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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/13/21

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Snid

12:36

Yelich,Yelich,Yelich... They have been so fleeting in info. What is the problem with his back? I know it hurts! thx

Dan Szymborski

12:37

That's all they've shared!

Chase

12:37

Grandal currently has a 122 wRC+ while hitting .130, do you remember a stranger shape of production?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

No, I do not.

CeddyBReady

12:37

Hi, Dan. Can you inform Tyler that the O's are super rad for me? Thanks!

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I'm not sure the reference, but it gets a post for confusing me

Adam

12:39

Which year in baseball history had a run scoring environment that most matches your preferred aesthetic?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Probably mid-to-late 80s with the occasional 1987, but I think we tend to be shaped by the times we initially fell in love with baseball

I'd be happy with 1994-1996ish

12:40

The home run rates were lower, contrary to perception

strikeouts were lower, and BAs were around .270

Padres fan

12:40

Do you think robot umps will help the hitters? I've seen way too many hitters called out on pitches 4 or more inches outside. With the pitchers using grip stuff, their pitches are moving so much and fast the umps can't seem to follow them

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I think it will help some and hurt others

Babip Roberts

12:41

Whatever happened to Rob Neyer?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

He's still around, but I think he's lost the taste for writing about baseball as a daily thing.

12:42

But we're acquaintances, so I can't claim any particular insight

Jason

12:42

Seth Brown is not only clearly over-performing his ZIPS projection but under-performing his Statcast xNumbers. At what point can we agree he just much better than the ~80 wRC+ that ZIPS thinks he is?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

It dpeneds on degree

GraphsFan

12:42

Dan, are you tuning in for Mariners: The Next Generation tonight?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Yeah, I try to make sure and watch debuts

I forgot about some pitcher's debut last year (I forget who it was) and was pissed off about it

OddBall Herrera

12:42

Naw, the root cause for Gleyber's power outage is easy, just use my default root cause for everything: it's clearly a false flag operation

Garrick

12:43

White Sox lose Robert and Eloy and somehow start playing....better? How?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Drinking and driving is the newest market inefficiency?

(Sorry)

Billy Beane

12:44

I do. Honestly, I could've saved myself money by just getting the switches and playing with them incessantly. Jade greens are the most satisfying toy I've ever had.

Andrew Young

12:44

I'm batting .400/.600/1.600 in the tiniest of sample sizes with 4 HR, 2 BB, 5 K, and 3 HBP with a .559 xwOBA and max EV of 115.9 mph. Does this change my projections much?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

Every bit of new information changes an outlook, blessed be Bayes

He's gotten a bump at least check from all the systems

MilwaukeeBeerJays

12:46

Is Cedric Mullins the best center fielder in the AL East?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Well, there's this springy guy

HBP

12:47

Hi Dan - Does ZIPS have insight into what players have seen the largest change in ROS performance expectations, as compared to pre-season expectations? Interested primarily in skillset changes, as opposed to volume-oriented metrics.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

It does, but the in-season model here is a simpler one because of the need for it to be run daily

Guest

12:47

is Trammell still a 4th OF-type, or did he show more than that?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I don't think anything's really changed

Guest

12:48

Are people in analytics community looking inward and wondering, for all their cutting edge skills, just how badly they have hurt the Cincinnati chili industry and how these trends could be reversed?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

HASN'T BEEN HURT ENOUGH!

Duchess

12:48

Dan take a peek at Boehner's swing rate with 81 game rolling average. Equally odd that he was doing so well and then just stopped swinging

Dan Szymborski

12:48

John Boehner?

Adam

12:48

Which would you rather a new MLB stadium contain beyond the right field fence: an aquarium where you could see the fish through the wall, or a rollercoaster?

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