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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/12/2019

Dan Szymborski

12:02

It's a'me, Mario!

Pat

12:03

Are you always on Thursdays now?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Well, until something else changes or I die or something.

I'm not doing chats after I die.

Am I supposed to be haunted in my grave, my eternal rest disturbed by sasndwich questions?

Joe

12:04

If you’re Bob Melvin, how would you use Luzardo coming down the stretch?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Carefully in relief and then work him into higher and higher leverage innings.

Chris

12:04

Has anyone ever been the undisputed best player in baseball as long as Trout has been?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Babe Ruth?

CamdenWarehouse

12:04

Dan, you know if Thursday chatting goes like the Great Wednesday Chat Experiment, there's no Carson to blame this time?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Who says I can't continue blaming Carson?

12:04

How much value has Dallas Keuchel provided for the Braves? According to Fangraphs, he's only been worth 1.0 fWAR. But Baseball-******** says he's produced 2.4 bWAR, so he's definitely earned his $13 million salary. I need to know so I can write a blog post making big sweeping generalizations about whether the Braves' front office is good or not.

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I tend to be in the middle. I use FIP regressed towards historical ERA over FIP/defense.

But any clarity obtained by doing more with zWAR will just make the WAR WARS more WARRY

Matt

12:06

So, a lobster roll is a taco, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Lobster rolls are subs

Dbo

12:06

Dan, I've been sitting here refreshing the chats since Monday and you never showed up!

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Jay was here and has a way more fabulous mustache than I can grow

stever20

12:07

what managers do you think are in trouble end of year? Maddon and Calloway seem obvious, but what others?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Hurdle

Black if the Rockies are smart which they are not

Martinez probably saved his job

Dakota Hudson

12:08

How am I doing it? Jeremy Hellickson Voodoo Magic?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Grounders Are Magix

On the basis of soup

12:09

Petco had a great clam chowder bread bowl back in the day. Was great.

Padres458

12:09

Can Margot put up 2.5+ WAR next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Sure he's not that far from doing it this year and this is his age 24 season

Todd

12:09

With today’s sports media landscape how crazy would an expansion draft be?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

OH GOD NO PLEASE NO FOUR TEAM DIVISIONS

Scott

12:10

Hey Dan who is the favorite for nl cyoung

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Ryu's come back to the pack. I think it's pretty open - Strasburg/deGrom/Scherzer/Buehler/Flaherty/Castillo/Gray could all see votes, among others

Jack

12:11

How soon til Giolito wins a cy young?!?!

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I think he gets a fifth place vote at least this year

Dbo

12:12

If a sandwich isn't eaten horizontally (Crust facing walls) but instead is eaten vertically (crust facing ceiling) then would that change the dynamic of if its a sandwich. Its structural integrity is reliant on you holding it together instead of gravity so it would instantly deconstruct

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I'm still thinking through all my philosophy.

Wicho, Jr.

12:12

Do you buy the Padres as being a playoff team next year? Their young pitching has come along but outside of Tatis they've yet to produce any bats (plus they're wasting a spot on Hosmer forever).

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I think they're a wild card contender next year

sadman

12:12

Does the modeling of ZIPS take into account UMPIRES?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

It does not.

ZiPS assumes that crappy umpires like West and Bucknor will generally be distributed randomly.

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