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Dan Szymborski

12:54

Nto so much

War2D2

12:54

Agreed on Davy being a great addition. He would have fit right in on NotGraphs.

johnny5alive

12:55

I feel like you were always higher on Caissie than most prospect folks (at least he was consistently in your ZiPS top 100 prospects). Does the shift from Chicago to Miami help or hurt him?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

It's pretty neutral

Rockies POBO for a day

12:55

If you were running the rox, how would you build an effective pitching staff to compete with the rest of the division?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

Honestly, I think it's overthought because of a couple of notable implosions

first build a pitching staff that cna compete anywhere

12:56

the 2010s Rockies did have some pretty good finds, do they squandered them with incompetence

Hundreds, Possibly Thousands

12:57

What happened to the UZR data on player pages for 2025?
I have spent a lot of time looking at Colton Cowser's position-specific defensive grades recently, and UZR seems to disagree a little bit (but otherwise, it really doesn't look at bad as people say)

Dan Szymborski

12:57

UZR's no longer being done, I believe

Worst Owner in Baseball

12:57

How's this list of worst owner in baseball and who takes the ultimate prize: John Fisher (A's), Jerry Reinsdorf (CWS), Bob Nutting (Pirates), Arte Moreno (Angels), Dick Monfort (Rockies). Prior to this offseason I would have said Fisher without much hesitation, but the Tyler Skaggs wrongful death trial made has made me reconsider whether it's Moreno.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I still think Fisher is the worst, since he basically tried to kill it in a town

Then Nutting/Moreno

12:58

and Castellini

Monfort and Reinsdorf are more in the "backwards old school" tier of bad ownership

Hundreds, Possibly Thousands

12:58

Charmery, Taharka Bros, or Bmore Licks?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Wrong person, I'm not really into ice cream

12:59

I've bene to the Charmery and seen Taharka (think I had it at R house?) but ice cream is just a take it or leave it thing

Guest

12:59

Do you think baseball is solved? Seems like front offices mostly think pretty much the same

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Baseball isn't, but offense largely is

GA Blood

12:59

If you did have a time machine and you could travel to the future and get all MLB stats for the rest of history, how do you think that information would impact ZiPS? Or would you just report the stats every year and let people marvel at your prognostication skills.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I'd probably do what I could do make money off of it and then just retire

If I knew the future, it would make predicting it far less interesting

War2D2

1:02

I’d never heard of chicken milanese before, but looking at the recipes it’s basically schnitzel, which is what we do for Christmas Eve dinner. My wife’s family has Austrian roots, so schnitzel with noodles (spaezle) is a tradition. I’m mostly Lithuanian, so I do Lithuanian pierogi (which my family called kletskys or griebys depending on the filling, but near as I can tell are called something else in actual Lithuanian). Either way, not a lot of greenery or fiber at our holiday dinners.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

I had two German grandparents (one on each side)

1:03

the one that I mostly ate food from was my mother's mom, who was from Bremerhaven and an art student in Paris when WWII broke out (she was a secretary for Dönitz and my grandfather met her when she was a translator for the Brits during the war trials). She didn't actually make a ton of German dishes and I grew up mostly with French cooking

Thornton

1:04

If the Dan branding was strong, it would be 'Danding'

Dan Szymborski

1:04

On that note, it's time for me to head out for another week, as I have Padres ZiPS to finish!

Thanks for comign all!

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