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Dan Szymborski

12:31

Color me skeptical

Oaktown Blues

12:31

MLB should set a pitch speed limit of like 96 or 97. Anything faster is simply a do over pitch. I'm only 80% joking

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Thing is, I don't know how you do this even if it's practical

notbrandonzink

12:32

What all goes into the ZiPS defensive projections for prospects/guys without any of the advanced defensive metrics? Is it mainly going off of the scouting grade or are there other factors weighing in there in any significant way?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

ZiPS has it's own Total Zone system for the minors and does an aggregate of advanced systems in majors

Icehouse

12:32

Why is he not known as John Wilkes Strider? Have you taken a look at the man?

IdeatoMakeMLBGreatAgain

12:33

With regard to blogs going downhill, blogs initially built community being written by fans, those fans burned out and left the blogs for the most part and faceless tech cos like Vox have underpaid replacements come in and run them as click mills. This is the story of the death of the baseball blog. See Bucsdugout and Vox's "disgraced preacher" site admin story as the most hilarious/weirdest version of this story.

Dan Szymborski

12:34

The difficulty to monetize really hurt

12:35

In a way, blogs became more lucrative for the creators as launching pads for other things than for the blogs themselves

I mean, given what they pay, we could easily do a ton of team blogs on FG

*but* we pay people

12:36

And things like Substack are just more lucrative for creators

Andrew

12:36

Can the O's please be done with Austin Hays? It's not even the slow start, he's just a very streaky barely above league average bat and I'd rather see Cowser or Kjerstad in over him pretty much all the time

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Perosnally, I agree. Mullins has a lot more rope

Pedro

12:36

Thoughts on Brady Singer's early season success? Pls dont say April

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Avril

Greg

12:36

Do you think moving to a 6 days between starts or a different ball would be more helpful in reducing pitching injuries

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I'm...not sure

It might be more the magnitude of the effort rather than the amount of the effort?

Does this sentence make sense to anyone?

SmarterThanSzym

12:37

Do any MLB teams have significant data in kinesthesiology? I'm curious if any analysis has been done to prevent their arms from falling off

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think this is one of the big things that teams would love to have

Captain ACAB

12:38

Who is the handsomest active baseball player?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

Not sure I'm the best judge of that

I dunno, Kris Bryant?

12:39

He's got those piercing eyes

I imagine if I were into that kind of thing I'd get lost in them?

Coaches impact

12:39

Do you or does zips have an idea of how to quantify the impact coaches have on the team? I'm looking specifically on how if 1st and 3rd base coaches have tangible impact on their team's base running, but if you have info on pitching or hitting coaches that would be awesome too. Thanks in advance

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I do not

Duchess

12:39

Every year we fall for Victor Scott types don't we

Dan Szymborski

12:39

We fall for fun things

12:40

I tell you, Victor Scott II on my bench in MLB the Show was an easy way to get the CF SB requirement in one of the MLB the Show programs

Since a lot of the highest SPD/STL ratings in MLB the Show are guys listed as corner outfielders (Carroll for one)

Mike

12:40

What’s considered meeting expectations for a top overall prospect? 10 years, 40 WAR?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Even that's progbably aggressive as the future is very uncertain

Harmon Ripkowski

12:41

Is there a rule of thumb formula to estimate a player's expected RBI or Runs Scored based on their hitting performance? Please give me some idea...

Dan Szymborski

12:42

a model of runs scored based on times on base and sprint speed or speed score are is really good

12:45

I didn't have time to get back into a Judge RBI piece I was working on

but when I have a good excuse for an RBI piece

12:46

RBI is VERY competently modeled with ABwROB, HR, overall BA, overall SLG

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