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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/20/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:44

And to ever work in a public-facing job again, he's going to have to change a lot of people's minds.

JHey

12:44

Let's celebrate the fourth straight season of Heyward "possibly" putting it together. I'm so seriousness, he's improved in five straight seasons back towards being a productive player.

Jon

12:44

Did I hear that you out Craig was coming out with an article to discuss stars that have struggled do fast?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Wait, what?

OddBall Herrera

12:44

You'd personally fire him? I'm a fan of firing people over snail mail myself

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I'd have fired him on air!

Chris

12:45

Kyle Lewis!!

Slapshot

12:45

Was Thom Brennaman's "apology" made better or worse by that absolutely deadpanned home run call he made during the middle of it?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I'm not even sure, it was just the weirdest thing.

12:46

As I said on Twitter

Brennaman giving the Gettysburg Address.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, my Door Dash is here, I'm going to grab some fries, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal".

OH GOD THE PERIOD IS OUTSIDE THE QUOTATION MARK

Big Dawg

12:46

Since you already talked about Mize, can you give your first impressions of Dunning?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Dunning also showed some flashes and like Mize, there were a few mistakes that were just crushed

12:48

I think he ran out of energy quickly. He was just sloppy at the end of the 4th

Joe

12:49

I meant what did ZIPS predict Trout would do in his years 3 to 10 after year 2. So when Trout was Tatis' age

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Oh hold on

12:52

Oh, on Altuve, zBABIP thinks Altuve should have a .313 BABIP

I'm doing a zBABIP thing next week.

12:55

Year BA OBP SLG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO HP SB CS SH SF + DR WAR 2013 .282 .361 .507 156 607 122 171 28 11 29 83 71 149 8 47 8 2 7 142 9 8.2 2014 .288 .372 .545 155 598 127 172 30 11 34 90 76 146 8 43 7 2 7 155 9 9.2 2015 .293 .381 .573 156 597 133 175 31 11 38 96 81 142 8 47 7 2 7 165 9 10.2 2016 .292 .384 .580 156 593 134 173 30 12 39 97 85 144 8 47 7 2 7 168 9 10.3 2017 .288 .382 .569 156 591 134 170 30 11 38 95 87 145 8 46 7 2 7 165 8 9.9 2018 .287 .385 .568 156 588 134 169 29 11 38 95 90 147 8 45 6 2 7 166 8 10.0 2019 .285 .386 .576 155 583 135 166 29 12 39 96 92 150 8 45 6 2 7 168 8 10.0 2020 .282 .384 .561 154 578 132 163 28 11 37 93 92 149 8 42 6 2 7 163 8 9.4 2021 .282 .383 .553 152 571 129 161 28 11 35 89 90 140 8 39 6 2 7 161 8 9.1 2022 .282 .380 .554 149 561 124 158 26 11 35 87 85 130 8 36 6 2 7 160 7 8.8 2023 .275 .371 .528 144 545 116 150 25 10 31 80 79 122 8 34 6 2 6 151 7 7.7 2024 .273 .367 .508 138 524 108 143 23 8 28 74 74 111 7 25 4 2 6 144 7 6.8 202

Wow, that looks like garbage

12:55

Can we continue the weekly trend of you saying nice things about the Cubs pitching?

Guest

12:56

We all love position players pitching and all the fun it brings, but has anyone ever looked into emergency backup catchers? I'd be interested in seeing some of the worst single game catching performances of all time!

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I don't anyone's done that

de la

12:56

Is there any chance of adding some kind of Tommy John penalty to Zips? Control seems to be the last thing to come back. Ohtani’s projection this year was optimistic, and with Sale and Syndergaard returning next year, just seems like a projection in line with past performance would be also.

Dan Szymborski

12:56

There is one, but there's a lot of uncertainty in TJ returns

The Ohtani without TJ projection was even better!

The Real Dan Szymborski

12:57

SHAME

12:57

Happy NBA draft lottery day! Would you like to see something like this added to MLB?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Yes

To determine balls, I'd give a ball to each of the non-playoff teams compared to how many more wins they had than the worst team in baseball

12:58

Do you think no fans will give us some statitical info on home field advantage and where the “advantadge” comes from? Is the short schedule enough sample size.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Some. I've found that HFA and attendance haven't meant all that much

James

12:59

3B Manny Machado made an over the shoulder basket catch at the warning track in RF this week. I don’t think that was talked about enough.

Guest

12:59

I really don't like how devastating every "Player X goes to IL" headline feels in this shortened season

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Because it is!