JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/2/2020

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/2/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:01

And it has begun.

LFC Mike

12:01

Dan, Your new avatar reminds me of a young roguish Larry Fine footloose and fancy free with a devil may care attitude in the roaring 20's.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

I went through all my pictures to find the weariest looking one.

Now this is the most frightening one.

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Stevil

12:04

Which single organization should be the most appealing to undrafted players that are determined or willing to play despite the 20k cap?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Rays? You won't have any expectations of being paid!

LFC Mike

12:04

It’s April?

Scot

12:04

No question, just a hearty thank you to you and everyone at FG for doing the chats and keeping the content coming along. You folks are great, the chats help break up the monotony of the (work) day.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Hey Scot!

Guest

12:04

_______________ has cut his strikeout rate by 10 percentage points and boosted his exit velo and 3 mph. Is it real? ... This is so sad.

Sean Huff-Scheidel

12:04

Hi Dan. Wanted to thank all of you for keeping FG running during all of this. Even though I'm never able to attend live chats, they've been a major bright spot in providing a sense of community, just through reading them after the fact.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

BUT THIS IS A LIVE CHAT

Matt

12:05

5 years down the line, who do you see as the 2-3 best teams in baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

A lot can happen in five years, so it's hard to say. So I'd default to the better run teams with money like Dodgers/Yankees as safe bets

No games today

12:05

Do you think they'll resume ST in Arizona/Florida? Seems like June/July in those climates would be unpleasant - not to mention all the travel involved in getting everyone back out there. How about a couple weeks of cross-town rival series? Astros/Rangers, Cubs/ChiSox, etc?? Seems like you could pair teams off pretty easily to minimize travel.

Dan Szymborski

12:05

It's hard to say. I don't think the travel is that big of a problem.

Madi

12:06

Give it to us straight, Dan. Is there a chance Fangraphs could fold? How much longer can you guys sustain the site?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

I think Dave's statement is what he intended to stay!

As said in statement, Dave's made moves to keep the site from becoming insolvent. What's forward for us is as who knows as it is for everyone.

But I can safely say that everyone's doing their best to bridge to whenever the next baseball season is.

Roberto Beers

12:07

A Dan, A Plan, A Pandemic, imednapanalpanada

Dan Szymborski

12:07

You laugh now, but you won't when imednapanalpanada-22 cancels the 2022 season.

Matt Klentak

12:07

bigger hurdle for baseball to resume... domestic travel or daily testing of players/coaches/staff etc?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

I think it's the testing.

The travel's not really a big deal.

12:08

It's not domestic travel is actually *banned* and teams have their own charter arrangements.

BeefLoaf108

12:08

Dan, how are your cats adapting to #QuarantineLife??

Dan Szymborski

12:08

It's pretty much the same for them as usual.

12:09

It's not like I took the cats out for dinner at restaurants

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:09

Gonna give Artifact 2.0 a look? They won't sell cards, so they have my attention. Artifact 1.0 had an awesome draft mode where you didn't need to own anything, but wow that game died quickly.

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Yeah, but my expectations are limited.

Jason Two Shoes

12:09

Jose Altuve is running a .000/.000/.000 slash line. Cause to be concerned yet?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

heh

Jason N

12:09

Where does an open-faced sandwich sit on your chart? And how rebellious is the meat ingredient if it’s a thick cut of turkey breast that you made in the oven vs the processed stuff from the deli/store?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

An open-faced sandwich is just an over-large hors d'oeuvre.

Jake

12:09

My wifi went out during my physics zoom class today rip

Dan Szymborski

12:09

You should make it a teachable physics lesson!

Ben

12:11

Are you a fan of Krzysztof Penderecki, the Polish composer who recently passed?

Dan Szymborski

12:12

I was, though not really his early work. Serialism of the Stockhausen variety leaves me cold.

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