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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/30/2020

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Anonymous

1:17

Best Ball is gaining popularity as a fantasy sports format. MLB should follow suit and let pitchers throw 3 baseballs at once for an instant strikeout (the batter can swing at any of the pitches, obviously)

Dan Szymborski

1:18

Francoeur would violate spacetime and swing and miss three times in one swing.

TomBruno23

1:18

Nope, my buddy Jason Bodensteiner lives in Cedar Falls, IA. Huge Mets fan. Definitely wins Iowa.

Dan Szymborski

1:18

I don't know Jason, but is he better than the Iowa Cubs? I know the Cubs farm system is weak, but he's just one dude.

Unless...

1:19

DOES JASON HAVE THAT

Mac

1:19

Is Danny Salazar a good idea for a rebuilding team? He won’t cost much, and there is huge upside in him where he could be flipped for something at the deadline. Granted that the upside is very very unlikely.

Dan Szymborski

1:19

I think he would be a good addition.

I was thinking he'd end up an Astro, but who knows now.

1:20

Dusty Baker's the manager and they're interviewing the Royals scouting director for a team who hasn't developed much in a decade now.

Alex

1:20

Chamce that the padres get Mpoloe

Dan Szymborski

1:20

Mpoloe is no Kakey Bryan

cavebird

1:21

Lajoie is the correct answer in B-WAR.

Dan Szymborski

1:21

The problem is that it's kinda cheating since the MVP wasn't a thing until last several years of his career

BarryBondsJuicedForOurSins

1:22

Why don't you just marry Adrian Beltre!?

Dan Szymborski

1:22

MAYBE I WILL

I bet he'd let me hire someone to go to houses and flip over your pots of inferior faux-chili.

Fritz Reiner

1:23

You may only choose one composer's works to listen to for the rest of your life: Gustav Mahler or Dmitri Shostakovich. Who do you choose and why?

Dan Szymborski

1:23

Shostakovich because there's still Shostakovich that I haven't listened the crap out of yet.

1:24

Also, he was the real Harry Potter.

Magic Kingdome

1:24

Dan and Adrian Beltre were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!

Busty Baker

1:24

Nice self inflicted-punishment hire by the showstros

1:24

Looking at the ZIPS projections, I'm confused about the "def" column. Does that include both fielding and position adjustment? Thanks!

Dan Szymborski

1:24

No. Relative to positional average.

1:25

I prefer positional penalties to have their own discrete columns and not be baked in

Morbo

1:25

Additional note for those who don't believe my previous accounting of ZIPS post Dan's death: ZIPS years long observation of Gandhi in civilization allowed it swiftly annihilate all of earth's armies in a matter of minutes leading to almost immediate global pacification,

Dan Szymborski

1:26

Have you played the most recent Civilization VI? For some reason, John Curtin/Australia always seem to be the biggest warmongers and are constantly stabbing me in the back.

Magic Kingdome

1:26

I got a case of the ZiPS once during Spring Training in Cocoa Beach

Chuncey Wiggins

1:26

Is zips on the cloud? Or would a villain with a giant magnet ruin everything?

Dan Szymborski

1:27

It's in the cloud and my bank vault!

Well, safety deposit box.

I don't have a bank VAULT

Magic Kingdome