Dan Straily has put together an accomplished career as a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball as well as Korea Baseball Organization. Straily is an eight-year MLB veteran of the A’s, Cubs, Astros, Reds, Marlins, and Orioles. He finished fourth in the AL Rookie of the Year voting in 2013 and has made at least 23 starts in four separate MLB seasons. Straily won 14 games in 2016 with the Reds and tied for the NL lead with 33 starts for the Marlins in ’17. He’s been on the other end of trades involving Jeff Samardzija, Dexter Fowler, and Luis Castillo, among others.
Over the past two seasons, Straily has started 62 games for the Lotte Giants of KBO with a fine 3.22 ERA, and he’s now a free agent who is free to talk to MLB teams. You can follow Dan on Twitter @danstraily67. Dan also runs the excellent Journeyman Podcast along with Ben Fleming. Follow the podcast @journeyman_pod on Twitter, and listen to it on Apple Podcasts here.
Today, we proudly hosted Dan for a live chat with MLBTR readers. Click here to read the transcript. We’ve got several more chats coming up with MLB players, so be on the lookout! And if you’re a current or former MLB player who would enjoy chatting with the readers of this site, drop us a line through our contact form. It’s an easy, fun one-hour experience and you get to choose the questions you answer.
Any chance Dan Straily would return to his Pacific Northwest roots to join a Seattle Mariner rotation that had success this year with former KBO standout righthander Chris Flexen?
CC: Paul Cobbe.
Need a Paul Cobbe chat
On a KBO matchup of Dan Straily and Chris Flexen:
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They clap in Korea after their teammate strikes out? I never heard of that. I wonder why. Is it to politely show support or something? In MLB it seems like teammates pretend you don’t exist after you strike out.
“he’s now a free agent (and not subject to the current MLB lockout).”
Does this mean that he can sign a Major League contract with any of the MLB teams?
I think it’d have to be a minor league deal. But he’s free to talk to them. They talked about it in this podcast.
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I updated my wording to reflect that.
Interesting grip on the baseball in the photo. What pitch is he throwing?
I’m not him but that looks like a slider grip
Looks like a sporkball.
It’s that speedball Bruce Springsteen sings about in Glory Days
Hey Dan, super fun chat to read. Thank you for giving us fans the opportunity to ask you questions and for your candid and cool responses. Your positivity and love of the game is very evident!!! I wish you the best of luck going forward in your pitching career and am stoked for you to pitch in front of your kid in the MLB this year! Happy holidays man! Thanks again!!!
Even if we had no lockout, I would enjoy these players’ chats. So to all the chatting players and the MLBTR staff, thank you very much and please excuse this boring comment!
Gruß,
BSHH
I agree. These player chats are a very cool new development with MLBTR. Based on the chat before this it sounds like they have multiple players lined up for more of these so I’m excited.
Mr. Tim Dierkes, I have a suggestion if possible to increase traffic during the lockout or any other time. Do you know how much traffic would increase if you had very well known big league players do chats and told everyone the schedule in advance? Depending upon how early you announced the chat people would start flooding the site. You would even have free advertising for it with people on Twitter posting “MLBTR is going to host a chat with X player at 10:00 AM CST December 14th.” Even if the players weren’t big name stars it would still increase traffic a lot. I personally prefer it this way because I’m in the site a lot so I don’t need notice. If you did give notice you would add a lot of new people though. Just a suggestion I thought might help your site maximize potential traffic. I figure that would help the business side of things. Can you imagine how many new readers you would get if you scheduled someone like Mike Trout or anyone near that caliber of fame and then let the world know a week in advance? I bet it would be the biggest day in MLBTR history by a mile.
A 13 pitch at bat resulting in a strikeout with the first batter faced in MLB? Wow! Welcome to the show!!!