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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/6/2019

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Dan Szymborski

2:56

Mom moved out here some years ago and she's getting older and has some physical mobility issues, so I moved out here too

Dees

2:56

LIBOR is going away anyway! SOFR is the new benchmark rate soon!

Dbo

2:56

I think you should have a cat World Series during the actual world series similar to how the puppy bowl is during the super bowl

Dan Szymborski

2:56

I don't have enough cats to make that work.

Fang Raphs

2:57

Folks, it's just TWTW, not the TWTW. That's like saying ATM machine

EndlessBacklash

2:57

Is projecting Bryce Harper becoming a fool's errand? Since his MVP season, he's been like 2008/2009/2011 Carlos Pena with the bat and many were expecting much more. Throw in the fact that his K-rate has been steadily going UP for awhile as he goes into his prime seems concerning, especially since he debuted and thrived so young. Any insight or is it just a shoulder shrug?

Dan Szymborski

2:57

Well, players are volatile. We'll do OK in the aggregate

Dbo

2:57

Dan, I think we can settle "is a grilled cheese a sandwich" debate by setting a hard viscosity rule for the cheese!

Sabermetric Steve

2:58

Sanchez 7ip 2 h 1 bb tnight just watch

Dan Szymborski

2:58

It's Greinke night, no?

Dale Gribble

2:59

What's your favorite place that you've been to that didn't have good food?

Dan Szymborski

2:59

Scotland

Mike

2:59

Please acknowledge that bunting is dumb and wastes at bats (or explain why it isn't dumb, I guess)

Dan Szymborski

2:59

In a lot of instances, it is dumb

3:00

But here's the thing - the *threat* of a bunt is useful. And it doesn't take a high bunt-for-hit success rate to change the whole break-even points drastically

Chuncey Wiggins

3:01

I guess my question, should be how far ahead are Alonso/Tatis in your estimation than Soroka?

Dan Szymborski

3:01

Not drastically

Todd

3:01

The Pirates need to cut ties with Neal Huntington, right? It just feels like the franchise is a laughingstock amongst the industry

Dan Szymborski

3:01

I think they need to cut ties with their ownership

Joe

3:01

Dan, how do you propose to defeat 30-50 hogs when they inevitably invade our baseball diamonds?

Dan Szymborski

3:01

Slow cooking over wood

CamdenWarehouse

3:02

Especially that fourth of July bunting everyone uses

Chuncey Wiggins

3:02

What's your favorite bad place that had good food?

Dan Szymborski

3:02

York PA used to have an unbelievably good Thai place

AAAA guys

3:02

If I were another team, I might never trade Cashman a post-hype mid-20s hitter again. Why is the team good at this very specific thing and why aren't other teams? I expect this skill to fail them when possibly playing Houston, but far stranger things have happened than a team getting hot for a week at the right time.

Dan Szymborski

3:03

I'm still laughing at the Mets not wanting to trade with the Astros because the Astros might fix someone they trade to them

Chat Mapman

3:03

You could also be Bae's Theorem...I'll show myself out

splendiferous__finch

3:03

why did the giants think they could make the playoffs with tyler beede and shaun anderson in the rotation

Dan Szymborski

3:03

Because you don't actually have to be really good to be in the NL playoff race this year

3:04

Until the Pirates started collapsing, the qualifier for "Are you an NL WC contender?" was basically "Are you not the Marlins?"

NotGraphs Revivalist

3:04

Sup Dan, I'm the rando that tweeted at you regarding Mike Tauchman outperforming the entire Rockies OF

Dan Szymborski

3:05

You know if Mike Tauchman was a Batman villain, he'd be obsessed with clocks and time and call himself Tick Tock

It's amazing how Batman villains like to base their villain entities around parts of their name.

WTF does Szymborski become?

CamdenWarehouse

3:05

Galileo ate the sun, not a Dragon. You're late getting him dinner

Guest

3:05

marcus* please dont pick my answer

Oddball Herrera

3:06

I chat through stuff at work all the time. It only gets a little hairy when I am doing particularly delicate surgeries but I manage.

Dan Szymborski

3:06

Somehow, my Tuesday chats are weirder than my Monday ones!

OK on that note, it's time to depart for another six days.

Thanks for coming everyone!

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