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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/19/18
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Go Padres
2:41
What would have to happen in order for the Padres to compete for a wildcard spot this year?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:41
Different decisions made in 2013-2016.
toki
2:41
Any chance the Red Sox go crazy and try to pry Votot loose now that he's skeptical of the Reds chances to rebuild in what is left of his career?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:41
I suspect Votto stays in Cincy
Matt
2:42
In all seriousness - we don't know what role Cameron went to with the Pads (maybe you do). But we know that it was "an offer he couldn't refuse", so in theory, they really wanted his insights. Then they signed the guy he spent the last 3 months trying to convince teams not to sign...
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:42
As far as I know, they want him to assemble an analytics department.
I haven't talked with him about any of this, but if I did, I wouldn't say anything I was told in confidence anwyay
CamdenWarehouse
2:42
I hear there might be a GM job opening in Baltimore you could have in October...
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:42
Oh god no
2:43
If I were actually offered a straight GM job -- that is not going to happen -- my curiosity would probably take over and make me change my stance
Colin
2:43
Who’s the odd men out in the SD outfield now? Pirela? Renfroe? Margot? Dickerson?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:44
I suspect the Padres play Pirela a lot at 2nd and leave Asuaje largely the odd man out
Roadhog
2:44
Bob Melvin makes it sound like AJ Puk as a very outside chance of breaking camp with the team, but could you see him up in July?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:44
Yes
Chaz Michael Michaels
2:44
Is Avi Garcia good
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:44
No
2:45
But Roberto Clemente at the top of his comp list at least gets me wondering if he may be a BABIP freak of nature after all
Then I remember the rest of the players on the comp list
(Clemente wasn't a good player until his later 20s)
nh
2:45
should the next CBA include a draft to distribute the Orioles' international signing pool amongst the other teams?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:45
heh
Chuncey Wiggins
2:45
Would you be interested in a seeded playoff rather than a division/league playoff?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:45
Not particularly
Marcel
2:47
Favorite volume of In Search of Lost Time?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:47
I'm actually very poorly read in Proust
Matt
2:47
You ever wonder if your cats are conducting late-night cat chats on the dark web giving "sleeping human" updates?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:47
Galileo maybe
CamdenWarehouse
2:47
Does Galileo do anything other than sleep and bug you for food?  He's old enough to have a job.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:48
He'll sit with me and not bug me for food.  But the hour or two before dinner (4 PM) , his evening milk (10 PM) and his breakfast (10 AM), he's generally rather annoying
Guest
2:48
Tillman AND Cashner? Yankees/Red Sox must be panicking, right?!
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:48
Well, it could be the result of a dangerous transmittable disease that attacks brains
Galileo's birthday is on Thursday, so he gets an Arby's roast beef.
2:49
He's a robust cat for his age (he'll be 19) but he hasn't been a particularly productive cat for like 10 years.
2:50
Sometimes Mercutio will smack him to try and roughhouse, but Galileo will just casually ignore it and not move an inch as if poor Mercutio is a gnat
JSDee
2:50
As a padres fan, i'm still most perplexed by the jordan lyles signing.  guaranteed money! how?!?!
The Ghost of Wade Boggs
2:50
Conspiracy theory: The Padres only hired Dave Cameron to cut down on the public backlash of the Hosmer signing
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:50
It didn't work.
Raul Gillette
2:50
Yanks need some kind of veteran 2B/3B and have tons of prospect depth. Pirates would like to shed Harrison's salary and rebuild. Harrison carries a $6.8MM tax hit, which fits in with the ~$12MM in payroll room that Cashman has publicly stated. This has to happen at some point, no?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:50
I suspect they're more interesting in Moustakas
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