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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/3/20

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Dan Szymborski

3:03

At this point, it would probably cost me 100K given how large ZiPS is and I don't see me getting 100K of benefit out of it.

Morbo

3:03

If you could change one baseball rule and only one permanently what change would you make. Specifically as it relates to play on the field not player transactions or coaching or management decisions

Dan Szymborski

3:04

Not sure it counts, but I'd like to trim down the balk rule a bit.

I *am* a fan of a pitch clock though.

It's not that baseball games are too long so much as baseball games have a lot of down time where nothing's going on

3:05

Yeah, NFL has a ton of downtime, but you can fill time analyzing individual plays which has less variety in baseball

I'd also limit batter timeouts and stuff.

3:06

Batters get one and if there's a second one for injury, the player is automatically removed from the game

3:06

If it turns out there is a measurable trash can effect, how does that impact ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski

3:06

Then ZiPS will be high on the batters

Matt Chapman

3:06

DH is restricted to being used for pitchers, and Montas had _non-therapeutic_ levels (per MLB) of a substance found so commonly as _an unlisted ingredient_ in OTC supplements that the anti-doping association had to change it's rules. Ostarine is also harder to hide than other similar substances that provide better results. Montas was screwed by technicalities.

Morbo

3:06

An NFL game is 95% downtime

Dan Szymborski

3:06

But NFL has more variety on pitches

err plays

3:07

The NFL has time-filler content more readily available

Kevin

3:07

Would you sell ZIPS for the right amount of money? Would you sell your cats for the right amount of money? Now would you sell your chili stance and accept beans in chili if paid enough money? I just watched a Hulu has live sports commercial...

Dan Szymborski

3:07

Yes, but the right amount of money is a lot more than ZiPS would probably sell for.

Appa Yip Yip

3:08

Burps are just mouth farts

Dan Szymborski

3:08

That's a good one to end on!

Thanks for coming y'all and I'll see you in aboot ten days.

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