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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/12/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:55

LFC Mike

12:55

I picture you more of a Gene Rayburn type of guy... with a microphone that lokos like a very silly LONG bat.

12:55

There used to be a sort of rule of thumb that you didn't want a position player prospect to have a K rate over 20%. What do you think that number is now?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I don't like rules of thumb.

12:56

I'm paid to have rules of brain and I at least *try* not to be lazy with analysis.

12:56

Should the Red Sox make their #1 priority getting a catcher such as Grandal or Realmuto?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

It should be way up there.

Omar Narvaez

12:56

finished dead last in BP's catcher defensive metric at 15.7 runs below average (this includes pitch framing), so he's probably not as valuable with the glove as fWAR says he is

Joe

12:56

Dan, thanks for the awesome insights. Interested in your take on a "change of scenery" swap of 2 underperforning young pitchers with some past health issues and equal number of years of control left…Dylan Bundy for Vince Velasquez. Fair deal for both sides?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

On some level, I don't think the Phillies want to do it.

I think Bundy's problems are more serious

Dan Fan

12:58

Do you believe in Dipoto to come out of the “re-imagination” successfully? Or M’s fans in for another decade of broken hopes?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I really have no idea how far the team is going.

Michael

12:58

How come we talk about prospects in a vacuum like state, without acknowledging the effect of the organization. Shouldn't certain org's prospects receive a different FV based on the likelihood of reaching it with that org?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I think how good a prospect and how good a fit he is for the team are two different questions

CamdenWarehouse

12:58

Dan's rule of thumb is "hit the nail, not your thumb, with the hammer"

v2micca

12:59

Did the Braves luck into a good situation with AA as the GM? He seems to respect the farm system, but since he didn't build it, it seems less likely to fall into the trap of overvaluing his own prospects.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

In some way they did, since they wanted Dayton Moore initially.

1:00

That's a bit like getting bummed because the local Taco Bell is closed due to a water main break and you have to settle for Frontera Grill instead.

1:02

OK, let's star the lightning round.

start

Lightning

Round

Derek

1:05

What is the attendance of these chats like in the offseason vs. regular season vs. postseason, etc.?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Down about 25% from posteason chats it looks like

1:05

if you were a bad off topic question what bad off topic question would you be?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

A politics one.

Takao

1:05

Five Guys or In n' Out?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Five Guys by default as I'm not on the west coast (and rarely am)

Kick Rocks

1:06

Jose Martinez is a ______ on opening day of 2019.

Dan Szymborski

1:06

baseball player.

LFC Mike

1:06

You want to be mayor of: Danville or Statcity, ZIPtown or what fictional city? First decree as mayor?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Statcity

there actually is a Danville of course

if I'm hte mayor of it, I might have to do work

Billy Beane

1:08

That Craig Edwards is a smart fella/

Dan Szymborski

1:08

He is!

Rudy

1:08

Marion's or milanos?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Yuck

1:09

If we're talking Dayton, South Park or Pizza Factory or Flying Pizza or Dewey's or Little York

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