Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 7/8/13
| 11:59 |
: Time, Peanut Butter Jelly.
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| 11:59 |
Does Colby Rasmus not suck anymore? |
| 11:59 |
: He is a mid-range dude. Rasmus is either the crappiest good player or the best crappy player in baseball.
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| 12:00 |
Grant Green worth a pickup in 12 teamers? |
| 12:01 |
: As long as you know it’s speculative. He’s not going to grab all the palying time
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| 12:01 |
just how Hard will Michael Cuddyer’s current .374 babip crash back to earth in the 2nd half? |
| 12:01 |
: Pretty hard, though it should be above career line given the park.
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| 12:01 |
The Phillies should make a deal with the dodgers, get Ethier. Not only would this add another bloated longterm deal to their payroll, but it would create the awe inspiring Delmon Francoeur platoon |
| 12:02 |
: Tha’ts just depressing.
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| 12:02 |
: and I’m not a phillies fan!
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| 12:03 |
: It is kind of cute that the Phillies think they’re dangling on the edge of buyers and sellers. Kinda like that 30-year-old waiter you know that thinks he’s on the precipice of becoming and actor/model.
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| 12:04 |
Do you endorse Zips 3.79 ROS ERA for Lincecum? |
| 12:04 |
: Nothing between ERA of 2 and an ERA of 7 from Linc at this point. I don’t have the foggiest idea.
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| 12:04 |
Two chilli cheese dogs w/ onions.. and you don’t want to be down wind later.. |
| 12:05 |
Raul Ibanez: useful rest of 2013 or pumpkin time at some point before? |
| 12:05 |
: His stats will come down a bit, but he can still hack his way to homers.
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| 12:06 |
: He’s completely pointless on the Mariners, but he’s had enough power to be a solid contributor, especially lately
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| 12:06 |
Mike Trout, a career .400 wOBA guy? |
| 12:06 |
: No.
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| 12:06 |
: He’s below .400 now and he’s not going to be better overall for his career than he has over the first two years of his career.
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| 12:07 |
Wei Yin Chen: can he get back to last year’s 7+ K rate if fully healthy now/ |
| 12:08 |
: I think he’ll be fine. As fine as you can expect a pitcher to be of course
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| 12:08 |
: They’ve been careful about not rushing him back from the oblique – you always worry when teams rush players with those non-arm injuries back given that pain can cause change in delivery
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| 12:08 |
WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS ASK IF COLY RASMUS STILL SUCKS |
| 12:09 |
: You don’t have to ask them.
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| 12:09 |
I just traded Andrus and Myers for Stanton good trade for a 10 team roto? |
| 12:09 |
: I’d be happy with Stanton for Andrus and Myers.
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| 12:10 |
Bigger ASG snub.. Longo or Beltre? |
| 12:10 |
: That’s like asking if I rather be castrated with an ice cream scoop or a melon baller.
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| 12:10 |
Would it be silly for the Jays to be buyers at the deadline this year? |
| 12:10 |
: I’m not sure they have enough currency to make a move big enough to drastically change the directory.
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| 12:12 |
Cheer up everyone, its mid-season top prospects lists season!! |
| 12:12 |
Thoughts on Liriano for the rest of the year? |
| 12:13 |
: I’m cautiously optimistic.
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| 12:14 |
: Like Morrow before, people looked at Liriano’s bases empty/runners on stats and reverse-engineered the reason for those splits.
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| 12:14 |
: Which made those people then underrate the players. You expect *some* guys to regularly do that
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| 12:15 |
: (Morrow sucks this year, but he’s actually sucked more with the bases empty than with runners on)
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| 12:15 |
Manny Ramirez will have a major league AB this year. True or False? |
| 12:15 |
: I think false
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| 12:15 |
Which current MLB player would make the best pro wrestler? |
| 12:16 |
: Matt Holliday has those popeye forearms
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| 12:16 |
: Reddick of course, already has experience playing the wrestling crowd
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| 12:16 |
: David Ortiz would be big if he did a comedy dance.
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| 12:17 |
which park is playing the most differently this season: Petco or Safeco? |
| 12:17 |
: Both have played a little less extreme, but both remain strong pitchers’ parks
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| 12:17 |
: Risky to draw too much into 3 months of home/away stats.
