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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/6/2019

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Dan Szymborski

2:01

IT IS CHAT TIME

Appa Yip Yip

2:01

Is Marcus Stroman the Mets best infielder now?

Dan Szymborski

2:01

It's possible, lol!

Zipp

2:02

LFGM

Dan Szymborski

2:02

My favorite thing about the Mets is that they essentially had a terrific deadline (picking up Stroman and NOT trading Thor or Wheeler) because they failed their second part of that plan.

Philip

2:02

2 questions: Is the zips stats only prospect ranking going to happen? And with the 3 year Zips projections is there a plan to have auto daily updates based on new statistical changing info?

Dan Szymborski

2:03

Yup. I'm trying to figure out when to do it in the winter so I can do it 6 months apart. I'm trying to hit for next week since August will be slower than usual.

Seth lugo

2:04

Lugo is 3 outs away from a reliever perfect game and hasn’t given up a hit in 10 innings. Is he somehow the one underrated player who plays in New York?

Dan Szymborski

2:04

He's a solid reliever! I should note there have been plenty of underrated New York players.

Gary Sanchez right now.

Bernie Williams

2:05

Mike Mussina

CamdenWarehouse

2:05

I miss the weekly Cistulli jabs. Can you find some way to work them into the chats or articles?

Dan Szymborski

2:05

I try to keep them only occasional since it's harder for him to be mean back now.

Moose_Bolton

2:05

Do you have an opinion on the different styles of barbecue and if so would you share it with us? I was just in Memphis over the weekend and the opinion of the people that I went with was that their ribs were very good.

Dan Szymborski

2:05

I do like Memphis ribs

2:06

But the style I like the best generally is the east NC style

especially with pulled pork

vinegar-and-pepper without any tomato!

Dbo

2:06

Have you heard the news that the Phillies might lose the Fanatic as a mascot?!? Who should they replace him with?

Dan Szymborski

2:07

Tim

2:08

How should I be parsing BaseRuns saying that the Yankees record is +10 games better than it should be? Is BaseRuns predictive of future performance enough that we should believe that they are really about as good as the Rays, but have just been lucky?

Dan Szymborski

2:08

I wouldn't call it predictive as it's a past measure

But it does indicate underperformance based on expectations

From the stats

not people's expectations

Jim Leyland Palmer

2:08

Dan, what are you thoughts on abortion?

Dan Szymborski

2:08

Really?