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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/27/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:43

I see they do

Al Gone Quinn

12:44

XL gym pants?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

The toy gym pants are tiny cat toy ones. They came in their monthly kitnipbox when the theme was gym equipment

12:45

like there's also a catnip barbell somewhere

Rehab Failure

12:45

Is Syndergaard toast?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

Al Gone Quinn

12:45

Did you see Jeff Zimmerman get owned by his own children on Twitter yesterday?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

No, I didn't! Poor Jeff!

zurzles

12:46

I need to stop buying my recipe books off the black market

Fun With Words

12:46

you are tasked with inserting a hapax legomenon into your next article.

Norm

12:46

Would you claim Lindblom if you are Detroit? Urena just got pulled from his last start with forearm issues. Also, their pen is atrocious

Dan Szymborski

12:46

I think I would

TomBruno23

12:46

Of course they do and, go figure, they pretty much taste the same as the Not Impossible Sliders.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

I rarely have White Castle

The nearest is a significant drive away from anything I normally drive to and my girlfriend detests them so will loudly complain and punch me in the shoulder repeatedly if I suggest sliders

12:47

This is my walk-up music and it is better than everybody's. Shut up.

SadYanksFan

12:47

Kluber's injury feels like the end of the mirage for the rotation. How worried should I be?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

As long as Cole is healthy, the wheels likely stay on

Norm

12:48

I just watched Heat with De Niro and Pacino last week and it was absolutely terrible. No pacing, paper thin characters, and tons of cheesy dialogue. Why is this movie well regarded?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I think part of it is it hasn't aged well as a lot of the tropes have become more common

12:49

ThougH I still like it way better than you do

Nate

12:49

Does ZiPs show any sympathy for the Tigers rebuilding efforts?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

No, not really

12:49

PS: I told my 10-year-old daughter that that will be the song for our daddy-daughter dance at her wedding, straight popping and locking. Dope.

David

12:49

With recent years’ changes in what offense looks like, in what way has the break even point for stolen base success rate changed?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

When the negative cost for an out goes down and the relative benefit of a base goes up, break-even is a bit lower

CeddyBReady

12:50

HEAT IS A GODDAMNED MASTERPIECE OF ACTING AND DIRECTING! All I want is for Bobby to run away with me!

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I wish I could set up street fights insice chats

CeddyBReady

12:50

Szym'ing - Obvious opening taken for one's own amusement, usually followed by unnecessary apologies in a chat room.

TomBruno23

12:50

Ricky Horton actually said this on the broadcast yesterday, “You really do not want to force John Gant into a situation where he has to throw strikes.”

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Imagine that you were poisoned and the antidote can only be won at a carnival game by having a friend knock over battles with a baseball

Would YOU take Gant right now?

TomBruno23

12:51

Volumes will be written about the Angels' squandering of The Mike Trout Era.

Jonathan

12:51

How long will Crawford keep this up? Trying to hit the sell high window before it closes.

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Probably not long

12:52

Him and Posey have been ridonkulus this year

Rodney

12:52

Does ZIPS have capacity to adjust for negative hitting impacts that seem connected to players playing out of position, or being asked to slide up the defensive spectrum? Thinking of guys like Dom Smith and Nick Senzel here...

Dan Szymborski

12:52

No, it's a bit beyond scope

12:53

I haven't found substantial data to support such a thing

Not htat it doesn't happen, but the range of results is all over the place

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