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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/4/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:36

I think Dave's been familiar with me long enough that he wouldn't be surprised by the whole thing.

I'm sorry for making fun of you

12:36

I know your chat picture used to be Andy Reid. Is your new picture Martin Van Buren?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Heh

It's my picture of how currently weary I am.

12:37

Sometimes I feel like I'm the Jake Tapper of baseball nerd writing.

derek

12:38

Who do the padres take at 8?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

The buzz has been Hassell

Guest

12:38

Really enjoyed the Griffey ZiPS what-if. Man, breaking records is hard! Order these in their likelihood to be broken one day: Cal's Iron Man streak, Bonds career homers, Dimaggio's hit streak, Nolan Ryan's no-hitters

Dan Szymborski

12:38

From most to least

Bonds, Nolan, DiMag, Cal

The Stranger

12:38

I was also wondering what it would look like if teams were owned by their cities, since we all seem to pine for days of the owner motivated by civic pride.

Dan Szymborski

12:39

"The Cubs announced they will slash their payroll to $75 million after the 2029 season, because over the last decade they deferred $570 million in salaries to 2030."

Guest

12:40

on MLB The Show, my dynasty team regularly crushes the CPU on "veteran." However, when I play road to the show on veteran, I'm unable to hit .200 in MLB (but rake in the minors). The game's just f-ing with me, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Not sure why i twould be different.

I track my stats in games and then tinker with the sliders to get to where I want to be.

hscer

12:40

We wouldn't have modern political parties without Martin Van Buren, so...fuck him, I guess.

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Didn't he popularize OK though?

Kevin

12:40

If you are the Pirates would you accept option on Archer next year

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Not now.

Morbo

12:40

Ultimately the players don't need the owners to play baseball but the owners need the players.

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Making a player's league is hard.

players' league

Van Buren Boys

12:41

take it back, hscer...

Dan Szymborski

12:43

There, I changed my avatar to Colonial Dan

The Stranger

12:43

So you’re saying basically no change? I want to see somebody run for mayor on a “trade for mike trout” platform.

hscer

12:43

I thought I was asked to take the Yoko comment back until I saw the name.

Van Buren Boys

12:43

are you going to do an Andruw Jones ZiPS what-if?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Not sure, there are a LOT of guys to choose from!

Kevin

12:44

Who’s taking Bitsko in the draft? He’s the teenager pitcher from Pennsylvania

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I still think there' sa chance he goes to college

12:46

Sorry, cat turned off the computer

12:47

I'm on laptop now

WHAT IFs

12:48

Let's assume the owners and players reach a deal, but one or two owners hold out and refuse to play this year.

Which owner(s)/team(s) are holding out?
What happens to their players? Don't play, de-expansion draft, etc?
How would you organize a one year de-expansion draft? (order, rules, etc.)

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I'm not sure they actually *can*

Though I could be wrong

Morbo

12:49

I acknowledge that it would be difficult but I think, in the long run, it would be better for the sport. Sans creating a players league, one immediate reform I would make to MLB is to change the current commissioner and the commissioner's roll. The commissioner should be equally responsible to the players and the owners.

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Or a new position

It's not unreasonable for there to be a representative of the owners. That person shouldn't be the final authority on so many things, however.

And the players haven't helped in some of the things they agreed to.

12:50

Like the domestic violence agreement - the MLBPA should have *insisted* a new, neutral position should be created, not making Manfred the decider.

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