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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/26/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:56

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Guest

12:56

The obvious answer to service time manipulation is to have all baseball related activities next to a sufficiently large gravitational force that time passes more slowly for baseball players. So from the owners' POV they have the rights to players for potentially huge periods of time, maybe even entire lifetimes, so there's no reason to mess with service time, but from the players' POV time is passing normally. Everyone wins!

Richie

12:56

Kimbrel is toast unless he loses some of that hilariously massive weight. And if he didn't for this season, why expect him to get religion going forward?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

It's easier to do stuff when someone's paying you vs. the prospect of future earnings

Lee

12:56

Re: Teams resting starters after clinching: Check out the lineup that the Tigers ran out on the day of Henderson Alvarez's no hitter: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIA/MIA201309290.shtml

Adam

12:56

What's the best rivalry between teams that have never been in the same division as one another?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Yankees Dodgers!

Matt

12:57

For a chat, Dan.

CamdenWarehouse

12:57

Cat update?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I'm out of town at the moment. My mom called after checking in there and feeding them this morning and Justinian and Cassiopeia were sleeping in the yellow bedroom, Constantine was fighting the cat toy that looks like a j, and Mercutio was sleeping under the upstairs piano (the digital one).

Guest

12:58

Hypothetically, if Donald Trump held a press conference today announcing that he had planted this whistleblower complaint just to troll his opponents, and then slowly backed out of the Oval Office giving everyone the middle finger, would you be impressed or angry?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Impressed

I don't get very wrapped up in politics. I'm a libertarian and nobody in politics (and most of the populace) don't see eye-to-eye with me, so I'm rather disconnected.

Matt

12:59

I see you assumed that "white chicken chili" had beans, Dan. This was a correct assumption, because without beans, it would not be chili.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I assumed that if it was white chicken *chili* then the person was calling something that was not chili, chili, so it would more likely have beans

Let It Be Lowenstein

1:00

If the Astros were in a winner take all game and Verlander and Cole were both rested, who would you start and how would you handle the pitching staff for that game?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Cole and all hands on deck

1:01

The WC came is the *only* game you know, going into the playoffs, is going to be advance or go home.

stever20

1:01

do you think the Rockies can be a real consistent contender with half their games at Coors(with what it does to their pitching staffs)?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Yes. If their secondary talent wasn't a dumpster fire and they actually realized this fact, they may have already been a real consistent contender

Matt

1:02

Was the serious question digging at that Szymborski guy? You can tell me Meg, I won't share.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

I'll post things taking digs at me, so long as they're amusing. I just won't put up with it with colleagues.

1:02

Do we have any info on how players recover from rotator cuff surgery? I'm asking for Miguel Andujar.

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Pitchers poorly

Hitters, it depends.

BarryBondsJuicedForOurSins

1:03

I think Eloy Jimenez is the AL ROY. Am I onto something or on something?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Cocaine possibly.

1:04

Maybe molly while watching a White Sox game.

I like Jimenez long-term, but thinking that he's having a better year than Yordan Alvarez is bucking fonkers.

Kosch

1:04

Are you one of the idiots who thinks Trout should be MVP? Without him the Angels win a ton less games and get a better draft pick...he's hurting the team!!!!

Matt

1:05

Any chance I can borrow your cats? Maybe if they're sufficiently cool enough, they'll strike up a great friendship with my girlfriend's cat. The, when I return the cats to you, my girlfriend's cat will plead that he doesn't want to be separated from your cats. We'll go back and forth a bit until we come to a compromise that you can have him. And poof. No more cat for me.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I try to keep my menagerie maxed out at 4.

That way, each cat and me can have their own bedroom.

RageKage

1:06

PSA - Reds hall of fame announcer Marty Brennaman is calling the last game of his 46 year career today. Listen for free on MLB.com. It's worth your time.

BarryBondsJuicedForOurSins

1:06

Oh shit totally forgot about Alvarez there. Yeah, I'm on something.

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Get in the car, we're taking you to rehab

Josh R

1:06

Interesting fact. Cody Bellingers batting average has gone down from Sunday to Sunday every week this entire season except for one week in April. EVERY SINGLE WEEK

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Yeah, but whne you start out at like .500 and retain a high BA for so long, that'll happen!

CamdenWarehouse

1:07

If you have too many cats you have to worry about being eaten in your sleep

Dbo

1:07

I can't believe I forgot about Szym chat again! This Thursday chat is really throwing me off

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