JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/12/2019

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/12/2019

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Khaki Segura

12:33

Mike Tauchman: Highest fWAR in MLB since the All-star break, with fewer PA than everyone else in the top 10. Is he the Real Deal (tm). Also, to quote HOFer Jayson Stark: "Baseball!"

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I'm not sure he was the real deal, but I always felt he wa sa player of unknown value that should have been explored.

12:34

This is what I wrote in March.

I don't know if Tauchman could have ever been a contributor to the Rockies in the end. But the thing is, the Rockies were too damn lazy to bother to find out, despite a 1B/LF/RF situation that was full of recycled suck.

Jett

12:35

Dan, thanks for the chat. Do you believe Sixto will eventually land in the operating room? Many outlets predict this, and while you hate to read stuff like that, you know stuff that we don't.

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I'll sadly take the surgery bet in any pitcher that ever existed.

LFC Mike

12:35

The universe had a hiccup and the Royals wound up with Jorge Soler who has 35 home runs. Did the Royals accidentally win him in a poker game gone bad because they aren’t normally that astute at acquiring players...that or the law of large numbers that says eventually you have to get something correct if you try it enough actually works.🥃

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I didn't think it was a bad pickup.

12:36

I felt the Royals shouldn't have traded Davis if they were going to pretend to still compete it whatever year that was (before 2017 was it?) but it was a reasonable pickup

Soler always had potential.

And the Royals get credit for exploring that potential, even if they waited a year too long to do so

12:37

Problem is, of course, that the main use of Soler, Merrifield, and Dozier, ought to be who they can get, not from playing them and I see no reason to think the Royals undersrtand this

pirates hurdles

12:37

I dunno Dan, its pretty hard to absolve H&H of all blame. Huntington has made two bad major trades in the last year and his zig (contact approach) versus the leagues zag towards power has turned out pretty terrible. For Hurdle, he is the type of guy who's schtick can work for a while, but people get tired of the pseudo-psychology stuff. He has been at the helm of some pretty epic collapses. At the very least Searage and hsi pitch to contact has been hurt worst than most by the new ball.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I think the problem is largely that the handcuffs have made things harder; there are limited ways for the Pirates to get a player like Archer if they don't develop them himself

cavebird

12:38

Why are you an ingredient purist when it comes to chili but not sandwiches (where you are a structural purist, it appears)?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Sandwiches describe a form factor while chili a specific dish

LFC Mike

12:38

⚾️ 🎹 🥪 🌮 🍔 🥩 🍕 🍪 🥃 This sums up a typical Dan chat. correct?

Gorland

12:38

fortnite

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Haven't played in a while, though I'm not opposed to it! FFXIV expansion came out, I got a PS4, etc.

Gub Gub

12:39

How much of your current job could you do on the back of a jet ski? Obviously you can't drive and work, but on the back with, let's say...Wily Mo Pena driving?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Water is really bad for laptops

Donkey Kong

12:39

Which Jack Flaherty is the real Jack Flaherty?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

That's why breaking into a player's house and stealing their blood while they sleep was invented.

Chat Mapman

12:39

Hot take -The Producers tries too hard to be provocative and has not aged well at all (although Gene Wilder was fantastic)

Dbo

12:39

Dan, I got about halfway through a Giants game only to realize that it wasnt actually a Giants game but actually The Real Housewives of Orange County, has this ever happened to you?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Remember when Bravo started out as an artsy channel?

12:40

now it's Top Chef and obnoxious people screeching at each other

Matt

12:40

THE PIZZA TOPPING IS THE HUGGED INGREDIENT, DAN

Dan Szymborski

12:40

No, because they were integrated into the "bread" used

Two slices of raisin bread aren't a raisin sandwich

Jeff

12:40

Has Theo fixed Happ? That would be something

Dan Szymborski

12:40

I won't call him fixed until he stops proununcing his initials like they're a word

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Vic

12:41

Can you still feel good about the ZIPS 2020 and 2021 projections for Garrett Hampson?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

I think so

Matt

12:41

Do rags really run on different time?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Waitk what?

LFC Mike

12:41

What do you make of Nomar Mazara and his lack of improvement (decline?) since he burst onto the scene and seemed a sure star in the making? Change of scenery needed?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I finally had to stop putting him in my breakouts list

Occasionally, he crushes one and you see the raw power, but it just doesn't come up anywhere near as often as it should.

I don't know how to fix Mazara at this point.

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