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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/3/20

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Guest

12:12

I would 100% buy a "digital dandy" t shirt

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I need to pay someone to design that!

Luis Robert

12:14

Where is my career in 5 years?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Celebrating the five-year anniversary of you asking that question!

(I've written abotu Luis Robert)

Adam

12:15

Is it better to be the 3 seed than the 1 seed in the NL this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I'm not sure I follow.

I'm not sure I'd prefer to face Phillies or Cardinals over Rockies or Giants

Or whoever -t he races aren't clear

rockies

12:16

what was the point of us calling up brendan rodgers?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

They want to get him acclimated to the Rockies big league experience of watching worse players get at-bats because they're older.

Guest

12:17

Do you happen to have a copy of that cartoon gif of jim leyland smoking a cigarette and eating the smoke ring like a doughnut from a few years ago? I've tried to track it down to no avail

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I don't

Best I can do is my image from the WBC when he was playing Hosmer over Goldschmidt

12:18

12:19

It's too bad there are copyright restrictions, because I enjoy FanGraphael.

I do a lot of things to amuse myself.

Guest

12:19

Sixto Sanchez, currently ranked 47th best prospect on the FanGraphs big board. After his first 3 MLB starts are we thinking he should've been a little higher?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Three starts should never really change how you feel about a guy drmatically

Guest

12:20

If we exclude the hernia period from last year, Luke Voit has put up 45 homers over 627 plate appearances with a batting average north of .300. Is this his true talent?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

A bit aggressive

12:21

It's a little blurry to select exact healthy areas for injury issues.

Yeah, you know when it happened

but inevitably, you don't know when someone's actually 100% and end up bookmarking based on what you expect to see.

(that's not a slight on you, it's a natural inclination)

Adam

12:22

Is the new Will Smith legit? Crazy low swing%, walking more than he strikes out, hitting the ball hard and in the air. Traditional numbers suppressed but is this enough of a sample to reevaluate his ceiling?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

As a wholescale re-evaluation of his ceiling, it's premature, though I think we *can* say the approach is different

Eyeless In Gaza

12:22

It is kind of amazing how Cleveland is able to develop starting pitchers eh? Kind of like we are the Bizarro Orioles. Or they are the Bizarro us. Have you ever seen a team's pitching staff lose (3) top-flight pitchers in so short a time span (Kluber, Bauer, Clevinger) and still dominate like the 2020 Tribe? I know Tristan has fallen a bit out of favor the last few seasons because of injury but what does ZIPS think of him moving forward?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

ZiPS has always been a bit on the fence about him. I don't have ZiPS open, so I can't run an update right now

Adam

12:24

Framber Valdez figure something out this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

I'm of the opinion he has

Moose_Bolton

12:24

What is your favorite video game of all time?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

It probably varies depending on when you ask me the question, but probably Final Fantasy VI

though I've probably played through Suikoden II the most.

Eric the Red

12:24

Injuries and Covid not withstanding, Nick Senzel hasn't really shown that hes going to hit the future star ceiling that was projected. Too early? What do you think is a reasonable expectation for him?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

It's just too early.

viceroy

12:25

are players still chewing tobacco?

Dan Szymborski

12:25

I'd probably guess that 20% of players are still.

Guest

12:26

Do you have an updated probability of a .400 hitter?