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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/10/25

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Sorry, took me some time to get in!

Tacoby Bellsbury

12:08

What is your favorite portdanteau?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Dang, I know I have some but I can't think of them!

12:09

I did once describe the feeling of getting mad at Hall of Fame voters for not voting for deserving players as Blylevengeance.

12:09

What do you see the Mets doing at the deadline?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I don't think they'll go CRAZY, but they may add some depth, especially to rotation

Like I could see them going after Eflin

Half Street

12:10

Do you think the Nats new GM (DeBartolo or a new hire) might trade Gore in the offseason? Should they>

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I think no and no. Though it depends if they think the current path of rebuilding is sustainable or they ahve to start from square one

M’s Fan

12:11

Had Zips lowered its outlook on JRod? It seems like he peaked early and has now settled into above average defense and running with average offense.

Dan Szymborski

12:12

It has - his five-year WAR is down like 12% from where it was at the start of the season (for 2026-2030)

Melky Cabrera

12:12

Was Shane Smith the right all-star pick for the White Sox? Lots of love for Adrian Houser currently.

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I like the Smith pick. When he's one, he's really fun, and he's mostly been solid this year. Houser's been good, but he's kinda a known quantity and he only had half the time

Beve Stalboni

12:13

...on second thought, maybe Sandy Alcantara is not coming around.

Dan Szymborski

12:13

It's very dangerous for a writer to write about a player on the day they start!

I shoudl have written it for Tuesday not yesterday

drplantwrench

12:13

what do you/ZiPS think of mickey moniak's resurgence in Colorado? hes been on fire recently but his home/away splits are pretty disastrous

Dan Szymborski

12:14

We are both meh.

ZiPS does have him at 1.5 WAR in 425 PA next year, and having an averageish season is about as high as ZiPS has EVER been on him

A big dumb idiot

12:14

Which players have improved their ZiPS most in the first 3 months of the season?

Lance Biggerstaff

12:15

As an Orioles fan I’m going to be sad we can’t let Bryan Bake anymore, but a top 40 pick for a solid reliever (even one with team control) is too good to pass up right?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I did an article on that afew weeks ago!

Yes

Jerry Seinfeld voice

12:15

What's the deeeal with Jackson Merrill?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Liek Freeman, I think just a down period

kwabbit

12:15

After being cut from the 2024 White Sox, Romy Gonzalez now has the highest hard-hit% at 61%, among batters with 100 BBE. ZiPS is now projecting a wRC+ of 116 ROS, while Steamer has him at 96 ROS. Do you take the under or over on ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I think under because I'm a bet hedger!

Shandy Koufax

12:16

Is it time to crack each others heads and feast on the goo inside re Jacob Misiorowski? The control issues don’t seem to have cropped up by zone% or OOZ Swing%, and the pitching models love his location (compared to his scouting report) with 101 Location + and 59 botCmd

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I've just enough watching him!

12:18

ZiPS keeps warning me he's not Skenes

but I'm all I HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, DIGITAL BEAST

Pkpkpkpk

12:18

I know it's only been a little bit more than a month. He's a hall of fame and the all star starter. It's probably fine. But what in the world is up with Freddie Freeman?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

Like Merrill, I'm not really worried

MilwaukeeBeerJays

12:19

Good Morrow sir. Hey did you ever see the cartoon called "The Raccoons" as a child? All the characters had these weird downward Tetris L shaped Fawcett noses and the intro theme ended with fireworks. Or am I an AI that's hallucinating a person who hallucinated an odd cartoon from their "childhood". Baseball.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I did not, I may have been *slightly* too old to have seen it in the US?

12:20

By the time I was like nine, I didn't really watch many cartoons

12:21

except TMNT

I mostly saw the usual standbys and the USA Cartoon Express

because fo the latter, I have an encyclopedic knowledge level of 1970s Hanna Barbera cartoons

12:22

I could probably narrate every episode of Jabberjaw

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