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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/14/18
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AvatarDan Szymborski
2:03
2:00: A Time for Chats.
hscer
2:04
What do you make of Joseph Nicholas Gallo?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:04
A guy as good as you can be with only one real plus skill but not enough to actually be good
Evan
2:04
Best chicken wings in Cincinnati?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:04
Couldn't say.
2:05
I'm in Dayton more than Cincinnati, but in neither have I found really great wings yet.  Maybe it's the local style
Steve
2:05
why are the giants
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:05
I think that's for KimKierkegaardashian Twitter.
Ichiro
2:05
Better chance to turn it around this season...Eduardo Nunez or Matt Carpenter? Also, was this a one time thing for Freddy Peralta or does he have some staying power? Thanks.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:05
Carpenter.
2:06
I don't think Peralta's going to be this good.
It's shocking how many strikeouts he got just throwing a bunch of 91 mph fastballs
Jack Flaherty
2:06
Am I going to stick in the bigs this time or is Matheny flawed in his loyalty to semi-washed up vets?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:07
I think sooner or later you'll have to stick
SureWhyNot
2:07
just packaged caleb smith and jose bautista for villar in 10 team NL only - how much of a genius am I?
Ray
2:07
Dylan Bundy's start of the season was amazing, but the past few weeks, Sunday notwithstanding, have been troublesome. Should we continue to expect something closer to the beginning of his season, or the past few weeks?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:07
That's tricky, I still can't figure out exactly *what* went wrong.
Joey Votto
2:07
A bit of positive regression for the Redlegs over the past 6 games, or is there something to be optimistic about there? The starting pitching (especially Mahle, Castillo, and Romano) has looked really good and the bullpen has been excellent. Is there finally light at the end of the tunnel for Cincinnati?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:07
ZiPS acutally projected the Reds to be slightly interesting if they could cobble together starting pitching
Not playoff interesting, but showing real progress.
It's going to come down to just how much they can glue together
Jerry
2:07
Is it time for the NY Mets to rebuild? Are there still year(s) left to this team? How big is the window of contention?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:08
Mets are on the verge of getting stuck in the middle.  Especially in the division, they're not as good as the Nationals now, but they're also not going to be as good as the Phillies/Braves later (and maybe even know)
BK
2:08
Harper to the Braves, stop killing my dreams. Acuña, Pache, Harper. drool
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:08
I just don't think Liberty's going to shell out $300 million.
Brood550
2:09
What's your best comp for Franmil Reyes?  I'm thinking/hoping for the Rhys Hoskins/Cody Bellinger mold.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:09
That's a big aggressive.  Reyes is a big dude, but he really wasn't all *that* interesting before this year
Though one could say that about the Hoskins emergence in the minors
2:10
Hoskins and Bellinger both hit a lot more flyballs too
Put me in coach
2:11
Freddie Freeman NL MVP odds?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:11
I'd have to run the numbers, but he's not clear-cut
And a lot of writers still care about team, so it could easily be Pollock too
2:12
(not that either wouldnt' deserve it  if the season ended right now)
John
2:12
With Miguel Andujar struggling to consistently get on base and playing bad defense at 3rd, should the Yankees send him down and replace him with a combo of torreyes and drury until he gets it right? Should they do it anyway to get that extra year of service time?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:12
While it would be nice, I don't think those are actually upgrades on him right now.  I don't think hiks defense is this bad either
John
2:12
What should the mlb do to prevent service time manipulation? Should they do anything?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:13
It's tricky because it's something that has to be negotiated, whicih means you'll have awkward bright lines.
2:14
See the old Elias compensation for free agents, which was a negotiated fromula, which is why it was so shitty.
You can reduce the threshold for players getting a whole year of service time, but then you'll just see guys h eld out that long instead
Chuncey Wiggins
2:16
But seriously though...why on earth did the Braves trade Andrelton Simmons? Was he a clubhouse cancer? I just can't understand why you trade a young generational defender with offensive upside for peanuts.
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