Dan Szymborski: Boom.

Comment From Mooking for Love
goes the dynamite

Comment From greg
Any thoughts on Jeurys Familia as the Mets’ new closer?

Dan Szymborski: He’s the logical option.

Comment From zack
Szymborksi, Is AROD back? How hilarious will it be if he has a good year?

Dan Szymborski: Wouldn’t go that far quite yet. I’m still skeptical – he was steadily declining before 2013 already and he essentially had 1.8 lost years at an advanced age

Paul Sporer: Good evening, everybody. We’ve almost got the first week completely in the books. Let’s talk some fantasy baseball!!

Comment From Pale Hose
What’s up Paul?

Comment From Pale Hose
Started Hutchison, House, and Hughes today. Not excited to see ERA tomorrow.

Paul Sporer: That is rough. Believe me, I feel you. House & Hughes are among my most-rostered arms (full rundown coming Tuesday, btw, similar to my Hitting Portfolio – http://www.fangraphs.com/fa…)

Comment From Joc Odor
Thoughts on Carlos Santana (5 x 5 OBP league with OBP replacing average) in the early going?

Paul Sporer: Very pleased! Looking very good out of the gate.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to live baseball chat. I’ll be your host, Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan: You might have noticed that, this week, there has been baseball

Comment From Pale Hose
#Harveyporn

Jeff Sullivan: Nice to have it back

Jeff Sullivan: I don’t know if we sufficiently appreciated what he did in 2013. Go back and look at that again!

{“author”:”Ginger Johnson”}:

Eno Sarris: starting you off with yo momma jokes today

Comment From Prison Mike
Yo momma is so dumb she named her some Eno

Comment From Stuck in a Slump
Yo Mama’s so fat, she didn’t understand why people were freaking out in the KFC ‘I ate the bones’ commercial

Comment From Maxamuz
Yo momma’s so stupid, she thinks Jordan Zimmermann’s last name only has one N.

Eno Sarris: Start with an interlude today, why not.

Dave Cameron: It’s the first Wednesday of the regular season, so let’s chat right up until the Tigers start pummeling the Twins.

Comment From speed
can you forsee the orioles making a mid-season trade? if so, what do they go after?

Dave Cameron: Their rotation still isn’t very good. If they’re going to make a postseason run, they need better pitching.

Comment From Vslyke
Any expectation of what the Braves will do with all the future payroll they freed up in the Upton/Kimbrel trade? Do you think they go get some FAs or spend it on the farm system?

Dave Cameron: Seems like they’re stockpiling young arms who should be cheap for a while, so if they can assemble a rotation out of the guys they’ve traded for, should be plenty of money to go buy themselves a new outfield. And a third baseman. And maybe a catcher.

Comment From Anthony
How frustrating is this part of the year for you from a writing/editing standpoint? Obviously you can’t just ignore that real games are being played, but there’s so little data to do meaningful Fangraphs-style analysis of.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Paul Swydan: Not sure who is with me tonight, but we’ll start at 9 pm ET. BASEBALL IS BACK! Let’s talk about it.

Paul Swydan: OK, let’s do this. I never spoke with Jeff, so I think I’m flying solo tonight.

Comment From Guest
Baseball!

Paul Swydan: INDEED!

Comment From Tom Jones
In terms of an AL-only league, is Medlen, Nova or Matt Moore a better DL stash for a team looking to win this year?

Jeff Sullivan: Hey guys, welcome to live baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Usually my late excuses are a bunch of bullshit, but this time I’m late because I had to go and jump a friend’s car battery

Jeff Sullivan: So I’m basically a hero. No criticism allowed

Comment From John
are you going to chat for 6 hours like sporer?

Jeff Sullivan: Dear god that sounds like an absolute nightmare

Jeff Sullivan: Although we will chat, as a staff, for like 13 hours on Monday

{“author”:”rudeboy6000″}:

Eno Sarris: no fear I’ll be hear shortly

Comment From John Farrell
Where does Eno see Rusney Castillo starting the season? If your answer is in the minors, what are your overall thoughts on that?

Eno Sarris: Rehab assignment? When he’s healthy I think he’s up.

Comment From Rob
How worried should we be about David Robertson right now? Should Robertson owners be scooping up Zach Duke just in case?

Eno Sarris: Not if it means dropping a starter or an actual closer. If you dropping someone like Ken Giles, then yeah, do that. Safety first.

Dave Cameron: It’s the final Wednesday before we have actual baseball, so let’s do our last offseason chat of the year.

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s fire this thing up.

Comment From dom
Carlos Martinez has a ___ % chance of becoming a very good MLB starter

Dave Cameron: 25

Comment From Pale Hose
If you are the Cubs 25th guy would you have beef with the union supporting Bryant?

Dave Cameron: I wouldn’t look at it that way. Their statement was a PR move as both sides seek to gain public ground supporting their positions in the upcoming CBA negotiations.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

I haven’t talked to Jeff yet, but assuming he is in, tonight will mark the glorious return of the Menage a Chat! That’s right, Chris Cwik, newly of Yahoo! Big League Stew but always a FanGraph’er at heart, will e back in the building!

So get your questions in, and we’ll see you at 9 pm ET. And remember, this time next week there will be baseball on. As Luke Cage/Power Man would say, Sweet Christmas!!!

See you soon.

Paul Swydan: Hi guys! The menage a chat is back!

Chris Cwik: What’s up, nerds?

Jeff Zimmerman: Who let Chris in?

Comment From Dylan
Oh god, not Cwik.

Comment From charles darwin
micah johnson? next big 2B??? whats your take???