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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/20/2019

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Unleash the Chatken!

Egg

12:04

How impactful are hitting coaches really? Do you think there is anything to the correlation between Mets, Cubs, and Red Sox all struggling under Chili Davis, with a complete lack of power?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

That's a tricky thing in that's it hard to really separate out a hitting coach's contribution. It's more of a leadership role for the manager to figure out than anything that is data driven.

Unless someone smarter than me has found a way to isolate hitting coaches.

Voldemort

12:05

Do you have confidence in Matt Carpenter and/or Jesus Aguilar to turn things around this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Carp more.

Voldemort

12:05

Do you think Hiura locks down the 2B job or does he get sent back down at the first sign of Shaw showing life?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I don't necessarily think he locks up the job, but if Shaw shows some life, I expect the Brewers to be more flexible with the positions of some of these guys, a la the Tigers.

DJ Tanner

12:06

Does ZiPS update midseason for minors guys? Ex, does Yordan Alvarez's offensive output look better with the year he is having or does Austin Riley's lower K rate make him even more viable in the bigs?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

It won't until we have minor league translations live. This is on my plate right now.

Laxtonto

12:06

What is better? Spinach or Aragula?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Arugula.

Though I will only eat both if they're completely raw.

Roberto Beers

12:06

A Dan, A Plan, A Sad Giants Post, Sopstnaig Dasan Alpa Nada

LFC Mike

12:07

Good Monday Dan. So now that GOT is over...will the Braves have an intervention with Albies and tell him he is NOT a switch hitter? 763 lifetime AB as a lefty has produced .241/.299/.412 numbers while as a righty 286 AB .339/.369/.556. He needs to go fulltime righty or be part of a strict platoon...the Braves can't live with those numbers from a supposed big piece of their future. I know he is young but there is no improvement here...

Dan Szymborski

12:07

It's certainly worth experimenting with giving up switch-hitting. I wouldn't do it until a spring training.

another bad dynasty manager

12:08

Dan: nice piece on the Giants (even though I'm an O's fan). Assuming the Giants do the smart thing, would you care to speculate where veterans like Belt and Posey end up?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I don't think Posey goes anywhere and honestly, I doubt Belt will either.

Roberto Beers

12:08

Do pull heavy lefties provide better stealing opportunities of third base for runners on second?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Never really looked at the issue, actually.

12:09

Stealing third base is kind of a lost art given the success rate you need. The conventional wisdom of not making the first or third out at third actually has a lot going for it.

Laxtonto

12:10

Who is the Rangers best position prospect?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

Leody

vft

12:10

has cj cron made any adjustments? he could feast in that lineup

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I think he's just a Decent Guy having a good run in May

Laxtonto

12:10

Rewatching Dexter... Better than the Sapranos?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

Dexter went on too long for its creative spark

Charlotte Cialis Porcupines

12:10

I tried your twitter game of naming a minor league team...produces a terrible name for a minor league team if you ask me....and the slogan for the team "Get pricked at the ballpark" has way too many negatives...

Dan Szymborski

12:10

There were a lot of great names!

12:12

For those who missed it, it's the hometown of your close relative you know the least, the last item you bought at a retail outlet in-person, and an animal you think would be good in a cop buddy movie if it could talk and was animated.

I didn't share mine, but my minor league team name was the Jacksonville Milk Pandas.

bart

12:12

how much playing time do you see brendan rodgers getting?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Scattered. He's not a lousy player in his 30s.

Brood550

12:14

What are the White Sox doing for tomorrow's game now that Banuelos is on the IL? Bullpen it or are they going to call someone up?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

I think they actually do finally call up Cease. They're doing an opener tonight I believe

Richard

12:15

Austin Barnes. Do you think this is who he is, or could there be more in the bat?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I think he is who he is at this point - he's not a young player. He's finally kinda having that average season

Brood550

12:16

What should be taken from Alcantara's start yesterday? Turning a corner or just a blip?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

It was a good start, but the Mets also look lost right now. He looked much worse a couple of starts ago when the Cubs were just waiting him out.

TooDamnTall

12:17

I can't think of a good question, so I'll just say hi.

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