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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/9/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:00

And it's chat time!

Alex

12:01

Should the Giants trade for Juan Soto?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Well, yeah, but in the sense that everybody should want to.

Good luck, though!

Joe

12:02

What is the outlook on Gleyber Torres going forward? The power can't be completely gone, can it?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

He's too young and talented to give up on, but the last 1.37 seasons should make you extremely worried

Guest

12:02

Seems that the Mets are a hitter short who should they get? Bryant? Schwarber? Also thoughts on Buck as a manager?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

I'm not sure they logically have the roster fit for another corner outfielder

12:04

Their weakest spots in the lineup at this point are likely 2B and C, but they're not going to do anything about that

Guest

12:06

I'm worried about the Tigers falling into the Pujols trap with Cabrera. I was surprised to see that Pujols was still able to do at least something OK after he joined LA. Is there something similarly OK that Cabrera can still do?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Hard to say. The Dodgers were lucky that Pujols' bat lucked into a ball as much as it did

12:08

But Miggy has gone from a wonderful fastball hitter to one of the worst

David Stearns - Milwaukee

12:08

Why are many MLB job announcements so poorly written?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Maybe they want to weed out the people who think they're going to make 200K a year with a team!

Nate

12:09

Which team do you hate the most when doing ZiPS and why is it the Royals

Dan Szymborski

12:09

You're not going to think I hate them the most when you see the projections for a few of their young hitters!

Guest

12:09

As a sandwich man, how do you fee about banh mi?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

Not really in my wheelhouse as I don't care for carrots.

Stroman

12:10

Did my “big mouth” on Twitter cost me dollars and years?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I doubt that was a factor.

Chris

12:11

Is Rafael devers a sneaky trade candidate in the next 6-12 months? Depending what they do with boegarts that infield defense is interesting to put it nicely and they haven't shown much in the way of paying $200 million+ contracts

Dan Szymborski

12:11

While it could plausibly happen, I don't think the Red Sox go there with two years from FA and them coming off a near-WS appearance

Inaccessible Rail

12:11

oops, just submitted two questions without a name for myself. Curious how that will show up in the chat if you answer the questions. Also curious why the name I've been using didn't just automatically fill itself in as it usually does.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

No idea!

12:11

Hey Dan, do you know anyone from the Cincinnati area who thinks that Old Bay sucks?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I don't think anyone outside of Marylanders or a stray Delewario give much thought about Old Bay

Dave

12:13

Dan I forgot to take my vitamin this morning, can you help?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

They're not so beneficial that it really matters if you miss one

Dave

12:14

Cats? Lunch? Chili?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Justinian's sleeping on the couch in my office, the others were all sleeping upstairs in various spare bedrooms last I saw.

I'm not eating chili.

12:15

And for lunch, I'm probably going to eat one of those mediocre Italian sausages I have in the fridge.

The storebrand Italian sausages are shockingly bland. My first thought was that I had COVID

Jake adams

12:16

Dan, do you think Zack Kelly is someone who will crack Boston’s prospect list this year? Little on the older side but had a great season. Or maybe a potential under the radar R5 pick?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

He's interesting in a cheap bullpen pickup kind of way, though I'm not sure that gets him onto a bunch of prospect lists given his age

That's more an Eric question!

12:17

ZiPS like him, but you'll have to wait for the projection!

(Kelly, ZiPS doesn't have an opinion on Eric)

Hmm, Zack Kelly?

12:18

Does he have a buddy Jessie Slater?

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