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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/9/21

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Dan Szymborski

1:04

I WANT A THREE SIDED 3D OBJECTY

Luke

1:04

How concerned are you about Sixto’s health? Is there any history of pitchers coming back from a similar surgery?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Moderately. There's some, but it's quite varied

Darb

1:04

So newcomers for the 2024 ballot include Arod, Mauer, Beltre, Beltran, Utley, and Big Papi. On a limitless ballot, who has your vote?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I don't have the vote yet that year!

Though I would vote for all of these

Jeff in T.O.

1:05

Aroldis in the Hall? Even with the gunshot suspension?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I think so

Szymbolism

1:05

How did Tampa let Cronenworth slip through their fingees? Seems like he's just their type of player. Caveman brain move from Erik Neanderthal

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Not every move is going to work out!

From the Rays point of view, he looked a lot like the B+ 2B/3B guy they can develop a million of

mcratsandwich

1:05

Guess my question was cut-off. About the experimental rules, what have you heard? Any results?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Mixed results generally. Some people happy, some not.

What happens from here is beyond my ability to gauge!

Pat G

1:05

What is the aging curve for ace level starters like Scherzer? Should we be looking for a cliff? or do you foresee a few more years of gradual decline?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Hitters age, pitchers break.

But Scherzer is getting ot the age where aging *does* start to be an issue

Generally speaking, looking at non-injured pitchers, it's quite a gentle slope until you get to around 38

Dalton Wilcox

1:07

Your take on statistics is nice. Do you get frustrated by how stats are treated in the mainstream or is that just part of the give and take? We’re a nation of D math students but everyone knows what athletes should be doing and how much they should be paid!

Dan Szymborski

1:07

It would be nice if probability was better understood!

But I'd rather have these fights than still having to convince people that OBP and SLG were useful

1:07

Dan, how much do you want for the rights to start a "SipS" hipster juice box cafe? Sounds like a retro/ironic type hit for the age 20-35 crowd....

Dan Szymborski

1:08

You can have it for free! I ain't running a restaurant unless I'm a billionaire and if I'm a billionaire, I'm not doing that work!~

Chats

1:08

Do these chats generate the most clicks? If you guys guaranteed a chat every day at noon - I have to imagine site traffic would increase... these are the most interesting reads IMO. Particularly you, eric, kevin

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I'm not sure, I'm actually generally unaware of traffic for different things.

Same at ESPN. I never knew how my stuff did.

And I figure that if nobody tells me anything, then it's something that's not my problem, and that's what I prefer!

1:10

What potential World Series matchup would you most like to see?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

Royals-Cubs. Because if we got there, then something ABSOLUTELY CRAZY happened the last three weeks of the 2021 season

Appa Yip Yip

1:10

Haven't you been writing about baseball for like twenty years? How long does it take to get HoF votes? GERONTOCRACY

Dan Szymborski

1:11

Essentially, I never asked to be in the BBWAA for a long time, even though I could have been eligible in 2010, because I didn't want to take the ego hit if I were turned down.

Eventually, Jeff Passan told me to stop being a wuss and got me to talk to Trent Rosecrans about it.

In 2016.

1:12

Which was the kick in the butt I needed

I'm very inertia-prone in my life. I have a good, low-stress, low-drama life where I'm comfortable and happy. So my natural inclination is not to upset the apple card.

Key Flaw

1:13

I don't listen to podcasts, so I've never heard your last name pronounced. Is it pronounced like a good Polish name should be, or is it in a way that would make my Polish grandma sad.

Dan Szymborski

1:13

I would guess grandma would be sad.

I use a hard z because the first syllable of my last name is atrocious in the original Polish.

And I'm not close with any other Szymborski in the family.

1:14

I'm far closer with my mom's relatives, which means Germans and Ukrainian Jews.

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