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Dan Szymborski

12:15

but this is an educated guess. I don't KNOW

BeefLoaf108

12:15

How much of your trolling me and other White Sox fans do you think factored in to the bad karma that is apparently clobbering your Baltimore Orioles?

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Dan Szymborski

12:16

I troll everyone and everything! Half of commentary journalism is trolling

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12:17

Adam

12:17

Will we look back on this as the best half season in Andy Pages' career, or is there even more there?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I expect this is LIKELY what his peak looks like

Nick

12:17

What do I do with Oneil Cruz? He’s hurting my team. Do I bench him? Trade him?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

I'll always be patient with the SS who hits balls with the velocity of protons in the large hadron collider

MilwaukeeBeerJays

12:18

Dan Dan, the fantasy man, have you seen Final Fantasy MTG yet, and are you a filthy commander player?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I haven't played MTG in 30 years really.

I rarely had friends to play and I never really got back into it

Thanks for the chat!

12:20

What would you offer Judge for a 3-4 year free agent deal this offseason?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

a small country

If I could get him on a 3 year deal, I'd have zero qualms about offering $70 million per

Well, unless I have to pay for it. I don't have $70 million

Coolidge

12:20

I look at Michael Harris' preseason zips projection. Then I look at his numbers this season. Then I cry, dear god what has happened.

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Yeah, that ZiPS projection isn't going well

Adam

12:21

Are the Savannah Bananas good/bad/neutral for baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

I am always for nonsense

Lord Thunder

12:23

Would you let Ohtani pitch if you ran the Dodgers?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

Yes

I PAID FOR THE CRUISE CONTROL AND MOONROOF

Well, I guess cars come with the cruise control don't they?

insert another optional safeety feature

Guest

12:23

Can you see deep learning methods, particularly newer RNN and transformer architectures, improving existing projection models?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

Certainly possible! Though I think we'll only see incremental games

Phil

12:23

Is Walker Buehler in big big trouble, or just trouble? It's all command, I think--the stuff looks OK--but it obviously needs to be fixed.

Dan Szymborski

12:24

moderate trouble

War2d2

12:24

Tucker has been great, but probably not an MVP candidate. What does Zips think his next contract looks like at this point?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

$3 something last I checked

But who knows - there just aren't many bats avaialble in FA next couple years

Allantes

12:25

If you ran the Cubs and with the benefit of hindsight, would you have topped the Astros to sign Hader?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

Probably not

Jeff in Jersey

12:25

I'd sign Tucker for $3!

Dan Szymborski

12:25

Quiet you!

Bob Loblaw

12:25

Why is it when you look at the Statcast Batted Ball Profile Leaderboard the results are sorted by Pull Air %? I understand its importance, however, I wouldn't think that would be the end all for balls put into play.

Dan Szymborski

12:26

It's a pretty big deal though! remember https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-pulled-fly-ball-revolution-was-always-...

Ethan

12:30

Could you see the Rangers trading Corey Seager? He has 6/$186 (salary not AAV) after this year. When thinking about the Mets and their deficiencies and also long term roster building, taking on Seager's contract seems like a worthwhile risk compared to giving Alonso a 5 year deal worth around $30 million a year. Thanks!

Dan Szymborski

12:30

I don't see them doing that

they didn't do a huge rebuild when things were going far far worse

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