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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/14/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:42

I hope so, but I'm bearish

12:43

I would have had him on busts, but it's so easy at this point and I've already written a lot about thim

12:43

The S&P 500 doesn't pay mid-8-figure annual dividends on mid-9-figure investments.

Adam B.

12:44

According to Simon and Garfunkel, what month comes (she will!) when streams are ripe and swelled with rain?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Simon and Garfunkel haven't seen eye-to-eye for a long time, so I can't assert their current opinion on the middle months of the year

Stu

12:45

Do you ever run simulations where teams would be in other divisions? I’m wondering how the marlins chances to make playoffs would change if they weren’t in the NL east

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I do sometimes

Matt

12:45

MLB: The Show is now on GamePass which is pretty amazing for a sports game. xCloud as well if you can get a good connection.

Dan Szymborski

12:45

Can you actually hit?

12:46

I have a good connection, but last time I tried GamePass awhile back, the timing for things in games was just VERY slightly off

Random

12:47

Pretend it's September '22 - Which RP unexpectedly became their team's closer and helped me fix my terrible draft strategy?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Is Staumont unexpected?

12:48

Also, I think McHugh or Matzek is Atlanta's best reliever

Guest

12:48

With Roki Sasaki already a sensation do you start projecting him now just for yourself? He's honestly the pitcher whose highlights I like watching the best. Something about 100 heat and a diving splitter is appealing

Dan Szymborski

12:49

I haven't yet, but he looks like a ton of fun!

Greg

12:49

Who was it that really made the great Kenny Powers all that he could be?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Whoever first thought of alcohol

Devil’s Advocate

12:49

Sure, you also need to accept Manfred’s nonsense assertion that teams aren’t raking in cash year to year. But in general, massive amounts of capital can be used to generate even more massive amounts of capital in a variety of ways. MLB teams aren’t losing money, but they may not actually be much more lucrative than other things you could do with that kind of money.

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Is anybody not on the same page with this?

12:50

Though in fairness, the Nats have lost some money in their weird MASN fight with the O's

Bob

12:50

What are your early impressions of seiya suzuki

Dan Szymborski

12:51

Phil

12:51

Jackie Bradley finally hit a ball kind of hard! If off the end of the bat a little. Still. Any hope there? He really just needs to hit the Mendoza line or so to play regularly, right, given the defense?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I have little hope

Phil Castellini

12:51

Where you gonna go?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

Baseball is the only game in town. It's 1934, right?

it's either go to a baseball game or get syphilis

Jeb

12:52

May you please get the robot to write a story about how ZiPS feelings were hurt because you trusted Steamer's Gio Urshela projection more and how you had to cheer up ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I have a relevant image from the year Chris Davis was awesome

Zach

12:54

So Gavin Lux has looked like the best player on the Dodgers so far. Please tell me this is his coming out party.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I kinda hope so since I've been giving him strong projections for years!

I'd hate to have to blame Carson for another wrong projection

I don't know how he has the time to make ZiPS make wrong projections

Johnny5Alive

12:55

I know its only 7 games, but the mets bullpen has been concerning already and been bad for years... you think maybe they should have considered addressing it? At this point, they'll have to give up prospects to fix instead of just money

Dan Szymborski

12:55

April.

It's a good pen!

They have like five guys I'd be happy to use in any situation

and that's more than most teams have

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