JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/29/18

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 10/29/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:36

Though I don't know if she'll be president

I'm not overpicky. All I ask from a president is just get along with people well enough so that my twitter timeline doesn't suck.

romorr

12:37

So, not much news on the GK front in Baltimore. Think the Angelos brothers were waiting for the WS to end?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I'm hoping they wait for Colletti to be safely retired before an announcement.

Yo

12:37

Are your parents upset that you never became someone they can be proud of?

laughing

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Dan Szymborski

12:37

Ah, that would be someone who doens't know my parents.

12:38

I had a fairly laissez-faire upbringing; it would not have occurred to my parents or my grandparents to steer me a certain direction or even push me towards any of their beliefs, whether political, religious, philosophical.

yawn

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12:39

My mom has her fault, such as endless phone calls that indicate that she wasn't paying attention to something I previously told her (and she's 64, so cannot claim senility), but she has always been supportive of me. My family would have supported me regardless.

Ryan

12:39

Which team is most in need of a full rebuild: Arizona or Colorado?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I don't think either NEED a full rebuild.

Arizona does need some retooling.

12:40

And Colorado kinda has to look at their offensive prospects as a source of value, not an annoyance.

Sad dodgers fan

12:40

A NYer friend told me back in 2015 that the Dodgers would be cursed forever by Chase Utley's slide. I love Utley and refused to believe it, but now I'm thinking maybe he's right? Is Utley a bad influence?

cool

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Dan Szymborski

12:40

Don't really believe in curses.

LFC Mike

12:40

How do the Red Sox improve for 2019?..That sounds silly for a team that won over 100 games..but do they try to improve the first base situation?..or look at second base?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

I think they'll eventually upgrade at first.

Second, it really comes down to Pedroia's health

Matt

12:41

Are you keeping the same chat schedule all offseason? Daddy needs his midday baseball chats!

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Yup. And since I'm an Official FanGraphs guy instead of their friend at ESPN, they can't give away my time slot!

Well, I guess they COULD

But I'd have more of an argument to not lose it!

ResumeMan

12:41

Dan, I'm working on my own...well projections probably over states the case, but...I was wondering, when you're doing in-season projections, how many years of legacy data do you factor in (for years before the in-progress one), and how do you weight them?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I haven't found much use past four years

Roger

12:42

Will Brodie Van Wagenen succeed as Mets GM?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

No, but that's because I think the Mets organization is structured so that success for anyone will be very difficult over the long-haul.

I don't think Epstein or Luhnow, in the exact role Wagenen is likely to have, would achieve success either.

Ichiro for CEO

12:42

Dave Roberts deserves: 1) No Blame for this WS loss, 2) Less than 50% of the blame, 3) More than 50% of the blame, 4) Almost all of it, 5) Too hard to tell?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

5

Who cares about assigning blame? Unless a mistake is predictive, it's meaningless.

Rays

12:43

What should the Rays do in the offseason to improve for next year?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I think the fundamental problem with the Rays is that their payroll is just TOO low. It's one thing to be thrifty, but I think they do hamstring their front office to an extent.

MVP

12:44

Whose your AL/NL pick?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I think it will be Betts/Yelich

12:45

I think it *should* be Betts/de Grom

deGrom

I'm out of the voting rotation for this season, so I don't have a vote this time around.

12:46

But I'd absolutely vote deGrom MVP if I did vote this year

Dbo

12:46

How do I convince my friends that I've always been a die hard lifelong red sox fan after I just told them the Astros have always been my #1 last year?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Money

Terence

12:46

Who needs more help in their rotation: the Cubs or the Yankees?

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