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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/24/20

Dan Szymborski

12:04

And we are LIVEISH

Guest

12:04

Dan Rather on Twitter: "I have heard others see the world differently, but here are two things you will not find on a Rather dinner table: beans in the chili or garlic in the guacamole."

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I have heard others see the world differently, but here are two things you will not find on a Rather dinner table: beans in the chili or garlic in the guacamole.

David K

12:05

Over or under 60% chance that Steve Cohen is approved by mlb owners?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Over

John S.

12:05

Marlins are ice cold. Why are their odds of making the playoff so high?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

That's a bit beyond the purview of projections

Dab

12:06

Watching the Cubs offense makes my eyes bleed

Sonny

12:06

Yoan Moncada has talked about not feeling 100% since his COVID diagnosis, is there any way to incorporate this information into future projections (assuming these symptoms hopefully abate over time) or will this be contextual info presented with updated projections for recover(ed/ing) players?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Unfortunately, no.

lmb2020

12:06

Is there a particular baseball aesthetic you want to see more of?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

I do wish they'd deaden the ball a bit. If you want to see less three true outcomes, you have to incentivize putting the ball in play some way or another

Sonny

12:07

Minnesota v Cincinnati sounds like an incredibly fun WS. What are some of the biggest divides between Ratings Gold! and actual, exciting baseball in your view?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Padres vs. Rays probably would not get great ratings

and they're fun

Matthew

12:07

Any chance a new metric outside of FIP will be developed and used to determine WAR using statcast data?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

There are always new metrics. The reason FIP persists is because it's simple. And most times, a simple stat that tells you the same thing as a more complicated stat is more useful.

tommytoms

12:08

po-ta-to or po-tah-to?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

People say po-tah-to?

I don't know what weirdos the Gershwins hung out with

I hear to-mah-to, but never po-tah-to

Zach

12:09

What kind of line does Corbin Burnes have to put up today to have a solid chance at the Cy Young

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I doubt it's set. I don't have a vote this year, but I would really agonize right now for NL Cy

12:09

Is there a team more cursed than the Pirates? Kang, Vasquez, and now Cruz.

Tom

12:09

If you had to choose one, would you choose 1) 4 more years of drumpf, or 2) 4 years without any baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

See, unlike most theoretical questions between two bad things, that could never happen, you forgot to put the gun to my head, so I escaped.

12:11

And you can't take out the proverbial gun now because I've already gotten into my car and driven off

Moose_Bolton

12:11

Do you have any memorable comments from one of your articles or posts? Do you even read them? I find that 80% of the time internet comments are pointless memeing, 15% terrible awful no good very bad takes, and 5% genuinely good and interesting.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I read them. Angry comments tend not to be super clever.

And the FG angry comments tend to be very tame compared to the ESPN ones

BeefLoaf108

12:11

Does having only 2 starting pitchers materially hurt a teams chances in the MLB tournament aka the MLB playoffs that are upcoming? Asking for my White Sox

Dan Szymborski

12:11

heh

Blue Morpho

12:11

Did you read that Olney article from a couple days ago? He said that this is the worst baserunning, by far, he's seen in 41 years. Have you noticed such a drop off?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I really don't trust visual things from this year because everything just looks and feels off

Guest

12:12

Scenario time. For a team like the Red Sox, that traditionally has the financial means to spend, but are facing a potential rebuild, could they do the following. Sign Bauer to a 1 yr/$30M, then immediately offer him up in trade, and be willing to eat the entire $30M. Eating the money would greatly up the level of prospects they could get, since teams would get a year of free Bauer. In essence, Boston pays $30M for a bunch of really good prospects. Makes sense to me!

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Can't do that.

12:15

(a) Any Club signing a contract with a Player under this Article XX(B) after the expiration of the Quiet Period described in subsection 2(b) above may not assign his contract until after the next June 15. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, such contract may be assigned for other Player contracts and/or cash consideration of $50,000 or less prior to the next June 16 if the Player gives written consent to such transaction.

(Sorry, was finding the exact language for you)

12:16

Now, I guess technically Bauer could agree, but why would he?

Tom

12:17

Is there an alternative online source to Wikipedia that is easy to access and close to as helpful that you are aware of?

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