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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/6/18

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Dan Szymborski

2:32

especially when it may be things like the DELTAS that are more important.

Filly Phantic

2:32

Has Nick Pivetta reached his peak or are we just seeing the tip of the iceberg with him?

Dan Szymborski

2:32

I'd certainly like to see the ERA head towards his peripherals for one!

2:33

But I'm optimistic - his curve and slider can both be brutal to hitters

Matt

2:34

Coming into Yanks/Sox series, a Yankee sweep would have been great. As of early Sat afternoon, a split would have left us at 5.5 which left the division still obtainable. Sunday afternoon, getting to 6.5 made the division an uphill battle. How realistic is the division now, at 8.5? Still a 6 game series H2H (which, in theory should have Judge/Stanton) and a relatively weak schedule compared to the Sox.

Dan Szymborski

2:34

It's a long shot.

And bad news for ya, it's 9.5!

It's plausible, but a lot has to go right for the Yankees and wrong for the Red Sox.

Daniel Castro

2:35

Why won't the Rockies call me up and let me mash the finest of taters?

Dan Szymborski

2:35

I'm not sure you're going to be a tater-masher even remotely!

2:36

But Castro has played poorly

in th emajors

and unless

Why do I keep hitting enter?

Unless you're a 30-year-old mediocrity, Colorado has no patience for poor play.

Eloy Jiminez

2:36

Michael Kopech and I thing the service time issue is stupid. We need to develop and do it in the bigs. Right?

Dan Szymborski

2:37

I think Eloy yes. Kopech, there's a real argument for more consistency of his command before he hits the majors.

Sir Nerdlington

2:37

How much weight do you think teams put into performance volatility? Do you think teams are trying to optimize this as well?

Dan Szymborski

2:37

I haven't found a great deal of value on an individual level, though it's possible someone's found something I've not. Nothing I've heard buzzing about this.

CubbieBlues

2:38

Thanks for chatting! Would you bet on anyone in the Cubs organization having a greater than 50% chance of making the Hall of Fame?

Dan Szymborski

2:38

Closest would be Bryant, but I don't think it's 50% yet

Even before considering the garbage job the voters have done for midspectrum players (3B, 2B, CF)

Kiermaier's Fleeting Hygge

2:40

Good Monday to you Dan. I hope your weekend hygge doesn't devolve into anger and resentment over the next hour or so. How do you think ZIPs will handle Nimmo and Jake Bauers for 2019? Bauers has shown a little extra thump and is holding his own. Lastly, it must be a regional thing because I nor any of my friends ever heard of punchbuggy. #Slugbugrules. Did you have a designated color VW for extra points or extra slugs into the poor soul travelling with you?

Dan Szymborski

2:41

I think ZiPS will be more of a believe - the year-to-year Full-on ZiPS is

more robust than in-season.

I dunno about

you crazies playing Slug Bug.

Didn't usually play with house rules

Filly Phantic

2:42

Why won’t the Mets play any prospect or young guys more? Shouldn’t you see what you have for the future?

Dan Szymborski

2:42

And take time from strapping young go-getter Jose Reyes?

stever20

2:42

If Nats make playoffs, any shot that Scherzer wins NL MVP this year?

Dan Szymborski

2:42

If they made the playoffs, there's a chance. Nobody's having a CRAZY CRAZY year in the NL overall and there's that somewhat arbitrary distinction of when a pitcher gets MVP consideration.

CubbieBlues

2:43

If you were Sports Czar for a day, what sweeping rules changes would you decree?

Dan Szymborski

2:43

No regional blackouts whatsoever on streams!

Dbo

2:43

Not to get too much into politics but is it fair to think less of a person for putting ketchup on their steak?

Dan Szymborski

2:43

Of course it is fair.

Nolan Arenado

2:43

Will I wear a Rockies uniform my entire career?

Dan Szymborski

2:43

I've seen you in street clothes.

And no.

Angelus Novus

2:44

An ascetic of old finds refuge by a 95 off-ramp/He meditates in medians and wears traffic cones upon his head/They call him careless, catatonic, no friend of society/He carries dead cats and car seats from the road.

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