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| 12:17 |
: But the evidence of a *drastic* change isn’t there
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| 12:18 |
When will Matt Moore start throwing more strikes? |
| 12:18 |
: He may never. Losing that walk or two is the biggest obstacle for him to be a star.
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| 12:18 |
Does Zips adjust pitcher WL totals if a player gets traded or otherwise switches teams? |
| 12:19 |
: On my end it does, but I don’t actually know if the implementation that Apples uses has that ability
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| 12:19 |
Anything in Josh Reddick’s numbers since returning from the wrist injury predicting a second half surge? LD rate encouraging and so is the walk rate no? |
| 12:20 |
: It is, but I think 2012 was his ceiling
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| 12:20 |
dan straily.. thoughts on his somewhat pedestrian k%, but impressive swstr%? shouldn’t he be striking more guys out? |
| 12:21 |
: he’s good at getting batters to swing at crap, but he doesn’t have that killer out pitch.
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| 12:21 |
CarGo (the Gomez version) has been amazing, but his value drops in an OBP league. Is a .330 OBP moving forward reasonable? |
| 12:21 |
: I think it is
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| 12:22 |
: He always had a puzzling low BABIP for a fast dude. His ucrrent BABIP isn’t likely sustainable, but he should have enough to keep that BA high enough to keep the OBP non-terrible
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| 12:22 |
: It’s kind of sad that the Twins ended up with the good side of the Santana trade after all, but never got any of the benefit
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| 12:22 |
% odds Cas(s)ey Janssen (old, iffy shoulder) gets hurt and Delabar takes over the 9th in TOR this year? |
| 12:23 |
: 115%, thus breaking math.
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| 12:23 |
Grieve with me over the A’s only getting one All-Star, (and its not Josh Donaldson), please. |
| 12:23 |
: I’d Ben Grieve with you, but that might be even more depressing
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| 12:24 |
What’s the % chance that Trout and/or Harper reach 100 career WAR? |
| 12:24 |
: Don’t have the exact numbers but perhaps not as great as one might think on the surface.
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| 12:24 |
: The surprises for a guy on top of baseball are almost all negative. That’s why SI covers and Madden boxes are “curses”
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| 12:25 |
What’s the most likely Kevin Gregg destination? |
| 12:25 |
: Tigers? Maybe Red Sox once they discover they don’t have enough pitchers to change closers every week?
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| 12:25 |
16 team dynasty league. I was offered Hosmer/Lawrie for Ortiz. I’m not compete, other guy is. I accepted now trade is being reviewed. This seems fair to me. Your take? |
| 12:26 |
: I’d take it.
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| 12:26 |
: And even if I wouldn’t, I don’t think that’s veto-worthy
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| 12:26 |
Brandon Beachy: Will he make contributions this year, or am I basically holding onto him for next year? |
| 12:27 |
: I think he’s more of a gamble for this year. He’s been fair in rehab stint but his command hasn’t been very sharp.
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| 12:27 |
: I like Beachy, but I think he’s far more likely to be a plus going into 2014.
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| 12:27 |
brad miller has been batting leadoff for the m’s the last couple of games, do you think this will continue? |
| 12:28 |
: It could – the m’s aren’t exactly overloaded with “classic” leadoff types
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| 12:29 |
if Scott Hairston can return a decent RP prospect, what is Marlon Byrd worth? |
| 12:29 |
: I wouldn’t play the proportion game – I’m surprised the Cubs got someone with a pulse
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| 12:30 |
Should Billy Butler be sent to the Camp Krusty Fat Camp until he can hit dingers again? |
| 12:30 |
: Krusty Fat Camp was based on imitation gruel and very low-calorie diets – Butler would lose fat, but he’d also lose muscle.
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| 12:30 |
: I think he’ll hit a few more in second half, get around 15, which isn’t an unreasonable number for an off year for him
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| 12:31 |
: He may look like someone you want to hit 40 HR, but he’s not that guy
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| 12:31 |
Chris Carpenter worth a DL stash? |
| 12:32 |
: If you have the room, he’d be a fun stash
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| 12:32 |
: He’s made a career out of defying injury odds
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| 12:33 |
The Mariners will be competitive in the year 20XX |
| 12:33 |
: Isn’t that the year the NES games Mega Man was set in?
