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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/1/2019

Dan Szymborski

12:03

CHAT IS HERE

Justin

12:03

What does a fair trade for Felipe Vazquez from, say, the Dodgers look like?

Gub Gub

12:03

Where's the beef?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Oops, scroll

IsIt2020Yet?

12:03

Huntington says no way they're trading Vazquez. With this core looking at best like a .550 team, why the heck not? Who cares if he's still closing a handful of games for a middling team in four years?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

They probably should. While I wasn't the least bit crazy about the Archer trade, my belief was for it to work out, it had to mean that they were going to double-down and finally adopt a win-now priority in the offseason.

They didn't

And now I think the team is too weak.

They ought to trade Vazquez.

12:05

And he ought to fetch at least *a* very significant prospect given his contract situation.

12:07

I'd think something like May and the guy that looks like the head of the Pawnee Sewage Department in Parks&Rec. But I don't think the Dodgers feel they *need to* do it

12:08

Tony Gonsolin! Couldn't remember the name

Umpire Joe West

12:08

I can’t wait to get booed in England.

Insert Clever Name Here

12:08

Highlights and lowlights of the first half of 2019? Doesn't even need to be baseball-related.

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Baseball wise, my colleague Jay Jaffe is correct that I think there are just too many homers in baseball.

The fun patrol being out in force is a regular lowlight

But a highlight is the excellence of some players when their teams didn't play service time games with them: Paddack, Tatisito, Sluggery Pete.

LFC Mike

12:10

We have to end the controversy once and for all...Slug Bug or Punch Buggy? The world needs a definitive answer for the game that let you beat the bejeezus out of a sibling and have your parents not care at all. slug

Dan Szymborski

12:10

PUNCH BUGGY

I support a game called Punch Slug Bug. You punch someone using Slug Bug!

Count Urdzt Von Borktannenbaumst

12:10

If you could add one article to The Treaty of Versailles, what would it be?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

"Those dumbasses in Ohio must not pronounced Versailles "ver-SALES."

Slapshot

12:10

Would you ever go full DJ LeMahieu and eat 48 olives with a fork and knife for dinner?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I don't like olives *that* much

randplaty

12:11

Who do you think wins NLROY?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I think Tatis will edge out in the end.

And really, if we had to vote today and I was voting in that this year, my ballot right now would be Tatis, Alonso, Soroka

And I'm not just saying that since I know you're a Padres fan!

12:14

That guy on Reddit didn't make one for Soroka, so enjoy Snitker.

randplaty

12:16

Who should have made the ASG over Dahl? Or do you think Dahl was deserving?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

It's not egregious - he's on target for a three+ WAR season, but I'd prefer Muncy, Machado, or Renfroe.

Matt

12:16

The Mets managed to kill off 2 members of the 69 ws team this weekend that were still alive. Is there anything this team can do thats right?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Again, you can remember people that are alive!

Gub Gub

12:17

After hearing Don Rickles' voice in Toy Story 4 this weekend, it got me wondering. Do you have any plans to hold phantom Dan Chats in the event of your untimely demise?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I had not, but it's a good idea.

I always keep a few tweets scheduled for five years in the future, so if someone remembers to leave my PC on, I can tweet from the great beyond.

Jorge

12:17

Hi Dan! Question about projections/stabilization. At what point do the projection systems start believing in strikeout rates of guys like Bellinger who have maybe haven't improved as much year-over-year, but the projection systems still don't buy in and say he'll suddenly start striking out much more than he has all season (or has in any given month). What gives?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

It depends. The problem is that there's no linear answer I can give because it's not like binary thing where projections don't believe strikeouts and then suddenly do

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