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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/28/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:41

I mean she understands that I'm a baseball writer

None of my family and few of my friends are into baseball at all.

12:42

My dad and my mom's dad were the two people in my family really into baseball (the latter is the guy who got me into sabermetrics as a seven-year-old)

But dad died in 1997 and my grandfather in 2006.

Grant

12:43

Dan, unfortunately, even Biff Tannen wouldn't be able to predict the 2022 season, seeing as his almanac only goes until 2015.

Insert Witty Name Here

12:43

Will we get a lightening round today?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

We can do one.

Guest

12:43

how scared should i be on a scale of 1-10

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Most of the things that people are scared about are things that they have no control over. And getting scared about things you have no control over just prevents you from living your best life.

12:45

But some things, like colon cancer, that you might be scared about, you can do things, like get a colonoscopy!

DEF

12:45

Dan, any idea on when the projection disk will be out for Diamond Mind?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

No, they have the data, but I don't control the time frame after that.

The crunch this April messed up all our normal timelines

MeDeKe

12:45

I suspect that the prior question about Nick Gonzales really was referring to the Pirates' 2B prospect, who is currently sporting > 34% K% in AA. Thanks.

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Oh, people usually ask Eric about random prospects rather than me!

My apologies.

I'm not worried about ANYONE's two week stretch

matt w

12:46

I grade drafts by how funny the player's names are when you spoonerize them, and after Bam Sachmann, 2021 is BLEAK.

Anyway I think the Nick Gonzales question was about the Pirates' 2020 1st rounder.

What's that Odor

12:47

Did you see Katoh's rick rolling everyone with his walk-up song? Seems like the most likeable guy, happy he got his first hit!

Dan Szymborski

12:47

I didn't dangit!

Brandon Marsh

12:47

Are you a fan? Think he can 15/30/.300 in a full season of playing time?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Call me skeptical

Tacoby Bellsbury

12:48

Favorite type of lightning?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

White Lightning, of course

Trey

12:48

When you try to name every MLB team in your mind, what are the 1-2 teams that always take a second to come to mind?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

There isn't one simply because I go over lists of MLB teams constantly

HOWEVER

12:49

if you came up to me in the street and pointed a gun at me and gave me one second to blurt out what division the Brewers and Astros are in, I'm certain I would say AL East and NL West.

Trey

12:49

Not Lightning McQueen?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

That's a kind of McQueen, not a kind of lightning

Joe

12:49

What does ZiPS say Musgrove should get as a FA this offseason (assuming he puts up a year like last year)?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

ZiPS says 5/121 for Calamity Joe

12:52

Dangit, I had the neural network make Joe Musgrove nicknames a couple weeks ago

12:53

Guest

12:53

After all the complaints about the Yankees offseason, maybe they're actually... good? They could probably use another left handed bench bat but this is probably the most complete Yankees team since 2018.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I'd like a little more depth, but the doom predicted for Yankees was too early

brad penny for your thoughts

12:54

if the league does go to robot umps, would you prefer an actual robot behind home plate?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Yes. Especially if it's armed.

Regally Speaking

12:54

Is Santana actually blocking Pratto?