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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/22/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:16

but PTBNL had to be eligible at the time the trade was initially made

Jimbo Richards

12:16

PS: Josh Hamilton is younger than Nelson Cruz.

12:17

Are Stanton and Sano going hitting the Josh Hamilton wall? Neither seems to be able to hit a fastball anymore (although Hamilton's curse was the slider).

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Stanton's slugging like .600 against fastballs last I checked!

But I'm very worried about Sano.

Red Foreman

12:17

Those White Sox fans last night….just crazy they don’t understand how a manager (at any company) should act.

Dan Szymborski

12:18

It was such a mild take that I was quite surprised how mad some people were.

While it's hard to blame decline in performance -- correlation and causation and all that -- one can't help but think a discouraged player like Mercedes might have felt differently if, during his first big success in the majors, he wasn't humiliated in public by his manager.

That's pretty vanilla and has like three hedges in it!

12:20

Contrast that with something like this, which is more explicitly trollish.

Well, technically speaking, by opting out of 2021, Desmond finishes his Rockies career on a high note, matching his previous Rockies-high for WAR, at 0.0.

Or this.

Baseball crossovers are best. Reggie Jackson/Naked Gun, Noah Syndergaard/Game of Thrones, Cody Bellinger/Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

At this rate maybe someday we'll get a Colorado Rockies/People Who Can Run a Baseball Team crossover.

erghammer

12:20

I'm a native Cincinnatian, love Skyline. Can you please explain your fetish for chili and why you hate the Cinci stuff so much?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

I enjoy chili.

But I like the purity of beef and chili peppers!

The Cincy stuff tastes like pumpkin pie filling.

And why is it on spaghetti?

Or served with a "coney" that looks like a gray dog penis?

Greg