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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/9/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:36

I don't actually think the penalties will be *as* severe as c

Dave Szymborski

12:36

Don't you dare think about coming down to NC to steal my appointment.

Seamus Catuli

12:36

Dan, I took your bare-bones recipe for chili from a couple chats ago and ran with it. Results have been great, thank you

Dbo

12:36

Do you prefer your wings bone in or boneless and what's your favorite sauce

Dan Szymborski

12:36

No such thing as a boneless wing! Don't let them tell you that. A wing is a wing.

12:37

I love hot stuff, but my gastrointestinal system no longer does. So I usually get the second-hottest available buffalo sauce

So if a restaurant's hottest sauce is MASS GENOCIDE, then I will just get MURDER.

Stuafoo

12:37

Any word on if/where Felix plays next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I've heard diddly squat about the King

12:38

Maybe he'll be in some ex-royal commune with Prince Harry

zIPPY

12:38

Dan, when will Zips continue to be released? It's like Queso to me...i lick the bowl until there's nothing left.

Dan Szymborski

12:39

We didn't do any over the holiday break because FanGraphs goes largely dark

and there were a few elegies to finish up

Peter Thomas

12:39

A lot of people are questioning the FIP projection for Gore. Can you give us your take? Do *you* believe that he could pitch to a ~3.50 FIP starting opening day?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Yes. Great talent can surprise in great ways.

Dbo

12:39

What's worse: getting to be a ravens fan but having to be an Orioles fan or being a Nationals fan but having to be a Redskins fan?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

THe latter

I'm oddly an Orioles/Steelers fan

12:40

Because I "came of age" between the Colts leaving and the Ravens arriving and my dad's family was from the Pittsburgh area.

mike

12:40

This FO's largest FA signing is.......3/24 for Jason Castro. Should Twins' fans give up on them ever playing in the deep end?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I'm disappointed.

Trent

12:40

Who is your pick for GM of the decade? It's a tough question, in my opinion, since a lot of the likely candidates (e.g., Theo, Luhnow) have obvious accomplishments (breaking the curse; contributing significantly to two Red Sox titles; breaking down a team entirely then rebuilding a championship winner), but also obvious black eyes (acquiring domestic abusers; throwing money at Edwin Jackson, Jason Heyard, etc.; drafting Brady Aiken and Mark Appell).

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Andrew Friedman

2020 White Sox lineup

12:41

Chance to be a top 5-10 lineup in baseball? Moncada, Anderson, Eloy, Abreu, Encarnacion, Grandal, Robert, Mazara, Madrigal seems likes a nice mix of productive vets, young stars, and high upside pre-prime guys.

Dan Szymborski

12:41

I don't know if I'd go quite that far, though there's a chance

There will be some Moncada and especially Anderson regression and Mazara's still more likely to be lousy

There's significant upside, maybe I'm being too harsh off the cuff

Adam

12:42

Is there a fair Betts/Price deal to LA where Verdugo is the main piece in return?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Red Sox throw in a prospect?

Even if one doesn't buy the whole surplus value thing, the Dodgers certainly do and hoard the young players they like.

12:43

There's this weird kind of argument going on in fandom that David Price is some major catch.

If he were a free agent right now, he would not get a three-year, $96 million contract.

12:44

Betts+Price has *less* trade value than Betts.

Until the Red Sox start talking about eating money. And the whole reason they're doing this is to remove the money.

Integrity Boy

12:44

Hey I'm officially calling out Desperate Times for making that joke in Kiley's chat yesterday;

Rox Fan

12:44

Given that The Ian Desmond Contract effectively cost them team both DL MeMahieu and Mike Tauchman, as well as negatively impacting Ryan McMahon's development, will it ultimately be viewed as worse than the Hampton and Neagle deals?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

It ought to be. It was also worse conceived than these

12:45

And hey, the Rockies got like 4 WAR out of Neagle, I think. They can have Desmond for 100 years and not get that total

Magic Kingdome

12:47

Which player who retired more than two years ago (i.e., last played in 2017 season or earlier) would post the highest WAR if he came back for the 2020 season?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Buehrle

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