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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/22/21

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Borscht

12:57

When do we see Wander Franco in MLB?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I'll say August

mtc

12:57

Since we're doing classical music, who is baseball's current Shostakovich? (really talented but stopped from doing what he does best by evil management)

Dan Szymborski

12:57

It was the O's who bumped Machado to third because they had JJ Hardy

12:58

We'll see when he's healthy, but it might be Brendan Rodgers

or Kris Bryant thanks to service time

12:59

You know, Harry Potter was based off Shostakovich

BringBackDeSpanielHair

12:59

Dodgers vs. Padres is marketing gold. MLB needs to bottle that stuff and ship it out! Playoff intensity in April is a glorious thing.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

The first series wa sa lot of fun

Angelus Novus

12:59

German Marquez for the Shostakovich question

Chris

12:59

I'm with you where Mahler, Mozart & Beethoven are concerned. I've never been able to really get into Bruckner though I enjoy the Bruno Walter recordings. I think Furtwangler is the greatest conductor, love Reiner, Bernstein with the NY Philharmonic but not Vienna. How about 20th century music. Do you like Shostakovich & Profofiev? Berg or Schoenberg? Copland or Ives?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I love the neoclassicists. Lukewarm at best on serialists. And I love Ives and his off-kilter eclecticism

1:01

Ives was a huge baseball fan

https://bibliolore.org/2014/10/20/ives-and-baseball/

zurzles

1:01

As someone who knows nothing about the topic, what qualities do those conductors have that make them better than other conductors?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Interpretations

And it' snot really objective. It's the favorite ones for me.

1:02

Like, for example, a lot of people don't like Svetlanov, who I adored. He tended to take pieces nearly to the breaking point, but some people found his interpretations very coarse

1:03

Whiel Furtwängler had a unbelievable sense of structure, especially in Bruckner/Beethoven and how it related to climaxes

B1G League Baseball

1:03

Who is better over the next 4 years: Vlad Jr. or Yordan Alvarez?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I'll say Vlad

mduff

1:03

Will Kiriloff be up to stay when recalled by the Twins?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I hope so. I think he should be starting now

Enlightening Round

1:03

Votto in the three hole can't be optimal anymore, what does it take Cincy to move him?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Votto suggesting it

mtc

1:03

I'm fairly new to baseball (~2016) and think it'd be really cool to read a lot of current players' prospect pedigrees. Where's a good place to find old scouting reports on older guys like, say, Moustakas and Zach Wheeler and Randall Grichuk?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

really, old Baseball America/BP/FG archives

1:04

find some of John Sickels old books

You can find them on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/193831670102?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3...

King of K

1:04

Thoughts on Eugenio? He looks completely lost at the plate.

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Sorry

Jorge

1:04

I am looking for a way to get the previous night's line for a watchlist of minor and major league players served to my inbox in an email. You know any way to get this? I used to have a service that did it but got discontinued

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I'm not familiar with one. Maybe one of the roto sites?

mduff

1:05

Are the Reds ready to hand the ball to Lucas Sims in the 9th?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Unless it's freezing rain!

On that note, time to head out for another week!

Thanks for joining me all. Hope to see you guys next time too!

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