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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/18/21

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Guest

1:00

What is your opinion on Jim Cornette?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Important figure, though I do think he's a little close-minded on things that are out of his wheelhouse

brad penny for your thoughts

1:00

what if old dan becomes super popular after you're dead?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Well, I won't know abou tit

Moose_Bolton

1:01

Are you a coffee drinker? And if so, what sort of apparatus do you use to prepare it?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I don't really drink coffee unless I'm out somewhere and people are drinking coffee

Scott

1:01

Which historical baseball events, old or recent, should there be a movie about someday?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Don't know if it's an EVENT

but I'd dig a psychological comedy about the year Scipio Spinks had his stuffed gorilla.

1:03

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/scipio-spinks/

Appa Yip Yip

1:03

Your chats are the best because you'll publish any rat brained nonsense that makes you giggle

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I'm into life for the lulz.

1:04

If you can't simultaneously be amused, bemused, and cemused about everything in life, then what's the point of existence?

Travis

1:04

I’ve watched AEW for the last month, first time, and it’s giving me serious TNA vibes. I think wrestling’s just not for me anymore.

Guest

1:04

Gimenez put up 0.8 fWAR and 1.1 bWAR in 132 PA last year, with an OPS+ barely over 100. If his bat improves even a bit, and his defense and baserunning remain stable, 3 WAR over a full season doesn't seem unreasonable.

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I'm not convinced that he's as good offensively as his 2020

1:05

and 3-4 as an established baseline is possible, but I wouldn't say it's the average result!

Ump day

1:05

Since replay is used to get calls right, will we ever see a day where a team may get a set number of challenges on ball/strike calls? Until we get robo-umps of course.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I hope not

The purpose of replay should be to get the calls right

not to have a weird hierarchy of flags and challenges and appeals

Appa Yip Yip

1:05

Why were you down on the Jays front office before? Did you not believe they would spend money?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I wasn't down on them

But my esteem for them went up

1:06

I wasn't sure if they would really push to support their core.

And they have

ACC

1:06

What is your opinion on Arozerena .. I know he isnt as good as October but you buying .270, 25 hr/20sb?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

That's basically his ZiPS projection over 600 PA

1:06

Your taco WAR joke got me thinking... have you ever actually made a system like that for random stuff in your life besides baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Projections? No. But I do lots of random spreadsheets and stuff

1:08

BringBackDeSpanielHair

1:08

WTF, you don't drink coffee???? We'll all pray for you. Even atheists should pray for people who don't drink coffee.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I work from home and I don't wake up early. So what do I need the caffeine boost from?

Guest

1:08

WRT Gimenez, is ZiPS heavily influenced by 2019? It's his only real high-level minors experience, and he was evidently playing through an injury (hand-related, I think) that year. I know that's something you mentioned as a blind spot for ZiPS earlier.

Dan Szymborski

1:09

True, but he also has to show he can do it in a full season

Montgomery

1:09

I think Montgomery might actually provide a lot of value for NYY this year. Is that crazy to think?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I picked him in my breakout piece!

So if we're crazy, we're crazy-buddies.

Guest

1:09