JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/4/19

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/4/19

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12:33

Players earn service time when they are injured, so sending them to the IL/DL for "reasons" wouldn't work.

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Jacoby's service time doesn't matter

Galileo Speaks!

12:33

OK. I only have a few minutes. A couple things on my mind. 1. Go easy on the human I own. He stares at a computer screen all day muttering jibberish. Go easy on him. 2. Real Chili has BEANS..like the delicious Sky Line Chili I adore. 3. You will miss Alcides Escobar when he is gone...a baseball treasure. 4. Anything crammed between two pieces of bread is a sandwich. Mustard on two pieces of bread is a mustard sandwich..Let it go people. Back to my nap.

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Dan Szymborski

12:33

STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY CAT'S MOUTH

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JC

12:33

would ZIPS adjust downward the IP (and by that factor WAR) for Kuechel the longer he goes unsigned?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

No

Jay

12:34

Everyone, teams will just manipulate service time in different ways in the next CBA

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Let's at least make it harder for them

Big joe Mufferaw

12:34

After watching Vlad Jr this weekend, that kid is HUGE, he seems 40 lbs heavier than last season. How does an organization let their crown jewel get so chubby at 19-20 years old?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Maybe that's the reason they want to keep him in the minors. He'll be too poor to eat

(Yeah, I know he actually won't be)

Kyler Murray is 5'10.125'

12:35

Angels didn't mess with Trout's service time

Matt W

12:35

Which NL East team (Miami excluded) is going to have the toughest time this season and will it cause them to embark on a rebuild?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I think the wheels could come off the Nats fairly quickly if injuries happen, but I think all four of the good NL East teams will be good

Big joe Mufferaw

12:35

Did you see the Washington post articles by the same writer, one saying the Nats should and could sign Harper to 500 million (would be a bargain), and then said at 13 years 330 million Harper is NOT worth it? How can you be a self respecting writer and say that?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I did not see that

Name

12:35

Nate Siver proposed that if you aren't listed as a pitcher you can't face more batters that you have PA

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Yeah, that's one that's floated around

Jay

12:36

When do most hitters peak? Around 29 years old? Or is it linked to experience?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

YOung. MLBers it's 26-28 and there's evidence there's selection bias and hitters actually peak even younger than that when you count all professional hitters

Bread Gardner

12:36

Is an oppo taco a sandwich, or a home run? A taco is a sandwich, but a home run is not a sandwich, so it can't be both.

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Tacos aren't sandwiches

kevinthecomic

12:36

The US decided to enter WWI for a couple of reasons. In early 1917, Wilson had attempted to broker a peace deal by asking each belligerent party to submit a list of what they were hoping to accomplish with the war. Germany's response was strikingly similar to what total victory would look like for them, including absorbing territory already seized. This of course meant that the Venn diagrams of Germany and England/France would not intersect and, as such, no negotiated settlement was going to occur. This haughty response did not sit well with an American public who had already concluded that the German aristocracy was at fault for starting the war. At the same time, the Russian Revolution had just occurred and a democratic provisional government was in place. No one knew at the time that this democratic government would be short lived, but while it was in place, the war took on a definite appearance of democracies (England/France/Russia) vs. aristocracies, the latter of which Americans abhorred.

BenZ

12:37

When will Clay Buchholz show up on the Blue Jays depth charts?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

Wait, did I not add him!

Crap!

12:39

OK, will be in next refresh

troke

12:40

Re service time, how much extra revenue do teams earn when they make the playoffs? I would think teams would compare the expected revenue increase against cost of loss of a year of control?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Depends on the parameters, I've seen estimates of $20-$50 million from varying sources.

But the problem is, that's only benefit if that extra win actually happens and matters.

12:41

For example, adding one win to the Phillies only added 1/25th of a playoff spot in the projections right now.

12:42

You don't get to know if the win mattered later

Anonymous

12:42

Are ZiPS playing time estimators a sandwich?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

THey are not

greg

12:42

Cat update please

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Galileo's in the living room, Mercutio's in one of the guest bedrooms sleeping in the arms of one of those big back pillows with the arms

Cassiopeia is here with her stuffed hedgehog asking me to throw it for her

Which I'm not doing with the regularity that she wants because I'm working

12:43

and she doesn't pay me as much as my job does

CamdenWarehouse

12:43

You're talking about utensils here? Geez, stick to sporks!

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