JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/11/19

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/11/19

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Ben

1:23

What chili peppers should I grow in my backyard for chili making?

Dan Szymborski

1:23

Depends on climate, I would imagine

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

1:23

Do you do any non-sports, non-gaming writing? Is there a Szymborski mystery novel floating around?

Dan Szymborski

1:23

Not since college really

I have all sorts of weird short stories and poems floating around, none of which I feel are fit for publication

like The Pleasure Dome of Jason Jacome

cool

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1:25

I also have a short story somewhere from when I was like 19 when Tiny Tim grows up and becomes a military strongman that causes the UK to turn authoritarian and a very elderly Scrooge has to visit the Christmas ghosts so that they can fix history

trophy

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Devil Ray Jay Johnson

1:25

Worst baseball movie?

Dan Szymborski

1:25

Summer Catch

that's the movie that ended my personal policy fo watching all baseball movies

most overrated is Field of Dreams

TomBruno23

1:25

Do you read any baseball books? If so, what are some of your favorites off the top of your head? I'm a couple of chapters into Veeck As In Wreck and I've laughed out loud several times already.

Dan Szymborski

1:26

I always enjoyed Helyar's Lords of the REalm

Ontilt1377

1:26

A hot is never a sandwich. If you take away the bread it’s still a hot dog.

Eric

1:26

My team does not suck, Dan. Mackel thinks Skyline Chili is the best type of chili.

Dan

1:26

I second brianh. We need three year zips. Actually it would be great to see historical zips too but I don’t want to be greedy.

Dan Szymborski

1:26

We ought to have ZiPS three year up this season

Fat Tub of Goo

1:26

Are you of the opinion that Tatis will eventually be forced to move off SS?

Dan Szymborski

1:27

It's a possibility for any player that young, but I would keep him at SS until/unless he proves he can't hack it

Matt

1:27

Is there any evidence that the elite tier of baseball players is more significantly removed from the non-elite tier? And, could this be a driver in the diminishing prices of many...do to a bias of not-goodness?

Dan Szymborski

1:27

As I go through data, there is an increasing tendency to non-linear $/WAR working better than linear

Linear never made sense on a philosophical level, but it worked. It *appears* to be changing

Siri

1:29

Re: rookies... also meant to exclude Eloy. I feel like those two are the obv choices. Who would be your next pick?

Dan Szymborski

1:29

There's Robles and Senzel

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

1:29

You state that batting order has no predictive value for a given player, but could it under extreme circumstances? Like if you batted Goldy 8th all year wouldn't you expect his walk totals to increase and his power totals (not rates) to decrease?

Dan Szymborski

1:29

It COULD be, but the noise is so large that by the team it's meaningful, it's going to be a LONG time

Tel

1:29

Your sandwich chart has a major loophole in the structure purist definition - bread/baked product would seem to include any baked product, but I doubt a structure purist would agree that meat between two slices of cake would be a sandwich. Or between to pieces of baked chicken for that matter.

dave in slc

1:29

i dont get the zips (or other) projections. if i look at pitchers like half of the first page are relievers and a handful you have never heard of. if i tried putting together a fantasy team with that i would get killed. what am i missing?

Dan Szymborski

1:30

Do you have something specific?

It's a bit general

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

1:30

I'm pretty sure your Tiny Tim story was turned into an episode of Family Ties

Dan Szymborski

1:30

though save it for next week as I'm about to end chat!

ballsandgutters

1:30

Chris Davis, Alex Cobb and Mark Trumbo combine for how many WAR for their $48M?

Dan Szymborski

1:30

I'ma ctually optimistic on Cobb

Matt

1:30

If ZiPS were a hotdog, would it be chili?

Dan Szymborski

1:30

That's insane

Kyler Murray is 5'10.125'

1:30

The sandlot 2 is the worst baseball movie

Dan Szymborski

1:30

I had no idea there was a sandlot 2

Matt

1:31

Do you support Manfred forcing adoption of the term "baseballers"?

Dan Szymborski

1:31

I like something more fancified.

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