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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/1/2019

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Morbo

12:37

Dan! Its not your place to tell grumpy old men how to not have fun!

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think it's in my job description

@RationalMLBFan

12:38

Saves are stupid, but Shane Greene has saved 22 of the Tigers' 27 wins, a rate of 81.5%. What is the record for highest percentage of wins saved over a full year?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Honeslty, I'm not sure offhand

Hunter

12:38

Is there any sort of market for Castellanos? What's a realistic return?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

He hasn't been very good. I don't think the return will be much.

The Tigers, as they do a lot, took too long

HappyFunBall

12:38

So I was just ad-redirected away from FG on my desktop. It happens fairly often on my phone, but this might be a first on my desktop. Someone needs to go yell at your ad providers again.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I'll bring it up when I talk to Dave

Sam

12:39

The difference in WAR between Scherzer and the 2nd best pitcher is the same as the difference between the 2nd best and the 20th best pitcher

seth r

12:39

why do you hate my team? also, skyline chili is the best.

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I hate everyone. I'm an egalihateian.

@RationalMLBFan

12:39

I get that the Luke Voit for Chasen Shreve deal looks bad for the cardinals, but what does ZIPS-favorite Giovanny Gallegos have to do to remind people that he also was in the deal, and that he has pitched 39 impressive innings, which is more than twice Shreve's total?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Getting the closer job would help!

12:40

I'm not unhapyp about the results so far from some of the ZiPS Mega Faves, most notably Bieber, Gallegos, Moustakas

12:41

People were a bit annoyed that ZiPS projected Moose at 3.4 WAR coming into the season after only ever doing that in 2015, but he's now looking like he'll pass it!

Billy Beane

12:41

Hey Dan, can you explain why you think there are too many HRs? Most of the arguments I have seen are really saying that there are more home runs, but I don't understand the problem.
1. Home Runs are Fun.
2. Any indivudal game only has like 1.5 more home runs.
3. No individual records are being broken.
4. No one cares about team records.

It seems like a bunch of 10 HR guys becoming 30 HR guys is actually fun. I feel like it would be different if Stanton, Judge, and Davis were all hitting 80 HRs.

Dan Szymborski

12:41

home runs are fun, but they're most fun when they're not cheap

You have to have some meat along with your candy

Guest

12:41

Who has more trade value, Joe Panik or Mike Yastrzemski?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Sadly Yaz

Ben

12:41

Soroka

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Awsome! I thought I had saved them all

Here's another, as penance

HappyFunBall

12:42

The fun police are out in force complaining about too many homers in baseball. Is that a highlight or a lowlight?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Not quite what I meant

stever20

12:42

If Alonso got close to or passed 50 homers, would the voters really ignore that?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

It'd be hard, but the voters are getting better in award voting quicker than Hall voting.

stever20

12:44

Not only that, but then when they did an apology yesterday, they mispelled the guys name appearantly.

Dan H

12:44

Have you checked out "baseballtradevalues.com," the site featured on the FanGraphs podcast the other day? I've been having a blast seeing if my trade ideas were reasonable, and it seems to pass the sniff test, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the values this site had come up with.

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I have not yet

Andrew

12:44

Are the nats buyers or sellers at the all star break

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Could go either way. I think they may pick the worst of both worlds and be toe-in-the-water buyers

troke

12:44

Worse team owners: Wilpon vs. Dolan vs. Rachel Phelps from Major League?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Wilpon

RACHEL PHELPS INVENTED MONEYBALL

12:45

CamdenWarehouse

12:45

You could just make the ZIPS computer sentient after your death. It could continue chatting and tweeting for you.

Actually I'm not completely sure this hasn't already happened.

Twinkie for Life

12:45

Have these voting emojis and ability to reply to specific chats always been there??

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