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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/21/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:38

Likely trade bait

Trevor

12:39

4/73 for Grandal. Very close to Kiley's prediction, but substantially more than the crowd's. Do you see any potential trend in the free agent market based on that deal and the handful of others we've seen so far?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Not enough for a trend.

Ivan

12:39

Would headsets resolve the sign-stealing problems? We've already seen the Patriots interfere with opposing teams' headset technology in the NFL; some kind of intercept or interference to steal or obstruct an opposing teams' signs seems quite possible in baseball as well.

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Teams will always try, I suspect

Wicho, Jr.

12:39

Speaking of Hosmer, who's this year's guy who gets overpaid because of his reputation?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Bumgarner

fatass

12:40

The way you wrote that, it makes it seem like you own a separate person who is a "fatass."

Dan Szymborski

12:40

No, just me. One of my cats is a fatass too.

Billy Beane

12:40

Eric Hosmer seems like the kind of guy whose career (from a performance perspective) would have benefited if he had gotten the Mike Moustakas treatment and had no FA interest so he had to work hard to improve his batted ball distribution a la Max Muncy. That said, I'm sure he's happier to just be insanely rich and have a ring and be not that good at baseball.

kevinthecomic

12:40

Godzilla can breathe fire, meaning King Kong wouldn't be able to get close enough to take advantage of his better reach (Godzilla has stumpy little front legs).

Mitch Morales

12:40

I think the Astros simply thought everyone else was doing it.

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I'm not certain that a lot of teams aren't.

Cheating Expert

12:41

I think a big part of it (getting away with it) is making as many people accomplices as possible

TomBruno23

12:41

White Castle Impossible Slider Stuffing. In or Out?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Wait, what?

CamdenWarehouse

12:41

At what age do kittens cease to be kittens?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

One year. So my cats are no longer kittens since they turned 1 in early October.

They're still just as troublesome as kittens though.

Erik Guy

12:43

White Sox going for it! Who else can they sign on the free agent market that would have you in on them as a playoff team for 2020?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

COLE

DO IT

CamdenWarehouse

12:43

Do you see suspensions being handed out for the Astros trash can banging?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Yes

Eric

12:43

Steamer projections have the Blue Jays looking very good at catcher next year because of development from their prospects. Do you see them trading one of McGuire or Jansen?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Certainly a possibility.

Mike Sixel

12:43

That Luis Arreaz projection on Zips is aggressive.... Thoughts?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

WAIT, ARE YOU RELEASING ZIPS PROJECTIONS, IF I CAN DOWNLOAD THEM IT SAVES ME A LOT OF WORK

Dbo

12:44

How come when I type in my credit card number it hides the numbers, look at this

**** **** **** ****

Is this a new feature, you should try it out!

12:45

Ah, my comment was not received well I see. Allow me to clarify. I in no way support the sign stealing and the comment has literally zero relation to the Taubman stuff. Stealing signs beyond the rule book is breaking the rules of a game. Supporting abuse affects people’s real personal lives. I understand the argument that so does sign stealing but then we’re getting philosophical and I would much rather stay topical given the forum.

My comment was more meant to highlight that my experience with the Astros winning the World Series is not tainted by this. The emotions I felt then were real and will live with me forever, trash can or not. The feeling of additional support for the team is a view of “prove them wrong”. Prove the talent is real and this team is resilient.

Adam

12:45

How many teams would you need to name before you'd have 50% confidence that you'd predicted Cole's landing spot?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

TomBruno23

12:45

It's here, for real. https://www.whitecastle.com/craver-nation/recipes/white-castle-impossi...

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

TomBruno23

12:46

INGREDIENTS
10 White Castle Impossible™ Sliders, no cheese, no pickles
1 ½ cups Celery, diced
1 ¼ teaspoon Thyme, ground
1 ½ teaspoon Sage, ground
¾ teaspoon Black pepper, coarsely ground
½ teaspoon Seasoned salt
1 cup Vegetable broth

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Let's talk to transformer a Thanksgiving stuffing recipe!

12:49