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Dan Szymborski

12:38

Teams put a lot of forks in the fire and see what pans out.

Outta my way, Gyorkass

12:38

Looking at the new Steamer projections, I add up 19.6 WAR for the Brewers offense, and 10.4 for the pitching staff. If my understanding of how this translates into wins is right, you start with a base of 48 wins, and from this you get the Brewers as...a 78 win team? Seems ludicrously low, yeah?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

They're not ZiPS, so I don't have authority to karate chop you!

You'll have to take to Jared and gang about that.

George

12:39

What is a reasonable projection for Victor Robles next season? Can we see him being worth 3+ WAR? How about Soto? 5+?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I DID post his projection in the nats elegy (his prelim one)

John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt

12:39

Giants write Bryce Harper a blank check after missing out on Stanton last year, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I think they're going after harper hard. Ownership wants it.

Vote

12:39

Does Joe Mauer play again?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Moose_Bolton

12:39

I've noticed that you play Hearthstone. Have you dabbled in Magic: The Gathering much?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Not really since the 90s.

I play quite a bit of Hearthstone and wrote a lot about it for ESPN when I was there

12:40

I even had some card reveals!

John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt

12:40

What would be a realistic return for Bumgarner that the Giants would say yes to without thinking?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I don't think there is one

Anton

12:40

I was a frequent fangraphs reader for a few years but I’ve been a bit MIA for the past 2 years :(

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Show me were on this baseball card where you were hurt.

Vote

12:41

I'm pretty sure Preller will sign another 1B to a multi-year deal

George

12:41

Do you think the Nats should retool if they do not sign Bryce? Or could they compete next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

I think they could compete. But the margin for error gets a little smaller.

12:42

Rendon's near FA too and Strasburg has an opt out

12:43

But there's enough talent on the team that they *can* thread the needle

Anton

12:43

I was a frequent fangraphs reader for a few years but I’ve been a bit MIA for the past 2 years :( but I want to get back into it! Can you give a few bullet points of an update on the current uses of statcast and with what the status is with the usefulness of pitch framing data? Then I can research those bullet points on my own. Thanks!

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I'm not sure there's anythign blazingly new, they keep adding new things.

Like there's a cool new pitcher visualization teal.

teal?

tool

12:44

Pitch framing still seems to be quite volatile.

Phan

12:44

Does AJ Puk pitch in the bigs for Oakland in 2019?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

At the end.

The Ghost of Dan's Grandma

12:44

Sweet Danny boy, because have you rebuffed my simple request for a kiss, I deigned to proffer said simple ask to your colleague and outright lout Kiley. Yet even he ignored by pleas. Am I destined to walk this cold and unforgiving netherworld kissless and forgotten?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Yes

Don't bug the others with the SzymChat memes!

sjamb

12:46

Why doesn't Donaldson have more hype behind him? 149 wRC+ with the Indians, which is what you'd expect from a healthy Donaldson.

Dan Szymborski

12:46

The problem is we haven['t had a healthy Donaldson for awhile!

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:46

$70MM opening day payroll for the 2019 Rays sound right? The recent article here really drove home how much money they have to spend even by non-cheap club standards, and now is the time to spend given their second half and need for public support on the stadium. That's enough to go out and get, say, two Ramos-tier guys.

Dan Szymborski

12:46

If they don't spend in free agency, they could even come up less than that.

12:47

They coudl actually have a really solid team for $70 million in 2019

Kiermaier might make more than the rest of the lineup if the season started today!

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