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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/29/23

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Dan Szymborski

12:50

It's not outrageous

Nate

12:50

What % of your job involves running scenarios for other writers?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Not a lot

Other writers seem to feel needlessly guilting about asking me to project stuff out

12:51

and I assure them that it's my job and I'm not just being polite

(though I'd probably help if it wasn't my job)

Guest

12:51

"You should ask Eric!" You're setting him up pretty good there for a criticism - one I won't make because I know how tough the prospecting world is with a small team trying to get the last few team reports out

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I don't mean ANNOY Eric about it or anything!

12:52

Only I don't set the final numbers or even as part of the discussion!

So I don't have any insight into the exact reasoning used. And I'm not going to speculate on a colleague's reasoning out of thing air!

I mean, you wouldn't go ask Eric why ZiPS thinks a certain way, would you?

12:53

I'm sure he'd direct you to me

and I'd probably try an dd answer!

Arraez Sir Loin of Beef

12:53

You think he can make it. Reminds me of George Brett's run in the 80's

Dan Szymborski

12:53

It's a long shot, but again, there's a CHANCE

MilwaukeeBeerJays

12:53

Also one of the great things they did in Fallout 4 is you actually use all the random crap that you pick up. In the previous ones you're like what do I do with 74 rolls of duct tape Wonder glue and a desk fan? In this one you build and protect bases so you use that stuff.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I kinda like that whole aesthetic

I always use those refine everything mods in skyrim games

12:54

and melt down basically everything I grab that's not tied down

RobertoBeers

12:54

A man, a dan, a chat, this joke is tired, eritsiekojsihttahcanadanama

Pete Rose

12:56

The NFL suspended 3 players for gambling (wish I had DraftKings back in the day!). I mean what's it gonna take for me, the all-time hits leader, to get into that blasted Hall??

Dan Szymborski

12:56

a shred of self-awareness, at a minimum?

Yuniesky Betancourt

12:56

Which side of a Nolan Jones for Gavin Stone trade do you like in a dynasty league?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Jones easily. I know leagues that use HR, not park-adjusted HR!

Plus, there's always at least a chance he snags a 3B qualification

Steve O

12:57

If you put the Diamondbacks into the AL East they are in ___ place? Marlins?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

fourthish?

Prospect Ave.

12:57

I have a "save" fetish. I've been into analytics for a long time but I just can't help myself. I love a closer locking it down and getting credit for a save.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

It's OK to like things that aren't connected to value

People should use WAR for how good players are at winning games and stuff

12:58

Not how meaningful an experience is

downbaddav

12:58

if you're the o's, what do you give up for a giolito rental?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I'd give some players in the meh tier, but he's not enough of a changer that I want to trade a possible changer for him

BenZobrist4MVP

12:58

It seems like the majority of star players (Trout, Arenado, Machado, Correa, Lindor, Bregman, Bogaerts, Devers, Tucker, Guerrero, Riley, Gimenez, Harris, Kirk, etc.) have performed somewhere under their projections so far this year. (Obviously some like Ohtani and Acuna are not in this camp.) But is this just my imagination, a coincidence, or possibly related to the rule changes?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I haven't really tracked if it's more than normal

Jon

12:59

Is the joke itself tired or are we tired of hearing it? Is the joke tiring?

john

12:59

You're scaring me with the Jordan Walker projection. Is that his horrid defense or is that telling us he isn't going to be the next big offensive piece ?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

It's moved in a positive direction since season start for 2024

1:00

I get a translation for his 29 games in Memphis this year as .204/.292/.321

Which takes a lot of the shine of his MLB performance

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