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| 12:33 |
: I’ll say 2015, but predicting the near future is already hard
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| 12:33 |
Have you ever seen something like the Hamilton chewing tobacco thing? The guy actually seems like he knows what he’s doing now that he’s chewing again! |
| 12:34 |
: I’ve seen lots of people be pathetically sad off of nicotine!
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| 12:34 |
: When my sister quit cigarettes, she was going into tears every day
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| 12:35 |
: And I made fun of her when she bit into celery and thought the taste was intense
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| 12:35 |
Does Peavy get traded? |
| 12:36 |
: I think he does. The White Sox usually hang around just close enough that the delusional can make a case.
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| 12:36 |
: I don’t think they’re close enough this time.
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| 12:36 |
Out of Henderson, Axford and Krod, is it safe to assume that Henderson is the only one left after the deadline? |
| 12:37 |
: They don’t *have* to trade Axford right now.
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| 12:37 |
: He may be more valuable when/if he gets some saves again someday
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| 12:37 |
would a drastic change of directory be like C:\ to Z:\? |
| 12:37 |
: Wait, what?
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| 12:39 |
: Sorry, was talking to my editor
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| 12:39 |
: I change letter drives quite regularly
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| 12:39 |
The Pirates are currently letting Jose Tabata get the lion’s share of at bats in right field, and so far he hasn’t been terrible. Do you think he’s the answer in right or are the Pirates shopping for outfielders at the deadline? |
| 12:40 |
: The thing is, the Pirates have gotten to where they are from patience – I’m not sure they pull a big trigger here, but they wouldn’t be against it if the opportunity arises
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| 12:40 |
Nova here to stay you think this year? Thrown pretty solid in the minors this year too.. |
| 12:41 |
: I keep thinking Nova has turned the corner.
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| 12:41 |
: If you guys recall, I named him as one of the most likely guys to crush his projection this year
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| 12:42 |
Why the hell would MLB put A-Gon on the final ballot and possibly take votes away from Puig. I mean two members of the Los Angeles Puigs on one team isn’t going to help. |
| 12:43 |
: I doubt they gave that much thought
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| 12:43 |
best pro wrestler current MLB player: Farnsworth. Have you seen this video?: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9mt0_0k40t4&ei=1OXaUcy1DqvC4AOk-IHICA&usg=AFQjCNHYH56RXAngK6O1Dg95VComT_-QHQ&sig2=vz_8yCmYsU-GAZdLQ_9arg&bvm=bv.48705608,d.dmg |
| 12:43 |
How good is Miguel Cabrera? |
| 12:43 |
: Good enough that there are no proper adjuectives.
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| 12:43 |
Really? Trout’s already at .394 wOBA and has been just over .400 this and last year. I’m hazarding a guess that almost everyone on the career .400+ wOBA started off slower than Trout. |
| 12:44 |
: Yeah, but you’re doing a survivor analysis by only looking at the survivors.
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| 12:44 |
Kunfu Panda could be Kamala revisited. |
| 12:44 |
: I don’t think that gimmick woudl fly today.
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| 12:44 |
: I’m still amazed that they could get away with it 25 years ago
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| 12:45 |
With Brett Lawrie coming back should we expect the Jays to surge to the stop of the standings in Red Bulls consumed above replacement? |
| 12:45 |
: Red Bull!
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| 12:45 |
: I can’t stand it.
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| 12:45 |
: I’m excitable enough if you get my adrenalin going
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| 12:46 |
: I’d like to see Lawrie play completely healthy
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| 12:46 |
I missed Enos chat this week and I was mentioned 3x. Are you a fan of Lucas Duda? |
| 12:46 |
: I am. He’s a guy that would most likely not have gotten much of achance in teh minors 20 years ago
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| 12:46 |
: He’s a born DH though.
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| 12:47 |
: He looks worse out there than Todd Hundley
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| 12:47 |
: He’s worse out there in Kevin Reimer, who had great reflexes to start running when the ball hit the bat, but had a habit of running in the exact wrong direction
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| 12:48 |
Huh. Seems like I have to reexamine Matt Holliday’s forearms. |
| 12:48 |
How many more times does Bonderman have to puke all over his shoes before the Mariners call up |
| 12:49 |
: He had a solid enough run that he’s worth looking at, though he was frigging awful against the Reds on saturday
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| 12:50 |
: Generally speaking, I’d be more interested in signing a reclamation projection if you can get an option year, like the Cards do frequently with theirs
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| 12:50 |
: Bonderman would be more interesting to give a chance to if they had, say, a $5 million option on him for 2014
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| 12:51 |
Think the O’s trade for Garza or anyone else? |
| 12:51 |
: They’ve played the conservative card generally and I expect them to continue
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| 12:51 |
What would it take for the Cards to swing a deal for Cliff Lee? |
| 12:52 |
: What would really help is the Phillies realizing their position.
