JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/12/2020

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/12/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:57

Or sell the teams at ALL

12:58

Like the Red Sox making sure to announce they had to dump Betts as many times as possible.

Have you ever seen McDonald's advertise "Come have the new mediocreburger. Our revenues are down so we'll make our burgers shitty!"

Jason

12:58

You heard the man God. Send his cats to the neighbors and give us baseball.

Which do hate the most, the 3 batter minimum or the new roster rules around two-way players and position players pitching?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

The latter because of the way they did that

12:59

They made the bright lines on the latter way too high

Poor attendance

12:59

It's just a sign that the world is going dark. I can only attend today because I'm ahead in preparing for our Mad Max future. I'm hoping for a job thrashing a guitar at the forefront of the local warlord's makeshift car armada

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I don't have a useful skill set for the apocalypse

And really, no internet, no a/c in the summer, I'm not down with that

Dan

12:59

I've been busy during chats for a while know but I'm curious how much Severino would likely have made if he went year to year in arbitration and had the same injury/stats/playing time as he did in real life?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Maybe I'll doa piece

klabeck

12:59

So far I have drafted Trout, JRam, deGrom, Gerrit Cole & Wander Franco for my ottoneu squad, who will be the worst major leaguer I roster this year? 14 team

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Dol you own all 14 teams?

Franco's not going to be valuable in 2020

Not because he sucks of course

Logan

1:00

ZIPS says the Dodgers' Cody Thomas would turn in -1.3 WAR if he played a full season. Does his spring training alter your personal thoughts about him at all?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Not really

1:03

Last year's spring HR leaders included Lew Brinson, Travis Shaw, Jung Ho Kang

chili

1:04

how did you become a writer/contributor for FanGraphs?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Well, I worked for ESPN and then I was hired to write here.

I then I filled out a new w5

Trent

1:05

Arcia or Urias for the Brewers at SS? The former was terrible last year, but that was driven partly by a paltry BABIP, and he's looked much better in the spring; the latter has much more upside, but he too failed to hit last year, and he's been slowed by a wrist injury so far this year.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Urias

Morbo

1:05

Which of these two options constitutes a better fantasy baseball team name, "Reese's Public Pieces" or "Peter Peter Reese's Beater"? Can you make this a poll? (was very tempted to spell poll pole)

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Will the result be binding?

Morbo

1:07

Sure?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Name My Fantasy Team

Reese's Public Pieces (22.2% | 6 votes)

Pete Peter Reese's Beater (25.9% | 7 votes)

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of LAST PLACE (11.1% | 3 votes)

I Have a Sexual Mancrush on Peter Riegert (40.7% | 11 votes)

Total Votes: 27

Morbo

1:07

I will name one of my fantasy teams the winning name

Morgan

1:07

Does Zack Collins have a long-term place in Chicago with Vaughn, Grandal, and Abreu around? What team might be interested in him if he's a trade candidate?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

I think he'll be in another org eventually

mt

1:07

My thinking on suspending the season lasting more than 1 or 2 months is that the virus is not going to just stop spreading in May, unless it turns out to be affected by heat and humidity (like flue, which isn't known yet.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

At the rate we're blowing up -- and I'm assuming we do a crap job of flattening the curve -- I think the worst will be over

KuruptFM

1:08

I'm ashamed to admit I've already resorted to cannibalism in this hellscape. Everyone in the office appears to be understanding, besides Mr. Lunch of course.

Springer McSpaniel

1:08

Jose Marmolejos is Paddington’s jam.

Olsen

1:08

What ever happened to Ryan Zimmerman's defamation lawsuit against Al Jazeera for their steroid "documentary"?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

It's been a while since I heard about that. No idea

Garrett

1:08

Dan, what does the neural network have to say about COVID-19 affecting baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Let's see

1:10

well, bad news if you're a Giants or Pirates fan

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