JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/30/2020

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/30/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:26

Somehow, I think a turkey burger might be worse than a plant burger!

12:27

Like if you're a vegetarian for health or ethical reasons, that's super fine. When forced to think about it from an ethical standpoint, I'm not actually sure it's right to eat meat if it can be avoided (though I still do)

But if you're killing an animal anyway, you might as well have a burger made of beef! Yeah, I like turkey, but turkey burgers tend to be dry as hell.

Beane

12:27

Oakland has a window that they're using to build the fanbase in preparation for a new ballpark; selling off players now would be taking the "Rooted in Oakland" slogan and shooting it in the head with less than a month before they actually gain 50% ownership of their current home (and future development income zone).

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I've never liked the Rooted in Oakland slogan

I think of being rooted as being stuck somewhere.

Guest

12:28

Toronto could play in Buffalo (their AAA team)!

Tony Schiavone

12:28

Greatest chat in the history of our sport.

Dan Szymborski

12:28

Until the next chat, Tony Skee-a-vone

Hobie

12:29

Who’s your guess at the most successful kid pitcher out of Pearson, Kopech, and Manning?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

I think Kopech might have the highest upside, but the lowest *average* result of the three.

12:30

I actually though offhand that ZiPS had it Pearson-Manning-Kopech

but it's Manning-Pearson-Kopech in average result, which is what I would say

Guest

12:30

Do they play as the Bisons for 1 year??

Dan Szymborski

12:30

I think they'd still be called the blue jays!

Numpty

12:30

Suffice it to say, I'm glad I'm not making your lunch today, Dan.

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Mom brought me over a sandwich which she ordered from somewhere. I yelled upstairs for her to put it in the fridge when I heard her let herself in, so hopefully she did that

12:33

I'm assuming it was a cold sandwich. I guess she could have ordered me a cheesesteak, but I doubt she'd call it a sandwich.

She's shout down "Danny I got you a sub" in that case.

Billy Beane

12:33

Hey Dan, do you know if when a program scrapes FanGraphs and visits the URL it counts towards views for your advertising budget? I sometimes scrape FanGraphs for data and during normal times I try and do so with as few views and as slowly (sometimes with as much as 5 second delays) as possible so as not to strain servers. Just curious if those measures should be changed during lean times for Fang Rap HS.

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I honestly have no idea.

12:34

Though I'd definitely encourage you to become a member if you have the wherewithal and are not already!

John

12:34

I want to move royals to NL Central, Pirates to NL East, blue jays to AL central and Nats to AL East. I think Toronto/Detroit: Baltimore/wash pirates/Phils and royals/cardinals are better rivals. Thoughts ?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I've heard worse idea.s

Roast Turkey Stearnes

12:34

Following up on Beane's question, do you think we see a sustained increase in payroll spending out of Oakland after the new park opens, or is this a Marlins-type flash in the pan?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I think it'll be better than the Marlins, less than we would think ideal

MoKo

12:35

If you had Ortiz Yaz Manny and Jim Rice in their prime on the bench available to fill as DH, who gets the nod vs LHP? And RHP?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

WHO WAS ABLE TO DRAFT THIS TEAM!?!?!?!

12:36

In this very odd scenario, I'm platooning Yaz and Manny.

Yaz had pretty significant L/R spltis

Billy Beane

12:36

(I am an ad-free member though my scraper isn't technically logged in when it visits)

Dan Szymborski

12:36

Excellent! Thanks for the support then! It's greatly appreciated in these times of no baseball.

Danny

12:36

Is there an above 0% chance that Rutschman starts off in the majors this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think there's above a 0% chance that we're all living in a computer simulation; if it ever became possible to simulate the universe, we'd be far more likely to be living in a simulation than the reality.

Dbo

12:37

So a plant based burger can be a burger but plant based chili can’t be chili? That’s discrimination

Dan Szymborski

12:37

chili is more specific

12:38

and I'm not sure I'd call a plant burger a burger

Why can't we just eat plants that look like plants?

Stay in your lane.

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