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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/23/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:25

I dunno, I prefer the taste of the Nesquik powder though I'd use the syrup for everything else.

Nestles is old too!

12:26

Wingman

12:27

How can these be what it is? Why is that? Why or what is responsible?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Wait, what?

Replacement playa

12:27

Why wouldn't ESPN or Fox Sports negotiate for the KBO to play, idk, 1-2 morning games a week so it'd be live at night in the US? Seems worth paying for rather than lowballing the league.

Dan Szymborski

12:28

They should. Expecting to get it for free is pretty unreasonable.

12:29

Right now, ESPN needs the content more than KBO needs the US exposure

Though no more for me! I got into this habit during quarantine

12:30

(the chocolate milk, not the KBO)

Insert Clever Name Here

12:30

If you get the urge to cook and have a muffin tin, this turkey cheeseburger bite recipe is pretty simple but works well, and it's good for small parties things like Super Bowl parties as well: http://www.browniebites.net/turkey-cheeseburger-biscuit-cups/

Dan Szymborski

12:30

Can I substitute ground beref for the turkey?

Insert Clever Name Here

12:31

Probably could sub in ground beef, honestly. Also, out of curiosity, what's the weirdest article you've thought about writing since quarantine began?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Thought about doing a fashion review of 70s mustaches.

Guest

12:32

Favorite baseball statistical tidbit? Mine is Sammy Sosa's 20 HRs in June 1998. 20 HRs in 27 team games!

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Greg Gagne once hit two inside-the-park homers in a single game.

LFC Mike

12:33

can anyone defend Nesquik Strawberry milk?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Eww

TarzanStretch

12:34

When you're talking to more casual baseball fans what's their most common misconception about advanced stats?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

There's a bunch of people who seem to think sabermetrics is stuff like "X is hitting .420 on Thursday evenings after rain delays in August!"

Insert Clever Name Here

12:34

Also, you've probably answered this many times, and I'm sure I'm blanking, but what modifications do you have to do for projections when looking at guys like Lindblom, Kikuchi (last year), and others who have spent the previous years abroad?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

ZiPS translates KBO and NPB stats based on the history fo back-and-forth moves, so no mods needed.

Kim Wexler's T-shirt

12:35

At some point, should MLB just schedule the season as a 30-team bracket (giving last year's AL and NL champs a bye) with teams playing best-of-7-games series?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

THe thing is, if they're confident enough to even schedule this, then it's probably OK to have a more normal year

Kim Wexler's T-shirt

12:38

The tournament idea would be if they cannot start play until fall

Insert Clever Name Here

12:38

Re: sabermetrics misconceptions, a Braves fan decided on a whim one time to look up how people did under different arbitrary conditions, such as day of the week and such, and found that Folty was apparently the baseball equivalent of a werewolf, doing well around the full moon. Just thought you'd want to know.

Kim Wexler's T-shirt

12:39

What would be your pitch for the next great baseball movie?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I'd love to see a *dark* baseball movie.

Like a GM who gets out of bad contracts by having players wander into Rube Goldberg death contraptions.

Billy Beane

12:39

I wish ESPN sucked less I want to watch the KBO.

LFC Mike

12:40

Dan, If Ohio opened up tomorrow like Georgia, what would you do: Haircut , Bowling Alley, Massage, tattoo or openly chastise and taunt a Skyline Chili restaurant?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

bowling?

12:41

I don't need a haircut (my avatar is from before I shaved my head)

12:42

this is my current hair status

So hair has a long way to go before haircut is needed.

I don't want a tattoo

I'm not risking my health to save people from skyline

and I don't like massages

Billy Beane

12:43

Dan, ground beef is delightful, but the more you intend to spice it, the better I think Turkey fares as a substitute. In Tacos, especially, I feel like ground turkey really shines. Doesn't have quite the right mouthfeel for chili, though.

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