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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/4/25

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Dan Szymborski

1:00

I took a LOT of bad hops right into the face, a couple that ended up in profuse nosebleeds that I happily wiped with great pride at the time. I have a tendency to get WAY too competitive and I was in playing baseball.

1:01

I was never a fast runner, my hip was damaged during childbirth and the rotation is weird, but the repair would have been traumatic at the time. Also, my parents were supposed to keep an eye on that, and my goddamn mom apparently forget about it, and only got around to telling me I had been supposed to be keeping an eye on my hip, after I mentioned my hip was bothering me at age *38*

1:02

Which has made me very suspicious about what other health things I was supposed to keep track of but she spaced out on

John B

1:02

Can i assume AI tools will make pulling data out of your model exponentially better? How will we see it ?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

For working, I only use AI tools to double check my visual basic code since I'm an awkward coder

I use AI for what I believe is it's best purpose: batshit insanity

1:03

https://x.com/i/status/1996458784928268779

John B

1:04

Ive asked before but a Zips version of Baseball Trade Values would be AWESOME

Dan Szymborski

1:04

It's sometime I've always thought about tinkering with

War2D2

1:04

Yeah I’m 6’5” and paid my own way through college by working construction and literally digging ditches, so I USED to be 230lb of muscle. Now I’m like 280lb of veal and visceral fat.

Ral Cipken

1:04

Is this the year that Jackson Chourio becomes Acuna lite?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Probably not

Idiotic Failson

1:04

You going to watch the world cup?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

No, I just never really understood association football