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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/6/23

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Debbie

12:48

The biggest threat to the Yankees AL East crown in 2023 will be ______

Dan Szymborski

12:48

not winning a sufficient number of games to have the highest total among the AL East competitors.

12:48

Did you take any regular season wins over/under this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Arizona over, Dodgers under

TomBruno23

12:49

This Cardinal rotation...

Dan Szymborski

12:49

It's certainly not a good sign that the ERA leader of the rotation allowed seven walks

But they'll be fine in the long run

Farhandrew Zaidman

12:49

True or False: Dustin May is unhittable when he's landing his breaking ball for strikes.

Dan Szymborski

12:49

True

TomBruno23

12:49

Can Jordan Walker keep up his 147 wRC+ all season, and does he have to in order to make up for his baserunning and defense?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Probably not, but as I've talked about a lot, his upside is massive.

Patrick

12:50

PLEASE for the love of everything good and holy in this world explain the IKF in center thing. Doesn't it seem like the Yankees are for, whatever reason, just preparing for the worst worst case scenario? What extra value are you getting out of him out there unless 80 percent of your outfielders get hurt?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

That's why he was on my breakouts list!

WALKER NOT IKF

I don't see anything wrong with preparing for worst-case scenarios by seeing what your roster can do

12:51

Steve Pearce was never going to play second full time, but it was useful to know that he could fake it well enough to be an emergency option

Inaccessible Rail

12:51

Should the Mets start the sell-off now? Or wait until the trading deadline?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Very cruel

Jesse

12:52

Just read the pitch-modeling article. Is Ohtani the most talented player to ever play the game?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

I hate to make such a sweeping declaration in an off-the-cuff comment

but he's certainly among them

12:53

it's damn hard to be a major league hitter OR a major league pitcher and to be good at both is very rare

Suzie

12:53

How the Rays be doin this?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

They have a really good rotation

Even with Glasnow out

12:54

It's also the closest thing to a traditional rotation the Rays have had in years

McClanahan-Springs-Glasnow-Rasmussen-Eflin-Fleming is a really good top six

Chuckie

12:54

You expecting Franmil to return to his Clevland glory?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Not really

I was hopeful he could turn it around with the Cubs but he didn't

12:55

And it's not like the Royals are particularly clever.

Maybe the Dodgers could do it!

Guest

12:55

Mitch Keller has the best slider (the sweeper) in baseball this year according to stuff + (small sample size), but it was also top 5ish in the 2nd half last year when he came back from his stint in the pen. Is this, along with the new cutter, going to finally set him up for success when he settles in on the right pitch mix?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

It's certainly a possibility. I was torn between him and Contreras for my breakouts list, and went with Contreras since Keller was a full season guy who had a good year in 2022

Charlie

12:57

How would you rank these low-end AL closers? LeClerc, Esteves, Lange, May?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Probably May above Lange

Leclerc is the most interesting of them

Choochie

12:58

You still a believer in Kyle Bradish breaking out this season?

Dan Szymborski

12:58