JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/19

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/19

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Dbo

12:31

At what point do we make the NL Central stop playing baseball and instead make each team send 2 players to an island to battle it out Hunger Games style to decide the Division winner?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Team Entropy!

12:32

I still want there to be a 9 way tie that MLB settles by ONE MASSIVE GAME IN WHICH EVERY TEAM PLAYS A WHOLE INNING AGAINST EVERY OTHER TEAM

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Syndergaardengnomes

12:32

Bryce Harper is the obvious Luck comp... Former overall #1, huge hype ahead of time, occasionally been great, but maybe not as great as the expectations...

CamdenWarehouse

12:32

Is not the best at his position a fair comp for Luck given the relative importance of QB? Luck had to be one of the 12-15 most valuable guys in the league

12:33

OK, the names you gave seem fair

Freddie Kitchens

12:33

Should Austin Seibert or Greg Joseph be the kicker for the Browns?

CamdenWarehouse

12:33

never mind

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I have no opinion on that!

Mini Turtle

12:34

Is Alex Rodriguez somehow I’m better PR shape than Derek Jeter?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

It's really weird how they've kinda flipped.

Jenny

12:34

Saw a list that suggested Luck was one of the thirty best QBs in the super bowl era up to age 29. But there has been about 1600 starting QBs seasons and almost 25000 starting hitter seasons in the world series era so that like just as good as being a top 450 hitter through age 29!

brad

12:34

Dan, going into 2020, would you say valuing Lance Lynn as a high floor #2 who is a low injury risk?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I don't think that's far off

E

12:34

Open face sandwiches can go to hell. Too much work to eat.

ScottNC

12:34

Probably the most impressive thing about Yordan Alvarez is that opponents seem to be pitching around him. Do you see that happening in the playoffs?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I'd pitch around him

Cove Dweller

12:34

Pavement released "Feed em to the Lions (Linden)" the year Aaron Judge was born. Coincidence?

Gub Gub

12:34

What's the most British word you can think of? Mine is "indubitably"

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Pronouncing innovative with the emphasis on the first syllable

12:35

THe first time I heard INN-o-vuh-tiv I wanted to flip over a table

Klews

12:36

What do you make of James Paxton's demolition of the Dodgers? Anything you saw that particularly stood out that could be a sign of change for him?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Hard to tell since I couldn't tell who any of the teams were this weekend.

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OK, that's mean

Just from my memory, he looked like he was throwing a lot of curves, but changes aren't that huge generally

I'd have to dig into it more to answer this

Bo

12:37

Is this a year that being the #2 seed in the NL wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing? As the Braves, I'd rather face the NL Central champ than the WC winner in a short series.

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I don't think it's a big deal either way

12:38

You lose home field and you're not *certain* to end up getting the nats

Aaron Judge

12:38

I have awakened. For all the DJ/Gio/Tauchman stuff (and Gleyber rising), that team with me in the lineup and alive is a different animal, would you agree?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Well, you are a living beast mode.

If I voted in that award, I'd give Boone Manager of Year

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Klews

12:39

Baseball is so weird

Ryan

12:39

What did you think of the players weekend jerseys?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

ZIM SMASH

Freeman

12:39

Freddie Freeman...

Dan Szymborski

12:39

...a rabbi and a priest go into a bar.

They are friends and are having lunch.

Klews

12:39

Is a pop tart a ravioli?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

You could argue it's a dessert ravioli and the crust is a weird sort of pasta dough

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