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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/15/23

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Dan Szymborski

12:46

Zack should be the Zack for now on.

12:47

If you want to go buy Zach? Fine. You're "zatch." Non-conformings Zac types? You're "zass."

And if you're a Nix brother going by Zych? Zeitch

I guess a Nix brother would be Zaych

Oli

12:48

how serious is Helsley’s injury?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

Any of you probably know as much as I do at this point.

Shut down with forearm pain

12:49

but the Cards haven't elaborated and if Passan or Robothal haven't heard more, I certainly haven't

I don't try and play reporter. I'm an analyst!

Steve Y.

12:49

Acuña has put to bed any fears that the ACL injury might permanently alter his ability. But between the injury and the COVID season, he's also lost a significant number of games from his prime. Given that, do you still see him as having a realistic shot to reach his inner-circle Hall of Fame ceiling?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Yes

12:51

ZiPS JAWS has him at 56.1 as a rightfifelder

or a rightfielder

12:52

Though I guess it depends on what you mean by inner-circle

12:53

But that puts him 14th or 15th in JAWS for RF and a player that good at 25 certainly has upside of being higher

Tommy Pham

12:54

Am I for real?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Is Pham really having a good enough season for "for real" questions?

He's probably been above where he is now as a player

B Snit’s Bongos

12:54

When does a sample size cease to be small?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

That's a very complex question. It's not linear

12:55

I'd guide you to some of FG content on the issue

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/randomness-stabilization-regression/

https://library.fangraphs.com/the-beginners-guide-to-sample-size/

blackberry cardinals

12:55

enjoyed your conversation with bernie. the cards suck.

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I was slightly worried initially because the call got disconnected when I picked up

so I called into the studio

naturally, when someone picked up, my first question was AM I CALLING THE CORRECT STUDIO

For those that didn't remember

12:57

Back in January, I was a guest on another St. Louis radio station and they had issues calling me then too

So asked me to call in. But I had just talked with Bernie a couple days before

And called *that* 314 number. A perplexed producer than put me on an unrelated show, apparently as a madman who thought he was a guest and had the curious confidence of a serial killer

12:58

I knew things were going to go bad when that segment started.

"So, 'Dan' what do you want to talk about?"

"Baseball, presumably? I'm a baseball writer after all!"

And it went downhill from there

12:58

Do FanGraphs writers read comments on their pieces? And what is the expectation as far as responding to those? Sometimes fans in the comments raise good points but get crickets from the writer.

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I don't think we have any rule about it

12:59

I try to read comments.

I think it's up to the individual writer.

Cromulent

12:59

I find fault with your Zac/Zach/Zack argument. As a Zachary, I have gone with Zac since a kid. A nickname should be the least amount of letters. You would think as a Dan you would appreciate that fact.

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