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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/22/2019

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Snid

12:15

Your take on Jose Abreu? His manager says he is chasing outside the zone but his numbers say no.

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I'd trust the numbers honestly

And they are concerning - he seems to be swinging at fewer bad pitches but somehow connecting with even fewer

LFC Mike

12:16

Dan. Please tell us you didn't pull a quad, or strain a hamstring, or tweak an oblique , break a fingernail or twist an ankle or drop furniture on your foot the past week. If so you are doing better than most baseball players. The amount of injuries from baseball players doing "regular baseball things" except furniture moving is getting a bit ridiculous. Yes it is April..but is conditioning, especially the legs, getting less focus on and is more being focused on upper body, launch angle strength?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I do have an ongoing back issue for which I'm receiving physical therapy

12:17

bulging disk in my back, it's why I didn't make spring training

I'm off beer at the moment to lose weight and hopefully ease up on the pressure somewhat

because I'd prefer to not have back surgery

Which weirdly, every single person in my family has had surgery for a herniated disc but me

Siri

12:18

Should i be worried about Jesse Winker, or "April". Seems like he might be selling out for power at the expense of his trademark plate discipline....

Dan Szymborski

12:18

Not worried

Sam I am

12:21

What is up with Garrett hampson and his inability to walk now that he’s in the bigs?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

I think he's just a player struggling overall - he walked just fine in hsi cup of coffee last year and his plate discipline numbers aren't that weird

And god knows what the Rockies are doing with him. They could spin gold into straw and then give the straw $70 million.

Jacob DeGrom

12:22

I hope my barking elbow didn't upset Galileo....things that bark tend to do that. Why wasn't my elbow purring during last year when I was unhittable?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

Galileo doesn't care about barking.

12:23

You cannot intimidate that cat, it's actually quite frustrating. You can turn the vacuum on next to him and he doesn't give a crap.

Zero issues with strangers, has never reacted to being yelled at or surprised.

When the little black cat hits him, he doesn't even break stride and ignores it.

12:24

My next door neighbor years ago had this very barky dog and she brought him into the house on the leash and Galileo walked up to him

and the dog barked right in his face and Galileo just sat there like nothing was going on.

Steak knife