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| 12:52 |
: They still kind of think they’re in contention.
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| 12:53 |
: If Amaro does become a seller, I dont’ think he’s goign to give anybody bargains for Lee. The Cards will have to give up one of their young pitchers in all likelihood
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| 12:53 |
Can you shed any light on how DMB uses Zips? I can’t explain the drastic underperformance of players like Pedroia, Desmond, and Goldschmidt. |
| 12:53 |
: You’re going to have players underperform simply due to random chance.
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| 12:54 |
: I was once in a DMB league and Clarence Mitchell had one of the best years
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| 12:54 |
Have the cardinals finally realized the peter the kosmonaut isn’t good? |
| 12:54 |
: I hope so. I still think they have this idea in the back of their minds that Kozmic Pete showed enough last fall to be better than he is, but I think the realization is setting in that he’s simply not a starter.
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| 12:55 |
100 WAR is an awful lot…Pujols was the most dominant hitter in baseball for a decade, and he’s still “only” at 86.7 for his career and slowing down. |
| 12:55 |
: Yeah. Great players have more nasty surprises than pleasant ones because they’re so high.
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| 12:56 |
: If you’re on top of Everest, you’re far more likely to fall down than fall up!
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| 12:56 |
: Is there any surprise on the top of a mountain that’s *good*?
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| 12:56 |
Can someone put a hurtin on Mad Max Scherzer and are the Indians the team to do it?.. |
| 12:57 |
: I love the Silver Hammer!
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| 12:57 |
: It especially makes me glad as I talked him and Darvish up all winter.
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| 12:57 |
: I’m having a better-than-average year with Players That I’m Obsessed With
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| 12:58 |
: I actually have $200 on Scherzer winning the Cy Young (from one of my prop player bet pieces on ESPN this spring)
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| 12:58 |
Dammit Dan, I thought of that Ben Grieve pun before I read your response. |
| 12:58 |
: See, as the moderator, I can TOTALLY STEAL ALL YOUR JOKES AND NOBODY CAN PROVE IT~!
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| 12:58 |
: Though i swear I thought of Ben Grieve first
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| 12:58 |
2013 World series on the line, who do you want closing the game for you? |
| 12:58 |
: Mo. Winning is fun, but winning with the storybook ending even funner.
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| 12:59 |
: And people still don’t hit his cutter.
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| 12:59 |
Same question for Colby Lewis. Wasting my time? |
| 12:59 |
: He’s speculative. He’s worth stashing, but not so much that you should worry about dorpping if something more itneresting comes your way
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| 12:59 |
Regarding Machado, his bat seems to have cooled off after a blazing start. Should we expect some of his doubles to turn into homers in future seasons, or is what we see now what we can expect (not that it isn’t good)? |
| 12:59 |
: Usualloy some of them turn into homers, though this tends to be overrated a bit.
