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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/9/20

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Greetings all! So begins another Chatxperience!

Matt

12:02

In your opinion, who is the best person currently playing in mlb? Not the best player, the best person.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

I don't feel comfortable making those kinds of evaluations. I'm very qualified to evaluate players at playing baseball. I have no such qualifications at determing quality of a person.

12:04

When we do the chapter BBWAA awards for the local team (Reds in my case), I always abstain from the Good Guy award.

Szan Dymborski

12:04

Szmbob! Why do I still think this season is not going to happen?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Well, there's a raging epidemic going on, so no matter how great a job MLB does, there's always significant risk.

And let's just say...I don't think MLB's done a great job by any stretch of the imagination.

Quincy

12:04

Thoughts on josh Rojas and 3 favorite pizza joints in the gem city

Dan Szymborski

12:05

He's better than his 2020 stats, though I think he'd be stretched as a regular. I think he'll be a Brock Holt! type of handy versatile role player who can fill-in as a regular without being too embarassing.

Chris

12:05

So what I get is that a sandwich can't have a hinge. But what about a pb&j on a single piece of toast that is folded but maintains a hinge?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

You're eating a PB&J sub.

Dbo

12:05

How was your 4th Dan? Did you enjoy some hot dog sandwiches?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Didn't have any hot dogs. Had burger with cheese in the middle!

Quincy

12:06

Seems to be a lost of love for the Ross striplings of the world. I.e. those who can get b

vulture wins and not hurt you in ratios. Etc. Who are the targets you would recommend in a nl only League thanks

Dan Szymborski

12:06

This is a tricky one this year because usage may be significantly different with weird double offseason and deeper rosters.

12:07

I think your best target is whoever ends up as the designated long reliever/mopup guy as I think players will be used more aggressively in that kind of role this year

Dbo

12:07

I don’t understand how you consider a jibarito a sandwich when it uses plantains instead of bread, it’s closer to a fruit salad than a sandwich

Dan Szymborski

12:07

The pressure is going in the same directions.

Sand Sandwich

12:07

Rank these salads for a sandwich: Chicken, Egg, Tuna. Ill hang up and listen to your response.

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Egg.

Egg salad is the only one of the mayonnaise salad genre I like.

jpmags

12:08

Any updates or thoughts on Kingery and Kela? Starlin Castro or Kingery in 10T 6x6 OPS?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I'd take Kingery over Castro. In this format, the likely BA advantage is minimized

LFC MIKE

12:10

Could you wait a minute Dan.. I am actually making a grilled cheese sandwich and the bread has to be that perfect golden brown with a crispy finish. Toad in the Hole is SO 2 weeks ago.

Dan Szymborski

12:10

YOu can make a toad in the hole grilled cheese!

12:11

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/grilled-chees...

Rubber Shoes

12:11

Do we see Puig this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Yes

Brad

12:11

This isn't a complaint, any baseball is still baseball, but assuming there is a season to what degree do you think the caliber of play will be below what we're used to? Somewhere midway between AAA and normal MLB?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I don't think it'll be *that* severe.

Unless a lot more players opt-out

jpmags

12:11

Does Fangraphs's 2020 Projections factor in the new MLB alignment and scheduled?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

That I don't know. The next ZiPS standings run will have the schedule.

The alignment is in the projections I know though

Average Baseball Fan