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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/4/21

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CeddyBReady

1:08

On that note, I'm gonna go make some Chili Cheese Eggrolls because that sounds amazing.

Alabama Hot Pocket

1:08

If you then wrap it in dough and bake it, it would be a frito burrito sub taco sandwich calzone!

And then KFC would get ahold of it, and deep fry it with a cheeto crumb breading and serve it between two pieces of chicken and call it the *inhales* frito burrito sub taco sandwich calzone cheeto double-down chicken sandwich *exhales*

Dee Arby

1:08

Do you think biggio can learn to hit velo?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

His whiff tendency isn't THAT alarming. He misses breaking and offspeed stuff a lot more

Kate

1:08

Who do you like better for a breakout this year between Brendan Rodgers and Carter Kieboom? Kind of similar profiles and both have had trouble getting traction / consistent PT.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Kieboom simply became I'm more confident about the Nats using him

Kate

1:08

Any chance Hosmer gets platoon this year? Pads have the bats to optimize their lineup pretty much every time out and it seems dumb to keep running him out there everyday when he's so bad against lefties and there are so many guys that need PT.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I dunno, I'm not sure they have the chutzpah o do that

Alabama Hot Pocket

1:09

Cat update?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Justinian's sleeping on top of the computer

Cassiopeia stomped off about 45 minutes ago when Justinian came into the office

Last I saw, Mercutio was sleeping on the platform on the second highest level of the cat tree in the den

1:10

And last I saw Constantine, he was in the kitchen waiting to ambush me when I get lunch after this

MadBum

1:10

Am I cooked?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I ain't optimistic

JO D

1:10

which Phillie do you think has the best shot at crushing their zips projection? I would guess Kingery or Wheeler

Dan Szymborski

1:10

Wheeler's the most interesting

Touch 'em all Joe!

1:10

Do you buy that Vladito can fake 3B for a few years now that he's a little leaner?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

It's possible. The team should explore it

1:11

Though the team's config right now makes that hard

but I'd like to see him get some time there still

Guest

1:11

Everyone ripping on the Mariners and Mathers for service time but isn’t the Rays’ MO to keep prospects for a year or two in the minors after they’re “ready”.

Dan Szymborski

1:11

Most teams do that

Inaccessible Rail

1:11

If there's a future chat without a link on the FG homepage, is there some other way to access it?

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I usually tweet it out and the FG twitter tweets it at 11;40!

Ben

1:11

Have you ever done a ZiPS time warp on Brandon Webb after 2008? He was coming off 3 straight top-2 finishes in Cy Young voting, but would only compile -0.2 WAR the rest of his career.

Dan Szymborski

1:12

I eventually will

1:13

But I did run the numbers for Zack Buchanan, so it's not the freshest look right now

https://theathletic.com/1974802/2020/08/05/what-if-brandon-webb-had-st...

My next one, at some point will be Jim Fregosi