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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/28/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:55

"Actually, Dan, Joe Maddon never assaulted Clayton Kershaw with a table."

Im Gonna Sound Stupid

12:56

Dan, are you really the developer of ZiPS, or are you just pretending? Does "Steve" have some insight??

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Steve's no longer with us. Don't investigate truths that could be dangerous!

EbenezerBatflip

12:56

Any chances for Casas, Jeter Downs or Jarren Duran to make their MLB debuts in 2021?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I think so

Appa Yip Yip

12:56

Yes. Your body develops a tolerance for capsaicin. The more spicy food you eat, the spicier you can handle. People in some south Asian countries can legit just eat a plate of roasted chili peppers.

Don Von Handburger

12:56

Is a hedge fund inherently more "evil" than some other kind of fund? It seems like it's become a catch-all boogeyman for people who don't even know what a hedge fund is?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I don't really believe in "evil" in this context

12:57

But I do like arrogant people getting some bit of comeuppance

Moose_Bolton

12:58

You can absolutely build a tolerance to hot sauce in my experience. I was eating Jalapeno and Habanero hot sauces last year and am on Ghost Pepper and some Reaper sauces now. Do you have any favorite hot sauces?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I wasn't being sarcastic, I actually didn't know the extent to which you do this

12:59

I figured that it was something you could maybe build up when you were young, but not something you could "train" later on

Nipple Dipper

12:59

Dan. Bear with me on this one. I am wondering if it would behoove a team that is clearly not as good to pitch their best starter against another teams 4 or 5. Like you know you aren't beating a team number one with your best but maybe you could beat them with your best against their 4th. Why not just throw out your 5th starter against their best? Would this be a valid option?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I've never really found any real advantage to this

Don Von Handburger

12:59

Remember the feud between Orlando Hudson and JP Ricciardi? Do you ever pine for those days? Do you ever pine for the pine-wood derby? pine.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Hudson was trying to be complimentary!

Adam Wayneright

1:00

Where would I possibly fit in the Padres rotation?????

Dan Szymborski

1:00

8th starter

Laura

1:00

If it's made with Beyond or Impossible ground "beef", is it still chili?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

1:01

Chili is ingredient based not structure based

Lex

1:01

Paxton signs with ____

Dan Szymborski

1:01

a baseball team

Guest

1:01

Does it seem like recently there’s been a lot more famous people dying?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Well, death rate *is* up for reasons I probably shouldn't have to note

Wales

1:01

So you speak Welsh? Have you watched Hinterland?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I don't speak Welsh

but I've encountered their names

EbenezerBatflip

1:02

Are you going to play the Mass Effect Legendary Edition?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Honestly, that was never my favorite series

Like zombies, I don't do a LOT of scifi type things

Hal

1:03

what kind of neural net do you use for zips?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

ZiPS uses more traditional cluster analysis

Guest

1:04

Why are Giants seeking more left hitters when their park seems to not favor them? Has something changed?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I think they're just getting who they can

the park's not a grea thittin gplace for anyone really

well, speedy doubles hitters maybe

OK, not exactly billy hamilton, but I think Benintendi would be really good in SF

I Used to be Mel Clark

1:05

Are the Team Projections ever updated for all of the offseason movement?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

The team projections are always updated!

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