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Dan Szymborski Fangraphs Chat - 6/10/21

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Evan C

12:34

Think Dylan Bundy's gonna turn it around? Or is his velocity just not enough to keep up with today's game?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I ceratinly hope so. ZiPS sees him as a significant underperformer based on periphs

Lark

12:35

Are the Angels sellers this year? They seem to be improving, but it’s not like they’re gaining a ton of ground in the division...

Dan Szymborski

12:35

They're sit-around-and-wait-fruitlesslyers

Gil

12:35

Ha. Here: https://defector.com/is-lightning-a-fraud-sadly-yes/

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:35

So Dan's chat probably knows that Macho Man Randy Savage was a minor leaguer. But what's much more amazing is that he was billed at 6'1", 195 pounds. That's only 10 pounds more than not-large-man Brandon Lowe, who's 5'10".
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=poffo-001ra...

Who's Fabio?

12:36

Hey Dan - serious question, lots of folks are commenting on Robbie Ray's tight fitting uniform. Do you think this is helping with his mechanics? Helping with command and control?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I don't even know how to approach that!

Maybe if he were particularly uncomfortable in a tight fitting uni

errr loose

Right now, I see it more as a meme than something

I wonder if there's an objective way to measure uniform fittage

brad penny for your thoughts

12:38

how good would Mr Burns baseball team have been?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Not very, his right fielder has been dead for 160 years!

Guest

12:39

What does a realistic return for Scherzer look like? Could he still pull multiple top-100 prospects? Is anyone willing to give up enough to make Rizzo REALLY think about it?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I think that's tough

teams will pay a lot, but he's also a rental

12:41

Teams just aren't giving many huge packages for *any* two month superstar anymore

12:42

They want the two month and then the final year kicker

Eric the Red

12:42

Am I crazy to not care literally at all about the sticky "cheating" scandal? Seems like if A. everybody in baseball is doing it and B. everybody in baseball knows about it then we shouldn't be making a big deal about it.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I think the issue is enforcement is kind of arbitrary

Toledo Brad

12:42

Brendan Rodgers. Is the "breakout" coming?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I still think so, but I think odds improve in a new organization.

12:43

The Rockies are a giant dumpster full of smaller dumpsters on fire that are full of individual tire fires, and that whole giant dumpster is also on fire

brad penny for your thoughts

12:43

did alonso's opinion on free agent class and type of ball in use seem overly conspiratorial to you?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Yes

12:44

I don't think baseball's that competent enough to think of such a conspiracy, figure out how to make it work, pull the trigger, and successfully implement it *and* cover it up

Dan Fan Man

12:44

Is there any inkling yet on how many RPMs is a statistically significant enough loss to actually either deduce a pitcher was using something beyond the rosin/pine tar/sunscreen mix or impact their performance?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I think you need to have more data on guys actually *caught*

Wanderlusting

12:45

Dan.. Please tell us the exact date and time Wander Franco is called up. Thank You

Dan Szymborski

12:45

21st century, between the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox

Lee Bum-Ho

12:45

Another fascinating splitter is Chapman’s… Dude threw one this weekend that (by my observation) danced like a knuck and was clocked at a downright unfair 89 mph (think the spin rate was something like 650, too. Checked out Chapman’s observed movement chart on savant, and sure enough, his splitter has registered movement in like 75-80% of the possible directions a ball can move. Did he somehow unlock another God-mode pitch?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

His splitter has always been amazing. He's an artist with it

Sharps

12:47

Is the Jake Bauers trade the beginning of Cleveland throwing in the towel?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

At this point, one could argue that *acquiring and playing* Jake Bauers is throwing in the towel

Derek

12:49

Is this counterprogramming to the Twitch stream?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Oh shoot, I probably should have run this at a different time

Go yankees!!!!!!

12:50

What do you think of the theory that for early romantic composers the metronome markings were doubled, and that to play them properly, the tempi need to be halved? Obviously it makes no sense for Beethoven (nobody was ever performing a 2.5 hour Ninth), but for other things like the chopin etudes or anything by alkan, it seems to make a lot of sense.

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I don't buy it.

The thing is, there's a performing tradition that's handed down, composer/conductor to other composer/conductors

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