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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/28/23

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Dan Szymborski

1:06

it just takes some time

A Boy Named Yu

1:06

Braves lineup seems relentless right now. Is this an all-time great offense?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

It's quite stout from top to bottom

Frodo

1:07

In your article about deadline trades, it seems one takeaway is that top-level teams (Rays and O's) have a tougher time increasing their playoff odds. Maybe obvious already because they're at the extremes, but still interesting.

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Yup

A Boy Named Yu

1:08

Why did the league get rid of Game 163? Math tiebreakers are boring....

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Schedule stuff, though I think they could figure it out if they tried

Scott

1:09

F Curt Schilling. No question, just putting it out there given what he revealed about the Wakefields.

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Yeah, that was a real schmuck move

Slew

1:09

Wait wait wait. WAR should remain the same in theory upon position changes? Doesnt that theory require you to believe that defense is a fungible ability that can be applied to any position?

Spring Chicken

1:11

This is the saddest sentence I've ever read in a SzymborskiChat: "The *Rockies* have larger guaranteed salaries from 2025-2027 than the Dodgers do."

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I could do a Tinker to Evers to Chance saddest of possible words for the Rockies, but I already did that joke about Windows Update

1:12

These are the saddest of possible words:

"Restart for Windows Update"

I'm trying to work now, I'd rather eat turds!

"Restart for Windows Update"

Security update for x64,
Delay for a day, but now 9 updates more,
Whether a Ryzen or old Intel core,

"Restart for Windows Update"

Butterfly

1:12

Was Mookie Betts being "wasted" in RF given what we know now?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

It's possible

Spartanboy

1:13

Let’s say the Cubs decide to be a 1st-tier CBT “offender” next year. Should they (a) Go all-in for Shohei, or (b) Spread the $$$ on, say, Bellinger and Candelario?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

I'd first make sure you have Stroman

I'm not in on Bellinger. I think he's going to be a bad contract fo rsomeone

John

1:13

You are posting on Twitter during this chat. Does multi-tasking reduce your chat WAR?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

Oh, sometimes I come across something while searching for something I'm reference in here

Morbo

1:13

"No, it might be the end of the beginning though or the beginning of the end of the middle" sick smashing pumpkins reference

Dennis

1:14

42/69 club would have been nice

Captain ACAB

1:14

Was Gary Sheffield really the worst defender in MLB history?or is it some quirk based on positioning or era or playing at the dawn of fielding metrics, etc?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

It's kind of a we don't know thing because the worst defensive player may be some dude in 1934 that we can't really evaluate all that accurately

1:15

And there's a difference between worst and least valuable.

There are a lot of players worse defensively that ddidn't hit enough to make the majors

1:16

YOu have to kind of be awesome to be that bad defensively, if that makes sense

I am the Apple

1:17

Mike Trout is projected to finish career with about 100 WAR. At what point was his projected career WAR the highest? And, of course, what was that number?

Dan Szymborski

1:17

Oh god, I'm going to have to open crap now aren't I?

(This is last question guys, so don't ask anymore as they'll go into the aether)

1:18

OK, 92.3 after 2014

1:19

err before 2014

112.1 before 2015

1:20

104.2 before 2016

hang on, wrong number there