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Dan Szymborski

12:51

I've seen enough cartoons and 1930s movies to know that's a bad idea

Aniel Hernandez

12:51

How is Gary Sheffield not in the HOF?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

By not getting the 75% of votes required!

I suspect the vets will get him in

Chip

12:52

Who was the last guy that showed up in your projections who made you think 'woah, that guy is still playing?'

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Joe Beimel 2022

12:55

I think the last couple years of Joe SMith too

I had kinda missed the Joe Beimel comeback story in 2022

12:56

Well, 2021 tehcnically

I just throw in the every minor league pitcher who got at least 10 IP at AA in the initial batch

12:57

so when I saw a 45 year-old Joe Beimel getting a projection for 2022, it was a real WTF moment

Guest

12:57

meat-forward bolognese, like authentic ragu alla bolognese? or tomato sauce with meat?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

the former

Aniel Hernandez

12:57

Who are some players you think will have a "breakout" year this upcoming season?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Hey, not giving out one of my standard preseason tropes! lol

Ken

12:58

Good afternoon, Dan. This has probably been asked previously, so apologies, but I couldn't find the answer. Is there a reason the numbers of projected players doesn't match when the projections are run through the auction calculator?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I don't actually know since I dont' handle that at all

Greg

12:58

Boy I shouldn't have shown up late today, it looks like I missed so figging much...

Insert Witty Name Here

12:58

why do people care so much about people in pajamas throwing a ball to someone who tries to hit it with a piece of wood?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Hitting things is fun!

HappyFunBall

12:59

re: no eating days. Certainly you drink something. Is it just water or would you, say, allow for coffee? I have a significant enough addiction that I develop a headache around noon if I've not a had a cup. But also I would think the caffeine to be a nice help in avoiding hunger

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I have this 64 ounce water jug that I drink every day

Well, the water IN the jug

I don't convert the water dug into a molten liquid and then drink it

Nolan

12:59

How much computing power does it take to crunch a season's worth of ZiPS projections?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

If I use both my main PC (Ryzen 5900X) and my secondary PC (i7-8700K) and split up the workload, I can have a ZiPS batch run done in about 30 hours

Aniel Hernandez

1:00

Best time of the season to go visit a ballpark?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Early and late. I hate hot, humid weather

1:01

Even if I sit in a nice cool press box, I hate being in the hot humid at all

I frigging HATE summer weather

Joey Caltrain

1:01

If you had to eliminate one position on the diamond, what would it be?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Catcher because it woudl be amusing to see how baseball figured out how to stop the ball and get it back to the pitcher

You might have to put one of those bouncy net things behind home plate

1:02

and it would be funny to see a batter swing and miss at a 98 mph fastball and then fastball bounces off and shoots out towards the pitcher

2013 NCAA worst player

1:02

do you have a strong opinion one way or the other on python vs R?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Not really

I'm not a programming guy

1:03

I'm old enough that R wasn't huge yet when I was in college (I'm 46 in June) and I took C++ to get that credit

1:04

I know visual basic sorta

and in college we used statistica and matlab mostly

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