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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/15/22

Dan Szymborski

12:02

It's a-me, Szymio!

Scotty

12:02

Gunnar flipping Henderson, am I right?!

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Correct.

Slapshot

12:02

Is the Mets getting swept at home by the Cubs the most Mets thing the Mets could possibly Met?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I think the most Mets thing would have been if an outfielder threw firecrackers at a group of war widows and the GM got busted for going on a DUI bender with a mail truck

Josh Nelson

12:04

Is Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza actually a pizza?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I'm not sure anything from there is actually food

Yankees

12:04

Hey look we woke up.

person

12:04

beware beware the fifteenth of September. or something like that

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Beware the Ides of September, that dark period every year when the Angels and Rockies become officially eliminated from the playoffs

brad penny for your thoughts

12:05

at his current numbers, what percentile is albert pujols hitting on your zips projection for him this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

97.

The relative low PA is helpful

Dansby Swansong

12:08

On the YES broadcast last night, they speculated the hitters will have more trouble adjusting to the pitch clock next year than pitchers will. Your take?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I think it'll generally be a wash

12:09

And the fact is, if pitch clocks were really awful for hitters, then AAA offense "should have" been REALLY high

12:10

The PCL has an ERA of 5.40 this year

12:11

For players in the crazier parks in the PCL, the translation for pitchers will be approximately "their AAA stats" and hitters will be translated like AA guys

12:12

Are there any metrics behind the stats that lead Andrew Painter to sit outside the top 100 and 45+ FV?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Nothing that I'm aware of. ZiPS will almost certainly have him quite high in the top 100 next year

Appa Yip Yip

12:12

There are a lot of differing opinions on how the new rules are going to affect base running. Where do you fall on the spectrum, from "meh, little difference" to "chaos reigns (on the basepaths) remix ft head first & swim move"?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Mehish

Appa Yip Yip

12:12

Which version of Cid is your personal Definitive Cid? For me it's FF4 Cid (bushy red beard)

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Cid in FFVI, despite the fact that his outfit makes him look like a walking hot dog

12:14

Cid in FFXII is my favorite *character* Cid

A Boy Named Yu

12:14

The Cubs have played .500 ball since the ASB....not too hard to see how some bigger free agent pieces would make things interesting next year.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

I agree. ZiPS was interested in them and projecting them to finish in the high 70s in wins way more than the Reds and Pirates

12:15

though that's not going to happen as .500 now only gets them into low 70s

Sharps

12:15

Why don't broadcasts and analytics show a 3d strike zone to accurately get clips of corners and curves that catch the front of the plate? Would robo-umps be susceptible to those?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

They're kinda tough visually as you basically need to do a lot of work rotating to get perspective

12:16

So they're not visually appealing

James

12:16

Should Hunter Brown make the playoff roster?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

He SHOULD

as I noted above, the PCL had a 5.40 ERA, so his performance is even better than it looked!

Mister Puppy

12:16

Back at it again with the whole "teaching" thing, so I'll ask two quick questions and then leave. 1) Is it possible that Gunnar Henderson is still underrated around the more casual baseball community? Obviously been a small sample, but the projections love him and he just looks like *it*. 2) What's one thing you wish your English teacher told you in high school?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

By the casual community? Possibly, his name hasn't been super hyped for very long.

The "inside baseball" community is certainly big on hiM!

12:18

12:19

"Make sure to not get berated by one of those jackbooted APA style thugs"

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