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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/12/2019

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Dan Szymborski

1:03

special

Matt

1:03

Dan, I want you to have the correct answer (my answer) to questions, but I want you to arrive there yourself.

Dan Szymborski

1:03

THIS FEELS LIKE A TRIAL~!

Bill

1:04

Dan who is the most handsome person in this chat? (The answer I want you to give is me)

Dan Szymborski

1:04

You are Bill!

Especially if you're the Bill of Bill's Donuts near me.

I only get donuts once or twice a year, but man those are great donuts

Adam

1:04

Seems like Roberts is transitioning half his staff to pitch multi-inning/piggyback roles in the postseason... and I kind of think it might work? How worried should I be about the Dodgers' pen in October?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I think there's a chance of it working.

CamdenWarehouse

1:04

there is about a 2200 mile gap between the Dodgers and Braves

Dan Szymborski

1:04

When they're playing home games. You have to calculate their average positions for road games.

Matt

1:04

Dan Szymborski, willing to sell compliments for donuts.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

We're all sellouts.

Klews

1:05

Wade Davis is

Big Joe Mufferaw

1:05

Why would DJ LeMahieu be WTF vote? He has been great and literally the only healthy yankee all year, and the most valuable player on the best team. It's understandable based on the criteria of MVP (its not most outstanding or best player award as we have seen with the voting)

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Except, of course, that's exactly what the MVP is.

1:06

“The rules of the voting remain the same as they were written on the first ballot in 1931: (1) actual value of a player to his team, that is, strength of offense and defense; (2) number of games played; (3) general character, disposition, loyalty and effort; (4) former winners are eligible; and (5) members of the committee may vote for more than one member of a team.”

.Value is "strength of offense and defense."

Why would we give LeMahieu an award for Didi Gregorius being injured?

What's the point of an award like that?

Ryan

1:06

I'm here to ask questions and shit on your answers...and I'm all out of questions...

stever20

1:06

I think if the Dodgers were to lose in the NL playoffs, it'd be to the Nats in a best of 5 rather than anyone else in best of 7.

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Yeah, the series of 5 against a slightly worse team is riskier for a favorite than 7.

Matt

1:07

I was thinking about this yesterday when reading a tweet about the age-old "MVP must be on a contender" argument. Are you familiar with Rothbard? I used to believe that the argument was incredibly dumb, but from a Rothbardian economics sense, it might make sense at least that a player on a non-contender needs to be more better to beat out a great player on a contender.

Dan Szymborski

1:07

But baseball is a fairly closed system compared to an economy.

Thom

1:07

If Cleveland makes the division series, how should they line up their SP?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

On the mound would be the best place.

1:08

The Hartford Dark Blues tried using them at first, but it just led to a lot of balks.

Matt

1:08

I actually didn't think you were very hard on the new Marlins regime. To me it read as cautious skepticism with a hint of positivity.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I didn't even make a single joke about the number of fans!

(I don't think)

Matt

1:09

Personally, I think you should cover content appropriate to the site. More questions about fans and graphs. I'll start. Do you prefer ceiling fans, or computer fans?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

They each have their purpose

Big Joe Mufferaw

1:09

IF Severino comes back healthy and throwing HEAT next week, how would you utilize him the ROS and PS?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I'd ease him in with the idea of starting him in playoffs

Will finish with an AI answer for "Wade Davis is"

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