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| 1:00 |
: His OPS+ is around 120, which really is more reasonable expectation
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| 1:00 |
Who ends up taking AL MVP, Cabrera or Davis? |
| 1:01 |
: As terrific as Crush has been, I think Cabrera’s the default choice
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| 1:01 |
Why are the Tigers perpetual underachievers? |
| 1:01 |
: They have amazing front-line talent, but they’re always weaker at something than the average person realizes
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| 1:01 |
Puig seems pretty similar to Jeff Francoeur when comparing their first seasons. |
| 1:02 |
: Frenchy didn’t torch the minors
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| 1:02 |
Who would you start at 1B going forward, Hosmer or Moss? |
| 1:02 |
: Hosmer
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| 1:02 |
A question that would have been laughed at before this season: Who will have the better career, Moore or Corbin? |
| 1:03 |
: I still think Moore has more upside, but Corbin on average will have the better career
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| 1:03 |
Is Smoak catching fire? |
| 1:03 |
: Smoak’s been actually good lately, not just not-so-crappy
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| 1:04 |
Has an active MLB player ever been charged with murder? |
| 1:04 |
: Julio Machado
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| 1:04 |
: And Urbina was at least charged with attempted
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| 1:05 |
Parra, an ASG snub or no? |
| 1:05 |
: Not for me – I don’t really look as the ASG as simply “Best First Half guys”
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| 1:06 |
: the ASG voting isn’t even designed well to reward Best First Half guys
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| 1:06 |
: If you vote at every opportunity, April homers are going to be part of the voting “resume” many more times than a June home run
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| 1:07 |
Whats your favorite old school baseball player name? |
| 1:07 |
: If you mean current old school, Buster Posey has the name of a silent film star
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| 1:07 |
: old timers, you have Vinegar Bend Mizell
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| 1:07 |
: Bristol Robotham Lord
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| 1:08 |
: not making that up
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| 1:08 |
: And William van Winkle “Chicken” Wolf
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| 1:08 |
: Oil Can Boyd was a great classic-styled name
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| 1:08 |
What do you think of the Twins circa 2015? Do you think they will be a serious power with all the talent they have? |
| 1:09 |
: They *could* be, but I’m not sold yet. I still think they’re in kind of the late 90s/00s O’s rut where they think they’re clsoer to relevance where they are
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| 1:09 |
Is there any god the Phillies can pray to to fix their farm system? |
| 1:09 |
: Any god that would inspire Amaro to retire and go on a pilgramage
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| 1:09 |
: pilgrimage
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| 1:09 |
Can we start a letter writing campaign to convince the Phillies that they are sellers? |
| 1:10 |
Now that it’s past mid-season can we start pestering you on twitter for MLE’s and Zips for minor players? |
| 1:10 |
: People already do!
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| 1:10 |
: I can’t always reply quickly – I have my fingers in a lot of pies
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| 1:11 |
Should we bet money on the Eric Hosmer power hitting streak (7 HRs in the last 15 games) to continue through 4 games at Yankee Stadium? |
| 1:11 |
: DON”T JINX HIM!
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| 1:11 |
: Every time I say nice things about him, he goes a month without an extra base hit
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| 1:11 |
: So for Hosmer’s sake, I say he’s a bad man who should not be on your fantasy team ever.
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| 1:11 |
: Oh, on classic names, I forgot Urban Shocker
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| 1:13 |
: You can use that name for so many things, a wrestler, a law enforcement weapon, a sexual position popularized in a series of gonzo city-based porn videos. The possibilities are endless.
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| 1:13 |
Brett Lawrie kinda resembles Christian of Edge & Christian |
| 1:13 |
: He actually does a bit.
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| 1:13 |
Vernon wells is back to being Vernon wells isn’t he? |
| 1:13 |
: Yup. He just compressed all his non-suck into a single month this time around
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| 1:13 |
Everyone knows Jeff Locke isn’t as good as his 2 ERA. But just how far do you expect him to regress? |
| 1:13 |
: I expect somewhere around 4 or so
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| 1:14 |
Hamilton does not “chew tobacco”. He dips snuff. There’s actually a huge difference. |
| 1:14 |
: I assume the basic concept is simialr. Nicotine delivery.
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| 1:14 |
: I don’t have a lot of personal smoking knowledge other than cigars while golfing
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| 1:15 |
: I was kind of disappointed that the peer pressure growing up wasn’t like those videos they show you in middle school
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| 1:15 |
: You know, where those gangs of kids pressure you to smoke and you have shout SMOKERS ARE JOKERS! and run away and tell an adult
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| 1:16 |
: In my experirence, it was more “Dan, you want a cigarette?” “Nope” and that was it
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| 1:16 |
: Real let down.
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| 1:16 |
Dan, Dan, he’s our man! If he can’t do it, noone can! |
| 1:16 |
: Demonstrably untrue. I cannot have babies, yet the human race has persisted.
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| 1:16 |
Dan – the Phillies are delusional because they have to be with their TV deal expiring at the end of next year. If they were to blow up the team it would cost them tens maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars. 5th worst run differential in baseball? No problem we are contenders! |
| 1:16 |
In your opinion, what’s the biggest wedge between the SABR community and traditionalists? |
| 1:16 |
: First principles in a lot of cases.
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| 1:17 |
: Traditionalist fans are actually the hardest to overcome.
