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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/15/18

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kevinthecomic

12:31

Best part of Brewers in the playoffs is more Front Row Amy!

Guest

12:31

landing spots for Sonny Gray?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Airports are traditional.

Drew Smyly

12:31

Would you move him back into the rotation for next year?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Not at first

O's Nos

12:32

Would you fall out of your chair if a national broadcaster mentioned a player's batting line against a particular pitch type and then noted that the new pitcher throws one of the better version of that pitch?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I'm overweight, so when I'm in a chair, it's more difficult to knock me out of it than the average person.

Ozzie Ozzie Albies Free

12:33

While everyone complains about the national media’s ignorance on stats, shouldn’t we realize they are supposed to tell the narrative of what happened as opposed to telling stats about predictive outcomes? I get that old school stats are useless for advancing the game forward, but they’re useful in telling about the actual outcomes of games.

Dan Szymborski

12:33

There's more than predictive outcomes

And the fact is, they *do* use some of that crap in a predictive manner.

Morbo

12:33

Why do national broadcasts continually refuse to include persons from the Monster demographic, asking for a friend.

Dan Szymborski

12:34

An Avenue Q reference I'm not getting?

CamdenWarehouse

12:34

The Orioles 1B/DH count is down. They'd trade for Myers to get back to 4

Syndergaardians of the Galaxy

12:34

For the last half of the season, we were following J. D. Martinez and his quest for the triple crown, only to have Christian Yelich sneak up on us and almost win in the last week. Weird. Yelich is a fine player, but if you had asked me at the start of the season who were the top ten most likely to win the 3XC, I don't think I would have put Yelich on that list. I'm not old enough to remember when Yaz & Frank Robinson won theirs--were they surprises, like Yelich would have been, or more like Cabrera?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Amusingly, Yelich probably has a better case than Cabrera for MVP given that there was no Trout in the NL (well, except for degrom, but too many writers don't like voting pitchers for MVP)

12:36

This is what I wrote about Yelich in my breakout piece last winter.

Tom

12:36

Without going into specific as finals are coming out, but how 'accurate' has ZIPS been with non US league/ players. Thinking NPB, KBO imports, (plus my personal favorite in Po-Jung Wang)

Dan Szymborski

12:37

Definitely a good bit less accurate than with MLB-->MLB and even AAA-->MLB.

Morbo

12:37

Dan! Learn to delegate

Alcidese Escobar's Hell

12:37

My cat has a Dan Szymborski stuffed animal he plays with in the litter box.

botchatheny

12:37

can you reveal date for cards elegy?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

End of this week, beginning of next week. We've been doing them around the news cycle so holding off when big postseason story

12:38

I have Pirates, Mariners, Diamondbacks to go before Cardinals

kevinthecomic

12:38

Re: Fenway's bad playoff atmosphere -- it's cold!

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Nothing is colder than a San Francisco summer.

12:38

Fenway's atmosphere sucks because all of the real fans were watching the Patriots play.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Ouch

AngelusNovus

12:38

Who's your Orioles 2019 dark horse mvp...Villar? Mullins?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Nunez

Rita

12:38

Is 2019 a make or break year for Manuel Margot? And do you think he's more likely to make or break?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I think it IS an important year for him. I'm still a believer.

AngelusNovus

12:39

Do you think Dylan Bundy is fixable? Seems like a guy the rays would trade for, have him throw 3 innings of slider/cutters every 4 days, and reap the rewards.

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I think he'd be fixable on another team to a degree.

So much crap just hanging

Dbo

12:39

When is a Moneyball'esque movie coming out about you creating ZiPS? They should cast Brad Pitt as one of your cats

Dan Szymborski

12:39

It'd be a rather uninteresting movie honestly.

12:40

Mostly a chubby mid-20s dude playing video games and working in Excel/Statistica