do the players just refuse to play?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

The problem is that the players ahve a lot more voices to "wrangle" than the owners do collectively.

12:17

And many people have this really stupid idea that ticket prices and beer prices are high because of players salaries.

All these people who I'm sure enjoyed their free Rose Bowl tickets.

12:18

https://soundcloud.com/dan-szymborski/perfect/s-73P8SUfpQvu

Sonny

12:18

Mad Max’s public comment feels adequate. Direct, strong sense of solidarity. I feel better about negotiations now than I did before his comment.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I don't feel better, but I don't feel worse. I saw some of this as "Yeah, we can make a proposal that is just all the stuff we want, too."

Vroom Vroom Guy

12:19

Snowpiercer the movie was awesome and there’s no way the show will be anywhere near as good, therefore I refuse to watch it.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I've actually never seen it!

hscer

12:19

Baseball twitter, or at least a chunk of it, seems to think baseball might literally not come back until 2023 if ever. I have no question.

Dan Szymborski

12:21

There's a large portion of the "how dare they, sports can come back after there's a vaccine" crowd, which I find just as non-scientific as the "gee-hyuk don't you be wearing no masks!" crowd.

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