JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat

Dan Szymborski

12:00

It's a chat!

Chaz

12:00

Are the Royals overwhelming favorites to win it all now or do you still think other teams have a chance?

Dan Szymborski

12:00

Heh

the guy who says it's april

12:00

it's april

Dan Szymborski

12:00

Yup, I'm behind on my "April" responses since I was doing Career Day last week at at elementary/middle school

Closer problems

12:01

Have to drop one of Fairbanks, Alzolay, and Tanner Scott? Who is your pick?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Do you HAVE to? It might be Fairbanks. He looks the messiest right now

Seltz

12:03

If you were to create a deli menu off your favorite composers, who do you choose and what sandwich do you name after them?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Hmm, I think a Beethoven would have some very peppery roast beef and some strong mustard or horseradish

but this isn't an eating day for me

Pasquatch

12:03

How real are the Royals right now? SSS but they have a great run differential, and are rated top 3 in offense, defense, and baserunning. Could this be a playoff team?.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Skeptical

12:04

Though certainly nice to see Melendez hitting how he is

Nicholas

12:04

Is MJ Melendez now an elite hitter? He had an amazing 2021 season, and seems to be channeling that again based on his power and really good BB:K ratio

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Not going THAT far

Idiotic Failson

12:05

Is the Jordan Hicks experiment...working?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Early returns are good, but I'm slightly worried he's taken too much off to be a starter

IdeatoMakeMLBGreatAgain

12:05

I have a proposal for MLB that I call The Gladiator Rule for Umpires: each MLB coach gets one opportunity to trade places and toss the home plate ump per season. The umpire who gets tossed the most times each season gets demoted to MiLB. Explain to me why fans would not absolutely love this rule aside from the difficulty of keeping a backup ump at every game it causes, please?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

While that's FUN

12:06

I rather just have robot balls/strikes and work on getting the calls right \

I know I differ from a lot of fans, but I don't consider umps a true part of the game, but a necessary evil to make sure the game is played correctly

Key Flaw

12:07

Not to call anyone out, but can Fangraphs send a memo to their writers that 100th percentile does not exist?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

It's a mistake many make!

Guest

12:07

Prior to this chat, you've chatted twice since Feb 9th. I think apologies and explanations are in order.

Dan Szymborski

12:07

While I don't apologize

12:08

I was on vacation two weeks post ZiPS, was sick one Thursday, did one career day, and the remaining day I had a crunch to finish my positional ranking contribs

Mike

12:08

Is JJ Picollo a legitimately good GM? I was worried for a long time he would be another Dayton, but the gems he has found and his investment and usage of analytics has me very hopeful

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I think it's still premature

Mark Grudzielanek

12:08

Last year, JJ Picollo traded a Rookie Ball player, below average middle reliever, and rental reliever for an ace (Ragans), closer (McArthur), and middle of the order bat (Nelson Velazquez). Did he have one of the greatest trade deadlines ever?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Early returns are good. Though I'm not sold on Velazquez yet

Mario L

12:09

What to do with Nolan Jones? Should I drop him to pick up Brandon Nimmo, Lane Thomas, Masataka Yoshida or Tyler O'neil?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

No, he's always going to be a Coors dude (well, in Colorado

Key Flaw

12:09

What should the O's do with Coby Mayo? We all love his potential, but his defense at 3rd hasn't had the best marks from what I've read, and his arm is somewhat wasted at 1st, plus there is a glut of players at those positions in the majors. Would it be best to let him play 3B full time at AAA for the whole year (he is so young), so that you can bring him up next year from the beginning and try to angle for a draft pick?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think you get him experience at multiple positions and see how the roster shakes out this year

then revisit depending on what happens with Santander

Captain ACAB

12:10

How come there aren't really baseball blogs anymore?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I think blogs themselves have gone down a bit

unless you think of substacks that way

and I think social media has replaced some of it

Guest

12:10

Can we all agree that the solar eclipse has some role in pitcher injuries this year? I know it might not be the sole reason but we should be realistic.

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