JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/9/2020

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/9/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:13

But the Royals have the worst farm system easily of the four, I feel

12:14

I'd say DET-->SEA----->BAL---------------->KC in chrono order.

Now, the Tigers aren't my *favorite* organization by a long shot, but I think they're the closest to 90

Dbo

12:14

Dan, I've heard that you were accused of chat stealing where you have been reviewing people's past chats and know what the questions are before they have been asked or are made available to other members of the chat. How do you plead?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

MYC ATS WERE HITTING TRASH CANS

12:15

The truth is I have advance notice that these chats will largely feature baseball questions.

BeefLoaf108

12:15

Have any of your cats ever tried to sell ZIPS behind your back?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Galileo would have sold everything I hold dear for Arby's sandwiches or turkey. My other cats aren't quite so devious.

Sir Nerdlington

12:15

The Ricketts family actually furloughed the entire Cubs FO to save a few more dollars, didn't they? I hope TheoJed have enjoyed the time with their family.

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I must have missed this story over the holidays!

Sir Nerdlington

12:15

Cubs situation - exceptionally poor planning by Theo, Tom Ricketts pulling the football like Lucy, or just FA signings not going as planned?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I think Theo's largely being given an increasingly difficult situation.

Dbo

12:16

Did you get an exciting gifts for Christmas?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Gifts for me tend to be personal items, so nothing interesting for the public here.

People know that there's usually not much actual stuff I want and if I want something, I'll just go buy it.

Dbo

12:16

What would your rules be if you started a XFL style baseball league?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Bat flips REQUIRED

Comish4lif

12:17

Why so little buzz around Marcell Ozuna?

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Dan Szymborski

12:17

Because he's more OK than actually exciting

Electric

12:17

Is zips in the same ballpark with steamer's Giancarlo projection of ~50 dingers?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I dunno, I ahven't seen the Yankees projections up on FanGraphs yet!

angry

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Desperate Times

12:17

I hereby call for Desperate Measures!

tom

12:17

what new years resolution have you given up on already?

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Dan Szymborski

12:18

3840x2160

While I do have a 4k TV, the gaming monitor is higher quality for gaming and I'd rather play at 1440p/144 Hz

Jon G

12:18

Are we going to get ZiPS prospect rankings again at some point?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

Yup, they're back this winter.

Nathan

12:19

How would taking draft picks away from the Astros or Sox work? If I remember correctly from the Cardinal hacking issue, the league did not really want to give the draft picks to the Astros but the CBA wouldn’t allow picks to just disappear since that would be taking money away from players and so the Astros got extra picks. In that case there was a clear ‘victim,’ yet in this case there are many ‘victims.’ If the picks get taken away, where do they go?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

*Was* that the case? I don't remember it that way. Not that I'm saying your wrong, just that I don't remember that.

Kopech

12:19

Does Michael Kopech break camp with the Sox? If so, that gives them 6 starters for 5 spots between Giolito, Keuchel, Gio, Cease, Lopez, and Kopech. Who's the odd man out sent to the pen?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

I think he starts in the minors

tom

12:20

tofu kale chili sounds good

Richard Head

12:20

How often do you fly by the seat of your pants, percentage wise?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

0%. I wear terrestrial pants.

Zips

12:20

Will we see any anytime soon?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

Astros today, which I will wrap up after this chat.

I lost a half-hour because of a cat!

Mickey

12:21

Jeff Zimmerman recently had a good piece on the suppressed BABIP of Teheran. Steamer regresses this and so his projections always look terrible. Does ZIPS work the same way and could you talk about how you deal with a strange case like this?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

The longer a player exceeds their zBABIP model, the more ZiPS will believe that they will continue to exceed it.

Nick Castellanos

12:22

Why doesn't anyone like me?

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