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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/2/21

Who's Fabio?

12:04

Hey Dan - can the neural network simulate what the CBA talks are going to look like? In it's own unique way of course.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Hits too close to home!

Morninternoon everyone!

A few minutes late, I was grabbing Wander Franco comps.

12:05

Reyes is up there, but so are a number of the triple guys - Vaughan, Lazzeri, Frisch, Furcal, Fernandez

Matt

12:05

Bryce Harper: Under/Accurately/Over rated? Also at what point do you think NL East is decided?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I think he's about rated now.

He's a star, but not a star on the level where he's a default preseason MVP pick

James

12:06

Did the Padres fix Snell? August stats: 6 GS, 36.2 IP (6 IP/GS!), 13.25 K/9, 2.95 BB/9, 1.72 ERA, 2.61 FIP, 2.93. FIP

Dan Szymborski

12:06

That's certainly the hope! I haven't dug super deep into Snell lately, may be worth taking a more specific look

Tacoby Bellsbury

12:06

Is the Yankees' jumbo outfield a sandwich? Why or why not?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

Walls are not bread

Doc Daneeka

12:07

are there any historical comps for a SS who posts an .800 OPS over his first 350 ABs at age 20? SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Dan Szymborski

12:08

John McGraw. And now he's dead!

zurzles

12:09

Is Ryan Mountcastle good for good now? He's walking!!!!!

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think Mountcastle has joined the Jared Walsh zone: Better than a guy, worse than a star

Dave

12:09

If you could change the N in you first name to any other consenant, which would you choose?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Daz Szymborski

either that or Dab Szymborski since it's one of my common typos

12:10

Mom wanted to name me Alexander, but dad didn't like it. He wanted to name me Vincent after his dad, who died a few years before I was born, but mom hated that name. Nobody hated Daniel.

Alexander would have been cool, but I could have been Xander Szymborski, which I naturally would have spelled Zander.

YardGoat

12:10

Do you think the playoff teams now will be the same by the end? Only close race to get in seems to be the NL Wild Card.

Dan Szymborski

12:11

I *still* think the Padres can pull it off

I think most of the current playoff teams are going to be the playoff teams

Towson Center Floor Fries

12:11

Next year the Royals have Lopez, Merrifield, Mondesi, and Witt for 2B, SS, and 3B. Who moves to OF or gets moved?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I would guess Merrifield since they've done it before

Guest

12:12

Your opinion on the owners CBA proposals to lower the luxury tax ceiling to $180M and allow free agency to begin at age 29.5? Both seem likely to be rejected by the MLBPA.

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I don't see the benefit of either.

By a rough count, I had more money being lost in reductions to $180 million luxury tax number than increases to the minimum

12:13

And 29.5 age just makes prospects even *more* valuable relative to veterans

Because your teenage phenom you can now keep for a decade.

And it'll push down bonuses of college players too

Under this system, they're almost no justification to drafting a college player over an equally desirable high school player

THERE'S

Towson Center Floor Fries

12:14