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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/7/19

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Bort

12:14

Who gets more PAs in Baltimore this year: Rio Ruiz or Renato Nunez?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Renato

Troy McClure

12:15

You may also remember from "the chatter with stubby fingers accidentally pressed send". But today I come to you as a spokesperson for the good people at the Cubs

Whitty

12:15

How would you rank these five 3rd baseman first to last in order of who you would take for the rest of their careers, not taking contracts into account? Bryant, Chapman, Ramirez, Arenado, and Bregman

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Bregman, Ramirez, Arenado, Chapman, Bryant. But any of the five could be #1, this is like making me rank Michelin three-star restaurants

12:16

This is going to sound like fanboy whining, but it's not. (It's not!)
In the midseason trade value series, ZIPS had Betts projected for 7.2 WAR in 2019, 7.1 in 2020. It also mentions that he's projected for 9.5 total for 2018. He outproduced that for the remainder of 2018, and now ZIPS has him putting up 6.7 in 2019.

Any idea what's going on there? (Not whining)

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Most likely model changes - would have to look at it specifically

12:17

FOr the in-season, in-season is stickier

I also more closely matched ZiPS to FG WAR

Mark

12:17

What kind of player to you think Manny Margot ends up being?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Devon White?

Take your Chili off the stove

12:17

Will we last an hour with only 45 hits?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Took Elvis decades for 45 hits

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:17

Is it really a text adventure game if you don't simply respond that you don't know how to do that to all of our questions?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Yes

12:25

Sorry, technical difficulties

Troy McClure

12:25

how much negative trade value does heyward have? God my fingers are stubby. Probably why I'll never be successful sax player.

Dan Szymborski

12:25

Quite a bit of course, but it's not a total loss like the rest of Pujols and probaby the back end of Cabrera

RotoLando

12:26

Szym-kata, as a martial art, would closely resemble what?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

sumo with punching

Eric

12:26

Do you think Verdugo gets fulltime playing time in LA this year, assuming they don't sign Harper? Are you bullish on his chances of being a solid contributer?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

I don't think he gets full-time this year.

12:27

LOL Mets. They are really giving away their farm...for what? Eric's articles yesterday and the one he and Kiley wrote today are damning. By the time their GM gets fired, they'll have a large payroll, a mediocre team and no farm system.

Dan Szymborski

12:27

They did give up a significant chunk of their upside in the trade.

BUt I think it's wait and see

chet

12:27

Pomeranz is going back to oakland right? Makes too much sense on both sides?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Seems to make sense.

Hello

12:27

Is Jeff McNeil the real deal?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I think he's at least a solid player

12:28

Now, if you're asking me if he's really a 140 OPS+ player, the answer is no

12:29

The volatile young woman who is sitting next to me, said her martial art is a combination of dance-punching, poking, psychological warfare, and gentle, tender, eye-stabbing.

Take your Chili off the stove

12:29

Do you think Marcus Stroman returns to being a 3 WAR player?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

I thikn there's a reasonable shot at that.

GSon

12:30

If you're Mike Chernoff, which team do you want to make your Identifying Trade deal with? Braves/Reds/Dodgers more likely than Padres?.

Dan Szymborski

12:30

Generally speaking, it depends on the player