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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/2/24

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Dan Szymborski

12:53

He could very well be up there

seth

12:53

how impactful will bat swing speed metrics be to public analysis of hitters?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I think it'll be quite useful once it's fully available

KC Attention Seeker

12:53

Hey, we're doing really well! Give us some of that sweet sweet analysis limelight while we're still relevant!

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I did a Royals piece!

and it wasn't even mean!

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/can-the-royals-pull-off-an-al-central-upse...

TomBruno23

12:54

What are some albums you consistently come back to? I spend 2x a year listening to INXS's Kick for a week at a time.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I assume not classical?

12:55

according to media monkey, it looks like the album I've listened to the most over the last decade is The Decembrerists What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

12:57

Weirdly, the non-classical album I've listened to the most this year is a 2010 release, Woodpigeon's Die Stadt Muzikanten

1:00

Looking at all albums, the one I've listened to the most (22 times) is Kubelik's 1990 recording of Smetana's Ma Vlast with the Czech Philharmonic on Supraphon

Guest

1:00

Dan, the past few weeks FG has become almost unusable on my laptop. Crashes the browser almost every time. Not your department but wanted to pass along the feedback. (Sent from mobile after fg crashed on laptop for 3rd time today)

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Oh no, that's weird

have you tried other browsers?

Not sure. We have an occasional bad ad

1:01

Hit me up on twitter or bluesky

Nick

1:01

So when it gets reported that Jose Abreu agreed to go to AAA, the alternative would have been that he could refuse the assignment due to his service years, forcing the Astros to either keep him on the ML roster or DFA him, paying him in full either way? Is that the correct understanding of the situation?

Also, do you know other examples of players with tons of remaining money and enough service time to refuse deciding to accept AAA? I would guess most just force the clubs to pay/cut them.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

As far as I can tell, yes

as long as the player has option eligibility remaining, you can at least ASK them if they're willing

but if they aren't, you have to either keep them or cut them, and the pay works like any other release

I know it's happened before but my dumb brain can't think of a quick example

GA Blood

1:02

Bradish went from a UCL sprain to starting a game in less than 4 months. Can you recall any similar turn arounds? I don't know how to research this but I'd be fascinated to see how it's panned out for other pitchers.

Dan Szymborski

1:03

It's hard to say since severity varies

Pallazzo

1:03

You are handed a magic hot dog. If/when you eat this hot dog you recieve 1 million dollars. But, for every day you don't eat the hot dog you get to choose a player from history to join their current team. How many days you going and who are your top 5 you want to see?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Oh man, for a million, I'm not sure I eat that hot dog for a long time

does the hot dog stay good?

I assume a magic hot dog has magic freshness?

1:04

I'd probably work my way through most of the Hall of Famers and Hall of very good

1:05

but when I get to the point where I'm, like bringing Chris Bosio back to the Brewers, I think I'll eat the dog and take the million

Guest

1:05

You say you used to be a sidearm pitcher, Dan. Forget getting a hit off Jared Jones, do you think you could get a win pitching against him? Remember that he pitches for the Pirates.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I doubt I ever threw a fastball much above 70. I have a better chance getting hit off him than winning a game as a pticher

Oneear

1:06

Which TOR pitcher is LEAST likely to get injured this year?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Dave Stieb

GATES BROWN

1:06

Do you believe in this edition of Jack Flaherty? The K/BB ratio is wonderful...but he's been so bad for so long.