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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/14/20

Dan Szymborski

12:03

AND GOT HERE

I was finishing an article and it was a race against the clock!

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:04

If you could make a chimera of any 2 current pitchers, who would they be for: the best, the most fun to watch, the most unique?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

A Bartolo Colon who pitches like Gerrit Cole!

12:05

AND HE WOULD BE ALL OF THOSE THINGS

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:05

Player you love who has a surprisingly low WAR?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Joe Orsulak

I also loved watching Marty Barrett bat as a kid.

Bart

12:05

50% 0f zero income is still zero!

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Take THAT Bob Cratchit and your dumb kid.

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:05

what fascinates you still about baseball, given with how involved you are? (Could be a serious and non serious one!)

Dan Szymborski

12:06

That players in the field never have emergency bowel movements.

Like the RF starts running in randomly and is replaced because lunch is disagreeing with him.

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:06

What aspect of baseball that we currently can not quantify reliably do you think is the biggest missing piece?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

INJURY STUFF

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:06

What fascinates you about life?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

The hard problem of consciousness.

Bring Back Mookie

12:07

Dan, when you guys do the MLB The Show streams, are you guys actually playing the game? Or is it just simming through it while you guys chat?

Dan Szymborski

12:07

We're just simming. It's fairer that way!

tonyp

12:07

Dan did you secretly write the deadspin article about regional food rankings

Dan Szymborski

12:07

I did not, though it sounds like something I write.

Seeforman

12:07

For each of the Rolling Stones, identify a ball player whose style of play best matches the musician.

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Oh god, I'm not sure how to approach this

Would Jagger be Jeter? Lots of charisma but Jagger wasn't really a guitar player like most of the rest of the band.

12:09

Richards is a pretty terrific and also a straightforward guitarist, without a lot of the noodling around of his contemporaries

12:10

Maybe Strasburg? I'm not sure how to transfer over the drugs.

12:11

Charlie Watts was kind of into another sport (jazz) and he's unassuming relative to the others

12:12

Maybe Adam Dunn? Baseball wasn't his first love and he might have made a pretty good TE for Texas

Szan Dymborski

12:12

I miss baseball

Ted the Question Asker

12:12

Are there NCAA ZiPs? Is that even how to phrase the question?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

I do rough translations, which I only use RARELY if a player is going to be called up very quickly and I HAVE to project them.

Alex K

12:14

Do you think it's possible to ensure player safety if the MLB does play this season?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Not 100%, but I think that there are a lot of measures that can be done.

12:16

And realistically, with the country generally opening back up, I'm not sure the players are in any *additional* danger they wouldn't be otherwise

Danny Almonte’s fastball

12:17

How long after it’s first form did it take for you to be confident in ZIPS? Just curious what the process was like, from starting with an idea to becoming confident in publicly sharing it

Dan Szymborski

12:17

A year maybe?

Mad Joe-Don

12:17

Do you think a truncated season would make owners more or less likely to consider rule changes that address pace of play issues?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Ben

12:17

Thoughts on the Kurkjian sex tape?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

Wait, what?

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