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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/6/20

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Filthy Pitching

12:16

Is there a team with a better starting pitching core than Walker Buehler, Dustin May and Julio Urias? For bonus points, which of the three do you think will turn out the best?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I think this is still speculative.

Bill

12:16

The Red Sox look awful. Good thing they sold high on Betts to focus on the future 👀

Dan Szymborski

12:16

heh

Will

12:16

It looked like at times the Reds had figured out Shane Bieber's pitch sequences. Do you think he'll sustain this level of pitching for much longer?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I think so. Falling into patterns is something people need to watch for.

Slapshot

12:16

If Yu Darvish loses his glorious Covid inspired mop of hair, does he lose his pitching powers?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I think that there should be a positive correlation between the quality of stuff and hair wildness.

12:18

Like Jered Weaver should look like he was auditioning for Michael J. Fox's role in Family Ties

I need to re-date that reference.

Young Sheldon? I hate referencing Big Bang Theory since I hate that IP

12:19

And degrom is awesome, but the hair is all wrong

Joe

12:19

How will the truncated season effect zips going forward? Will 2021 projections weight the 2020 season any different than normal?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

ZiPS will naturally weigh 2020 lighter than previous previous seasons

LFC Mike

12:19

Thoughts on Turnbull, Voth or Bassitt? My original pitching line up has been decimated...Soroka the latest.... I hope he can overcome that injury. Liked watching him pitch.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

Spencer Turnbull

12:20

plus, he sounds like a British general from the US revolution

SPENCER TURNBULL AND HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL FUSILLI JERRYS

Fangraph’s Lurker

12:20

Lance McCullers Jr....Yikes

Bud Light Jesus

12:20

Stats don’t matter yet, Trout isn’t leading WAR

paneotto

12:21

Do you think Framber is coming around?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

I'm optimistic

o's

12:21

Chances we see the new extra innings rule in 2021?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

10%

Bud Light Jesus

12:22

Will league wide BABIP get back to .300 by the end of the season? What about K and BB percentages?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

I dunno. It's crazy low right now

Which is interesting as it does tell us something about long layoffs

Sanchez being Sanchez

12:22

Is there anything wrong with Gary Sanchez, or is this just his usual streakiness? 60% K rate. His ABs just don't look good.

Dan Szymborski

12:22

His contact has definitely been concerning, but I'm less concerned in an oddball year like this than in a normal one

caesar_solid

12:23

Tyler Chatwood and Zach Plesac - which one of these pitchers 2020 is more representative of their true and current powers?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

I like both. It's ahrd to fake strikeouts.

Though it *might* be a bit easier than normal given the dynamics of league hitters this year

Bauer

12:24

Urias has been in the MLB for five years and is only 23

Dan Szymborski

12:24

Jon Garland only recently turned 40!

Guest

12:25

The Braves are off to a fast start.. but with the latest injury to Soroka.. their starting depth and available MiLB'ers is scarce. Do the Braves make a deal with a team with excess SP'ing (like the Indians?)

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I suspect they don't

ResumeMan

12:25

The complaint about Joe Kelly's suspension being too long are off-base. Not everything is proportional to season length. If Bregman ends up in the hospital with a broken skull, he wouldn't care what the "equivalent in a 162 game season" his injury was.

Are players on PED suspensions getting their suspensions reduced by 2/3 because that's the 'equivalent of 162 games'? Kelly broke a rule, and a rule that was clearly reinforced by the commissioner, that put people in danger. Yes, he was venting a lot of peoples' frustrations but it doesn't change that he was reckless and he wasn't 6/162 reckless

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I think this will be in interesting argument in front of an arbitrator since it hasn't come up before.

There have been shortened seasons, but not *scheduled* shortened seasons like this.

12:26

It does strike me that suspensions should be numbers of games rather than percentages of a season.

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