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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/29/2019

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Dan Szymborski

12:46

Essentially, Chavis staying up necessitates them giving up on *Pedroia*

12:47

they could find a roster spot by giving up on Nunez, but they rightfully want Chavis playing full time

Mike

12:47

Rogers is the heir apparent to Ian Desmond in CF, a position he has never played. #Rockies

Mike

12:47

More AB this year, Ty France or Luis Urias? (Assuming Padres move on from Kinsler)

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Urias

Matt

12:47

Dan, have you ever thought about opening a zamboni manufacturing plant? You could call your company SzymBalogna Zambonis. Naturally, the differentiator of your product is that it comes with a built in fresh sliced bologna dispenser. This would help to solve for what I assume to be the industry's biggest problem of hungry zamboni operators.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

I don't really like bologna.

and I don't know anything about Zambonis.

12:48

I did have a dream recently that I invented a digital trombone

you'd push buttons that control how far the slide goes

and it had a built in accordion keyboard thing too

but I don't know what that did. It was a dream, so I didn't get coherent specs

Matt

12:49

Bay-Bip, or Bah-Bip?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

I tend to read out the letters

Phil Diggety

12:49

Should I bench both Thor and Kluber? Both really killing me this year!

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Siri

12:49

Can you please explain Franmil Reyes? Great batted ball and plate discipline, but it's not translating (other than the power).

Dan Szymborski

12:49

He had one of the big xwOBA vs. wOBA splits last I checked. I'm inclined towards optimism

Joe West, Umpire

12:49

I understand they are modelling the future robot umpires after me Szitburski. Take that! You know where to find my CD's.

tan mom

12:50

why can't his last name be kaboom? all those lost home run puns...

Dan Szymborski

12:50

It's still close enough to make hte puns

I mean, puns aren't perfect

MACC

12:50

Hi Dan. Just a little confused. I know the Rockies hate young guys and all. And I get that Story will sign an extension at 29 to stay in town long past his prime, and that he and Arenado will be the left side forever. But assuming that Rodgers will be blocked is to assume that McMahon is... Good. Is such a bold claim being made? Just didn't see McMahon as someone who is worthy of blocking anyone.

Dan Szymborski

12:50

If McMahon is good, he should block people.

And if he's not, the Rockies will play him because he gets older every year.

Artist formerly known as DL

12:51

Is Ohtani getting service time credit while on the IL? He seems to be more than ready to get back on the field but the team is really taking their time

Dan Szymborski

12:51

You get service time on the DL

err IL

I hate IL

I understand moving on from "disabled" but make it the injureD List.

because every time the yankees "send a player to the IL" I'm not sure if they're injured or being optioned to Scranton.

Big Joe Mufferaw

12:52

I was listening to MLB on xm this weekend, and this analyst (not a caller) was saying that the Yankees are a better team with Austin Romine, why is there a misconception that Sanchez is a BAD defender, when he has a great, arm, is a good framer, and people completely ignore that the yankees throw extremely hard and the most breaking balls in the league (That leads to passed balls).

Dan Szymborski

12:52

Nichols Law of Catcher Defense

Matt W

12:52

Don't look now, but the Mets are fervently laying the groundwork to demote Rosario and play Jed Lowrie at SS full time. This is an actual thing that is happening.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

In fairness, his defense has been kinda disappointing in the majors

Josh R

12:53

Do you find it odd that the Blue Jays have already pinch run for the 20 yo Vlad Jr twice and removed his bat from potential tie games?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

If he struggles at all, they have a ready made excuse to send him down and save super-two. Needs to work on his running!

Sun

12:54

How should Reyes Moronta mix his pitches?