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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/30/2020

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Dan Szymborski

1:06

Guys, you gotta beat Adrian Beltre.

Not Esteban Beltre.

Just curious

1:06

Barry Bonds exists

Dan Szymborski

1:06

HE HAS AN MVP

1:07

I'm going to ask Meg for permission to murder all of you. She has the authority, you know.

Them

1:07

Wait, what, do you seriously get the sense the Mets have ever considered Tebow to be anything other than an incredibly effective attendance draw?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

The Mets are odd.

1:08

Mike Piazza

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I'd still take Beltre, but at least you're not a dirty dirty cheater like the rest!

Morbo

1:08

Correction he has multiple MVPs

watchman

1:08

Tony Phillips is the best player to ever not make an ASG in the modern era

BarryBondsJuicedForOurSins

1:09

Piazza hit 427 HRs .308/.377/.545 at catcher, come on

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Adrian Beltre

Vroom Vroom Guy

1:09

does it not make sense to make service time mirror rookie eligibilty? If you played enough this year that next season you are not in consideration for rookie awards, that counts as a year of service time.

Dan Szymborski

1:09

The problem with bright lines in this way is that you always have teams playing with the guys just on the other side of the bright line.

JAMES

1:10

Do pitchers count it was never specified

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I think so, but I think most great pitchers have an MVP or a WS

Them

1:10

For fudge's sake. "The Mets are odd" is a pretty weak cop-out. If you can't defend yourself better than that, answer another comment about chili instead.

Dan Szymborski

1:11

You're talking about a team whose ownership got involved in the biggest scam in history, thought Jose Reyes could still play baseball, and has a history of diagnosing injuries worse than a Civil War-era doctor.

1:12

Early wynn 300 game winner

Dan Szymborski

1:12

But I wouldn't take Early Wynn over Adrian Beltre.

Morbo

1:12

Did Carson cede his murder authority when he left for the great white north or did Meg take it in some kind of highlander battle of the written word and baseball statistics which involved a disturbingly large amount of lightening directed at one specific billboard?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Carson can't order murders, but he can still be blamed for things.

Magic Kingdome

1:13

Gaylord Perry! Career 100.5 WAR.

Dan Szymborski

1:13

That's actually a good answer.

James

1:14

Gaylord Perry highest WAR as pitcher no MVP or series title

1:14

Dan, any plans to build out a section of gambling content on FanGraphs?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

If there are, I don't know about it. I don't know about everything.

Cito's Mustache

1:14

Was about to answer Wade Boggs but then remembered he won a World Series with the Yankees. Ew.

Chris

1:14

Why don't you want 4 team divisions with realignment?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Four-team divisions are dumb.

Frank

1:15

Tony Gwynn? Jim Thome?

Dan Szymborski

1:15

I'd take Beltre

Overbearing Padre

1:15

Betts goes to SD, or LA? Your guess.

Dan Szymborski

1:15

I think I'd take a surprise team first.

Kurupt FM

1:16

For the love of god can we expand the playoffs, it's depressing when so many teams don't even have a long shot at the playoffs before the season starts. Would also alleviate the need for such severe boom bust cycles.

Dan Szymborski

1:16

Please no

James

1:17

Who is set to inherit zips in your will?

Dan Szymborski

1:17

Whoever finds the encrypted USB stick I've hidden in a state park and asks my executor for the password.

I should probably make a treasure map