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Dan Szymborski

12:57

If I had an extra 500K just come in, I'd have a new Bösendorfer piano and 350K added to my portfolio!

Tom Rinaldi

12:58

What ever happened to Carter Capps? How come no one else has adopted the jump-off-the-rubber strategy?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Didn't his elbow evaporate?

Guest

12:58

Does ZiPS include any extra allowance for off-season adjustment, or is data from September weighted roughly the same as data from the following March/April?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

there's a significant dropoff in weight

Your Name

12:59

Is there value in stacking different styles of pitchers to keep hitters from gaining familiarity either within a game or a series?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I think so, but I can't prove it

junk hearts fg

12:59

Junk doing a mlb article that says fangraphs help made him better this year..... how many recruiting calls does the fg team get from mlb teams every year?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I dunno, I haven't really asked that

1:01

I'm pretty adamant that I'll sell you data for the same price I sell it to everyone else or you can ask me for free talking shop over a beer, but that I'm really far better suited for the job I have now than working for you

Perry Como

1:01

Has tunnelling always been a thought process for pitchers, and when did the name get so popular?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

As far as I'm aware, the basic concept has always existed, but it was more foggy and instinctual and wasn't really put into words that much until recently

Insert Witty Name Here

1:02

OnlyDans...Rather, Lieutenant, Szym, Marino. Unsubscribe.

Your Name

1:02

How many 100 win teams would exist in your ideal league distribution?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Four.

One of my fanciful musings is that not have a set season length. Just throw everyone in one big division in each league and the first six teams to win 100 games in each league make the playoffs

1:04

I have a lot of impractical musings

Like opening day shoudl be a 24 hour thing, with a game starting every 90 minutes around the clock

or that the distance from home plate to first base should be shorter, like 86 or 88 feet

1:06

I also want to see an independent league experiment with runners with two outs scoring as long as the runner beats the batter running to first base, to encourage some weird, aggressive third base/two out strategies

Arathorn

1:06

How often do you fully rerun ZIPS, taking into account season-so-far? When do the in-season stats seem to start actually mattering?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

The minimum is six additional times, right aruond thet 15th each month

in practic, probably a dozen times

Guest

1:06

If cats were baseball players, what type of player would they typically be? I'm thinking so-so hitters who steal lots of bases à la Vince Coleman

Dan Szymborski

1:06

That's probably accurate

no plate discipline

1:07

even my big fat cat constantine becomes an olympic sprinter when he hears the dinner song

Guest

1:07

Jose Caballero is highly cat coded

The Brice is Right

1:07

Zips liked Brice Matthews over the “experts” - what does it think of his start to 2026?

Dan Szymborski

1:07

It's not ecstatic, but it hasn't been much playing time

Insert Witty Name Here

1:08

The cats have a dinner song?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Yeah, I'm not sure how it happened, but I can summon all the cats instantly if I sing "Who is the hungriest cat, the hungriest cat, the hungriest cat? Who is, the hungriest cat in the whole wide world" to a tune I'm not sure the name of

Menthol

1:10

Caballero is horse coded.

Onion

1:10

Were you a part of this press conference?
https://theonion.com/nation-s-big-guys-in-shorts-announce-they-run-hot...

Dan Szymborski

1:10

heh

I knew the article without clicking on it

guessed

1:10

Is there anything real to that old superstition that players who hit HR for their first MLB hit don't usually wind up being good major leaguers? Asking re: Carson Benge and if hexes are real when they happen to the Mets

Dan Szymborski

1:10

never tested it, but probably no!

Pennsylvania Fats

1:10

speaking of songs What was that link to the fangraphs villain song again?

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I've tinkered with the instruments a little to add more brass.

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