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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/18/20

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Who's Fabio?

12:14

Dan, for your birthday I am planning to place on ad on an Orioles jersey. How much do I need to save? Would you prefer a chili cookbook?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

What horror is going on?

Guest

12:14

I know you don't have anything to do with it but having a member option to block comments from specific posters would be a nice feature on FG. Seems covid and pro-owner trolls have recently discovered the site.

Sam

12:17

How excited are you to potentially get to run projections on actual MLB players?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

I've mostly done those already!

Philip

12:17

I have asked you this before but I forgot to check chat if you responded. Have you considered putting together a draft model for college guys? It’s very prominent in nba

Dan Szymborski

12:18

College players just aren't as certain in baseball.

Proper Toad in the Hole

12:18

Cheers Dan. The English version of "Toad in the "Hole has one cooking sausages in a Yorkshire pudding batter and then served with onion gravy and vegetables. One can venture out and use rump steak or even lamb's kidney! Brilliant meal, but not as brilliant as Mo Salah's left foot eh? Enjoy your Birthday. Cheerio.

Guest

12:18

Who's impressed you the most in KBO and why is it Chang-moo Koo?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

He's been insane!

12:20

oh god the font changes

whew back to normal

I love some eui-ji yang

JD Martin

12:20

If the hard shell on my taco cracks in half, does it become a sandwich?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

No, it's a just a breakdown in the eating, which doesn't count.

Trent Hauser

12:20

O/U on tax dollars going to owners for private ventures within 3 years of allowing 2020 baseball? $5 billion?

Dan Szymborski

12:20

I don't even want to think about it

Guest

12:21

Owners dont want to play baseball, Dan doesn't want to sing for us. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH OUR TIME

einstein2u

12:21

any chance Ohtani will be more valuable with a shorten season?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

It's possible in that you don't have to tax his arm. It's much easier to get 100% of a season from him

Guest

12:21

With the 3 batter minimum in effect, is getting on base slightly more valuable? We know that pitchers on average pitch worse with runners on base, so leaving a pitcher in to face more batters when he's given up a base will weight that skill slightly more, won't it?

Dan Szymborski

12:21

It likely does, but it's probably one of those things that doens't really change much of anything

Like a player making a pitcher tired by working the count more - it just won't come into play that often

12:22

I mean, getting on-base is valuable. But it already WAS and mostly for the base!

Trent Hauser

12:22

Keith Law slyly mentioned that ESPN may or may not have prevented him from writing certain kinds of articles (I assume labor issues). So do the writers for big mainstream outlets have their hands tied?

Dan Szymborski

12:23

It's hard to say because I don't know Keith's experience. Editors deal with writers one-on-one

They do tend to like writers staying in their "zone" but I don't know if it's that or some desire to not see labor issues talked about.

I know for Insider, they like the type of pieces that drive general audiences

12:24

So they emphasized topics that subscribers wanted to see and things that covered lots of teams, not just a single one.

Trent Hauser

12:24

Does ZiPs see Shintaro Fujinami as finished?

Dan Szymborski

12:24

Lemme see what ZIPS has

12:27

ZiPS is bearish, ERA in the 4.40 range. There's a big hit to power stats from moving from one of their minor leageus

Jose Covidro

12:27

Happy impending birthday. Has there been any discussion about how teams will handle dugout and locker room logistics? Seems like a bad idea to have players crowded together. Would they ban high-fives?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

There has been, though it remains to be seen how practical these things are in practice

Jackelder

12:27

How will MLB teams develop their top prospects this year without an MiLB season? Wander S. Franco, or Jo Adell for example.

Dan Szymborski

12:27

Remains to be seen

Derek

12:27

Obvious follow-up: what's your most-played game on Steam?