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Dan Szymborski

12:17

I like trolling

Paxton

12:17

Looks like I get to play a full season

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Technically, I suspect nobody's playing a full season!

Guest

12:17

Long-term, Gavin Lux or Keston Hiura?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Lux

Astros

12:17

Can't get booed if there aren't any games!

12:17

Hi Dan, off the top of your head, does the Yelich extension tell us anything about how much Betts or Lindor should expect, or should have expected during recent negotiations?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I don't think it tells us anything new

Yelich's contract is about what you expect given the service time

Stephen

12:18

Should MLB Postpone the start of the season a month? If it is not safe until May 1st should they make up the games and play into November? I know it might be too early at this stage to think about how they deal with fallout if they can't play, but it is still kind of interesting to consider the potential options.

Dan Szymborski

12:18

I'd make up the games, but I'm not sure how MLB feels

Probably would hae to involve lots of doubleheaders, which teams and players don't like

so probably won't happen

devin has cheeto lips

12:19

See anything special in Linblom or Houser? Enough to make the Brewskis

Dan Szymborski

12:19

They'll both be on the team

Back to MLB and COVID; we're in new territory here

so I really have no idea what's going to happen a day, a week, a month from now

I'm not sure MLB even knows

2020

12:20

So this is gonna be another of those years in great players' counting stats (like Trout's WAR) we have to discount like 94, right? In fact I HOPE it's like 94 and not, uh, war credit entire season stuff.

12:20

stay safe Dan!

Dan Szymborski

12:20

I'm awesome at social distancing, so if I get sick, everyone else already is!

12:21

I swear, someone asked me about work at home productivity question and I didn't answer it and I don't know where it went

Unless I'm losing my mind.

12:22

Anyway, I think the best way to effectively work at home is to not do anything I do

Because I'm a disorganized mess.

So, I would say put yourself on a schedule. Dress like you would as if you were going somewhere. Don't wander off and get tacos.

12:23

Don't get distracted by a video game release or crawling around chasing cats until your right knee is in intense pain because you're a fat middle aged dude crawling on your knee

Do not devote a section of your desk to used dishes.

12:24

Given that we're going to have some baseball-free time soon, ever think about publishing some "what if" ZIPS projections? Like projecting Nomar if he hadn't fallen apart after 03, etc.

Dan Szymborski

12:24

I think we're wait-and-see

Thankfully, not being a beat writer, I still have tasks to do

Things like that and I always have a data work "to do" list a mile long

12:24

Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw, Greinke: who ends up the best, who ends up in the Hall?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

I think it's still Kershaw in the end

OddBall Herrera

12:25

This is super important - if there's no audience and so games are played in near total silence, we will quickly find out which pitchers make the most embarrassing noises when they throw the ball. I bet you Bumgarner is a mad grunter.

KuruptFM

12:25

While doing the ZiPS breakdowns which players really surprised you with how high ZiPS was on them?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

One of my pieces coming!

Sammi from a Brooklyn park bench

12:25

With his 89mph blazing heater, is this the year Greinke becomes just average?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

ZiPS sees more homers, but him still being effective

Appa Yip Yip

12:25

I don't understand why people say baseball is hard if I were a baseball player I would simply do what Mike Trout does it's easy

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