JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/23/20

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/23/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:48

Maybe? He seemed to be mildly aware of home plate for a change first start

Stu

12:49

how is this possible

Dan Szymborski

12:49

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

sportznut

12:49

Will ZiPs treat any player who opted out, as missing the 2020 season completely? Will there be other factors that you might consider during this unprecedented time?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Filling in projections was the best approach for 1982 and 1995 when going back retroactively.

Mac

12:49

Not sure how common it is around the league, but why are mascots considered essential enough to have at games?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

They're avatars of the gods and without the mascots, the gods will punish baseball with COVID-20.

sportznut

12:50

Did you jump into a time machine before posting this chat (dated last week)?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Crap on a bicycle!

12:51

It should update soon.

I hope Meg doesn't notice I found yet another new way to cause her a headache.

Ajay

12:51

Which Vlad Guerrero is a better hitter right now?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Still Jr.

Guest

12:51

My coworker likes chewy bacon, I didn’t even realize people like that existed

Dan Szymborski

12:51

eww

Morbo

12:51

I will post identities of the players after I figure out why I'm feeding my toddler for lunch

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I read this as feeding your toddler as lunch

Matt

12:51

sandwichgraphs subscriptions should be sold as an over-the-top product.

Them

12:51

Dunno about Alex Wolf, but Randy Wood is maybe a good nom de screen for a performer in baseball-centered adult films, right?

Fluffy-Uranus

12:52

Gonna have to see if my cats would enjoy Arby's

Dan Szymborski

12:52

Only Galileo did of my cats. He was a gourmand.

12:53

Among the meats he feasted on in his life was duck, quail, venison, elk, bison, sea urchin, rabbit.

Daron

12:53

Some managers have mentioned the lack of fans causing teams and umpires to have more heated dugout commentary/exchanges than normal. Do you think it’s a case of the fans normally drowning out much of that same dugout chatter, or are players and coaches now feeling more freedom to shout at each other without having to worry about being overheard by fans?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I tend to think it's more things are less drowned out

Though I'm not *in* dugouts, even in a normal year

druidiful

12:53

With regards to the Kelly incident, I think it would have been better received if the suspension was just for throwing at the Astros and not also for taunting them.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Yes

Ted Williams

12:54

I liked your article on using ZIPS to project what Ted Williams might have done if he hadn't missed time due to serving in the military. I saw the blurb about Sam Rice only getting 1.3 WAR from ages 24-26, on his way to 50.3 for his career. Edgar Martinez got 0.8 from ages 24-26, on his way to 65.5 for his career!

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Hmm, does FG not have the HOF tag for Edgar yet?

druidiful

12:54

I'm disappointed with how few of the answers so far are "July"

Dan Szymborski

12:54

People are asking me questions I can't simply answer with July.

Also, questions are way up this week! I'm glad baseball Qs came back with baseball!

Jordan

12:54

He could have punished the Astro's players, he wanted an easy quiet investigation and didn't want to deal with the avalanche of appeals he was sure to lose. He's also tone def to his audience, proven by a lot of his decisions and his characterization of The Commissioner's Trophy as a "piece of medal".

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I can also rob a bank. That doesn't mean I'm not totally getting caught.

The MLBPA would have an easy win here. And I can tell you from conversations not-for-attribution, that there are lawyers for MLB who felt the same at the time.

LenFuego

12:55

“Manipulating” service time is not “illegal” as you stated, not even close. It is well within the law, the CBA and the rules of the game. Please stop with that unhelpful rhetoric. I agree the rules should be changed to align incentives to call up players so they are not held down artificially due to service and contract concerns, but the misleading rhetoric does not help anybody.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

No, it's is a factual matter.

12:57

It has been ruled in arbitration repeatedly that teams must act in good faith in terms of demoting players for "skill and ability."

12:58

Kris Bryant didn't lose his grievance case because the Cubs were allowed to manipulate his service time clock

He lost his grievance case as he did not have sufficient evidence to overcome the assumption of good faith that teams are given.

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