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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/26/24

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Dan Szymborski

1:04

I tihnk he's making a case, but I don't think he has huge upside or anything

#1MetsFan

1:04

Last question of the year: Who is the most annoying fanbase?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Are you TRYING to get me in trouble?

1:05

I get it in enough trouble on my own

Justin

1:05

How do you rate Dave Dombrowski as a GM? He always has good teams but at the same time seems to have a hard time with player evaluation. I think the Nick Castellanos and Taijuan Walker FA signings where bad when they signed and he seems to overpay in trades for relievers (soto for vierling, estevez trade). It's almost like hes stuck in 2010 but the Phillies are really good so I'm not sure what to make of it.

Dan Szymborski

1:06

I think he's still quite solid. I think he may be overrated these days on pure talent acquisition, but he's always underrated as a general administrator/leader

He's always run a very professional, competent front office

1:07

And as far as I can tell, whenever there are ex-player hangers-on in a Dombrowski FO, they're there for a reason, as in specific insight, not nostalgia

Though exact interactions between front office people is the product of educated guesses

I'm friendly with front offices and sell data to anybody, but both sides are very careful about how much information they share

1:08

me for ethical reasons, them for practical ones. I'm not a beat guy, but I *am* a journalist still

War2d2

1:08

My brothers and I were talking about what we'd do if we suddenly became A) billionaires and B) owners of the White Sox (I'm a Cubs fan but from the South Side, so my family was all Sox fans). I don't actually know what I'd do--if I came in as someone familiar with sabermetrics but not knowing anyone in the game, would I hire a consultant to help with hiring a "good" front office? Would the league help with finding that guy? Or would it be best to find Theo Epstein's cell number and beg him to take the reins?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Hiring an old-school new-school guy to help you assemble a front office isn't a bad notion

If I suddenly became a billionaire, I'm not buying a sports team

I'd just take a lighter workload and spend the rest of the time goofing off

#1MetsFan

1:10

Hasn't the last 6 years been enough of a Trag/arity for Mets fans to get some good ju ju? Unforunately I am seriously asking

Dan Szymborski

1:10

YOu'd need to chart the data

Syndergaardengnomes

1:10

Mets and Phillies both played London "home" games three months ago. No reason the Braves couldn't have played a neutral site home game. It's a lot more equitable solution than the Mets flying from Milwaukee to Atlante for a doubleheader on Monday.

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I'm not sure I'd categorize those games as the same genre, so those were planned "events"

Tyler

1:11

So you think many of the players are playing injured? As a whole the team is underperforming based on injuries, yes. But Murphy, Olson, Albies, Riley, Harris, Acuna all with very disappointing seasons

Dan Szymborski

1:11

No, some have just sucked

but Acuna/Strider loss is MASSIVE

Appa Yip Yip

1:11

Is a perfect game worth 1 full WAR? Why or why not?

Dan Szymborski

1:11

Well, WAR isn't really designed on this kind of micro level

Philosophically, it shouldn't be

1:12

Unless the perfect game was 27 strikeouts, the defensive players earned some WAR and someone had to score the run or the game never ends

1:13

Worded that badly

Giancarlo Hall of Fame?

1:13

What are voters going to do with Stanton's career if he reaches say 500-550 home runs

Dan Szymborski

1:13

Depends how much he limps to it

at his current trajectory, I'm a no

but I'm also not the median Hall voter

Appa Yip Yip

1:13

Do you remember Base Wars? The fighting robot baseball game? They should remake that.

Dan Szymborski

1:13

I do

War2d2

1:13

The most annoying part of the Braves/Mets thing is that the Texas Super Walmart Dome was empty. They could have taken the 90min flight to Arlington and gotten all the games in.

Dan Szymborski

1:14

On that note, it's time for me to head out ofr another week

Thanks for coming everyone!

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