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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/1/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:12

Hanson/Medlen/Minor were all decent at least

it was injuries that brought them all down

12:13

If someone burned the Mona Lisa in 1550, da vinci would still deserve credit for the painting!

I hate LA but...

12:13

Urias is available in my league, is he a season keeper for now?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Depends what the other choices are

Brian Dozier

12:13

Am I having another 2018?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

I expected a bounceback to a lower level than pre-2018 before the season, and 3 games isn't enough to make me change any opnion

Jung Ho Kang Bang

12:14

My expensive pitching staff sucked this week. How concerned should I be about Sale and Darvish?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Sale not so much. Darvish more wroreis

Dbo

12:14

For April Fool's Day will you be putting beans in your chili and serving it to your unsuspecting friends and family?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

You can't call violence a prank

12:15

If I'm going to call putting beans in chili a joke, I might as well execute my "rob a million dollars from a casino" prank.

Jim Leyland Palmer

12:16

Have a steak dinner bet with my father on Jeimer Candelario's batting average (400 pa min). I took the over on .255, is free steak in my future?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Honestly, he'd need to drop dead at dinner before the steak is served and you're the executor of his will and he left you all dinners-in-progress

CamdenWarehouse

12:17

I here today for all of the questions that generate a reply of "April"

John Smoltz

12:17

How concerned should the Braves be about their bullpen?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Very. Didn't we have 'em second-lowest in our positional rankings of all legit contenders?

chet

12:17

is the rangers offense better than advertised, or is cubs pitching just really bad?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

March

12:18

Uh oh, Cassiopeia and her hedgehog have arrived. Why does she have to do this when I chat?

12:18

Can the Braves stop jerking Max Fried around? If they want him to be a multi inning guy from the 'pen then that's fine. If they want him to start then that's great too. But having him go back and forth for the second year now is really frustrating

Dan Szymborski

12:18

The Braves are on that weird position of possibly having too many young pitchers to need to get time to

I do think they need to try and cement roles as best they can

12:19

Also:

Fangraphs Reader

12:19

On the teams tab of the website, why does it go East-Central-West from left to right, instead of West-Central-East as if you're looking at a map? pls fix. Central-East-West would also be acceptable as it is in alphabetical order.

Dan Szymborski

12:20

East Coast is Beast Coast.

Central has long drives to ocean and West has that weird cold ocean.

BenZ

12:20

When FIP and FIP-based WAR are calculated, do inside-the-park home runs count as home runs or balls in play?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Home runs

Mostly because they don't happen enough to matter.

12:21

But technically speaking, BABIP should +InsideHR in the formula

zurzles

12:21

Are these Fish starters actually maybe pretty good? One thing people aren't mentioning -- Realmuto to Alfaro is a big jump in framing skill

Dan Szymborski

12:21

They might be OK, but I expect them to be below-average overall

and if their ERAs improve *because* of moving from Realmuto to Alfaro, that lowers their ERA, but it's Alfaro's credit

yojiveself

12:22

if Hampson doesn't do anything this week, is it safe to move on?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

Again, it depends on your alternate choices.

I think the medium-term question is the harder one

What happens if Daniel Murphy is ever healthy? McMahon's making a case and the Rockies have an obsession with pretending Ian Desmond is a major leaguer, so you can't just stick Hampson in center

yojiveself

12:22

Thoughts on Pineda? He used to give up homers, is that still going to be the case?

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