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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/24/18

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Xberg

12:45

Does Báez have any legitimate case for MVPositionPlayer over Yelich at this point? If you put an extremely high importance on defense and base running, then Lorenzo Cain comes in the the picture. Not to mention Yelich is an elite baserunner as well.

Dan Szymborski

12:46

There's enough uncertainty in our models that we can't say Yelich is *obviously* better than Javy. And there is some hard-to-pin-down value of versatility

Dan the Mets Fan

12:46

How does ZIPS like Jeff McNeil these days?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

A lot, but like Hedberg to the wino eating grapes, dude, you gotta wait

Reggie

12:47

Do you think the Orioles would have interest in bringing back Markakis this offseason to help with the start of the rebuild, similar to how the Braves viewed him?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

They might, though I don't see the point.

Not so much if Duquette's in charge

Clippard_coupon

12:48

Chance that Wendle finishes 1st or 2nd in ROY?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

Very low

12:49

How many writers are going to put him over two of Ohtani, Andujar, Torres?

12:51

Yes, he does well in fWAR, but I don't think that they're voting specifically on just fWAR

Phan

12:51

As a mildly disgruntled, but greatly optimistic Phillies fan i’ve heard some wild reactionary takes on the team. What should they do this offseason?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

$$$$ klentak gonna let it rain

12:52

OK guys, I'm horribly behind in questions

so I'm answering mostly short ones that I can do in time

James

12:53

Imagine you have the statistical knowledge of a 1995 sportswriter. Call the major award winners.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

JD Martinez, Javier Baez

Snell, Scherzer

Pad Squad

12:54

If you were the Padres, what's the maximum offer you'd be willing to extend to Machado? Harper?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

300, 200

H8rproof82

12:54

Jeff, can you explain why your stupid zippies system hates the Royasl so much. Their a great team just about to bust through again cuz GMDM IS DA GAWD!

Matt

12:54

Boneless wings and tenders are way too long to be considered a "nugget" which would be a relatively squareish/cubeish shape. Facts, Dan. Facts.

Jonathan

12:55

The Royals have got to be selling on Merrfield this offseason right? dude's stock can't go much higher one would think.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

They ought to be for sure.

Zonk

12:56

Are you a believer or a skeptic on Ian Happ? Scary K-rates, Z-Contact rates!

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Mild believer.

Guest

12:56

Your preseason projections for Acuña were just stupidly high, and Acuña made it look even dumber with his ridiculous season. Is he the best player in the NL next year?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

The argument is surprisingly not hard to make.

Dbo

12:56

Do you keep an emergency cheesesteak behind glass so you can break into it in case of emergency?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

No, but I'm irresponsible iwth safety

Shameless Cardinals Homer

12:56

Re: the chicken nuggets comment, isn't the same true of french fries, home fries, potato wedges, hash browns, etc? It's all just a way to make fried potato seem sexy and delicious (which it is).

Matt

12:57

Emergency cheesesteak. This seems like a much better option than pocket dogs. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

KVB

12:57

Don't forget chicken rings...the tastiest part of the bird

A Fish Called Wonder

12:57

Is Mike Trout better at the blues than Walter Trout is at baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

He probably has some blues about the ANgels

Ginny

12:57

one name I'd throw out for underappreciated young players this year: David Fletcher, who has 1.9 WAR in 80 games due to some excellent defense at second

kevinthecomic

12:57

Markakis is a FA this year. Couldn't the Padres build around him?

Matt

12:57

Have you ever thought about releasing ZiPS as a bunch of bounded randomly generated numbers and see if anyone notices?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Would want to see Dave's reaction to that in a meeting.

12:58

I think about something like that to amuse myself, but all an analyst has is their credibility!

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