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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/28/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:44

You guys have probably gleaned by now that I'm a big fan of free markets and I'm not a skeptic simply concern trolling. But a free market means that it's a free market for EVERYONE and for the bad as well as the good

Don Von Handburger

12:44

How long does it take to build up tolerance for hot sauce?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Can you build up a tolerance?

12:45

Which AI generated baseball clickbait headline is most likely to become the headline to an actual FanGraphs article?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

I Need Some Injury Statistics Please

Actually had the AI write the Anthony Rizzo and David Ross Realize They Live in the Same Town

12:47

Captain Moonlight

12:47

a sympathetic reader has apparently updated your wiki during this very chat

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Afraid to look

12:48

Last time you guys edited it, someone added "he is a bad man with terrible opinions"

Don Von Handburger

12:48

"garage" Ooh, la-di-da, Mr. French man!

Dan Szymborski

12:48

OK, the carhole

EbenezerBatflip

12:48

David Ortiz first round HoF? 2nd round? Projections on how long it will take voters to vote him in?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I think he'll get in

RIP Hammer

12:48

Hi Dan - Thanks for all the work you do! I could be wrong, but it seems like some players have ZiPs projections for three years under the "ZiPS Three Year Projections" section on their player page, and some (most) have one year. Is there rhyme or reason to that, and is there a way to find three years worth of projections other than on the player page? Thanks again!

Dan Szymborski

12:48

They're not up yet!

EbenezerBatflip

12:48

Do you think Sale will return to form in late 2021, 2022, ever?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

It's possible, but it's a gamble

Curtis

12:48

Why is the HOF seemingly balking at Schilling's request to be taken off the ballot next year?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

For the lulz?

12:49

More seriously, I dont' think they want a situation where they start letting players decide whether or not they're on the list.

George

12:49

Keith Law's top 100 prospect list on the Athletic came out today without a single Nat and it got me thinking. How much correlation is there actually between number of ranked prospects and future team wins? I known good players=good team, but with the randomness + ability to add in FA how different are Farm System rankings from win totals in the 3-5 years following those rankings?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

It's complicated, simply because having good prospects doesn't mean a team can use them properly.

See Colorado

Don Von Handburger

12:51

Speaking of the Phillies, does Mr. Hoskins pronounce his first name like Rice Krispies or Reese's Pieces?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Presumably Reese

Though I haven't heard him say his own name

For all I know, he might call himself REEZ Hopkins

12:52

And it's awful to say in Welsh

Because the Welsh have even wackier letter pronunciations that eastern europeans

Szymborski is a horror in polish

Oh No

12:52

Know where a guy can find some 1099 forms?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

irs.gov?

Todd Bonzalez

12:53

How did this reddit post make you feel? (From after they introduced the new quest system)

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Uggh

You shouldn't donate any money to Wikimedia Foundation. At all. Ever.

The board is a dumpster fire.

Christopher, Guest

12:54

Steve Cohen ponying up some spare change for shares in a hedge fund that is probably not going under is nowhere near a Tillman Frittata situation, and you know that.The idea of redditors making money at the expense of hedge funds is fine and funny, but continuing to spuriously tie it to the fate of the Mets is lame and lazy.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

WE HAVING FUN

12:55