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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/8/23

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Joe Fan

1:00

Why do you hate my team?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

My job is to crush joy

Kyle

1:01

A baseball-sized radioactive meteor is headed to earth and will end civilization if it hits the ground in one piece but is harmless if it's broken up before impact. The meteor is 475 feet from home plate and hovering right off the ground. Which three hitters would you pick to hit a baseball to it?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Judge, Soto, Alvarez

Appa Yip Yip

1:01

Why is the sandwich enthusiast being mean to rowdy he's just a big fluffy boy who deserves the world

Eric

1:01

Do you think Encarnacion Strand is worth stashing even if he can't be moved to minors slot and thus my team would be missing at bats?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Not a bench?

I think he'll be up soon

if you're behind int eh standings by a lot, I might take the risk because of the upside

Appa Yip Yip

1:01

The Jays can obviously afford both but if you had to choose to lock up Vlad or Bo long term which would you pick?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Boba Chette

Guest

1:02

"Corbin Carroll is often" - Dan Symborski

Dan Szymborski

1:02

For some reason, I typed awesome as often

This kind of thing has increased in the last five or six years as I age

Guest

1:02

After roughly how many PAs do rate states like Chase%, Contact%, etc. tend to stabilize?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Fewer!

Under a hundred

Chip

1:03

Real men pronounce it 'PUH-con'

Meow sock question

1:03

I didn't see the word "cat" in the sock meow question and thought somebody's 14-year old kid was doing that. Definitely would have been a reason for a check up

Guest

1:03

Have to drop one of Freddy Peralta, Bibee, Paxton or Mitch Keller. Who would be your choice?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Paxton, though I think you can trade him

1:04

Let someone else need him to stay healthy!

FroYo

1:04

Are you going to do another article about ZIPs breakouts from the Future's Game again this year?!? Was really helpful last. Thank you!

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I usually do, so I probably will again!

Guest

1:04

If you were a betting man, do you think Jacob deGrom comes back as a very good pitcher after TJ surgery? I know the unknowns are huge.

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I'm a little squeamish for a TJ redux

Guest

1:05

are players with less experience more likely to reach 20th or 80th percentile projected performance, or is the range simply wider?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Remember, 20th/80th percentiles are already the popularity!

errr

probability

see what I mean? Szym approaching 45 substitutes way more wrong words than Szym approaching 25

Which really annoys me.

CFH

1:06

Dan, do you think Ohtani could play the field and just make his throws left handed? That seems less difficult to learn than other things he does successfully

Dan Szymborski

1:06

That would be amusing

Steve O

1:06

Astros secret: Having one fake team in their division + Mariners/Angels.

Speaking of socks

1:07

Is it bad that a keep having a dream where my Vlad Guerrero themed socks keep coming to life and Vlad softly nibbles on my ankle?

Dan Szymborski

1:07