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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/16/21

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Dan Szymborski

1:15

The Rays see little financial benefit from winning 90 games instead of 70, as it currently stands.

But if htey got a lot MORE in a year like this and much LESS in a year like 2016, players are more valuable to them

Guest

1:16

CHOPPED QUIZ: spaghetti, ground beef, onions, chili powder. What are you making?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

ice cream, of course

Kate

1:16

Is this the offseason the Reds finally move Senzel? Seems like he desperately needs a fresh start somewhere and I'm still tantalized by the potential there.

Dan Szymborski

1:16

I think he's gone at some point in the next two seasons

Guest

1:16

Did you read Judge's article today on having a "salary pool" for players that MLBPA determines how to divide? I think it's an interesting idea but would MLBPA even go for it, just because it's almost certainly tear the union apart in like 10 seconds?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

I haevn't read it yet

The other change I would make

1:17

is that the extra days over 6.000 in service time are considered loans that teams have to repay a player when they hit free agency

so the Cubs would have to cut Bryant a check for 173/174th times some percentage of his AAV in his next contract

for the 173 extra days they "borrowed" from his career

Adam

1:18

Is it permissible to structure a player's contract for a partial season? Player becomes a free agent at the All Star break?

Dan Szymborski

1:18

O dpm

I don't think there's anything specifically against that

but it's awkward for both player and team

you do see minor league deals with seasonal opt-out points

Guest

1:18

that chopped episode actually had skyline chili in it!

Dan Szymborski

1:18

I know. That guy made a Cincinnati chili maple sauce and I wanted to barf in my mouth

1:18

Thanks for the answer! But I was asking more about service time issues. Like, everyone's a free agent at 29? Higher minimum salaries? etc.

Dan Szymborski

1:18

I think the last block answered that?

1:19

(Not the cincinnati chili maple sauce)

Philly Phantasmic

1:19

If the O's hired a new GM today, how many years would he or she get before you would complain if they were not winning? How about the Royals?

Dan Szymborski

1:19

It depends on what they do.

I will complain about a bad move on day 1.

Guest6

1:19

What’s the third best film after Twister and Speed 2: Cruise Control?

Dan Szymborski

1:19

Swarm

THE BEES DERAIL A TRAIN

The Swarm

1:21

Imagine having this cast and making a movie so bad that it circles around to being good

Cast[edit | edit source]

Michael Caine as Dr. Bradford Crane
Katharine Ross as Helena Anderson
Richard Widmark as General Thaddeus Slater
Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Hubbard
Olivia de Havilland as Maureen Schuester
Ben Johnson as Felix Austin
Lee Grant as Anne MacGregor
José Ferrer as Dr. Andrews
Patty Duke as Rita Bard
Slim Pickens as Jud Hawkins
Bradford Dillman as Major Baker
Fred MacMurray as Clarence Tuttle
Henry Fonda as Dr. Walter Krim
Cameron Mitchell as General Thompson
Christian Juttner as Paul Durant
Morgan Paull as Dr. Newman

YOKOZUNA

1:22

Please tell me you still think the Dodgers win the division by 3 games? Game 163 or a wildcard spot feels unfair for a team this good.

Dan Szymborski

1:23

They're rapidly running out of calendar

1:23

Thanks, it did. I do think chili maple sauce solves a lot problems as well.

Dan Szymborski

1:23

Cincinnati chili maple sauce would make me lose weight instantly because I'd never want to eat food

1:24

In The Swarm, they have the most amazing hilaribad scenes

Henry Fonda testing a vaccine on himself

1:25

Way too much exposition on explaining why Michael Caine has an English accent

weird old person love triangle

quotes like "The bees...they used to be our friends!"

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