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Dan Szymborski Fangraphs Chat - 6/10/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:53

conductors like Walter or Pfitzner would have had ample experience working with and hearing people that were students of early romantics

12:55

Carl Reinecke was a student of Mendelssohn and was teaching into the 20th century. If the Saltarello of Mendelssohn's 4th was supposed to be a gentle stroll, we'd know, I think

12:56

We have a *lot* of recordings of Liszt's students

Druidiful

12:57

I'm glad to see that your post's subtitle finally accurately reflects what this chat is about.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I answer a billion questsion and we go off-topic a lot

We've been doing this for a decade!

At this point, it's a bit like complaining about ref bumps in wrestling

sam

12:57

Padres go all in with a trade for Buxton + Berrios.. slide Grisham to RF. Whats the cost though?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

The team DOES like to think big

and the fact that they'd have 'em for 2022 is a big deal

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

12:58

In your definition of chili, are you pepper discriminant? Meaning, do you only accept peppers of a savory flavor profile, or are you open to all entries?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I'm opn to peppers

Bobby Chili w/ Beans Flay

12:58

Myself , Emeril and Martha all use beans in our award winning chili recipes. BOOM goes the ladle......

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Good for them.

12:59

A good meal doesn't necessarily have to be 100% in the category it's described as

I've had a lot of delicious bean-and-chili stews

Magnetic Forehead

1:00

How do you decide to answer the questions in the queue? I've shot over some great, pressing ones and they've fallen on deaf ears.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

They scroll pretty quickly

I try to do a variety

and questions that I can actually answer within the timeframe

1:01

Questions that require a lot of deliberation aren't great in this format.

And I also tend to shy away from questions about very specific fantasy questions that are only really relevant to the person asking them

Kent

1:01

hey there. do you cover sports other than baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I have not

I've covered esports for ESPN though

I do miss writing about Hearthstone and Overwatch!

Magnetic Forehead

1:02

You're taking a 2 hour road trip...what 3 podcasts are you listening to along the way?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I don't usually listen to baseball podcasts on road trips

because then I want to dive in an argue something

and I can't do that in a care

I guess in car I've listend to the most How Did This Get Made?, Axe of the Blood God, and the Greatest Generation

Bill

1:05

Assume that deGrom wins his third Cy this season with an amazing but not greatest ever type season (think 1.6 ERA). How much more would he have to do going forward to get your HOF vote?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I think he's already got mine on peak.

RHG

1:06

What's your opinion on positional adjustment? Fangraphs hasn't updated the positional adjustment numbers in over a decade and from what I've read from Tom Tango and even the Fangraphs article about positional adjustment, this numbers might be outdated based on how the game has changed and the increase in shifts. Is it time for an update?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

I tend to think that positional adjustment should be continually recalculated based on the last 15 years or so

I have a disagreement with DH adjustment

Cynthia

1:06

What's the most surprising projection you've seen from ZiPS since it was created?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Shane Bieber, 2019

not counting ones that are obvious mistakes

1:07