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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 11/14/24

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Dan Szymborski

12:56

investing in a free agent is a lot bigger a deal than buying rounds for excited fans at Pickles

I do think that the O's don't get a top grade this offseason if they don't end up with an ace-type pitcher at the top who isn't currently under contract

Colton

12:57

Without getting into the details, could you give us the most surprising projection ZiPS gave you?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

A little too soon as I haven't personally reviewed all 4000!

Matt VW

12:57

I know that in general it 's smarter to evaluate a player with ballpark context stripped out. But if you were running a team, would you ever be tempted by a player whose particular pluses and minuses would play up in your stadium?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I would, but it would have to be an edge case

Like a BIG L/R park factor thing

Phil Risotto

12:57

AL West and East teams will play about 12% of their games in minor league stadiums because of the Rays and Athletics. UGH

James

12:58

Odds that the Rays play in Tropicana again?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Oh, I think they do, though there's going to be a lot of fighting between the team, government, feds, and insurance

Reece G

12:59

Another lockout? Missed games?! Baseball would destroy itself….its barely hanging on in the national mind as is with only like 6 relevant teams. MLB is already behind the NFL & NBA…missing regular season games would be disastrous.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

A late start is probalby a lot less damaging than a midseason loss

I doubt most wavering fans who aren't hardcore will care THAT much if they lose an April one year

Bubba

1:00

What's the point of doing team by team ZIPS projection artcles before any major signings/trades happened?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

They're not explicitly 2025 previews

And talking about WHERE a team currently is always have value

has

mmddyyyy

1:01

Does an MLB org have more player or non-player employees?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

non-player

Cat Latos

1:01

What do my cat friends do?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Some leaves blew buy, so Justinian is pondering on my office windowsill

1:02

I heard Constantine on the stairs playing with this stupid toy that looks like a drinking straw that came in their meowbox (I know it's him because Cassie doesn't like that toy and Mercutio won't wear a collar so has no jingle)

Last I saw Cassie she was asleep in the top shelf of the cat tree in the back room upstairs and Mercutio sleeping on top of a pillow on the living room couch

Bill Lumbergh

1:02

What was your biggest change to the ZiPs formula this year?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Nothing massive, I talk abuot ZiPS in the intro!

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

thanks for coming everyone

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