JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Welcome to SzymChat where the only thing contagious is friendship! And maybe chickenpox.

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:01

Let's start with the obvious one: Will there be baseball on March 26th?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

12:01

dan,

Dan Szymborski

12:01

I haven't even DONE anything yet.

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:01

Will players be paid their full salaries this season if games do get cancelled, or if they only play, say, 120 games, will players only get paid 120/162 of their salary?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

I believe they get paid, but I am not 100% sure about that.

12:02

Oh, since it's been a couple of weeks, I'm bringing back the Lightning Round.

12:03

So I'm saving off-topic Qs for that round.

Guest

12:03

Do you prefer Jack Flaherty or Shane Bieber?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Flaherty slight.

Lee

12:03

Dan, given that at this point, an extension seems pretty unlikely from Lindor, do you think the Indians are going to begin to look to "blow it up?" Or do you think it's more likely that they attempt to remain in playoff contention until that window has been firmly closed? Seems like a bit of a strange situation on that team.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I don't think they'll move him this year, but I think they will next winter

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:04

The Brewers, a small market team who relies heavily on paid attendance & revenue from in game attendance, would get hit devastatingly hard by lost revenue from non-attended or cancelled games. Does MLB have some sort of contingiency plan in place to help teams out in a case like this where a major segment of the season stands to be effectively unable to generate in-stadium revenue?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I don't have any specific knowledge of what MLB does in this situation; I have to think I never really consider MLB and civil emergency

But given how poorly MLB prepares for things, I'd be mildly surprised if they ahd a plan

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:05

Corbin Burnes: Was 2019 a flukishly bad season, or was his relatively decent run in 2018 the fluke, and last season is who he really is?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I think it's largely a fluke

Guest

12:06

The NBA has suspended their games until further notice...isn’t Major League Baseball going to do the same thing, you can’t have 30 or 40 thousand people together in a confined space

12:07

Which bad team with a good farm system do you have the most faith in?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Marlins maybe?

Kane

12:08

Think Kelenic makes it to the show this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Maybe for a wee espresso

sodo mojo

12:08

So as a person who has worked from home for most of their career what are your tips to those of are new to working from home on being productive? Which I'm obviously not doing a good job at right now.

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:09

Not a question, but there is a restaurant in Miller Park that just opened, literally called the "Restaurant to be Named Later".

Siri

12:09

Do you prefer an $8 Moose or an $8 Hiura? H2H categories league with OBP/SLG instead of BA.

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Hiura if you're a weak team needing upside, Moose if you're a stronger team that needs certainty.

Doug

12:10

Am I correct to assume Tatis was left off your ESPN article because zips projects him to play under 100 games for each of the next three seasons?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

yeah, he missed; ZiPS is suspicious about his playing time

Jaffe rhymes with Taffy

12:13

Dan, how much do you think my question to you influenced Mike Bolsinger to file a suit against the Astros?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I don't remember the Q

but I imagine not

Aceman

12:13

Is Urshela good enough to cover up Gleybers miscues or do you see that being a problem?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Urshela's just an averageish 3B

And really, unless Torres is sub-Hanley bad, it's pretty much a who cares unless he's not hitting, which he ought to be

Jerome

12:14

ZIPS thinks that Barreto is a tier above Machin and Mateo and should be the clear favorite for the platoon job next to Kemp (Pinder needs to play OF with the Piscotty injury). Do you agree and do you think the A's agree?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I think options will result in Barretto/Mateo being prioritized

Though as I've joked, my desired result is an 80/20 Barreto/Pinder split so I can call it the Parreto Principle

Jaffe rhymes with Taffy

12:16

How amazing would it be for a pitcher to call his pitches in a game against the Astros like Bauer did? I mean it in a 'just to be an ass' kind of way.

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