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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/30/24

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Dan Szymborski

1:04

That someone has a 1.50 ERA but never faced a black player is a contextualized thing too

1:04

Hey if you just report r of 0.25ish instead of r^2 you can pretend like that's meaningful.

Sad Mets Fan

1:04

can you offer one good ZiPs projection for a Met

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Vientos proejctiosn have nudged up a bit

1:05

I think the conventional attitude would in fact be to argue on Twitter that it was a poor idea to make you gm

Dan Szymborski

1:05

No, but for ME the GM to argue it would be unusual

seth

1:05

is zips biased towards odd numbers

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Well, yeah, because of A-Rod's alw

law

Question Asker

1:06

Most underrated phrase of speech in your opinion?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

The proof of the pudding is in the eating makes a lot more sense than it seems when you actually say the damn phrase properly

1:07

Not really phrases, but I like words with consonants that give them a different feel

Like jejune is such a wonderful little word

People never really think of the tone color of words

I think partially because English is a low context language

1:08

and I love little used words that are evocative

like shabby and tatterdemalion FEEL very different when you read it

1:09

It's not different than music

1:10

Like in Dvorak's B minor cello concerto, the descending theme that the cello plays after the big orchestral moment in the 3-4 minute range does not work the same if it doesn't have the clarinet giving counterpoint

1:12

Yeah Well Hiura Towel

1:12

Can we find zstats somewhere?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Next week!

Guest

1:12

do you have any strong OOTP opinions

Dan Szymborski

1:12

I enjoy the game

and I enjoy that ZiPS is used in making the initial ratings

1:13

and on taht note, it's time fo rme to head out for another week

(counterpoint wasn't the right word, but I was trying to be quick)

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