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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/7/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:29

Well, this one befuddled it.

Big Joe Mufferaw

12:29

SCENARIO! Yankees offer Cole, 4 years at 45 Mil per season (opt out after 3). Does he take it?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

No.

Cownose Ray

12:30

How soon do you think a team like the Mariners-- who have declared they want to "let the kids play"-- should bring up Kelenic, Gilbert, White, Raleigh, and Lewis? Day 1? How important is the lower stakes environment of AAA to player development in 2020?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

It depends on the player, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. You want to balance a player getting comfortable adjsuting to levels with also making sure you're providing a challenge to your most talented guys

Jerry B

12:31

Does Will Smith accept SFG's QO? It worked out for the Dodgers and Ryu, right? Give me some hope, I'm a freaking Tax Accountant!

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I think he very well coudl.

Cownose Ray

12:31

What is on your head?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

It's called a tricorne and it's very fashion forward in the salons.

BenZ

12:32

Will Miguel Cabrera ever have another 2 win season?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Nahtan

12:32

What are the odds Pablo Sandoval can repeat his previous FA success?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

None

12:34

Unless there's something else FA

Maybe you mean he'll continue to be the best at fart antics or something

Which I don't really know about.

lipton

12:34

I keep reading predictions that Bumgarner will sign with an AL team, but isn't that discounting his desire to play in the NL for the PA's?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I doubt there's any basis for making such a prediction.

george

12:34

i was really encouraged by semien's breakout this season - do you think he can keep it up? even 80% of 19 production's a pretty player!

Dan Szymborski

12:35

They'll be some regression, but he's a really really good player.

And he's pretty much booted (ha!) the defensive isssues.

Joba

12:35

Is there a meaningful difference between GM and VP of baseball ops?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

There's no standard really.

Cownose Ray

12:35

Even if Anthopolous is a fool for admitting what we suspect owners and GMs do all the time, doesn't this recent drama with Tony Clark illustrate the powerlessness of the Players Union to do anything about enforcing the rule?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

I'm never quite sure what Clark is doing.

If it's like past CBAs, they'll probably find evidence of nefarious doings, which Clark will exchange for teams providing the good brand of sunflower seeds to bullpens.

12:37

Or maybe the chefs they got in return for screwing over amateurs will get fancier ingredients.

Daro

12:37

Gavin Lux + Dustin May for Mookie. Who says no?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

Dodgers for sure

12:38

Dodgers rarely do these type of short-term moves. I would be shocked if they do something out of character for a year of Mookie. And I love Mookie

12:38

Would it make sense to train a neural network to make projections? Or is it just overfitting on a larger scale?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Well, PECOTA

Rhayex

12:38

Did you see the Reddit post about giving the umpires guns? I thought it was hilarious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/dqbbon/one_new_rule_to_fix_... there's the Reddit link if you want to peruse.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I did not. PLEASE DON'T ARM JOE WEST OR CB BUCKNOR

ryan

12:39

re: the Reds trading India if a specific need arises -- wouldn't you say they have some specific needs now? namely C, SS, OF?

and, to follow up that question (no worries if you don't get to this bit) -- if they can sign two of Grandal/Ozuna/Gregorius, who are all projected for a similar AAV, who would you prioritize?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

They do have needs now, but I think they're going to go into FA first. I expect them to be active.

Eel Ffilc

12:40

What percentage of minor leaguers do you think could match or exceed Jeff Mathis' wRC+ of TWO in 244 PAs?

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