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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/9/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:10

He's way too young to write off

J.D. Martin

12:11

Cat update please

Dan Szymborski

12:12

Cassiopeia and Mercutio are sleeping in different upstairs bedrooms. Last I saw before I came downstairs for chat Justinian was in one of the empty boxes that have accumulated in my living room fighting a catnip banana. Constantine was in the kitchen looking at birds through the screen door after being yelled at for trying to pull down the curtain rod in the dining room window.

Dbo

12:12

Evan Longoria was not bad on desperate housewives

Chris

12:12

Is Aaron judge going to be ready for the season? (Fantasy baseball draft happens soon)

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Very well could be, though I've heard little of his injury

Dbo

12:13

So chili is a salad? What if we call chili without beans 'chili' but chili with beans 'chili salad'

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I'd call it bean-and-meat salad

Shakin it up

12:13

Significant trade you'd most like to see happen.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Mike Trout to the Orioles for Richie Martin!

Dank Train

12:14

A pop tart is ravioli. Change my mind

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Nah, I'm on board. It's a dessert ravioli.

Jack

12:14

What's the ETA on the ZiPS spreadsheet?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Still in the works; lost some serious time while I had a nasty cold

Jon

12:15

What is your favorite great pitch from a mediocre/bad pitcher? Something like Chaz Roe's slider, for example

Dan Szymborski

12:15

That's kinda mean for Roe!

12:16

I was going to say Mecir, but I can't really call him mediocre

12:17

I always like Suppan's fosh changeup. He might have been better if he did anythign else well

Derek Smalls

12:17

Damn, I mistyped--the hot dog sliced went on a hamburger bun--is it now a sandwich?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

As long as the bun isn't hinged, yes

Dbo

12:18

Will you be buying the new FFVII?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

I'm wait-and-see on this one.

12:20

It becoming an action RPG might be off-putting for me, so I'd like to see what other people think, maybe watch a bit on Twitch

It'd be an easier sell if I hadn't had such fondness for the game and played ir originally

Derek Smalls

12:20

What would you say is the percent chance we see any baseball this year? If we do, o/u on number of regular season games?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

70%, 100.

12:21

If the cases start sliding like the IHME model thinks, maintaining social distancing would quickly become futile.

People aren't going to do this until August or anything - that's a near impossibility.

12:22

And if people are doing their normal stuff, basebalal's not going to walk away from billions of dollars.

Sir Nerdlington

12:22

July 4 is 100% going to be opening day, right? I mean the governmental marketing campaign around that is impossible to avoid.

Dan Szymborski

12:22

I wouldn't say 100%, but if they *could* play games around there, that's probably what they would do

Chris

12:22

If the season gets cancelled, does the draft order for 2021 stay the same? Would knowing that effect what a team does in the draft this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:22

No idea. I don't think MLB has even addressed the issue!

12:22

What effect would a shortened season in Arizona have on 2021 ZiPS projections?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

The season would be a smaller amount of the projection than most recent seasons.

Guest

12:23

Have you seen that Dana White is considering to buy a private island for fights? On a scale of 1 to 10, how super villany is this?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

It depends if he makes them fight to the death and whether these fighters are abducted for a rich Yakuza boss or come willingly

Hire Joe Morgan?

12:23

Is a peanut ravioli, or does the filling need to be inserted by people? Is this a circumstance in which we realize observation does not have to be human observation; the universe can do the observing, and can also construct the ravioli?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

I think a ravioli has to be a non naturally-occurring process.

Dbo

12:23

Who was a superior minor league player: Michael Jordan or Tim Tebow?

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