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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/10/23

Dan Szymborski

12:00

It's a chat!

Jose Abreu

12:00

My back hurts, should I be afraid on Jon Singleton taking over?

Dan Szymborski

12:00

Probably not in serious jeopardy. ZiPS projections for Singleton aren't great, either

the guy who asks the lunch question

12:00

what's for lunch?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

some unsalted peanuts I happen to have here

seth

12:01

that lorenzen high school no hitters stat is pretty bonkers, huh?

Dan Szymborski

12:01

For those not aware of the factoid, Fullerton Union high school in California has had four pitchers throw no-hitters in the majors

Joe

12:02

Why is John Angelos? Like, why is he?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Well, sometime in fall of 1966, a daddy Angelos and a mommy Angelos...

Ryan

12:02

If Ohtani had theoretically been traded to a NL team at the deadline, how much consideration would he still have received for AL MVP?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

I think he would have gotten a ton

12:03

and was likely still the favorite given his edge

After all, Sutcliffe won an NL Cy Young despite 15 starts in the AL

and I bet current writers would be even less absurdly technical about it

Kyle B

12:04

As a Yankees fan….Can fangraphs give me any hope for 2024 lol I don’t know how anything can really change right now

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Put it this way: absolutely nothing has gone right and they're still on a pace to win 83 games

12:04

Hi Dan, I am curious as to whether or not Michael Busch's recent hot stretch in aaa has been enough to move the needle on his zips projections. I find it interesting that zips seems to (at least according top the version posted daily) prefer the bat of Jonny DeLuca for the rest of the season.

Dan Szymborski

12:05

FanGraphs doesn't have a mechanism for minor league translations, so I'd be sus on players like Busch

12:06

From the 7/15 batch run

12:07

Darb

12:07

Favorite non-FanGraphs baseball podcast?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

The Greatest Generation

Justin

12:08

Any thoughts on why the Mets aren’t calling up Ronny Mauricio?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think it came from wanting to give Baty first dibs while they worked on Mauricio in third and left

which is obviously not as much an issue now

Walton Dilcox

12:09

To be a great, long lasting player in this league....how important is it to play defense and hit hard flyballs? More than ever?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

It's certainly important! Though most players if they're good enough at something else can compensate for not being good at something important

Tacoby Bellsbury

12:09

Is Jose Ramirez KOing Tim Anderson baseball's Buster Douglas moment?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Tim Anderson's form was really disappointing

12:10

He ought to have had a reach advantage over Ramirez which he didn't use at all

and that was a sad implementation of a peek-a-boo defense!

and that stance...

12:11

What does ZIPS think of Cedanne Rafaela? He's hit really well in AAA this year--has that moved the needle on his future? And what does it think of his OF defense, if anything?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

It's certainly a risk. last batch run had him at .256/.290/.413 for 2024

12:12

Because of the crappiness of the minor league data, ZiPS is only calling him a +4 defender in CF right now

Walton Dilcox

12:12

McClanahan may be in line for a second TJ. I hear on the heckscape that is the internet this surgery is so safe and players should just "get it out of the way." Are sports fans just losing their minds?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I think it's a "coming to terms" mechanism

Andruw Monasterio

12:13

Am I a long-term piece of the Brewers infield now?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Whiel I wouldn't go that far, there's a lot more reason to like Monasterio than a year ago. And the Brewers certainly will ride him as long as the good times last

Darb

12:13

I was going to ask which deadline buyer is going to have the most remorse, but it's the Angels, isn't it?

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