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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/16/24

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Dan Szymborski

12:56

I don't think we ever had NPB

Reuben

12:56

Have you incorporated FG FV into your model? One of the things that always sort of bugged me about age*level in the model was the enormous amount of subjective scouting info was being estimated by that data.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I do not

Boston baseball guy

12:57

The admission by the royals owner was refreshing but MLB holding teams ransom for tax payer money leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Makes me want to support mlb less. Do you think some owners realize that behavior turns off fans from their product or do they only care about the $?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

They know at the end of the day, most people don't care about whether or not public money goes to something they like

12:59

and that's not matter what they support on the spectrum

I'm against stadium funding because I'm a technocratic geolibertarian good government-er. And there are probably about 60 people in the US who agree with me.

Steveshu113

1:00

Love your work, Dan. Do you. see any rebound by Mullins? He could very easily be in a P/T role with all the talent on the team. Also, can Gleyber Torres rebound from this slow start? He seems to be pressing and his Statcast data is underwhelming.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I think SOME rebound. What helps him is that the O's aren't quite as stacked iN CF candidates

most of their OF prospects are corner types

and with the offense cruising, Mullins would get a lot of rope even without him having such a long tenure

Homer

1:00

Do any projection/player value assessment systems attempt to correct at all for poor umpiring? Been watching Acuna strike out looking on bad calls on balls out of the zone a lot this year but also seeing people discuss his "difficult making contact" - which made me think this direction

Dan Szymborski

1:00

ZiPS doesn't

1:01

Since ZiPS is looking at the big picture and it's unlikely someone faces enough bad umpiring to have a real effect

(though as with all things, I'm eager to be proved wrong and thus learning something more accurately)

Matt

1:01

Is there a way to project what the Phillies and Braves records would be if they swapped schedules? Seen people bring up the Phillies easy schedule so far a lot but not sure how much difference it really makes over 40 games. Couple wins?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Probably not a huge difference

Broken Bat

1:02

What purpose did the Marlin FO gain in announcing Schumacher won’t return before then season started?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

It seems to have been fairly mutual, but it's always hard to tell the truth of these thigns

Vacuum your place

1:03

Has intermittent fasting changed your life at all?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Man who creates spaghetti images for a living

1:04

Why are you trying to put me out of a job with AI:(

Dan Szymborski

1:04

There aren't enough spaghetti image creating jobs to serve me

1:05

For those curious, I like spaghetti IA

1:06

1:07

OK, thkat's probably enough

YorDaddy

1:08

When can Astros fans be optimistic again?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I think already they can be

jmichaelpenn

1:08

Does Oneil Cruz become the first Pirate to hit 40 HRs since Willie Stargell in 1973?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I think it's a very real possibility

Dan

1:08

If a student said they wanted work on research for you in exchange for a letter of recommendation what answer is closest to the truth: that could work, no that would be unfair to you, or no it would be to hard to incorperate your work into my creative flow so this has no value to me?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I would encourage them to do their own research project that they get the credit for

and if they'd like, pitch it to FanGraphs and get paid for it

and have a professional credit

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