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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/13/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_median#:~:text=In%20statistics%....

Hip Hip Jorge

12:34

Why is it so difficult for the internet in general to accept that the Astros cheating is wrong, but also that Joe Kelly is still an idiot

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Because the internet is dumb.

12:35

Because we are dumb.

dave in slc

12:35

I think i am going online today to buy skyline chilli just so I can know what you guys are talking about and have my own opinion on it!

Dan Szymborski

12:35

Don't save me leftovers

James

12:35

re: David Bell. I think Baseball Prospectus has a manager rating stat called wRM+

See! You! Later!

12:35

Do you think Hanser Alberto can sustain this?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

Your Name

12:37

Can Benintendi turn it around or is he just a bad player now?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think there's still hope, but there was already real concern that he wasn't really a 2019 type of player and he's just been awful

Jon

12:37

Where do I find zBABIP?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I post it at times. We don't yet have it automated (yet), so it's not avaialble on a daily basis to the public

12:38

Isn't babip and batting average up an absurd amount this week, like league wide teams are hitting .280 this week or something? i know i checked a few days ago and it was .229, and someone said it was back up to like .238 or something.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Yeah, they had a normal weak in the .290s for BABIP

OddBall Herrera

12:38

I don't know why everyone is so worked up about schools opening, we should've gone to uploading information directly into our brains long ago, like they do in that documentary about the matrix

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:38

Is the "z" in zBABIP from "chili with beanz" or "chili five wayz"?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Eww

James

12:39

Depth Charts has the Padres as the 4th best team ROS???

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I'm not seeing what you're looking at.

12:40

In depth charts, the ROS WAR is 13th.

https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Team

Jeff

12:42

Should the Cubs be finding more at bats for Hoerner? I know Kipnis has been good, but will it stunt Hoerner's growth to not play more? Hoerner looks like a possible future all star.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

If the Cubs run away with the division, I can see him getting more time

Eric

12:43

Will the Angles make the postseason this year? I would LOVE to see Trout playing in the playoffs again

Dan Szymborski

12:43

It's tough. 7-12 is a significant hole in a 60-game seaosn

Pujols and Upton have been black holes and the pitching has been mildly barfy

Moose_Bolton

12:44

Several players have started their season in a way that is distinctly unlike their previous seasons. Some have been downright awful. With all of the weirdness associated with this season, are you going to be more or less likely to think that a player's downturns(or upticks) are real or not? I've personally been much more inclined to just go "meh" to everything and I'm not sure that's the right way to do it.

Dan Szymborski

12:44

That's about my answer too. The circumstances are beyond bizarre.

James

12:44

In the Projected Standings 2020 Rest of Season Win%. Maybe it includes SOS?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

Unfortunately, I have little to do with that area, so I don't have any particularly insight into those calculations.

OddBall Herrera

12:45

Apparently they are using my street to train new school bus drivers. If only I had a zombie flash mob ready to go.

Ari

12:45

Other than the teams "punished", what % of teams do you think did some sort of cheating type gaming the system that went unnoticed?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I'm fairly confident most teams push the envelope in one way or another.

Uncle Rone

12:46

Romano vs. Bass? 12-team roto

Dan Szymborski

12:46

I'm not sure I'd be rostering either in a 12-team, but Romano's upside strikes me as more itneresting

Sonny

12:46

I can already feel myself ascribing meaning to the 2020 performances I was rooting for and dismissing the 2020 performances that did not fit my preconceived notions. I'm bad at being a fan.

Seeforman

12:46

The umping seems particularly bad this year, especially the variability of the strike zone. How long til we have robo-umps?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

I really hope soon.

Mike

12:47

So who's your pick for the NL East?

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