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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/3/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:53

I'm already warchesting Fantographs

12:54

romorr

12:54

Diaz should be an Oriole in 2019 at some point, right? I inow service time and all, but he seems ready to me. Would you have him and Hays battle it out for RF in ST, or roll with Trumbo/stopgap FA?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Yes, I think he gets up fairly quickly

Eric

12:54

Are you into VR at all? Favorites?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I'm not really. Haven't seen the killer app that I must have VR for

Rockie Dangerfield

12:54

Is the ideal profile for a relief pitcher a deaf yoga practitioner so he can't hear the crowd and can zen his way through the high-leverage situations?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

The idea relief pitcher is ambidextrous and throws 104 and uses one arm every time the other has Tommy John surgery

Donovan

12:55

Are the Mets really "jumping the gun," as you suggest? They project for 82 wins right now, one behind the Braves, before even adding Cano and Diaz. They are legitimate wild-card candidates in the NL without even considering the pending additions.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I think we're more talking the general practice.

12:56

I'm not sure the Mets are really going all-in anyway

Dbo

12:56

Should bread be hard or soft? My east coast friends say that sub rolls should be tough and that I have a weak jaw

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Depends!

Gub Gub

12:56

What would your van have airbrushed on the side? Do you go carpet interior?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Joe Orsulak delivering a tiger uppercut to Uncle Sam while George Washington gives him a thumbs-up

CamdenWarehouse

12:57

Walker is listed at 6'2" 185. How can he be one of the biggest HoF snubs?

12:57

No, soft shell tacos are burritos cut in half

Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe

12:57

Yes, you not farting is a benefit for others. But many others also enjoy beans in chili.

pelkey

12:57

hmm, i disagree with you Dan. which is rare. i think there's a general rule in here somewhere. i'm going to keep working on this. thank you!

Matt

12:57

You are to chili, as Mussolini was to civil discourse.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I make the chili cook on time.

A question

12:57

have you ever found yourself in the precarious situation of running out of clothes and needing a barrel with 2 straps to cover yourself in public?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I have not.

12:58

Though I was once hiking and ripped my boxer shorts so severely that they fell out of my shorts while I was in line at Royal Farms.

Matt

12:58

It does not "depend", Dan. Bread should be of the tough variety. End of story.

tb.25

12:58

I can't for the life of me remember why the Mets used that image. Do you, and if so, can you remind me?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I don't even remember at this point

Lemonade

12:58

After Segura, Jerry really doesn't have anything that anyone else wants. Do you think he moves Leake and Seager on the free because he can't sit still?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I think Leake will go and the team will have trouble moving Seager

The 3B market has been crappy for awhile

Brad

12:59

Should teams have caution about Syndergaard if the Mets really are motivated to move him?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

The Mets have also been motivated to pick up Jay Bruce at times and try to block Michael Conforto every way possible

1:00

The Mets have also been m otivated to give 2018 Jason Vargas 20 starts

CamdenWarehouse

1:00

Mr. Met did a bad thing

Danny Ruskin

1:00

You haven't seen the Virtual Rays Fan Experience, where you look at your watch a lot, and try to sneak past the 90-year-old usher down into the vacant lower level seats? It's got a kick-ass Tenchu: Stealth Assassins vibe.

Dbo

1:00

Have you seen the Philadelphia Flyers new mascot, will he and the Philadelphia fanatic team up and haunt children's nightmares like Freddy Krueger?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I'm already tired of the forced Gritty memes

A cat

1:00

My cat would not stop clawing the new couch. So I bought a small scratching post with a fuzzy ball on a string and put it next to the couch. She played with ball, eventually tore it off the string, ripped off the fuzzy cover and played with the rattle inside. Next I rubbed catnip all over the scratching post. She was delighted, sniffing and licking it, rubbing herself on it with delighted mews. Then she went over and clawed the couch.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

You just have to realize that you can't have nice things *and* a cat

Questions Abound

1:01

Likelihood that Ryon Healy gets traded this offseason?

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