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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/24/2019

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Mike Fichera

1:07

Brandon Lowe has struck out 100 times in 255 at bats. How is he good.

Dan Szymborski

1:07

2019!

Davis

1:08

What’s Brent Honeywell’s future in the MLB?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Foggy until we have more clarity on his health. Which will be awhile

Sir Nerdlington

1:08

The Vargas/reporter fight - aka Clash of the Congressional Congress - reminded me. Who won the presidential brawl showdown?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

We didn't do the final four because we switched chat providers and the polling didn't work at the time

1:09

May do the final four for the 2020 election to keep you guys from asking too many frigging politics questions.

Rod

1:09

Has the juiced ball had any impact on ZIPs projections?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

More a calibration issue.

Grubby

1:09

What other cities should jam two teams together?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Actually, the only two city sharing I can see as making any sense at all would be if NOrth Carolina got the Rays or whoever and they used both Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham as homes

Mike

1:10

With Bobby Bradley up it appears the Indians will have an outfield mix of Bauers, Luplow, Mercado, and Naquin. If you had to pick either Bauers or Naquin to platoon with Luplow, which would it be?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

Naquin

I don't think Bauers is a MLB hitter right now

Christian

1:10

Hi Dan, what do you think happened to Mookie? Last season he was up there with Mike for the Best Player In Baseball title but this year he's barely top 30, what do you think happened to him?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

Just a downish year. 2018 shouldn't have been expected to be his baseline.

Betts is pretty much just having his 2017

Moltar

1:11

Mickey Calloway will manage the team until at least the offseason because the Mets don't undersand the concept of a sunk cost

Pancake Supreme

1:11

Does Alonso break Judge's rookie record of 52? If not how close does he come?

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I think he'll fall short, but I think he'll beat 45.

Voldemort

1:11

Craig Calculator isn't a real name

Morbo

1:11

@v2micca in response to your SCOTUS Iancu v Brunetti question. The short answer is no. The long answer is a slightly more boring no. Source, am, regrettably, a lawyer

Matt

1:12

Isn't the best way to get rid of "distasteful logos" through voicing of opinions of the consumers? And, in theory, if those voices aren't loud enough, maybe the logos aren't *sufficiently* distasteful to be removed, and thus we've allowed more people to apply their definition of "distasteful"?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Yes. I believe in speaking up as a consumer.

1:13

I'm a believe in the notion that in a free society, we generally get the society that we've "earned."

If you thought 2016 was a battle of trainwrecks, I feel it was the trainwreck that we earned, not one that was thrust upon us

But that's as close to politics as I'm keen on getting.

Nobody GAF about what my political beliefs are and nobody reads me for them, after all.

(nor should you)

Jonah Keri

1:13

Whats your ideal Yankees lineup?

Dan Szymborski

1:15

Ian Desmond/Albert Pujols/Bam Bam Meulens/Leonid Brezhnev/Bread Cat/Taye Diggs Twitter Account/Alcides Escobar/A Ghost/Whoever Ned Yost Has a Crush On

I'm from Baltimore, I'd prefer the yankees losing!

That Boy Ain't Right

1:15

ZIPS may not have standardized curves, but what about your curves Dan?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

Round.

Cat Latos

1:16

Meow!

Not Jazz Chisholm

1:17