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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/19/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:46

I just remember Homer building the fire pit

Hey offseason its me ya boy

12:46

Daniel Murphy a fit for 1B in the Bronx?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

That's a bit risky for a team in their position

Gob

12:47

Justin Turner was 29 when the penny dropped for him. Holt was 29 last summer.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Good catch, I sometimes forget how old Turner actually is

Ryan

12:47

Do you like cranberry sauce?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

IDammit, hold on, saving

Dan

12:47

If your child was good enough to get drafted might it make sense to move out of the US to avoid the draft?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

Not anymore really

And you can't just move to Canada

Lawrence

12:48

The Giants ownership apparently has a mandate that the team not tear down the roster and fully rebuild. With that in mind, can they spend their way out of their current mess? Their roster is old and not especially healthy, but given the strong FA class and the money they have to spend, it seems like they could wrestle their way into contention by signing, e.g., Harper, Corbin and another piece (not unlike the Yankees signing Sabathia, Teixeira, and Burnett to recharge their own aging roster in the 2008-09 off-season).

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I think the Giants are a bit screwed

12:49

Wait, what?

12:49

Suzuki's reported terms seem a bit low in the salary department.

Dan Szymborski

12:49

He's a mid-30s catcher, nobody's offering him 3/45

Matt

12:49

Dan, I keep forgetting about you chats. Can you shoot me a reminder text next week?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

SAME TIME EVERY WEEK AND I HAVEN'T MISSED ONE IN MONTHS!

The Old Buccaneer

12:49

Which team has more fans in Columbus, the Reds or Indians?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I honestly don't know

John Kodera

12:50

PS4 has some great exclusives though. I'd get one before The Last of us Part 2 comes out at least.

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Sorry, keep clicking post instead of star for later

James

12:50

Is a Greinke/Goldschmidt package possible, or would the PR hit be too big?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I think that's too big a package.

The final boss

12:50

Move. Hader. To. The. Rotation.

randplaty

12:51

Is it bad to play for .500? I think for some teams, reaching .500 would energize the fanbase as much as reaching playoffs for other teams.

Dan Szymborski

12:51

It depends.

How are you reaching for the .500?

If you're just slapping together various old veterans to get to .500, I think there's no real energizing factor.

12:52

But say you're the Padres (I assume that's who you're talking about given you're a Padres fan). If the reach for .500 is aggressively promoting big parts of their future rather than trying to squeeze out every little arbitration benefit, I think you *can* create fan interest.

12:53

But you'll never do it with acquiring Freddy Galvis and you likely won't (sorry) signing Eric Hosmer.

Addie Joss

12:53

What's your favorite Dayton area brewery?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Warped wing

Dbo

12:53

Does anyone actually eat cranberry sauce? It's the coleslaw of Thanksgiving, there's way more at the table than anyone wants

Dan Szymborski

12:54

That's kinda the problem. I like it in isolation, but I don't really want to put it on things.

I'm not putting it on turkey.

And mom already includes cranberries in the stuffing.

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:54

Artifact has added a free draft mode with no rewards. That's pretty compelling for $20, no? I can't deal with games like Hearthstone with dailies and their desire to get me to log in every day.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Oh, did they add that? I just saw all the panicking.

Matt

12:55

Did you just pull the equivalent of the DOJ and the Assange indictment on that Rosenthal-shaving question?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I didn't read the whole Q and it got creepier as it went on.

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