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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/11/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:53

My favorite Manfred performance.

12:54

The aggressive coarseness that Svetlanov is known for is extremely effective in the final movement, for which it is necessary thematically.

Libs

12:54

I'm surprised fangraphs even allows libertarians to work here. It's trended so far left

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Everyone's entitled to their beliefs!

Journalism tends to attract more left-of-center types, and that's fine.

12:55

Personally speaking, I try to lay out all my biases whenever it's necessary.

Ron Paul

12:55

As a libertarian, I'd be fascinated to hace a political talk and gear your take on "no land ownership"

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I really really don't want to do this much politics guys!

12:56

Read Henry George. His writing is interesting even if you're not into that - both minarchists and socialists have things they like in Progress and Poverty

greg

12:56

Cat update please.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Justinian was hanging out with me, but he got bored and wandered off. Last I saw, Mercutio was sleeping in one of the mid-hallway bedrooms, Cassiopeia in the "spoon" shelf of the massive cat tower in the TV room, and Constantine was watching birds in the kitchen

Michael

12:57

With a shorter draft....will existing minor league players get more coaching and attention, and be better players because of it?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

gifman

12:57

You helped with OOTP ratings using ZiPS projections, right? What was the process for that (what did you project to generate individual ratings, was there fudging to help top prospects, did you help with amateur players, how did they contact you, etc.) Might be a fun article!

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I give them the data and they turn it into the ratings.

LFC Mike

12:57

Over easy ? Boiled? Soft Boiled? Scrambled? Fried? Poached? I need help Dan.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Poached eggs on toast are also yummy

Have you ever made a grilled cheese toad in the hole?

12:58

If you do it right, you'll get egg yolk mixing with the cheese when you cut into it!

Like a poached egg in the middle.

Michael

12:58

What kind of minor league player is most hurt by there not being a season this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I think the more "upside" guys rather than the high-floor guys are hurt most.

12:59

and guys who are farther away

I think someone like, for example, someone like Forrest Whitley is hurt a lot more than, say, Casey Mize

And pitchers more than hitters

Sir Nerdlington

12:59

While I fall firmly on the players side, I can rationalize the owners side. What I can't wrap my head around is sitting on the sidelines for **two months** before addressing the issues. Why?! The owners aren't foolish enough to think waiting gave them critical leverage they wouldn't otherwise have.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

I have no idea what the owners are thinking.

1:00

I try to take the "summary judgment" argumentative route and try to put together the best possible case for the arguments of the people I dislike the most

and I can't just get there from the owners side

Statistic Reform

1:00

RBI. Runs Batted In. But wait! Bases loaded walk, bases loaded HBP. These "RBI" are not batted in at all. In fact, one can argue that a run scoring on an error is literally a run batted in. Fill in the blank, the correct term should be Runs ______ed In.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

black magick

ed in

LFC Mike

1:01

I am not Iron Chef Dan. Grilled Cheese Toad in the hole? You are big timing me here.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Cut a circle into a slice of bread

1:02

with melted butter in pan, start cooking the bread with the circle in the middle cut out