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Dan Szymborski

12:01

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I hope you're all recovered from Cinco de Cuatro.

The guy who asks the lunch question

12:01

What's for lunch?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Heh. Nothing, I've got a stomach ache.

Dave

12:01

Is the highlight of the Cubs' season going to be the return when they trade David Robertson?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

A lot of their highlights are likely going to be Suzuki related!

Plus, not being the Reds is very nice.

(I'm keeping off-topic questions for the Lightning Round)

Rick

12:02

1) Rodgers or Gleybar; 2) Arozarena, Kepler, or Pham (pick two)

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Rodgers, A/K

John

12:03

How worried are you about Justin Turner and Nelson Cruz?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Quite a bit. These are absolutely horrible starts.

Mike

12:04

How bullish are you on Curtis Mead?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Given how he's tearing up AA, quite so!

Champdo

12:04

So this is the second season in a row that the Tigers have looked lost at the plate in April&early May. Could there be something they could change to avoid this in the future? Also how much of an impact does a hitting coach really have?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I think a hitting coach can have significant impact if they have just the right idea/rapport with a player at just the right time, but it's hard to measure and talent will still win out sooner or later

Richard

12:06

Willie Calhoun seems like a clear upgrade over Zimmer and probably Tapia too. What do you think it would take for the Jays to acquire him?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I doubt it will take much to acquire Calhoun at this point.

12:07

If he didn't have options left, he might have even been a waiver wire guy now

12:08

I'm not sure he's really an upgrade on Tapia

I think I prefer Zimmer going forward

greenfrog

12:09

Hi Dan, who do you think will end up as the best starting pitcher on the Blue Jays in 2022: Manoah, Gausman or Berrios?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Gausman

I love Gausman

Guest

12:09

Juan Soto is on pace to finish the season with 36 RBI. Do you take the over or under?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Over of course!

Jon Daniels

12:10

When will my pitching staff get the credit they deserve for Minor/Lynn/Gibson and now Martin Perez. Also yes we used magic to fix Perez.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

The rangers have done a solid job with veteran pitchers in recent years, no doubt.

dancing dan mcgraw

12:11

What do you make out of Cortes? will he overperform Zips?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Oh, Cortes is crushing his ZiPS. No question

sadtrombone

12:11

The Reds are now 3-21, and have become the single best storyline in baseball. I get up every day and the first thing I do is check the Reds game to see if they lost (they did). I am seriously invested in them "beating" the 2003 Tigers in terms of losses.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I'm not sure they're really THAT bad though.

Phil Castellini

12:13

where you gonna go? O/U 50 wins for the Reds?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Over

12:13

Taylor Ward breakout looks real. Do you see the potential Josh Donaldson trajectory? Failed catcher with a swing change breaking out at 28.

Dan Szymborski

12:13

The longer he keeps it up, the more likely! I wrote about him last week

Facundo

12:14

How real do you think my Metsies are? I am not buying that win%, but trust that we are kinda good. I don’t want to suffer, but this team seems to be doing it all over again.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

They haven't even had deGrom!

12:15

Though with the Mets, there's always this feeling that the bigger the triumph, the larger the disaster waiting is.

Who's Fabio

12:16

Hey Dan - should the Reds try hiring Dancing Homer to turn their season around? Does the Neural Network have an idea of what that might look like?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

I once had the neural network give a new mascot to each team.

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