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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/29/2019

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Happy April!

Matt

12:03

My friends keep telling me to reach out to Don Szymbarski to ask about baseball, so here I am, Don. What are your opinions on baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Don can go spit on a sparkplug

(that's a reference to the TV-version-edited line from Barry Corbin in WarGames)

Canik

12:03

In your experience, how does minor league BABIP translate to major league BABIP? I figure that with less batter ball data, less shifting, and inferior fielders in general, it's safe to shave off about 15 points (or more for pull-heavy guys)?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I have a zBABIP that I use for minor leaguers, as expected it doesn't translate cleanly

Though players that are consistently high or low in the stat tend to remain so in the majors.

There's no magic (cut off 15%) line

Alcides Escobar's Mother

12:04

Seriously I cracked a rib laughing at that suggestion he should still be playing baseball. Seriously Dan...do you take renters? I need him out of my basement.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

He's hitting in AAA!

12:05

Leading to some hilarious twitter shenanigans from people who think that Sanchez should be benched for Escobar

Guest

12:08

When an author leaves FG (Eno, Jeff, August, etc.) is necessary that all of their published material is purged from the FG archives? For instance, I can't seem to find any Eno or August articles, yet Jeff's content is still available...

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I sit? let me see

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/sarris/

I see all of Eno's stuff

12:09

And he's still listed on the blog roll

I think what you're seeing is the need to try to trim the active author list somewhat as it was always using everyone

I'll bring this up as a problem in next meeting

goosed gossage

12:09

what do you think keston hiura's eta will be this season? is moustakas' play at 2b really going to be a barrier?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think he'll be up in September.

bang bang whats the hang

12:09

What to make of Yu Darvish? In a ten teamer....

Dan Szymborski

12:09

Not in a ten teamer

LFC Mike

12:10

Good Monday Dan. Any suggestions for an injured hamstring occuring when trying to replicate the Geena Davis split from "A League of Their Own?" Asking for a friend.

Dan Szymborski

12:10

Don't do that. Ever.

Jimmy

12:10

Dan, the C/K Davis' have switched again. Did I draft the wrong one?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

No.

Khris Davis is still alpha davis

well, alpha chris

and Chris Davis's revival isn't enough to make him not be Krosh.

Zwak

12:10

Which would you prefer to see: a 30-hour game or a 10-team trade? Which is more likely to happen?

Dan Szymborski

12:10

ten team trade

12:11

As long as dipoto is around it COULD happen!

though a 30 hour game more likely

Philip

12:11

2 questions: 1. Will a Zips prospect list be published? 2. Do the 3 year projections update with more stats or is the current version just staying the same as is? sorry for the poor wording

Dan Szymborski

12:11

Yeah, I'm going to do it around the draft this year and then go back to an earlier schedule next year

I didn't want to interfere with Eric and Kiley's work, but it resulted in me pushing it too far

and draft time is the next most logical time

12:12

Nex ttime I'll do it in December or something

Look Dude

12:12

What do you expect from Ohtani when he comes back? Every day DH? Part time?

Dan Szymborski

12:12