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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/21/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:19

Soto's financial advisor

Petish

12:19

Petition to remove the word "heater" from all Fangraphs vocab?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I would intentionally replace it with something even more annoying

Cakes&Kakes

12:19

Who is your favorite baseball player you've watched in your lifetime and why is it Brandon Fahey?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Bonds, though Soto's getting up there

Guest

12:20

I can't believe the Nats made Juan Soto ride in first class with the peasants :O

John

12:21

Hi, Dan! Thanks for doing the chats. Want to alert you to something funky with the wild card page of the playoff odds: https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds/fg/wc

Dan Szymborski

12:21

Wait, WTF Is going on!

12:22

Though you can get the real numbers if you go back into division view

John

12:23

Sometimes there are only 11 teams shown in the wild card race for each league, and right now there are no teams shown, plus the game back is a bit odd.

Guest

12:23

What is the point of including Corbin in the trade? They're under tax and it's not like they're going to spend his salary for other players to contend, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

I guess to not have to pay Patrick Corbin, which is admittedly something most would want to avoid!

Anon21

12:23

Has ZiPS' opinion on Dansby Swanson changed significantly this year? Where does he end up next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

Significantly. While ZiPS has always been generally positive about him, he's having a really awesome season

I wrote about him and ZIPS a few weeks ago

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/if-2022-is-dansbys-swansong-in-atlanta-its...

More Like Joey Fallow

12:24

Realistic possible suitors for Gallo? Seems like this is another one of those trades where everyone knows he's not this guy in NY, but NY can't afford to wait around anymore for him to get better. The Yankees are willing to get a little hosed to get rid of him, like with Sonny Gray.

Dan Szymborski

12:24

If the Padres don't make a huge splash, I can see them taking a chance on Gallo

Saw Astrodome Yesterday

12:25

Here in Houston, Astros eliminated walk-up box office purchase of tickets. You could buy tickets at box office for no fee. Now internet only, where two tickets have $15 in internet fees. Is this universal trend? It stops us from going because just such rip off.

Dan Szymborski

12:25

Remember, the primary reason that a professional sport exists is to transfer things from your pocket to somebody else's! So there will always be new schemes to take your money, unfortunately

Phil

12:26

Do you always drink at the ballpark or do you make a distinction between when you are there "at work" or "as a fan"? Or, since your work is mostly computery stuff, does it just not matter at all?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

I always drink at the ballpark. I'm not flying a plane! Though I drink outside the press box, obviously

12:27

Sometime someone or a group sees the badge around my neck and then I hang out with them and drink for an inning or two

12:28

But when I'm *in* the press box, I'm all business

Unless I haven't had a haircut in a while and I'm getting mullety, in which case there's a party in the back

Judge

12:28

Let's say Judge finishes around 7.5 WAR (which would be about 34 for career). Would you put him in if he got 25 more? It's clearly going to be a peak rather than compiler case.

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I dunno, it's hard to say until I know exactly what happens

But he's certainly be discussed then

Romorr

12:28

I know fans don't want Mancini trade, and his value isn't that high, with that said, if someone offers an arm Elias likes, foolish not take? Orioles should also trade from their BP depth as well, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

Yes. Yes.

Seamus

12:29

If you were the Red Sox, who would you target for help at 1B?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

Hosmer, but I'm an O's fan so I'd be an undercover chaos agent

Would certainly talk about Bell

12:30

or Walker