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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/8/19

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Oh god, I'm here exactly at the time I intend to be here. IT IS TIME TO PANIC

Marvin Shabazz

12:01

What's with this whole baseball thing?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Smack hard balls with hard sticks, but not in a homoerotic fashion.

CamdenWarehouse

12:01

What would happen if Trevor Rosenthal were to face Chris Davis right now?

Gub Gub

12:01

It's Rex Manning Day. What are you going to do about it?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

First question: Baseball would lock up and blue screen of death and we'd have to start 2019 over again.

Second, I will wait for autographs.

bolden bate bridge

12:02

Trout is hitting .393 with a .286 babip. Is the rapture upon us?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Even luck can't stop him. Mike Trout is the Scarlet Witch's arch-nemesis.

It's April

12:03

IT IS APRIL

Dan Szymborski

12:04

It is. FOR WEEKS

Chris

12:04

Verdusco, Clint Frazier, Tucker, is this the new normal for outfield prospects? Santana faced it last year before his trade to the mariners, and now it looks like the mariners will have a few prospects namely Kyle Lewis in the same position of being mlb ready with no hope of playing time. Thoughts?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I think what it comes down to, especially for Tucker, is the team rather get an age 28 season than an age 22 season.

Frazier, there has been other issues.

Davy

12:05

Do you know where and when open tryouts for the Nationals bullpen will be held? I have an arm, so I feel like I've got a shot.

James

12:06

I know this is a cliche of these chats, but how great is the talent differential between the Orioles and the Round Rock Express? I feel like a 25 man roster drawn from between those 2 teams would have at least 10 from the minor league team. Forrest Whitley would definitely be the opening day starter.

Dan Szymborski

12:06

Where AAA teams fail is their second-tier talent. A bad AAA player is *really* terrible, even worse than most Orioles.

laxtonto

12:06

Why are there stars in the sky?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Because we burn trash.

chewbacca

12:07

would you rather have christian walker or yandy diaz for your corner infield slot?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Yandy is dandy.

12:08

Walker is BALKER and he's not even a pitcher.

Gub Gub

12:08

What ever happened to that Michael Jordan guy the White Sox had a few years ago?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

He got a front office gig and drafted Kwame Brown

billsaints

12:09

I scanned Fernando Rodney's career page this weekend. What a survivor! He needs a nice big piece written about him!

Dan Szymborski

12:09

His career's been resurrected more than Kenny

Jules Bonnot

12:09

Could the Brewers' rotation be underrated? Their pitching staff currently has a 107 ERA- (22nd), a 100 FIP- (16th), and a 84 xFIP- (4th!). Where's the truth?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

It's possible. ZiPS at least liked the Brewers rotation more than most

Ichiro for CEO

12:10

Can't decide if Chris Davis 0-44 is worse than Trevor Rosenthal's lack of any outs recorded in 5 appearances. Only solution is to pit them against each other for 9 innings.

Dan Szymborski

12:10

I have more hope for Rosenthal being able to play baseball at some point

laxtonto

12:11

When looking at classic DOE, when sitting with 4 factors should use fractional factorial of Plackett-Burnman?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Get your dirty matrices out of here.

Phil

12:11

Is the Chris Davis contract the worst of all time?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

The Pujols fail portion of his contract is larger than Davis's entire deal

Gub Gub

12:11

Can The Twins please sign Bartolo Colon? I really want to see a mound visit between Colon and Willians Astudillo where they belly bump before going back to their postitons

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I can endorse this

12:12

Any idea how long until a team's page on FanGraphs will default to the 2019 season instead of 2018?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

No. I'm sure there's some big red button at Dave's place

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