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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/6/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:25

I think they can wait on events

Ben

12:25

12 tone music (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, etc) Yae or nay?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

Fully atonal has never really been my thing

OK, *technically* 12-tone doesn't have to mean atonal, but there's a correlation

I tend to like tonality being *stretched*

12:27

but when you get into hardcore Stockhausen or Berio, I tend to not be into it

Damn Szymborski

12:27

Upper deck along one of the lines or lower deck outfield?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I don't like the view of games from the lines

Ryan

12:28

Are the Twins the favorites to win the Central now? And since they're the favorites, they probably shouldn't worry about making any moves to make the team better, since that's what AL Central favorites do, right?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

I think the Indians are the mild favorites, but they only have themselves to blame

Ted

12:29

Dan, do you have any idea why Gary Sanchez's xwOBA is always lower than his wOBA. Is it just pure luck or something?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

HOnestly I haven't looked at the issue

Bring Back deSpaniel Hair

12:30

Help!!! What to do with P. Alonso? Already have N Cruz and Freeman, but Alonso for a closer feels light

Dan Szymborski

12:30

I'd rather trade Cruz if I can

Matt

12:31

Dan, I saw you interacting with Jeff Blehar on Twitter. Seemed like a kinda random person for you to know...

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Esoteric!

He's one of the old original Baseball Think Factory readers

I've known him for a long time now.

12:32

I think everybody has people that others are surprised they know well

12:33

FOr me, people are usually surprised by Jeff, Peter Spiegel (Financial Times), popular poker analyst Kevin Mathers, and general troublemaker Rich Kyanka from Something Awful.

GSon

12:33

Smiley was a very different situation.. his upper arm was ridden with cancer. and required amputation as a result of the break and cancer found..

Dan Szymborski

12:33

That's Dave Dravecky!

GSon

12:33

Is it time for the Indians and Danny Salazar to part ways?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

dave in slc

12:33

are you a fan of the new pitcher for the angels, canning?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Yup

Damn Szymborski

12:34

Griffin Canning the next Angels starter where you go "hey he's pretty good"? Was he named after Alfredo?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I once accidentally referred to him as Noel Canning

Srhkthew2

12:34

What is the baseball equivalent of James Holzhauer's run?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Trout

CamdenWarehouse

12:34

I could've phrased that better

Dan Szymborski

12:35

That could be my epitaph

DEF

12:35

If someone wanted to add Ohtani's pitching projection to the DMB disk this year, what exactly whould they do? Just putting the projections in doesn't appear to be working - Ohtani pitches like a good-hitting DH would be expected to hit.

Dan Szymborski

12:35

You could use the ZIPS

People were annoyed that he didn't get a pitching projection on ZiPS

12:36

But it's the Joe Mauer Rule. I will project an injured player

*but* if it's an injured player that will play otherwise, I won't rate them for the *portion* of playing they can't do because of injury

Joe Don

12:36

ZAP, you’re a GM. Under what circumstances would you sign Matt Kemp?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I'm an AL team, my right-handed hitters aren't great, I look to have an easy path to the playoffs, it's August 31, and there are a lot of top lefty pitchers on likely playoff opopnents

Damn Szymborski

12:37

What's the next most controversial food after chili? Barbecue?

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