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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/19/2019

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Dan Szymborski

12:48

These two I've named Constantine and Justinian.

JustCurious

12:48

Machado's wRC+ this year is 106. His career road wRC+ (best proxy I can get quickly to production outside Camden) is also 106. A lot of people flagged this as a concern in the offseason.

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I think he'll be fine long-term

It's dangerous to use road performance

Magic Kingdome

12:50

Jimmy Rollins won an MVP?!?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

He did!

Unless I've lost my mind

Guest

12:50

Did you play Strat O Matic as a kid? It's a lit game

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Slightly too young for it's peak years but I had Dynasty League Baseball in the mid-90s.

billie flyballish

12:52

are you a fan of Pliny the Elder?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

LORD PALMERSTON

Wait, that's Pitt

Geust

12:53

What % of questions do you answer?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

About a third. You guys ask a LOT of questions

Peanut butter haircut

12:53

Just read that Michael Chavis has "not responded well to baseball activities." Does that mean he's cryptic in his email correspondence with baseball activities or that he gave baseball activities the finger?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I always liked baseball activities as a term.

12:54

"Hey should we say Rick is healthy again?"

"No, let's just say he's resumed his daily constitutional of activities of a baseballiary nature, as is his wont."

mikecws91

12:55

Really enjoyed your White Sox elegy. How many free agent SP do you think they should be looking to add this winter? I'm thinking two, since Giolito/Lopez/Kopech/Cease is a young and talented group, but it seems foolish to count on all 4 to be MLB caliber AND healthy in 2020.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

Hard to say. I don't like rigid planning

12:56

There are lots of scenarios and contract lengths at which it would make sense and not make sense.

Pat's Bat

12:56

Why don't we just let players use performance enhancing drugs off a predetermined list under medical supervision? Get some actual science in there rather than a flat ban. I'm worried that a lot of today's superstars will have shorter careers because they can't keep training or recovering from injury as they age.

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Because East German women's swimming team.

Guest

12:56

For a sandwich, can anything used in a bread-like fashion be bread? Bacon? Honeydew? Fruit Rollups?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Well, a sandwich like.

ben

12:56

Would you consider sharing your chili recipe with the world, or is it a secret?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Meat, chili peppers, seasoning.

You can go anywhere you want from that

You guys never use the peanut gallery!

Geust

12:58

How much of player development is playing time and how much is growing into one's athletic prime?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I'm not sure you can compartmentalize.

Jim Leyland Palmer

12:58

Corned beef or pastrami?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Pastrami

stever20

12:59

what do you make of Pujols 2nd half this year? He's got a OPS over .800 and a wRC+ of 111. Is this just a fluke?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Yeah

CamdenWarehouse

12:59

Three? I thought you had four. Or does Mercutio not count as a housepanther?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Tuxedo cats don't count as housepanthers.

Maybe a housepanda.

Joe

12:59

Does ZiPS give percentile chances of a player's projection? As in, what is the percentile that Acuña could go 50/50 next season?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

ZiPS gives all sorts of things! But I have to run it

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