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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:24

I'm cautiously optimistic. His improvement isn't *just* power and anyone who can fake SS *and* catcher has a very low bar to pass offensively

Magic Kingdome

12:24

Has a player been called up this year who was not even in the ZiPS database?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

Most definitely!

Hold on

12:25

As of midseason, it was 0 hitters and I believe 3 pitchers, but I don't have those handy

Bork

12:25

His father is commish so probably.

Dan Szymborski

12:26

The fun of lag is I don't know what this refers to!

v2micca

12:26

Which current active MLB player suddenly announcing his retirement would be the equivalent shock of Andrew Luck hanging up his cleats?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

OK, wouldn't be Trout

Since Trout's better relatively than Luck

Think of a mid-career star who is a star, but not obviously best at his position.

12:27

But who is also famous

I'm not sure Rendon is as baseball-famous as luck is football-famous

Maybe Mookie Betts?

Noah Syndergaard?

Texas Leaguer

12:28

Crystal Ball Da my.

Use Emojis!

12:28

Don't let Dan take them away from us!

tan mom

12:28

sorry about the loss of Galileo, take care

Texas Leaguer

12:28

Crystal Ball Danny Boy, Do you see the Bird Flu resigning Ozuna or is the youth movement finally arrived with guys like Ozuna, Molina, Carpenter, Wainwright finally showing their batteries are not replaceable?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I don't think they're going to re-sign Ozuna

Xolo

12:28

Renfroe hit 27 home runs in the first half and only 4 in the second. Is this a blip or has the league caught up to him real quick?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I think it's a blip

Mind of Maddon

12:28

How valuable is it to fit a hitter to a park? A flyball hitter in a park with short fences, etc? Are park factors just not that individually impactful, or are there players with significant enough differences between their wrc and their wrc+?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

It can add a few runs here and there. It's generally not massive

Magic Kingdome

12:29

In Hawaii, your chat starts before breakfast -- I mean, I have not even opened the can of spam yet.

Dan Szymborski

12:29

You just need to use an ET clock and just know that daytime is PM

Jon

12:29

Follow up on ISO... What information should I extract?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

But what are you trying to do?

Cowboy Joe West

12:30

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Cream

12:30

Who should win an award? Player 1: 3.7 fWAR / 5.1 bWAR vs. Player 2: 4.1 fWAR / 4.3bWAR

Dan Szymborski

12:30

Probably the first one, but I'd want to know a lot more!

Slapshot

12:30

Can we still really call Anthony Rendon underrated when he's about to put up his third straight 6+ WAR season? Or is he going to finally be properly rated now that he's about to hit free agency?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

It depends on who is doing the rating

If you talk about fandom reputation, I think he's still underrated

Ryan

12:31

Assuming everyone was equally rested (which wouldn't be the case, but lets pretend), who would the Cubs start in a wild card game?