Dan Szymborski: OMG IT STARTED EARLIER, I”M MURDERING THAT SIMPERING JACKANINNY CISTULLI WITH HIS OWN FISTS

Dan Szymborski: OK, got that out of the way

Jose: How does your PC deal with A-Rod?

Dan Szymborski: Same way it deals with other players. Not quite sure what you mean here.

Dan Szymborski: If you mean the missed year and the injuries, ZiPS has historical knowledge of what missed years and various injuries (very generalized) mean to future performance. If the steroids, there’s still not much in the way of evidence that it has any predictive value for future play.

The Dude: As a Cubs fan, should I be worried about Theo’s lackluster record of FA signings?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends!

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s baseball chat!

Jeff Sullivan: This one’s coming to you live from Dave Cameron’s living room. Or, arguably, the room beside the living room, which resembles a living room

c: please friend, baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: It’s what we’re all here for

Gary: Do the Braves have a top 5 system now? Higher?

Eno Sarris: will be here shortly

Eno Sarris:

Anthony: No other suitors for Miller after Astros acquisition of Ken Giles or is a #MYSTERYTEAM preparing to strike

Eno Sarris:

Eno Sarris: That was supposed to say: Dodgers might still want a reliever after the Chapman thing fell through!

hscer: What the…CiL looks all…weird. When did this happen?

august fagerstrom: coming to you guys live from FanGraphs house in Nashville! start filling up that queue and we’ll get started in ~20 minutes

august fagerstrom: alright, let’s do this!

Crazy Buck Martinez: Please give me some good reasons not to be terrified of the Red Sox next year.

august fagerstrom: incredible bullpen, ace starter, Mookie Betts + Xander Bogaerts, and Hanley and Sandoval can’t possibly be worse

august fagerstrom: if I were a Red Sox fan, I’d be feeling pretty good about this year

Matt: If the White Sox were to sign Upton or Cespedes and trade for Frazier, would that make this legit contenders? Or would it be smarter for them to hold onto their top prospects and go after someone who would cost as much as Frazier (Lawrie, Asdrubal Cabrera, etc.)?

Dan Szymborski: OH GOD THE QUEUE STARTED

Dan Szymborski: CHAOS! DISASTER!

Dan Szymborski: You guys have been here for 30 minutes?

Dan Szymborski: NEW SOFTWARE CONFUSING DAN. DAN IS RESISTANT TO CHANGE~!!!!

Reunion: Iwakuma got 3/45. Same for Kazmir? If so, A’s are totally in that price range.

Dan Szymborski: Think Kaz will get a touch more.

Jeff Sullivan: Okay!

Jeff Sullivan:

Jeff Sullivan: And I’m already having problems!

Jeff Sullivan: Well I don’t know what’s happening on my end but let’s just try to do this

Bork: Did Eno teach you where the End Chat button is?

Jeff Sullivan: I bet he was just using that as an excuse to end his chat right at the one-hour mark

Eno Sarris: Good morning. First time on this thing. Be here shortly!

Eno Sarris:

bad parent: wanted to name my kid eno… made a typo and now we’re stuck with an emo kid

Eno Sarris: I have a friend who let his three year old name his new brother. His brother Elmo raps and skates now, which probably happened because of his name.

Hooha: What is your Christmas beer of choice?

Eno Sarris: Goose Island Juliette or Halia. Love the sour sisters.

Dave Cameron: So, after a slow start, we have something to talk about. David Price to Boston, Greinke likely choosing beween LA and SF in the next day or two, and of course, the rumored blockbuster of Yonder Alonso to the A’s.

Dave Cameron: With the winter meetings kicking off Monday, let’s get our speculation game on, and try to figure out what is going to happen over the next few weeks.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open, and we’ll get started around noon.

Dave Cameron: Also, you’ll note that the Jotcast team made a bunch of improvements to the chat software after feedback from you guys last week, so feel free to keep providing more; their responsiveness means that we can hopefully make this a great experience for both chatter and reader.

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s start a few minutes early, since the queue is already filling up.

Nick: Thoughts on the M’s dumping Trumbo? Does Aoki provide similar value for (probably) about half the cost?

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Let’s get this. Before we get going in earnest, can I just recommend this Biggie x Star Wars mashup album? I’m like a kid in a candy store over here. http://lifeafterdeathstar.net/

Paul Swydan: Also note that this is our first time with JotCast, so bear with us if we’re a little slow tonight.

JotCast sucks: so David Price… what say you?

Paul Swydan: I say that you all are right – I think this is a win-win. Price doesn’t have to leave the AL East, and he gets paid like he should. The Red Sox get the ace they need. And a lefty to boot. I’m a big fan of this deal. I’m not concerned with the dollars.

Paul Swydan: Hold on, just trying to get Jeff logged in here.

Jeff Zimmerman: The Red Sox were going to get some starting pitching somehow. I think this move should be look at in 3 months and then fulled evaluated

august fagerstrom: hey guys. first time using this software, hoping it goes smoothly. start getting those questions in and i’ll be back around noonish to begin

august fagerstrom: not sure how embedding will work in here, but today’s chat soundtrack for me is Four Tet – Dialogue

august fagerstrom: <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/jG-g46-U7PA” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

august fagerstrom: that didn’t work!

august fagerstrom: right on time!

august fagerstrom: i’m being told I can insert an embedded YouTube video using this here image button…