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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/12/18

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Dan Szymborski

2:23

I've long been a fan of the Philly rebuild

Plus, if you say your name like Klen-TOCH with a guttural at the end it sounds like a great Klingon word

2:24

QAPLA', KLENT'ACH

Scott

2:24

Thoughts on the Lucroy deal? I kinda like Oakland as a wild card sleeper tbh

Dan Szymborski

2:25

It's fine, though not buying the A's as a real wild card contender.

JSDee

2:25

The Padres best defensive alignment would be Margot in left center, Jankowski in right center, and Wil Myers standing just to the back and right of Hosmer. Tell me I'm wrong.

Dan Szymborski

2:25

God the Hosmer signing stunk.

Mike Moustakas

2:25

Has anyone ever done as badly "gambling on themselves" as me? I'm making half what I would have with the qualifying offer

Cozart's Donkey

2:25

Does this spell the end of Brandon Finnegan, starting pitcher? I mean, it might spell the end of "Brandon Finnegan, active pitcher" but he clearly can't handle the strain of starting, right?

Dan Szymborski

2:25

Moose still beat Jody Reed.

I wouldn't say that yet.

Matt

2:25

Interesting/Bad Idea: Banning beanless chili

Dan Szymborski

2:26

Banning beanful chili: Interesting/Good Idea

Dan Dan the Cheerleading Man

2:26

Is a hot pocket a type of pie similar to a chicken pot pie?

Dan Szymborski

2:26

A hot pocket is a ravioli

2:26

combining your interests, some WWE/MLB equivalents: Othani-Rousey (Hype, how good are they?) Strowman/Judge (obvious), but trying to find a good one equivalent for Puig, Cena, or Harper

Dan Szymborski

2:26

The Miz for Puig

Cena was like Jeter

2:27

Harper Randy Orton?

Josh

2:27

Who do you have as the fave in the AL East? How does the Walker signing or the fact that the Yankees have much more ammo to make improvements during the season factor into that?

Dan Szymborski

2:27

Yankees. This just accentuates that prob a bit.

Matt

2:27

I have a friend named Dan. His last name isn't Szymborski, but I figure Szymborski is just a nom de plume anyway. Are you actually my friend Dan, Dan?

Dan Szymborski

2:27

Yes.

Pennsy

2:27

Why, in your opinion, are there no openly gay players in Major League Baseball?

Dan Szymborski

2:27

Cultural issues?

2:28

Even if you think your teammates will be supportive.

There's always the risk that you'll just be The Gay Guy unless a bunch of guys come out at once.

2:29

See what happened with Sam. After he came out, he really got defined by that and every signing or non-signing of Sam became tea leaves fodder about his sexuality and what the move or non-move meant.

Will

2:30

What's a reasonable rookie ceiling for Acuna assuming he's by May?

Dan Szymborski

2:30

All the WAR

Scott

2:30

Have you ever been to a game at the Coliseum? It's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Plus day games there are always perfect weather-wise

Dan Szymborski

2:30

I have. I thought it was pretty bad

CamdenWarehouse

2:30

How bad of a GM is Brady Anderson going to be for the Orioles?

Dan Szymborski

2:30

Terribad, I suspect.

Bobby

2:31

This is old news at this point but I have a question about the Yankees' ZIPS as I was looking over it the other day. Why was it so down on Didi? He's coming off a career year and ZIPS is projecting his worst year since joining the Yankees

Dan Szymborski

2:31

Couldn't say off-hand

CamdenWarehouse

2:31

So you hated Capri Suns because you are uncoordinated?

Dan Szymborski

2:32

Who wants to drink from a bag?

Even Canadians put their stupid milk bags in pitchers.

Dan Dan the Cheerleading Man

2:32