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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/25/23

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Who's Fabio?

12:56

I was a shortstop in the minors but I could make a spot start for the A's. I was on the A's radar at some point in the early 2000s.

Rob

12:57

World WAR Z zombie or traditional?

SoJo

12:57

Have you seen anything on the financial impact for concessions with the shorter games?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I haven't

I know teams are serving beer longer

12:58

I'm not sure it makes as much a difference as people speculate

I don't eat more on days I'm awake longer

Mike M

12:58

How would you rank the following in order of most preferred to least preferred? expansion, automated balls and strikes, removal of extra-inning runner, tacky baseball

Dan Szymborski

12:59

automated balls and strikes, removal of extra-inning runner.............................tacky baseball....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................expans

Guest

12:59

"I don't eat more on days I'm awake longer" hmm, I've never compiled the numbers, but I'd bet that I do

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Though you'd have to adjust for health

When I was horribly ill back in early February

I was literally sleeping 16 hours a day for a week

1:00

and I ate almost nothing (I lost 17 pounds in a week). But not because I was awake less!

mmddyyyy

1:00

For scale, what would pitchers need to get to balance metal bats?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

shotguns

KCbbq

1:02

What happened to Taylor Ward this season? Started off great then blamo.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

KCbbq

1:03

Will Bryce Miller's tendency to over rely on his fastball lead to an eventual implosion as the league figures him out?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

As I said above, there's a risk

Baseball is a game of adjustment. If you're too one-note, people will figure out how to hum your tune.

1:04

Tony Cingrani was one pitcher wno learned that the hard way

Sharps

1:04

Which MLB players would make the best pro wrestlers, and vice versa?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Now O'Neill I think would be a good pro wrestler

Meowsa

1:05

*unless you're Mariano rivera

Dan Szymborski

1:06

See, Mariano was one note. But the cutter was the brown note, so batters were too busy crapping their pants to ever be able to adjust!

I'm kinda offended that on MLB the Show, he doesn't JUST have a cutter

mmddyyyy

1:07

Do reporters keep score?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Like fans, some do, some don't

I'm not personally a fan of it. I don't want to do paperwork

1:09

I want to have the option of wandering off from the press box to get beers, maybe chat wiht some random fans, help myself to seats in different parts of the park

Farhandrew Zaidman

1:09

Don't try to make sense of MLB The Show arsenals. Kershaw's had a change up for years, which, ok?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I *am* glad that for Devin Williams, Sony just decided "yeah, that's obviously a goddamn screwball that is."

mmddyyyy

1:10

Do writers get fangraphs email addresses?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I'm sure people can ask for one if they want