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Dan Szymborski Fangraphs Chat - 9/10/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:50

It is.

Jon

12:50

Do the tigers have a lack of interest in trading Castellanos or does he just not have any interest right now? Bat first corner outfielders don't seem to pull in much. And would now really be a good time to trade Fulmer? He's been pretty bad recently

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I dont' think his value's getting any higher.

And I would've traded Fulmer last winter.

Joe Don

12:50

You are the only guy I can think of, aside from Peter Gammons, who might know this: My dad claimed to have read that when Ted Williams first joined the Red Sox org at age 17, he wasn’t allowed to swing during batting practice for about the first month. He allegedly had to stand in the box without a bat and call each pitch, ball or strike. Honing his eye. True? And don’t tell me to ask Gammons, I tried that.

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I don't recall having heard that story before.

Not sure a team would do that at that point in history.

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

12:51

What is the most unexpected thing that has happened in baseball over the last 10 years? Ohtani? Or Royals winning a world series (and making another one)?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

Jose Bautista becoming one of the game's most feared sluggers for a time?

Lunar verLander

12:52

Aside from committing a felony, is there anything an umpire can do that would actually get them fired?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

I'm not sure they'd fire an ump that suitcase nuked a sovereign nation

TKDC

12:52

Do DeGrom and Scherzer have any realistic shot at the MVP?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Probably not. Though Scherzer might have some.

Derek

12:53

The only other ML player named Rowdy (according to FanGraphs) was Rowdy Elliott, who played from... 1910-1920. Which seems about right.

All Cats Are Beautiful

12:53

In light of this study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110907124351.htm is there any place in the zips formula for a race variable? Should this info be factored into awards/hof voting?

Deacon Don

12:54

All games tied after 11 innings should end with kickboxing.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I'm actually unfamiliar with that study.

12:55

Though if minority players are less likely to get good calls, th at would reflect in the data.

Otherwise, it's not a subject I hope not to have to deal with in ZiPS.

King Slender

12:55

Play me Hot Cross Buns while I search my sofa for change to use in the vending machine.

Sean

12:55

What were you playing on the piano?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

http://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c6/IMSLP09065-Kalkbrenner_...

Derek in Little Rock

12:56

Does anything matter?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Anyone can see, nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me

Lunar verLander

12:56

re. Chief Yahoo - wait, is Jeff Passan not allowed in Canada anymore?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I think Chief Yahoo is like a drunk, 3-foot-7 Texan with a giant 10-gallon hunt who lassos whiskey and cheesburgers and sprays the crowd with petroleum from a hose.

Deacon Don

12:57

Hindsight being what it is, if COL had spent $10M on a couple of 110 wRC+ corner bars, would the West be virtually won?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Yes

12:58

Two average players gives teh Rockies like a five-game boost.

Rusty

12:58

Great news, AA is on the hot seat for some indescretion or another and you are on the shortlist of replacements. What do you do this offseason to turn the Braves into a powerhouse?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Stay the course, really.

Extra depends on what I can convince Liberty to spend.

Matt

12:58

The Mets are gonna hire Minaya to be the GM again, aren't they?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

It would be so Mets.

ben

12:58

Favorite horror movies?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Not really into the genre.

hscer

12:58

testing to see if we've reached read-only time

Matt

12:58

I noticed in referencing the "gutsy"ness of a Yanks/As WC game in which they both bullpenned. In said comment you used the world "it'll" (it will) implying that you know, for certain that it will happen. Otherwise, you'd have used "it'ld" (it would). Its time to come clean about your time machine ownership, Dan.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

If I had time machine ownership, my projections would be better.

Matt

12:59

Since adopting "Piano Man" as their 8th inning sing-along song at the start of the 2017 season, the Mets are a combined 34 games below .500. This is not a coincidence.

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