JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/15/18

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/15/18

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Dan Szymborski

1:01

Can Chris Sale grow a huge beard? Or is he too gumby-esque despite him eating like he's challenging Kobayashi?

Or maybe we get a non-white guy to play someone who would not have been western european

I don't know, I haven't given it much thought

Morbo

1:01

No I'm Morbo, the news monster from futurama. Thus my interest in monster related broadcasting

Outta my way, Gyorkass

1:02

Front Row Amy and Marlins Man: Superfan power couple?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Marlins Man is too commercial

Ozzie Ozzie Albies Free

1:02

What could the Rockies give up to land Goldschmidt?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Their delusions and some prospects

Billy Beane

1:02

Ned Yost is from the west coast (Dublin, CA to be specific). I have doubts about his chili.

Dbo

1:02

Would it be breakfast chili if you used bacon or breakfast sausage as the primary meat base?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

No, it would be a delicious dish by another name

diadem

1:02

Are we seeing the death of the "closer" as we know it and the birth of closer by comittee era?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Slowly

All Cats Are Beautiful

1:02

Are there teams that regularly over/underperform zips projections? What do you do about it?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Not in a fashion I've found as predictive

O's Nos

1:02

Danny, you're one hep cat

LFC Mike

1:02

Alcides Escobar snuck into your house and stole your hedgehog.

Ryan

1:03

Machado's defensive numbers at SS were appalling with Baltimore but quite good with LA. Do you think he's legitimately improved his SS defense to the point that he should be considered by potential suitors as a real SS option, or is the difference more due to the teams' differing use of defensive positioning?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

It's possible, but you also want to be careful about taking data differences TOO seriously

I have little doubt the Dodgers were much better than the Orioles at looking at data

but the fact remains that it STILL is a small sample size, no matter if the small sample size coincides with the storyline we lean towards

1:04

But I DO think he can be an adequate SS, based on his defensive numbers and history before this eason at short

NatsFan

1:04

Will Wieters get a major league job next year?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Yes

Mark

1:04

Does having 1 cat in 700 sq. ft. make me more of a crazy cat person than 3 cats in 3,000 sq. ft.? It can't simply be a linear relationship!

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Why not?

Cats come up a lot because I work at home, so cats are around me a lot while I'm working

1:05

I also talk about tacos quite a bit, because tacos tend to be around me when I'm working. And not working.

Am I a crazy taco person?

Captain Abad

1:05

I am not super confident that the Brewers can win many more games ... that Dodgers lineup is ... daunting. Do we have much of a chance?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

The O's would have a chance at winning 3 of 5 from teh Dodgers. And the Brewers are an actual good team.

Dirk

1:05

Suppose the Yankees offer Stanton, who’s agreed to waive his NTC, to the Dodgers for some no-name prospect, but LA has to pick up all his salary. Do they say yes?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

No

randplaty

1:05

Which small 2B do you take long term? Luis Urias, Nick Madrigal, or Ozzie Albies?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Albies. I love Urias, but Albies is more established and certainly not an old player by any means.

Madrigal is a bit lower since there's more speculation

Ginny

1:06

someone apparently agreed with you that the Slinger wiki needs a sexier picture, Dan, because it's been deleted

Dan Szymborski

1:06

My chats sometimes result in wikipedia changes.

1:07

Because Wikipedia is run in the most ridiculous fashion, I am not ashamed in my part of convincing people to change Randy Levine's page to reflect his astronaut background

zurzles

1:07

why is it so hard to search for will clark on fangraphs

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