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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/17/18

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Dan Szymborski

12:14

Grilled

LFC Mike

12:14

You can't go wrong with a stack of warm blueberry pancakes with real butter and a heavy dose of pure maple syrup. #Heaven. #Chocolatechippancakessuck

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Sounds too heavy!

The Yankee Way

12:14

I like that ss Rosario on the Mets, but that beard of his is the most ghastly thing I have ever seen. Any chance he shaves it off before next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

It kinda strikes me as something that was velcroed on, like a fifth grader playing Abraham Lincoln in a school play

Ronnie

12:15

Is Cleveland the biggest disappointment this year? Garbage division, some of the biggest stars in the league & they can barely win more games than the Mariners & Rays.

Dan Szymborski

12:15

The bullpen was garbage, but it's hard to call a team winning a division the biggest disappointment.

Especially when you can head on over to Washington.

Pluto's Utter Disgust

12:15

Nobody said a $%#&*^%$#@(word to me about being declassified as a planet. Did they ask Pluto from Walt Disney either?

Johnny Baseball

12:15

If the Giants go under .500 next year, will management finally clean house and embrace the rebuild?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

If it happens another year, I think they finally do.

tb.25

12:15

Did Fangraphs give you a lifetime contract?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

In the sense that my stint could end with the murder of me by Carson, yes?

The Yankee Way

12:16

Is Greg Bird going to be one of those players who succeeds as soon as he gets the heck out of NYC?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I'm not sure. He's not a well-rounded hitter and he's missed a lot of development time.

Jake

12:16

Who gets the second NL WC?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

The team with the second-best record out of all of the teams that do not win their division, after necessary tiebreakers/play-ins.

jake

12:16

Do you think the White Sox should be more encouraged that Carlos Rodon has been healthy and able to shoulder a heavy workload with a low ERA, or more concerned that his strikeout/walk numbers look really mediocre and his peripherals scream heavy regression? Realistically is his ceiling a decent number 3 starter?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

At this point, they should just be happy he's healthy and pitching. I'd worry more about results next season.

Ronnie

12:18

Chase Anderson has been a FIP beater his whole career & even more extremely so since he got to the Brewers. What's the deal with that?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

A lot seems to be due to his huge on-base/bases empty splits. It's like 100 points of OPS IIRC

Erik Neander and Chaim Bloom

12:19

Raise your hand if you had the Rays winning percentage over .500 for the season.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

Not me as a mean, but I did have them 1-in-3 to do so.

Silly Season

12:19

A Szymborski is never late, nor is he early. He arrives exactly when he means to.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

It's hard to login unintentionally.

Ronnie

12:19

Do you prefer answering chat questions you know the answer to already, ones which intrigue you & require a little research or more meta questions about the chat itself?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I like deeper questions outside of chats when I can actually think of things and research.

12:20

I can't really go away for 45 minutes and then come back with an answer.

I like to keep chats lively, light, and moving.

Now *weird* questions always intrigue m e.

And I stay away from fantasy questions that are reader team-specific, since those are only applicable to the person asking the question.

12:21

"Name 7 of this list of 11 to keep" is only really interesting to the person asking.

And we have fantasy specific chats!

Kyler

12:21

I know you can't give away all the fun ZiPS info, but Acuna and Soto have to have two of the most promising future projections, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

Yes

takez

12:21

If the Rockies win the division, does that mean you have to shut fangraphs down? proving the nerds wrong that instead of a launch angle shmuck at first all you need is grit and determination