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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/15/22

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Dan Szymborski

1:35

Overwhelmed in Oakland

1:35

Am I wrong to be losing faith in the A's FO? Is the Murphy trade just a huge bet on Ruiz? Why did they sign Aledmys Diaz? Can you talk me off the ledge?

Dan Szymborski

1:35

I'm not keen on them, I don't know what the plan is

TomBruno23

1:35

Baseball Weekly, loved that. Starting to watch MLB in 1985 I remember being very excited for the idea of two new teams, expansion draft, etc.

Dan Szymborski

1:36

Baseball Weekly was awesome at the time, though the internet kinda killed its usefulness around 2000 or so

Jason

1:36

Do your chat previews sometimes make you chuckle too? Also, are you able to say if you've ever been asked by a team to find similarities or trends in another team's acquisitions or drafts? Not sure of how valuable it would be, but was just curious how much others teams track each other. But if so, I'll just assume the team rhymes with Jockies.

Dan Szymborski

1:36

I don't usually chuckle at my OWN jokes

1:37

I usually only do thing that are specific requests that I can give a specific answer to

Once things start involving my judgment, like exploring and *finding* a trend, are beyond my line.

I Am the Bald Fraud

1:37

Hello I'm Pep Guardiola, manager at Manchester City, despite having close to unlimited funds I still underperform with a world class roster. I'm bald, not a fraud!

Dan Szymborski

1:38

Ah, that explains it. Soccer/association football is WAY out of my wheelhouse

My brain doesn't understand it.

And my enjoyment of a sport tends to be correlated with how much I enjoyed playing it as a kid

and there was nothing I hated playing as a kid like soccer. The ratio of running to doing stuff was just HORRIBLY high

In baseball, you have a very low ratio of running to doing stuff

1:39

In fact, you do very little running in baseball outside of backing up

that isn't connecting to directly doing stuff

Key Flaw

1:39

What common incorrect mathematical thing annoys you the most? For me it is etiher people saying "100th percentile", when people say "normal" for "average (like "the normal temperature today is...", or when people say that the percent chance of rain is really the percent area that is getting rain.

Dan Szymborski

1:39

Mostly people not understanding that 10% of players *should* hit their 90th percentile

1:40

Or it's not the 90th percentile

the old WHY DO ONLY LIKE 4 PLAYERS GET A .300 BA PROJECTION query

1:41

OK, I really gotta go or there will be no tomorrow ZiPS

Thanks for coming everyone!

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