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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/25/23

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Ross

12:40

Are you buying the Kelenic breakout?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

increasingly

Meowsa

12:40

Would you be willing to have your cats be in a movie where they start playing baseball for the Oakland As? Which is most likely to accrue the most WAR?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Sure. Probalby Justinian who is the most active

Rob

12:40

Tatis running some wild Statcast numbers. Looks like a 70 D in RF nearly 80 sprint, 80 arm. Running low strikeout rate but also super low walk rate. 75 percentile power. Think he gets back to 90 percentile exit velo? If so are 7+ WAR seasons still in future?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

It's a possibility, but seven WAR seasons are HARD

Guest

12:40

is the sine-like curve of fly ball exit velocity to outcomes a fundamental flaw of the game

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I woudln't say that

12:41

I'm not sure a pure linear relationship between hitting the ball hard and getting a hit is necessarily a good thing

I think it's better that it's *one* of the important thigns

Jerry

12:41

Should the Mariners try and make an early trade for a bat? Or should they standpat because of the hole they have dug in the standings.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

The M's should make a trade for a player they need as soon as they can get a team to part with such a player

There's no time like the present, where possible

J-Rod

12:42

How are you feeling about Julio Rodriguez? We are 50 games in and he is still a below league average hitter.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

nic

Uninvited Guest

12:42

How does one find out what problems a team needs solved? I assume they don’t make that too public. If any teams need an environmental clean up, can you give them my number?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I think the A's need environmental cleanup, but they don't like paying for things

Mariners

12:47

If there was an elimination game today, would you go Castillo, Kirby, or Gilbert?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Still Castillo

lee_rumbah

12:49

Hot honey on pizza y/n?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Meh

I like spicy things but I'm not big on sweet

Baseball Fanatic

12:49

This isn't a question, I'm just here to say how fortunate we are to be blessed with daily baseball throughout the summer and into fall

Dan

12:50

If a player had access to six seconds of time travel could a low level org guy become a impact major leaguer. So average speed but 20s in other skill now knows exactly how a ball will curve and if it will be called a strike before making a swing decision. On defense they can start their break as soon as the batter starts swinging (repositioning before the pitch is rule out for paradox reasons)

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I would imagine that this was the case

If you know exactly where something is going to be, it's like hitting off a tee

Rob

12:50

Where did all the top 1B go? Early 2000s was full of them. Is conditioning and training the cause? Are we simply selecting for better overall athletes? Seems like the 2 tool 1B with good enough D is going the way of the pocket quarterback.

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I think we're more willing to keep players at prime defensive positions than we used to

Josh

12:51

How are you liking all the rule changes so far?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Except the zombie runner still being around, just fine

Ross

12:53

What are your thoughts on the idea that the pitch clock is causing a big increase in arm injuries this year? Seems like pitchers have been dropping like flies.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I'm unconvinced

Manfred Man

12:54

Would the implementation of the Manfred Man be improved if the runner had to actually run like a zombie in the movies?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

slightly!

SoJo

12:55

You seem slower than normal today...crappy questions, running mobile?