JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat

Dan Szymborski

12:01

It's a chat!

Alex

12:02

Why is Neapolitan ice cream considered vintage now? Am I just old?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

It IS kinda old school now

Appa Yip Yip

12:02

Obviously it's April and he only has 50 PAs, but Daulton Varsho has a 14% walk rate in this here young season. Did he level up?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Probably not to *this* level since he's still getting off to a lot of 0-1 counts, but his plate discipline stats have ticked up so far

YorDaddy

12:03

Is Dubon's improvement at the plate real? They say he cut his fly ball rate after some advice from Yordan.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Not to *this* degree, but he's always been a bit underrated

Matt

12:04

Jo Adell… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Hey, he's still just 24

San Dzymborski

12:04

I saw past recommendations for those visiting Baltimore in a previous chat. I wanted to throw W.C. Harlan (speakeasy)/Dutch Courage (gin bar), Mount Vernon Marketplace (soju bar and great food like Cheezy Mike's), Abbey Burger Bar, and Mi & Yu Noodle Bar in Fed Hill had some of the best marumen noodles I've ever had. Also fun to scooter around the promenade in the summer. Baltimore is super underrated!

Slapshot

12:05

Your "This has been a Mountfortress game" tweet from earlier this week was top notch content. Also, it remains a shame that Baltimore created that LF monstrosity, as it feels like Mountcastle was hurt by the change more than anyone else on that team. Your thoughts?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

It's probably likely

But any park change is going to hurt *someone*

Tom

12:06

Will this be the second time in three years the predictions get the winner of the NL West mind-bogglingly wrong?! (No, but I'd still like your thoughts on the Snakes)

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Hey, we picked playoff teams most of hte time!

I don't think Arizona will keep it up

but I SHOULD note that I've been talking up the Diamondbacks all year

well all winter

Tio

12:07

Dan, it seems Chaim Bloom built an offense that's Devers, a rookie (Casas), an expensive lottery tickey (Yoshida) and an array of utility/bench players and "balanced" it with a pitching staff of high risk/moderate reward guys, plus Bello, and a couple #5 starters (Pivetta/Houck/Whitlock) two of which should probably be in their pen. Is this really a team that can contend?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

It CAN contend, but it needs to roll doubles and land on free parking a couple of times

Though some of the talk about this team, you'd almost think they were the Nationals or Rockies, but that was really always a stretch

Billy Beane

12:08

Hey Dan, I've been an A's fan my entire life, but I was thinking about washing my eyes out with bleach instead of watching their games, do you have any thoughts about which of those might be more fun?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

You know, you can watch other games; it's not a binary A's Game/Bleached Eyes decision

Dallas

12:09

How do you feel about Jack Suwinski? When he makes contact, his underlying metrics are outstanding, but the problem is his whiff rate on pitches in the zone is extremely high. Is this fixable?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

He's an interesting player, but there are significant holes in his game and I expect him to kinda be a good role player/stopgap starter type

Mother's Brother

12:09

Where are you on Kelenic? Will he end up an above average hitter this season?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I don't dare to offer opinions on Kelenic as everything I've ever said about him, good or bad, has been wrong in the opposite direction

Jake McCarthy

12:10

April, but really, did any player get more preseason hype for less of a resume?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

Was he really hyped THAT much?

12:11

He was legitimately excellent last season, but all the projection systems basically saw him as decent league-average dude

And Diamondbacks hitters don't usually get a whole lot of non-stat hype - it's not the most national-attention team

TomBruno23

12:12

So, Nolan Gorman...

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I mean, he's not THIS good, but everyone expected he'd hit at least decently

The problem was always finding a position for him

jim lefebvre

12:12

Is Kelenic good now?
[list-unchecked]Yes[/list-unchecked]
[list-unchecked]Of course[/list-unchecked]
[list-unchecked]Yes, and you can expect up and to the right from now on.[/list-unchecked]

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Is Jarred Kelenic Good Now?

Yes (15.2% | 20 votes)

No (7.6% | 10 votes)

Maybe So (30.3% | 40 votes)

MORE PEPPER (8.3% | 11 votes)

My shoes hurt (3.8% | 5 votes)

Who the hell is Gourd Clinic? (9.8% | 13 votes)

Is Nick Markakis a Hall of Famer? (25% | 33 votes)

Total Votes: 132

GBS42

12:14

Grayson Rodriguez and Gunnar Henderson have started their MLB careers poorly, but 9.1 IP and 34 AB are close to nothing, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Umm, about Henderson's career start...

12:15

12:16

Grayson's last start was pretty bad though

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