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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/25/23

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Dan Szymborski

12:24

my main one

12:25

I'm not doing anything right now that requires me chasing him off

Everything runs about 6 degrees C hotter when he's sleeping on top, so I don't want to do anything particularly CPU hungry

12:26

The other three last I checked were looking through the kitchen screen because there was a long-haired black cat hanging around in the backyard and they all had to stare

Dreamin

12:26

If there was any component of play that isn't measurable at the moment you could make measurable what would it be?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I would love to have a brain readout of the exact instant a player makes the decision to swing or not swing

12:27

If you could only pick one, would you rather your favorite team have elite pitching or elite hitting and why?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Elite hitting because injury

fewer than the A's

12:28

any ideas on how the Guardians offense could be improved?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

I think they're too aggressive at the plate. They're a good contact team, but their quality of contact has been sub-meh

12:30

And contrary to conventional wisdom, contact teams are streakier offenses than teams wiht similar runs scored that hit a lot of homers

KatzOnAKeyboard

12:30

Is there a way to tell when a stat should see some regression? Looking at Brash's BABIP it feels like that has to go down at some point, yet he just keeps on getting BABIPed

Dan Szymborski

12:30

It's not a linear or a binary thing

SoJo

12:30

Cat hair isn't good for your RAM...

Dan Szymborski

12:31

The top is an exhaust

I get far more cat hair from the front intake

which I do have to clean out regularly

Meowsa

12:31

I work in the field of Data Engineering (essentially, building pipelines for data to flow through). Is this something MLB teams need? I don't really know what the scale of data an MLB team will deal with at any given time.

Dan Szymborski

12:31

If something you do is useful, a team will want it

12:32

The best way to get a job in baseball is solve a problem a team has

Izzy

12:32

Is Riley Greene finally great at baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

I certianly hope so, I had him on my breakout list!

Chad Ogea

12:33

Which current MLB player would you pick to win an Olympic decathlon?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Witt?

One of the fastest and a strong arm

Prime Number Hunt

12:34

When kitties aren't asleep near the PC fans, have you used your processing power to hunt for mega-primes before?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

jas

12:34

Given the way the Cardinals brass has handled personnel decisions this year, do you find it kind of surprising how consistently good they've been? It looks more and more like it was a run of things consistently breaking the right way, rather than being able to deftly maneuver around things that go wrong

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I think it's a competent front office, but it's a very risk-averse one

and sometimes, when a lot of things go wrong, that has a real negative effect on your ability to handle it

petey

12:35

are some of the lower cost nats now developing trade value? Candelario, Williams, Thomas,..?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

SOME. People tend to overrate trade value of guys like this

Rob

12:35

Does MacKenzie Gore look like a #2, #3 or something else to you in peak?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I think he's sub ace. 2/3ish sounds about wright

Un-ionization

12:35

Do you believe MLB front office employees will begin to bargain workplace rights, or at least to keep their electrons for themselves?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I would guess no.

12:36

There's not really a lot of leverage

El Mago

12:37

Javier Baez has stopped striking out. After leading NL with 184 Ks in 547 PA in 2021, he improved to 147 Ks in 590 PA with Tigers in 2022. This year Baez's 590 PA K-pace is down to 107. Is Javy without Ks like bald Samson?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

His contact rate has been trending upward. Problem is, he's also hitting less hard too

Meowsa

12:38

Re:Olympics: Tyler o Neil?

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