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Kitten

12:55

Just got my first kitten. Did you know that they're crazy?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

kittens are frequently insane

Though I strongly recommend adopting in pairs if the situation arises

12:56

Kittens will use a lot of their energy playing with their littermate

Idiotic Failson

12:56

DMB = Dave Matthews Band

Dan Szymborski

12:56

A Dave Matthews Band projection disk would be a weird thing to do

Kitten's Kitten

12:56

I am Kitten's Kitten. I am crazy. I crave a buddy, I was not adopted in a pair.

Dan Szymborski

12:56

All the kittens I've had have been crazy

except for Galileo, who was always a cool customer

Though for the first few weeks, he insisted on being carried to the litter box

hey

12:57

Name one Cardinal player you feel optimistic about more than ZiPS

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Walker

though he's not been good

(Jordan)

Okra

12:57

Do you like the idea of tying the DH to SP remaining in the game? Maybe if the starter goes 6 you get to keep DH full game but otherwise lose DH when starter exits?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I think the curren timplementation is fine

Phil

12:58

The Red Sox obviously need a shortstop. When is the earliest Mayer could be called up? Is going up too early really going to affect his development that much, if he's playing everyday anyway just for defense?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Honestly, I'm hoping they get him up by midseason if they're still in the race

Person

12:58

why do baseball teams make starters pitch so much more then relievers

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Remember, starters are already selected for being ostensibly able to pitch more

12:59

We're only 10 innings in, but so far ZiPS' optimism in Imanaga seems like a win compared to Pecota's unbelievably dour 4.17 ERA 99th percentile projection

Dan Szymborski

12:59

It's REALLY early of course

but I won't lie, I like Imanaga *and* I also like looking smart, so I have an incentive to root for hoim!

Harmon Ripkowski

12:59

Is Brady Anderson's 1996 really the flukiest homer season ever? Seems less odd to me, I guess, than Boggs or Campenaris big years, probably some others too

Dan Szymborski

12:59

You know, I've never really modeled this

1:00

Maybe Davey Johnson?

1:01

Sveum

Boggs is a big one of course

1:03

was gonna say Bob Cerv but forgot he had another 20 homer year

Oddball Herrera

1:04

When will Fangraphs be adding a "neither" row to day/night splits to account for stats accrued during the eclipse?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

heh

1:05

Wasn't Guardians-White Sox the only eclipse game?

Key Flaw

1:06

When you have a really tall player like Oneil Cruz, do projections for strikeouts and walks change? His strike zone would be proportionately bigger, so that would be more area to hit for a strike. Is there any relationship between height and any strike zone thing? Would it only show up on the outliers?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

I haven't found much value

because the height is already factored into their reults

and I haven't found it improves projections

danny

1:06

do you think that there's anything predictive behind how a final score is reached? for example, is a team worse for losing 5-6 after the first leading 5-0 rather than losing by the same score but coming back from 0-6 (assuming no usage of low leverage players)? My hypothesis is no but the fan sentiment in both of these scenarios I imagine would be very different

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Not really, no

On that note, I have to head out for another week

Thanks for coming all!

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