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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/28/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:59

And do so in a manner in which people will read stuff? And hopefully that will convert into salary for me somehow?

Matt

12:59

Not that I necessarily think that a completely free and open market for the MLB is the best way to go (real talk, I kinda do), but aren't these types of issues inevitable results of a 100% directed and controlled economic system?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

The MLBPA has a real challenge ahead of them. Because anything they propose would have to be approved by owners in vastly different economic situations.

Ben

1:00

Why isnt it Ja Happ like Ja rule??

Dan Szymborski

1:00

If you pronounce JA, it most certainly shoudl be

James

1:00

BJ stood for Boss-man Junion (apparently he looks - or at least did when he was a kid - a lot like his dad, OG Boss-man)

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I know! nd he changed it back to BJ lately

Hedgehog Alert

1:00

Pet hedgehogs ( living ones..not cat toys) are causing salmonella outbreaks in 8 states.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I saw that!

Smith

1:01

Will Jason Vargas end the year as the Mets fifth starter ?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

If so, may god have mercy on the mets

(Well, if Vargas starts 32 games in 2019, I guess he didn't)

1:01

I think you have answered 3x as many questions as Meg would in this hour. I assume that means Meg is more thoughtful in her responses and/or more selective in the questions she answers.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Thinking and being nice slow things down!

1:02

I WAS TOLD THAT IF I ANSWER FEWER THAN 50 QUESTIONS AN HOUR MY CAT WILL NOT BE RETURNED

Gaslamp Gary

1:02

Pinstripes or no for the 2020 Padres brown unis?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

THey haven't unveiled.

As long as they're brown and we get of this Create-a-Team DefaultTeam1 uniform they're sporting, I'll probably be content

Moltar

1:02

New Mexico Chile is a whole different ballgame. Whole different sport. Red, Green or Xmas style, the rules are totally different than your tex-mex or midwest fare.

LPFan

1:03

Has there been a study done to look at actual stats vs prior projections?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Yup, someone does it every year. Havne' tseen a 2018 yet

tb.25

1:03

If we all of a sudden discovered your name was actually DJ Szym, what would the J stand for? (assuming D was Dan)

Dan Szymborski

1:03

John

At some point, I'm going to add Jacob after John to my middle name legally

1:04

My parents wanted to do it after my grandfather (who I was very close with right up until he died at 96), but he insisted you shoouldn't name people after the living.

So my middle name was my dad's name, since he didn't care about that stuff

(and he's been dead for more than 20 years, so it's OK now already)

Matt

1:04

What is a "muto" and why were JT's ancestors the realest of them?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Realmuto is a place-name surname

Pat

1:05

I have always thought that it's actually the small market teams who would oppose a cap, because with a cap comes a floor and the Pirates of the world don't want to be forced to have a $110M payroll or something.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

The trick is designing a system that incentivizes small-market teams to invest *without* simply causing greater disparity

Cereal Dominance

1:05

Which cereal character would win in a Battle Royal match? My be is on Captain Crunch because of military training.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

uhh, count chocula

1:06

You think Captain Crunch and has FAKE NAVY MEDALS can stop a vampire?

Who's going to stop a vampire? A pantless panther selling Golden Crisp? A toucan? A leprechaun?