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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/29/18

Dan Szymborski

12:00

Greetings everyone!

david s

12:00

Where in the hell are the 2019 ZiPS, Dane?

Mark

12:01

Dan, can you give me a quick ZiPS projection on when I can care about baseball again.

Matt

12:01

Kinda weird how infatuated with the Yankees the Red Sox fans seem to be, eh?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

You can still care about baseball! Stuff is happening.

The Red Sox and Yankees have a mutually antagonistic-but-symbiotic relationship.

Cesar

12:01

Do you think the Dodgers should re-sign Kershaw?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Depends on the ask.

12:02

If Kershaw wants, say, the Dodgers to extend it so that it's 8/300 or something, I think that's the point I walk away.

stever20

12:02

So Game 3 for LA- IMO that's a clear case of LA winning the battle and Boston winning the war. LA had to use so much relief that it killed them in game 4 which pretty much ended the series....

Dan Szymborski

12:02

I think people read too much into single events.

What killed them is they played worse than the Red Sox over a five-game stretch.

bcb

12:03

Aside from an obviously bad decision, is Manny Machado really 'dirty?' Also, he has to be less morally repugnant a signing than Osuna or Chapman, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

To an extent, I'd say yes to the first question in that he does tend to push things a bit.

12:04

And obviously less morally repugnant, though in the end, an axe murderer with a 1100 OPS will get a contract and a cancer-curer with a 500 OPS, because that's the reality of things.

Xolo

12:04

What’s your best guess at a “wait, what?”/Hosmer-to-SD level signing this winter?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I don't know, DJ LeMahieu or something?

I dont' think there's as OBVIOUS a candidate for a hilarious overpay as Hosmer last year

I mean maybe Steve Pearce or Wade Miley, but it's not like someone's going to give them $50 million.

An overpay for one of them will probably be mild in real dollars.

Dbo

12:07

I tried a Seattle style hot dog this weekend with sauteed onions and cream cheese. Does cream cheese belong on a hot dog? What about mayonnaise on sonora dogs?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Seems weird, but I do like cream cheese.

Bosque

12:08

Who do you think will be the best discount signing this winter?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I can see Ryu getting underpaid.

12:08

The Red Sox win Game 3 if Eduardo Nunez doesn't get (accidentally) tackled from behind in the batter's box, right? It looked to me like his ankles might have kept him from scoring on Vazquez's double, stopping his momentum before going into the stands on the foul pop, and maybe even reaching third when Maeda threw him out (which was an awesome play). I ask not because I want to argue that the Red Sox should have swept, but because I want to blame my sleep deprivation on something.

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Very possible.

Dbo

12:10

If beans don't belong in chili then do you think they belong in a separate but equal bowl?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

You can eat beans separately

12:11

Neal

12:11

Hi Dan. Think Scooter Gennett resigns with Cincy?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I think he does and the Reds probably overpay

Tyler

12:11

Why were there no game chats? Thought we would have had one Friday and also for the elimination game.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Bother the chatters and the readers tend to get exhausted if we do a TON of chats.

Moltar

12:11

So lost in all the kerfuffle about conflicts of interest and lack of experience and why somebody would ever want to work for the Wilpons, are we overlooking the fact that the Mets just hired a guy named Brodie to run their operations? Brodie?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Some day, somebody with the first name of a state will be president.

Matt

12:12

Can you provide us any further insight in to how teams can replicate the Red Sox's strategy of getting a bunch of really really good baseball players together on one team and then put them in a position to succeed? The whole concept is mindblowing.

Dan Szymborski

12:12

heh

Southern Bleacher Bum

12:12

Drew Smyley or Cole Hamels in 2019? Who has the better year?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Cole

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