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| 1:17 |
: Baseball itself was actually the easiest – teams have quite the financial interest in evaluating players properly
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| 1:18 |
: And I have to say, I’d have taken the opportunity to move more into mainstream media if I knew how generally welcoming most people are
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| 1:18 |
: I was one of the 90s usenet guys, so I had a built-in distrust of media in general.
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| 1:18 |
: But going on a 3 1/2 years now, i’ve never had an uncomfortable moment with any of the ESPN guys I interact with regularly that aren’t big stat guys
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| 1:19 |
Is Duda worse than francoeur put there? |
| 1:19 |
: Yes.
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| 1:19 |
: A few more and I have to go!
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| 1:19 |
: So this is the time for quick questions and random crazy questions.
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| 1:19 |
Are you worried about Kung Fu Panda? He has been truly awful since he returned from.the DL… |
| 1:20 |
: Getting there. He’s been fug awful, looking lost out there.
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| 1:21 |
: I think there’s value in letting him crush the PCL for a week.
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| 1:21 |
: If he goes 3-for-30 there, at least you know something else is wrong
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| 1:21 |
Better career: Machado or Lawrie, and is it close? |
| 1:21 |
: Machado.
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| 1:21 |
: I don’t think it’s close – Lawrie’s not a shortstop (and Machado should still be one)
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| 1:21 |
Are the Giants in the Phillies denial boat also or is it just the division they are in? |
| 1:22 |
: I think their competition is less stiff
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| 1:22 |
: in the NL East, they’d need to be sllers too
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| 1:22 |
: and there’s at least *some* upside in the pitchers.
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| 1:22 |
: I don’t think the Phils are seriously underperforming their “true” ability
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| 1:22 |
Apparently there is serious interest in Michael young, who was one of the two worst players in baseball last year |
| 1:23 |
: Young’s actually a not-terrible fit for a few teams.
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| 1:23 |
: I think he’d actually be useful in New york
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| 1:23 |
Who wins the NL Central? |
| 1:23 |
: Cards
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| 1:23 |
$200 down on Scherzer? What odds did you get on that? |
| 1:23 |
: 20-1
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| 1:24 |
: It would be unfair to write a prop bet piece and not risk money.
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| 1:25 |
: Stanton leading league in HRs at 13/2 not looking so good. Hamilton under .295, Hamilton under 31 HR looking good, Ruggiano under .290 BA looking good, Carter over 25.5 HR good, Darvish over 14.5 wins looking reasonable
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| 1:26 |
: Ubaldo over 3.90 ERA looking good, Lincecum over 199.5 K looking iffy (30-40%?)
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| 1:27 |
: I think I’ll get the Pence under .285 but lose Pence under 23.5 HR
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| 1:27 |
Ah I forgot about Ugueth!!! At any rate, thanks! |
| 1:28 |
: One of the stranger cases, no doubt
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| 1:28 |
Yogi was charged with butchering the English language and logic in a double murder . |
| 1:28 |
Exactly Dan – hence why Harper is an all-star while Desmond is going to lose the final vote |
| 1:28 |
Why does this chat have to end? Have you ever considered doing a marathon chat?…One that woyld break all fantasy baseball records? |
| 1:28 |
: Solo, I think about 2 hours of me is all that people can put up with
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| 1:28 |
: But I did do 12 hours in a FanGraphs group chat
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| 1:28 |
: and 8 hours in an ESPN group chat
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I just want there to be a player named Old School Baseballman |
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Will there ever be a Szymborski in the MLB or are you representative of the gene pool? |
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: There has not, but Tom Szymborski was the closest, making it to AA.
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: I’d really like there to be a Szymborski in MLB simply so that I can more easily get my name into MLB the Show for career mode.
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| 1:30 |
: I always have to be “Dan Szuminski” pronounced
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| 1:30 |
: Sony actually said they’d get to me, but they haven’t yet
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Phenomenal Smith. The Only Nolan. Arlie Latham. Jack Glasscock. You slipping man… |
| 1:31 |
you’d probably get more work done if you didn’t have your fingers in pies all the time |
| 1:31 |
: But then I’d have to get a whole new, slimmer wardrobe
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Don’t look now but Justin Smoak is hitting like a league-average 1B according to wRC+ |
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Smoak wRC+ is 120, qualified AL firstbasemen are 113 on average while major league 1B average is 109. |
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Puig: I wouldn’t call 60 games torching the minors. |
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: It wasn’t a *long* period, but he torched when he was there
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I don’t think any videos shown in middle school have ever been, even remotely, representative of reality. |
| 1:32 |
One of these days someone is going to accidentally omit a space and hyperlink to some really nasty porn. |
| 1:32 |
: I do generally click before I post them!
