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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/15/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:38

Yes

Bring back DeSpaniel Hair

12:38

😞 that you dissed my friends. I want to crush them fair and square! Not due to disinterest

Matt W

12:38

I'm pretty sure this Mets season will be like bringing an umbrella when there's rain in the forecast so of course it doesn't rain. They finally have the depth to cover injuries on offense, which means this will be the first year ever that they stay reasonably healthy.

12:38

Do you think that the tendency to regress all hitters towards a league average ~.290-.300 BABIP is a flaw of the projection systems. Clearly there are hitter types that will tend to have high (fast runners, LD hitters) and low (slow, LHB with high GB pull tendency) BABIP's, no?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

the projection systems (at least ZiPS) takes into account these tendencies

12:39

they don't mean that there's no regression, only that babip means different things

WPBOrange

12:39

Better career: Sandy Alcantara or Pablo Lopez?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

alcantara

Hot Pie

12:39

I bet I could make the best chili you have ever tried

Dan Szymborski

12:39

OK, email me some

Gub Gub

12:39

Is a 100% honest GM something that people say they really want, but would regret immediately?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Yes

Ryan

12:39

What team would benefit most if Kimbrel signed with them today? What about Keuchel?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Boston

Mariners

Matt

12:40

"Reprehensible" seems a little strong for Tiger's actions, no?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Yeah, it does. I mean, it's not very nice, but it's not he beat someone up

Unless I forgot about a detail

Derek

12:40

last night's episode was great - it felt much more like early thrones than last season's strangely form-breaking, detail-shirking run

Matt W

12:40

The baseball equivalent of Tiger is definitely A-rod. His comeback was largely off the field, but the heads of stodgy 00s sportswriters would explode if they knew how popular he is today.

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I'm not sure if he's QUITE beloved yet

Luis Castillo’s cambio

12:40

I have all the post-hype hype for Luis Castillo. Has he turned the corner?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

He turned it last fall

BenZ

12:41

So I understand the concept of fielders choice hen the batter reaches and someone else is out, but I’ve never understood a fielders choice where everyone is safe. Why can’t that just be either a hit or an error?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

chaos is a ladder

Matt W

12:41

Does Eloy turn it on soon, or does it seem like he'll have a more Moncada-esque winding road to realizing his potential? He's looked... okay so far.

Dan Szymborski

12:41

You're complaining about a guy with like 115 OPS+ in two weeks. I'm calling the police

12:41

This is a baseball chat, not GoT chat people

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Ryan

12:42

Last night may have been a big reunion episode, but at least they got the Yara rescue out of the way

kobrien

12:42

screw you and your typing game. I cannot stop now

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Uh oh, there's a 10 minute period where questions just stop

Derek

12:43

Why is Theon still alive?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

fulfill the redemption arc

isaacmeep

12:43

the dan straily no hit bid is off :(

Dan Szymborski

12:43

With Straily, you look more for a no-outer

Nate

12:43

It kind of amazes me how many people on here are incapable of watching baseball and GOT and eating chili all in the same life. Does that make those of us that do total bad a's?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

It's hard to watch baseball and GOT at the same time

but you can eat chili while watching baseball

12:44

you don't watch baseball with your digestive system

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