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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/17/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:13

I think they're the favorite

Matt

12:13

Yanks are roughly $7MM below the LT threshold. They still need quite a bit of help - a Didi replacement, and at least 2 more bullpen arms. They're going to be forced over the LT and, in that case, they might as well blow past it, right? Machado coming to NY.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

They claim they don't want to, but they will at the end

Purple Mays Haze

12:14

For or against managers needing to wear the uniform? Wouldn't you prefer to see a manager wearing a suit a la Pat Riley?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

For. I like the nod to baseball's player-manager roots

Billy Beane

12:14

Hey Dan, I'm thinking about building a minor league projection system somewhat similar to KATOH. Any advice?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Get lots of data!

ryan

12:14

Hey Dan! given that it sounds like the Indians are way less motivated to move Kluber/Bauer now that they've dumped some salary, who do you see the Reds targeting? can't imagine they'll be content just grabbing Roark for their rotation.

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I think their pursuit of Keuchel is real

Rockie Dangerfield

12:15

At the Winter Meetings, three teams got together to trade four first basemen amongst themselves, and Jeff Bridich was nowhere to be found. Did you facepalm as hard as the rest of the Rockies fans did after hearing that? Thanks for the Rockies elegy, it was great!

Dan Szymborski

12:15

It would've been amusing in some way if the Rockes got Santana. It would mean that they didn't go after him when his outlook is better and only went after him when his outlook was worse

Mike

12:15

Best Wishes to you Dan. I agree with your definition of chili, but I just gotta know if there are also rules for tacos. Is a fish taco a thing or is more of a tortilla wrapped piece of fish with random condiments/toppings? San Diego needs to know!!!

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I'm not as strict about tacos

Ryno

12:16

Most overhyped free agent this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I'd actually say Harper!

Sirras

12:16

Give us a big/exciting signing from last year to remind us to temper our expectations this offseason.

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Hosmer WAS exciting!

Kiner's disembodied Hands

12:17

Do you feel like Neal Huntington has a better reputation within baseball circles than he does among the average Pirates fan? It seems like he had the inside track on the Giant's President of Baseball Operations position if he had so chosen.

Dan Szymborski

12:17

He generally does. The Pirates executives do still work under ownership constraints

The West is Wild

12:17

Will a move to St. Louis impact Goldschmidt's ZiPS projections much?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Not particularly

tb.25

12:17

Is "ZiPS" a knockoff version of ZiPS? If so, then I also do not care about "ZiPS". Gimme the real thing.

James

12:17

How surprised are you that BVW has somehow improved the Mets while not doing anything fantastically stupid?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I was more making fun of the Mets process for hiring a GM rather than the actual GM they hired

12:18

I don't think it was obvious that BVW was going to be a bust. I made fun of them looking at Littlefield mostly

Boots

12:19

Adrian Morejon or Michel Baez? Who would you bet on for having a better chance of panning out?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

I'd give the slight edge to Morejon personally - I feel his repetoire is more developed

Ozzie Ozzie Albies Free

12:20

If you’re sick, go rest up. Get one of your cats to finish the chat. They’ll probably have less typos than you anyway.

Dan Szymborski

12:20

None of them are in the room

And Galileo's annoyed with me as I did not give him a blintz but instead shoved prenisolone into his mouth

Scott

12:20

Who is a better player over the next 5 years...Buxton or Margot?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Buxton still.

JKim

12:20

Who is the real Austin Barnes? 2017 142 wRC+ Barnes or 2018's 77 wRC+ ?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Why not the middle?

Purple Mays Haze

12:20

Assuming the Rays found a market inefficiency that, say, right handed power hitters are fungible, hence they release C.J. Cron, is this really the right move? By doing so, the conclusion by the rest of the league is that they found a market inefficiency and, minimally, have teams explore the validity of it? Wouldn't it be "smarter" to make it seem like there is a non-baseball reason for releasing him? e.g. let leak that there was a non-baseball reason - theoretically this helps Cron too - because right now everyone now thinks that "players like Cron" are less valuable - so he may even play along that it was really a 'fit' issue...

Dan Szymborski

12:21

I'm not sure there's any leak type thing that other teams aren't going to notice

The Man Who Wouldn't Balk

12:21

Josh James or Touki Touissant this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

Touki by a nose?

ZiPS says the opposite I believe

Christian

12:21