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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/11/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:11

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/elegy-for-2021-recapping-the-al-west-team-...

Zach

12:11

How much do you think Cody Bellinger's struggles went into Tatis' decision not to have shoulder surgery?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Little

12:11

Is there an estimated date for 1st ZiPS release and do you have an order?

Dan Szymborski

12:11

A week to 10 days. Depends on the contour of the news

How Bobby Grich Stole Christmas

12:11

I imagine the GM meetings where a bunch of dudes in an enclosed space bumping into each other asking “Are you the Mets GM?”

brad penny for your thoughts

12:11

do you think A. Reyes and J. Hicks can "make it" as starters?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

The ship on that has sailed, already returned, sailed again, and all the credit card bills from the original voyage have already been paid off.

Rick Hahn

12:12

I love "my guys"; but should I go for Conforto or spend on Escobar and bring in Joc?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

The White Sox should swim in the deep end as far as is available.

12:13

Thanks Dan, that is my christmas morning.

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Now I'm going to have to delay it to Christmas to stay out of the whole holiday issue!

Dig'em Smacks

12:13

So, did you ever get the new car?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I did.

Andrew

12:14

What are your thoughts on the current group of Angel pitchers? I have seen some hesitation that may take too much to make the rotation and bullpen viable (I disagree), and I would like an outside smart opinion.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

I just think they're too thin right now talent-wise.

12:15

If this is more a micro question, I think they have a few too many guys who don't throw first-pitch strikes

How Bobby Grich Stole Christmas

12:15

What was the runner up name for ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

ZiPS was actually supposed to be ZiPs, so ZiPS is kind of the runner up!

Guest

12:15

Need some new Time Warps, Dan. Any candidates on the HOF ticket?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Time Warps gotta fight with ZiPS this time of year. Youl'll see more of the winter

Sanford

12:15

Any thoughts on the All-MLB team selection process? Do we think the players even know about it/care? I know other team sports (NBA, NHL, NFL) have a similar system of naming all-stars in the middle of the year in addition to an all-league team at the end, but since it's so new for MLB, it almost feels gimmicky.

Dan Szymborski

12:17

It's gimmicky right now

There's just no reason for anyone to particularly care about it outside of MLB pushing it

It doesn't have a long history

12:18

And without public awareness or some big cash prize, it's hard to expect players to be too concerned about it

Now, give 500K to the first-team members and 200K to the second-team members and they'd care a lot more

Cave Dameron

12:18

Brrrrrr... this chat is very cool!

White Sox Fans

12:18

"The White Sox should swim in the deep end as far as is available." We know, but JR does not let that happen. If he did it would be Seager/Semien for 2B and something for RF/DH; plus always add pitching.

brad penny for your thoughts

12:19

behind the curtain, was there any talk of an article on shildt's firing? or is there ultimately not enough chili meat in that story?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

Mostly people announce whta they're working on

The problem with a Shildt story is that so much is speculation

12:20

And we don't really do speculation and rumor

Even though there's a lot o fit

12:21

I don't want to fan the fires, but to put it in as benign a fashion as possible, Shildt was never really *the* guy that the front office chose. The team just played a lot better under him that year than Matheny and it became more awkward to not keep him.

NashvilleSounds

12:21

The SuperBaseball2000 discussion in the last pod was pretty funny; good work!

Dan Szymborski

12:21

Glad someone enjoyed it!

12:22

I never know how I come off in the podcast. I'm probably the oddest/silliest writer/speaker here. I'm probably right up there in baseball writing as a whole.

Now, someone who doesn't find the same things that I do amusing, must have a really low bar for disliking me immensely!

TooDamnTall

12:22

Love that the elegy series is back. Itm

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