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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/11/20

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David K

12:00

Will Fred Wilpon own the Mets a year from now?

Dan Szymborski

12:00

Yes

12:01

Oh yeah, chat go start now.

Guest

12:01

the year is 2025. Who are the elite players

Dan Szymborski

12:01

LIkely the young elite players of today plus a few names that we don't know yet

Or, more accurately, we don't know if they'll be good or not

Miami Sound Machine

12:01

Remember when Jeff Loria paid himself an annual $50M ‘management fee’ to run the Marlins and called that a debt obligation that burdened the club? O/U how many other clubs are doing something similar?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Hard to say without opened books. Teams have been notorious for this kind of stuff when books are actually opened.

Like Huizenga's claimed loss after winning the World Series - Zimbalist estimated that his $34 million claimed loss was, conservatively, a $10 million profit.

12:03

Huizenga's other companies collected a lot of the Marlins revenue and the Marlins were paying Dolphins stadium debt.

Sonny

12:03

Maybe having good ownership groups correlates to overall league health? Probably crazy, oh well I’m off to a McCourt management seminar

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I endeavor to have an appropriate image for every scenario.

Scotty

12:04

Dan, just want to say thanks for the Friday MLB The Show livestreams. I love watching them.

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Glad you're enjoying! We should hae one tomorrow, I believe. Given all that was going on, it didn't seem apppropriate

Who's Fabio?

12:06

Dan, quick math question. With an average price of 175K US, how many Aston Martins do the Jays need to park in Austin Martin's driveway to get him to sign?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Given the cost of ownership, fewer than youd' think!

Who's Fabio?

12:06

Also, tell us how you feel about the O's pick? Sounds strategy or weak cover for being cheap?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

We'll see from the rest of the draft!

Draft questions are best targeted to Eric, amateurs are not my specialty!

12:07

I mean, I have opinions on anything, but I like my baseball opinions to come from an area of expertise and it's the weakest part of my knowledge base

zurzles

12:07

Remember Matt Hobgood? I'm remembering Matt Hobgood today

Dan Szymborski

12:07

I do remember him

12:08

He worked out for me in an OOTP game waaay back

Sonny

12:10

Jeff Bezos only takes an $80k salary from Amazon, would he also say his business is not that profitable?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

heh

I'm surprised I haven't killed Amazon's bottom line.

12:11

I get cat litter with free shipping. Those things are heavy as hell - there's no way they're brekaing even on me

Philip

12:11

Have you thought of putting together a draft model for guys with college data? It’s very prevalent in the nba.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I've found it not to be very good. I don't know if it's the data or me sucking.

Lunar verLander

12:11

The owners have always been in favor of a salary cap. If the union replied with "ok, you can have a salary cap, but you have to have a salary floor of ~88% the salary cap" (similar to what's done in the NFL), would the owners accept?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I think they would and I think the players would not say that.

Sean Huff-Scheidel

12:12

This may be more a question for Meg or Appelman, but do you know when FanGraphs merchandise will be shipping?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

No idea!

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

12:12

I used to curse the platform but in the last few days Twitter has been amazing. What gives?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Amazing? I'm still checking Twitter for my DMs and I don't see much in the way of amazing there!

Connor

12:12

What are the consequences of Manfred unilaterally declaring the season vs coming to an agreement with the players? I feel like I am failing to grasp this. Why not just declare the season?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Because declaring does put the owners at risk for a few things. For example, health-related lawsuits if things go badly

mrkevinschwarz

12:13

Manfred said 100% that there will be games. Are you that confident?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Not 100%

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