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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/26/25

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Dan Szymborski

12:30

and I dont' think there's been a fundamental change in the org

12:31

and they're only a couple games out in the wild card!

Adam

12:31

If you owned the Rockies, what type of team would you try to build to maximize your chance at sustainable winning? Feels like they've tried numerous different philosophies over the years but can't seem to overcome the altitude. (Or is the altitude just an excuse?)

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I think trying to build a specific TYPE of team runs you into trouble

The general strategy should be to opportunistically build as good a team as possible. Be more concerned about the quality than the archetype

Insert Witty Name Here

12:32

Do you know of a way to find out the highest single game pitch counts in a game over the last ten years or so? I messed around in the leaderboards recently and I couldn’t find a way to do so.

Dan Szymborski

12:32

I think stathead has that, I don't think we do

Matt

12:32

FanGraphs notwithstanding, why aren’t there more nerds in baseball? Every time I see Michael Busch all I can think of is Simon Pegg - are we sure they’re not related?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

athletes are usually too busy to do all the nerd stuff

Hmm

12:36

Which Dan cat would product the highest Barrel%?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Justinian

he's easily the most athletic of my current cats

Though when he was alive, it would have been Galileo

Adam

12:36

Who's the best player that the fewest people in this chat have ever heard of?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Joe Kelley?

Jacob

12:36

Ryan Pepiot has already done more for the Rays than Glasnow has for the Dodgers. Can we just admit that Glasnow is made of fragile glass?

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Shoudl change his name to Glaslater\

Guest

12:36

How many more years of pitching at this level would you need to see from deGrom for him to be a HoF for you?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I'm not sure the answer isn't 0

But I'm more of a peak guy than the vast vast majority of BBWAA members

I would have voted for Johan Santana

and I'm seriously thinking about votes for King Felix and David Wright

Bob Loblaw

12:37

So how long before Jacob Misiorowski takes over the world?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

He needs a larger army

the person who asks the lunch question

12:39

what's for lunch?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

various cheeses and a very spicy pickle. I was at Jungle Jim's yesterday

Lowe Distribution System

12:40

Aren't Henderson and Cowser always doing Lego and Star Wars stuff?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Yeah, but that stuff is cooler than it used to be!

Lowe Distribution System

12:40

After winning the World Series, Sean Doolittle was just wandering around the infield playing with a lightsaber

Guest

12:40

Jacob Merceniorowski

Allantes

12:42

I'm a big "peak" HoF guy. Anyone who throws a perfect game should be in.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Tha'ts a little short a peak for me!

Allantes

12:44

Are the Athletics the only team with green as a primary uniform color?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

I believe they're the only MLB team in history to use green as their primary color, not just an alternate or a secondary trim or something

At least modern baseball - I don't know every uniform of the 1800s

12:45

but I imagine they were mostly the offwhite or gray

Matt

12:46

Re DeGrom, if his 2021 season was authored by a reliever, we’d be talking about one of the greatest relief seasons of all time, on par with Gagne in ‘03. Instead he gets 10th place for Cy vote and his season is relegated to the dustbin of history. In short, injuries suck and we can’t have nice things

Victoria

12:46

I'm a "big peak" HOF gal, it doesn't matter how good your peak was as long as it lasted a long time

Allantes

12:46

Mark Teixiera is super into musicals. Not classic nerding, but quite nerdy nonetheless.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

I'm a sucker for musicals too

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