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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/22/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:41

I dont' give GMs credit for individual series, because you can't evaluate based on that.

As I said on Twitter, would Dayton Moore be a worse GM if Will Harris had a better game this one time? Of course not.

Mark Kotsay

12:42

How worried should I be that Shea Langeliers has a 43% K-rate in his first ~100 big league PAs?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

At a minimum, mildly, possibly more.

He's been REALLY aggressive

TomBruno23

12:43

Which MLB team is the equivalent of White Castle's Impossible Slider? Also, I enjoy listening to T. Rex's The Slider while debating this topic in my mind.

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I don't know, I haven't tried one!

Adam

12:43

Which pitcher has your all-time favorite windup?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Mike Mussina

and Terry Leach

12:44

least favorite is Tyler Anderson

because it ALWAYS screws me up in MLB the Show

Guest

12:44

Would you put Hunter Brown in the Astros postseason rotation? Over Garcia or Urquidy?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

OVER either? PRobably not. But I'd have him on the roster

Michael Scott

12:45

Which playoff format do you prefer? A) current, b) 2012-2021, c) 1995-2011, d) LCS only, e) none of the above?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I'd take b over a or c

Yeah, more teams, but you provide a huge disincentive to wild cards that c did not

12:46

The wild card penalty of just not having HFA in c was just utter clownshoes

Joey meneses

12:46

do I deserve a fangraphs article?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Been on my to-do list actually, but I've been so busy in other stuff

Dayton Moore Talking Head

12:46

But would Moore's schtick play in Denver?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

ASbsolutely

http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1677120,00.html

Guest

12:47

MJ Melendez has looked baad behind the plate and meh in left field. It's still better for the royals to keep trying him at C to be more valuable, right? Or ditch it and focus all on OF

Dan Szymborski

12:47

They should be keeping him at C until they're sure he can not hack it

TomBruno23

12:48

Pujols...are the Birthers happy? Amazing what he is doing at 47, or whatever age the Birthers think he really is, maybe more amazing than what he did in his (alleged) 20s.

Dan Szymborski

12:48

Pujols secret birth certificate is one of the more annoying conspiracy theories out there in its endurance

My position, as always, is I only know what I can prove

Adam

12:48

Could teams mess with the anti-shift rules by expanding or contracting the infield dirt area at their stadiums? I'd love to see some team with rangy defenders go to little dirt islands around the bases, while another team went the other way and removed all the grass from the infield. Is that even allowed?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I'm sure commish would step in quickly

Cat Latos

12:49

Instead of asking a cat question, i will thank you for answering my cat question.

Leland

12:49

Do we need to unplug the Mariners and plug them back in?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Couldn't hurt