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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/15/22

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Dan Szymborski

1:02

Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron,

There's just not much sadly

A great majority of the bands I listen to were formed between 1995 and 2005

1:03

I just found like a dozen from 2007-2009

I was going to say Right Away, Great Captain! but even that is kinda cheating since it was a solo *project* rather than a band and it was before 2010 anyway

Darrrrbo!

1:03

In a wood bat league shouldn't the award be called the "sliver slugger"?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

heh

eff them O's

1:03

Any news on the Orioles relocation to Nashville?
Any news on the sale of the Nationals?
They're not going to sell this winter, are they?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I don't think one happens at all or two and three this winter

M's Fan

1:04

Mariners have a top ___ rotation in all of baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

notch

Adam

1:04

What would be the most entertaining animal to delay a game by running out onto the field?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

As a cat enthusiast, cat

An angry grizzy bear might be the most entertaining, in a horrifying tragic type of way

Libby

1:04

Speaking of Zips prospects, is Curtis Mead Top 5?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

You guys trying to make me spoil ALL of the top 100! lol

Farhandrew Zaidman

1:05

Do you think Bellinger (and to a lesser extent Syndergaard) cost themselves money by forgoing multi-year deals for one year pillow deals? I'm not optimistic that either will ever get close to their former production levels.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I don't honestly think so

Zabadoey

1:05

Dan, you put a lot of yourself out there on the interwebs across multiple platforms....and you always seem to be upbeat and positive, with an undertone of optimistic sarcasm. It's great - you have an excellent online presence. I guess I don't really have a question, aside from letting you know how much your contributions to creating a fun & safe forum for baseball/ephemera conversation is appreciated. You probably don't hear it enough, and I thought you should know that this quirky little community thinks you are wonderful.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I'm a jolly curmudgeon and I appreciate the kind words

1:06

Especially as I was sad to see this on reddit earlier this week

"For a stats guy he's really defensive and throws out a ton of baseless conjecture and is extremely rude and dismissive to people (I didn't comment, I just used to read the transcripts after until it was clear his personality trumped any real discussions)."

Joseph R

1:07

Of the three big shortstops that have signed already (Correa, Turner, Bogaerts), which signing do you think is the best for their respective team?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Phillies

I think they had the greatest need

All three went to logical place sthough

romorr

1:07

Dan, Dan, Dan, can I call you Dan? What does ZiPS think of our pop up prospect Joey Ortiz? When a player has a poor 3 months, and then an amazing 3 months, does that confuse ZiPS at all?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

WHAT ELSE WILL YOU CALL ME

IF YOU CALL ME MR. SZYMBORSKI I WILL IP BAN YOU FOREVER AND EVER

1:08

Weirdly, I didn't do Joey Ortiz in the original batch run

1:09

Where I just throw about 3500 names into the vat

Luckily, the shape within a season doesn't appear to be *that* useful

(I say appear to be because someone smarter than me may have found an approach better than me to make this true)

Larry

1:11