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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/25/19

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Don Von Handburger

12:14

Once you decided to name your projection system after a racial slur, what other names were considered?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

ZiPS is a racial slur?

Syndergaardians of the Galaxy

12:14

Now that Jeff is gone, who'll be taking over the Willians Astudillo beat?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Everybody

Don Von Handburger

12:15

Do baseball reporters consider Jon Heyman a joke?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

Why are you guys always trying to troll him into blocking me! I'm still unblocked!

Jon is a very good reporter but a very poor analyst.

Gub Gub

12:15

When is the last time you were on a Slip-N-Slide?

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I think at my friend's brother's 10th birthday party

he was about 12 years older than his little brother, so we were loaded and slip n' sliding

12:16

it was the one with the splash pool at the end

they actually had a hill in their yard (this was in ruxton, md, which is very hilly)

so it was essentially DOWNHILL slip n' slide so you'd get some wicked speed

Syndergaardians of the Galaxy

12:16

It seems like Keith Hernandez has to have some part of his body surgically repaired every six months or so. Is baseball such a harsh way to earn a living that most ex-MLBers have to go through something like this?

Dan Szymborski

12:16

Some do some don't. Still better than football

robertobeers

12:16

I really only play arena and casual at this point, I don't know if Hearthstone has much more staying power in the current formats/meta churn. What deck do you play that still sparks joy?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

In standard, I have little joy right now.

Too many unbalanced combo decks out there

I don't think combo decks are bad per se, but combo decks shouldn't simply be "get these cards and just win the game."

Like Mecha'Thun or (in the past) Jade Druid

12:18

the thing about old Miracle Rogue and even Patron Warrior is that you had to balance using your combo tools to survive with executing the combo.

Now, not so much. And there are limited tools to mess up a combo deck's deck, which is needed for ocunterplay

LFC Mike

12:18

How much has Zips love for Michael Chavis gone up in 2 whole spring training games. 2.400 OPS! Let the hype begin. Does he project a possible 1B for Boston? The production last year from that position was not stellar...and they still won over 100 games.

Dan Szymborski

12:19

If i answer April for things, you shoudl assume that Feburary is also an answer

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

12:19

If Kershaw's arm really is dead, should he try reviving himself as a left knuckler?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

Righty knuckler! Preserve that left arm for high leverage situations.

12:20

Here's how I think that could work

Normal situations: Kershaw is a righty knuckler

But when that leverage index hit 1.5

12:21

an orchestra that the Dodgers pay to be in the crowd year round plays some tense music

and then sunglasses are automatically lowered from his cap with some kind of mechanism to be designed for this purpose

Then it's THE CLAW TIME

Syndergaardians of the Galaxy

12:21

I know a lot of people are down on spring training games, but I love seeing prospects, especially guys I don't know, play. See any unknowns do anything special yet this spring?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

Too early.

Also hampered that because of issues with a bulging disc in my back, I may not be there at all

Todd

12:22

Bucs look to do nothing more this spring. Fans not happy with owners b-s statements...comment?!

Dan Szymborski

12:22

I'm disappointed with Pirates. The argument for having $60 million payrolls in down times is that it OUGHT to enable you to have at least $100 million payrolls when your team can win

Yanks fan

12:22

If you are the Yankees, you do the Hicks deal 100 times out of 100, right? Seems too good to be true, but I suppose given his career, he wants security.

Dan Szymborski

12:22

It's perfectly reasonable.

Ichiro for CEO

12:23

If Harper really wanted to sign with Philadelphia, don't you think they would've worked something out by now?

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