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| 1:33 |
: There’s an old BTF meme in tricking people into viewing madeline albright pictures
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best cold cut sans bread…i say salami (preferably wrapped around some provolone) |
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: speck
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ZIPs has Chris Davis for a .366 wOBA ROS, seems a little low doesn’t it? |
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: I think it is too. But I may have orange-and-black glasses.
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Yankees will be moving that statue of Jeter back out to SS soon |
| 1:34 |
Bristol Robot-Ham Lord’s nickname was “The Human Eyeball.” Thank you for enlightening me of his existence. |
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Someone gave you odds on Ruggiano under .290? |
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: That was the vegas over/under, believe it or not
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| 1:34 |
: Jumped at that one
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Rzepczynski seems close enough to szymborski to call it a day |
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: Szyuminski is a little closer pronunciation wise
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Maybe you can get a player to change his name to Syzmborski in exchange for an optimistic Zips projection |
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: It would be depressing if we did this transaction and then he changed his name to the wrong spelling!
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| 1:35 |
Ever watch the gender norming video in high school? The one where they make a crazy feminist come out and say there are no physical differences between male and female firefighters strength? That blew my mind. |
| 1:35 |
: I dont’ think so, but I didn’t pay much attention.
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: I was one of the kids who sat at the back of the class goofing off most of the time, never doing homework, and counting on tests to get me good grades
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I had a crazy dream last night in which there was a 4 team trade between the Brewers, Dodgers, White Sox, and Yankees in which Ryan Braun ended up with the White Sox and Cano with the Dodgers, but I can’t remember who went to the other teams. Help me fill in the blanks! |
| 1:36 |
: If it was my dream, it would be Charles Grodin and then you’d travel to italy on a hovercraft driven by the surviving members of Badfinger.
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| 1:37 |
: Seriously, this is my most recent dream log entry
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| 1:38 |
: Me and Antonio Vivaldi went to Five Guys to get burgers. I bought him a hamburger and he stabbed me. It was actually Tom Wilkinson and not Vivaldi, even though I know what Vivaldi looked like.
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what’s your favorite part working in media? |
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: I like all the social aspects. And working at home, I don’t have to put on pants.
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: Some people in media grudgingly accept social media
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: Me, sit me at a couch with some beer and I’ll talk to fans/readers/etc. all day and all night
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PANTSLESS CHATS!!!!! This will not go over well with my co-workers. |
| 1:39 |
Brewers get a sack of dirty laundry from the Yankees, White Sox send Dunn and any other old reclamation projects to New York |
| 1:40 |
: Dunn wouldn’t actually be a bad fit in the park.
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you’re a fucking pussy |
| 1:40 |
: is that part of the question? I”m not sure how it connects.
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| 1:40 |
: And on that note, time to log off for another week!
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| 1:41 |
: Thanks for joining me and I hope to see you guys next week!
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| 1:41 |
: As a usual reminder, you can find my work at ESPN.com, chats and projections at FanGraphs, and at DSzymborski on Twitter.
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| 1:42 |
: (and Steam – one of the nice things about working at home is lots of time for nerdy game playing)
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| 1:42 |
“Dan Szymborski: Is there any surprise on the top of a mountain that’s *good*?” Umm, ask, I dunno, friggin MOSES, dude? |
| 1:42 |
: Yeah, but Moses came down with a preachy list of rules!
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| 1:42 |
: Before he went up, you could totally covet all the stuff you wanted.
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Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
Can teams trade international signing bonus allocations for future years, or only for the current year?
Does Dan Symborski ignore anyone elses questions in his “chats”
Dudes a chump if you ask me..
He gets something like 50 questions for every one he can answer. You ain’t special.
Nobody asked you what you think of him. Name calling is pretty immature. I would like to read some of these great questions he didn’t answer. Please share.
I didn’t name call. Ain’t none of us special, you know. Not even the special few who get a question answered by the great Szym.