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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/2/24

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Dan Szymborski

12:19

I said I thought it was the steal of the winter and suffice it to say, 2024 certainly hasn't made that opinion look ill-formed

Kwanbelievable

12:19

4 straight extra innings games for the Guardians is ridiculous, what did ZiPS' prognostications put the odds of that before the season?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I don't really model that!

Oaktown Blues

12:20

Who do you think wins the A's shortstop job, long-ish term? Darell Hernaiz? Max Muncy the Younger? Jacob Wilson?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Wilson strikes me as the most likely to seize it

though I could be biased; I've used him a ton in my MLB the Show Diamond Dynasty teams

Happ-y to Be Here

12:22

Since June 20th of last year, the pitcher with the lowest ERA in baseball (min 100 innings) at 2.15 is......Javier Assad. Mark Leiter Jr called Assad "The Best pitcher in baseball" with a straight face. Is Leit-show actually more right than wrong?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

That's a LITTLE too far for me

Jeff

12:22

Profar's EV and Hard Hit % are significantly up from career numbers--sustainable?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

Generally speaking, hard-hit % has a really low number of balls in play for changes to be somewhat real

12:23

especially since the numbers aren't crazy. still a lot of babip to be wrung out

Spork

12:23

What are your current thoughts on Tork? Is he going to turn it around and be a good player?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

I'm on the fence. It's only a month, but he's taken a REAL step back in his peripheral numbers

He's just not hitting this very hard at all, especially compared to second half last year

Matt from Toronto

12:24

Can the Blue Jays hitters turn their season around? (Namely Vlad Jr, Bo Bichette and George Springer)

Dan Szymborski

12:24

I think so, but I've been saying this about Vladito for like a year and it's getting exhausting

Coors Kutter

12:24

Is Kutter Crawford’s hot start just that, or does it portend a new level of performance?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

I think there's a really good chance of the latter

12:25

Yeah, BABIP is slightly on the low side, but there's a lot to like in those periphs

Oaktown Blues

12:25

Mason Miller rightfully gets the lion's share of coverage when talking about the A's bullpen success. What I haven't seen talked about much is how well the A's have utilized long relievers in Mitch Spence and Kyle Muller to bridge the gap between a shaky rotation and the relief aces. Will this lead to other teams emulating the strategy of having multiple long relievers?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I think long term, teams are incentivized to bring back long relief as a role

12:26

Generally speaking, teams have been shoring up those missing innings from reduced starter workload by MORE relievers, not relievers pitching more

but there are limits to that unless you're position players are going to be nine starters and Jose Oquendo

Anonymous Coward

12:27

What's the deal with the Braves offense? They're scoring lots of runs while getting not-very-much out of their big three of Acuña, Riley, and Olson. What gives way first - does the top of their lineup start producing or does their bottom half fall to earth?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I think they'll get their shit together and score 15,000 runs or so

gatewayredbirds

12:27

The Cardinals are slugging .338 as a team. As a point of reference, Aaron Miles' career slugging percentage was .352.

Mitchell

12:27

What is going on with Corey seager? This seems like a prolonged slump, and he missed spring training and recently turned 30. Any idea on what is happening right now? Is it anything to worry about?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I'm not worried...yet

Guest

12:28

Is Andrew Bailey the real Pitching Whisperer?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

Andrew Bailey's delivered more splits than the waitress in Bill & Ted that brought Napoleon all that ice cream

Jolly Roger

12:29

Who does Gunnar remind you of?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

Timmy Buttz

12:30

Did I miss an article announcing Eric’s departure? Or did I dream that I saw he’s joining a big league club?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

If he did, I totally missed it and feel like a schlub now

I don't see anything in slack!

Kevin

12:31

What types of data do teams have access to that you do not?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Generally, very detailed things that they create themselves

12:32

Most things that are baseball-wide are available somehow or somewhere, and I've always had ways of getting things that aren't, if I need them

But information that is locally proprietary, individual teams can leverage that stuff

TomBruno23

12:32

Nolan Arenado....any excess value left on that contract or do the Cardinals have to pay it down when and if it gets to be That Time...2024 35M, 2025 32M, 2026 27M, 2027 15M

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