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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/28/23

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Dan Szymborski

12:45

Found it!

12:46

Obviously,e xtremely speculative

Guards Insider

12:46

Great article you wrote last year re your NL ROY Ballot choices! The NL ROY is a lock and the AL ROY seems closer than I thought when examining Tanner Bibee's season (he started in the minors and did not play in MLB in 2022, unlike the other candidates, which makes his season more impressive). I enjoyed your explanation of voting for Trevor Rogers which made me think of this year's AL ROY. How do you see the AL voting this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

I think Gunnar's got it

12:47

Asteroids

12:48

Why doesn’t dusty baker play Yainer Diaz as the primary catcher? Shouldn’t he?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

I'm more confused by his occasional suspicion of Chas

Gus Chiggins

12:49

i made a traditional hot dog: bun, dog, mustard. I take one aggressive bite, causing the bun to tear along its crease, such that the bun is two pieces. I continue eating. Was i eating a sandwich or hot dog after the first bite?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

You converted it into a sandwich

SporerBurner

12:49

Which Fangraphs staff (current or former) would receive an 80 grade for eyebrows?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I don't think there's any FGer that I've met that I've had a notable position on their eyebrows, good or ill

I probably have the worst eyebrows of any FG employee

12:51

For some reason, they're platinum blonde (my head hair is dark blonde and my beard is red) and they grow wild and crazy

But I'm really incompetent about trimming them and half the time, I end up carving a big chunk off the eybbrows

I once accidentally shaved off 80% of one eyebrow so I shaved them both off and looked odd for a few weeks

Star Wars name

12:51

Seby Zavala

Fred

12:51

Jaff Decker is the most Star Wars name of all time

Gertrude

12:51

Myrtle is this your wall please respond here it’s safe

Where am i

Retired WFT Fan

12:52

Can you give us more stories about bars and/or restaurant deals in Baltimore County in the early 2000s?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

Ha, I'm sorry, but you guys should know that I can go off on tangents very easily

Guest

12:52

Am I right in thinking that *in theory*, if a player were to move to another position, their WAR should stay the same? Isn't that what allows you to compare player's across positions? I realize it wouldn't work out that way in reality but it helps to think of the positional adjustment that way.

Dan Szymborski

12:52

In THEORY but some moves are less advantageous than others

Like here's the thing, imagine you have a +10 defensive shortstop

12:53

They're simply not going to become a +30 defensive first baseman

there just aren't enough plays available to be 30 runs better than the average 1B

12:54

So you can "waste" value

Zips user

12:54

"game planning WAR". Do you believe in this as a material unmeasured part of catcher WAR. The cubs rave about Yan Gomes "unmeasured" value. Do you believe in it and has the pitch clock made it more valuable?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

There could be value out there. It's just next to impossible to measure. That's one reason we have such an error bar in our evaluations

Guest

12:55

unfortunately Dan we don't hate you for those either

Dan Szymborski

12:55

You MIGHT

Bardo Bill

12:55

I've always thought of "Terrin Vavra" as Corman McCarthy's last cut before he settled on Anton Chigurrh.