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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/29/21

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Estevão

12:24

Springer and Semien are interesting but shouldn't the Jays have focused a little bit more on pitching help

Dan Szymborski

12:24

They needed more than just that

And the pitching options this offseason weren't great

LFC Mike

12:24

The first Bridich Free chat. The pressure is on Dan. If you had that job now...What would be the #1 and #2 items on your list to do to start turning around that franchise?....and leaving Colorado is not an option....nor is building a huge pressurized bubble so it feels like pitching at sea level.

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I'd clean house of anyone who had any stake in decision making

though in reality, #1 would be finding a house in Denver and #2, getting blood pressure medication because of ownership

Cakes&Kakes

12:25

How many Orioles currently in the nightly lineup could Brandon Fahey outhit if he came out of retirement today?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

Ouch

brad penny for your thoughts

12:25

how many times a week do one of your cats throw up, be it hairball or otherwise?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I'd guess maybe 1.5 barfs a week or so?

12:26

Galileo was always the barfy cat. Nearly every day. He was an obsessive groomer and had myriad hairballs

Guest

12:27

Are you still higher on Kirilloff than ZIPS?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Yes

Nearhan Zaidi

12:27

How much do we need to cashapp you for a ZiPS percentile breakdown on Mike Tauchman?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Hey, I *do* have a standard price for a full readout that includes that

For you guys, free, though I'm not set up (yet) to have it integrated with in-season performance

12:31

Coming into season, with fixed PA

R-Jay

12:31

What do you make of Vlad Jrs hot start? Has he arrived? There are some launch angle metrics that suggest he possibly has, but to me, the presence and relaxation he’s showing at the plate is noticeably on a different level right from the outset of the season. He’s taking pitches he didn’t in his first two years. It’s almost peak Miggy confidence I see. Thoughts?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I'm quite optimistic! Remember I put him at my breakouts piece at #1

People forget how young he is

Johnny5Alive

12:31

Tony Wolfe had a good piece about the Giants rotation. If you had to pick 1 of the guys (outside gausman) to keep up really good numbers (not the cy young numbers they are all putting up now) all season, who would it be?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

WHY CAN'T I HAVE GAUSMAN

12:32

I will trudge over your bones to take Gausman

12:33

Might actually be Cueto

I was pessimistic, but the changeup is rocking this year

and that was the missing formula

12:33

What did you think of the Tauchman/Peralta deal?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I think it's a fine deal, though I question the TIMING for the Yankees given their OF has been struggling lately

Appa Yip Yip

12:34

Have Vlad's RoS ZiPS projections changed?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

They always do!

In this case, preseason .839 OPS is now a rest of season .868 OPS

Dan

12:34

How many people are good enough currently to start for a major league team but aren't because they're more valuable getting seasoning in the minors, blocked on their team, playing overseas etc

Dan Szymborski

12:34

AS IF MINORS ARE A THING

12:35

Fewer than there used to be

NPB/KBO are now more viable options than 25 years ago and teams are more likely to give players chances

12:36

guys like Roberto Petagine and Greg LaRocca likely have real MLB careers now

David

12:36

How predictive, in general, is a season’s first month regarding a team’s or player’s rest of season performance? Somewhat, slightly, not at all predictive?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

slightly

12:37

I did talk about this

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