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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/28/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:27

SEE WE'RE STILL COMPETITIVE

Jeff

12:28

If the Astros win the Bell sweepstakes, should they… bench Yuli? Or play Bell in a corner OF position and keep Yuli in the lineup?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I would not imagine that he'd be in the outfield.

12:29

I know the Nats played with it a bit last year

Guest

12:31

Imagine Meg's reaction if instead of an 8,000 word article, you submitted an 80,000 one.

Oddball Herrera

12:31

This is the season we get a Keston Hiura change of scenery, no? He needs to sink and swim in the majors at this point and the Brewers don't have a place for him to do it

Dan Szymborski

12:32

DO they not really?

McCutchen and Hiura are close enough that I'd be far more interested in seeing Hiura

Justin

12:32

What kind of contract do you see Brandon nimmo getting this off-season

Dan Szymborski

12:34

ZiPS says 4/77 because it's still worried about playing time because history

thelaundry

12:34

I heartily agree with your tweet yesterday that the thought of Mike Trout only being a part-time DH for the rest of his career due to his back issues is just awful. How would you go about giving ZiPS the inputs to project what Trout's next few years could be like in a limited capacity?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME DO SUCH A CURSED PROJECTION!

12:37

OK, I told ZiPS to assume he's a DH with a current baseline expectation of 300 PA

12:38

Now, be ashamed of what you have done.

I hope the Royals trade Pasquantino for Hosmer

Appa Yip Yip

12:38

What's up with Raimel Tapia? After a putrid two months to start the season he's OPS'd over .800 in June and over .1000 in July. He's all the way up to .1 WAR, which considering he was at -1 a month and a half ago is pretty good!

Dan Szymborski

12:40

He's had a good run, but I'm still in the camp of "0.5 WAR player had a really awful 2.5 months and then a really solid 1.5 months"

Guest

12:40

Would you try to find a replacement to the Jake Meyers/Chas McCormick platoon? Not sure if Reynolds of Mullins would be a meaningful upgrade given the likely steep asking price

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I actually think Mullins would be a very hard get now

Reynolds more practical, though it may not be this week

Chris

12:40

Think kelenic gets traded? Should mariners fans be rooting for the team to hold onto him or rooting for whatever return we can get. Aka are you in or out on his future stardom?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I think he goes in a change-of-scenery trade in the winter

Appa Yip Yip

12:41

Package around Jordan Groshans for Ian Happ make sense?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

That's about the type of player I can see the Cubs getting a few of

12:42

White Sox fans were mad that I cleared a chunk of their top 10 list

but those names are only in the top 10 because the sox system is very very very weak at the top

12:43

But Groshans/Eden/Frasso or something?

Just to pull names out of my ass with zero time to sit and ponder, I dunno, Groshans,

THOSE ARE OUT OF ORDER

12:43

Does Sean Murphy fetch a top 100 prospect and a organizational top 10 prospect in a trade?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Yes

Chris

12:44

Who do you think the worst player in MLB, who if they were their current self in triple A and 22 years old, would be the top prospect in baseball? Why is that person Dylan Moore?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

lol

I'm not even sure how to start thinking of that one

12:45

But on a related subject

that's kind of like that

When I ran some five year ZiPS to aid Ben in the ranks

12:46

Since I didn't have the right MLBAM ID for Miguel Rojas

When ZiPS was reprojecting everyone

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