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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/3/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:29

Adam

12:29

Please cast for us a hypothetical Fangraphs: the Movie.

Dan Szymborski

12:29

LETS USE NEURAL NETWORK

12:34

Sorry, hopefully payoff works

It's running

I had to give it a framework to insert names

12:36

Some of the casting choices are odd

John Olerud’s Helmet

12:36

Dear Dan, How are you? I’m fine. If Degrom does beat Bob Gibsons ERA record will people just complain that it’s tainted because hitting has been so bad this year? Love, John Oleruds Helmet

Dan Szymborski

12:36

More likely the innings issue

Chungus Khan

12:37

Dan may I put a single leaf of cilantro atop my chili, or does it stop being chili then?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

Herbs count as seasoning!

Nate

12:37

Is Brendan Rodgers ever gonna be a thing? Or has he been Rockied too much at this point?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think he can be a thing, but I'd like to see a change in scenery

Chungus Khan

12:37

What do you listen to your classical music on? Do you have a fancy setup, tube amps and stuff, something more pedestrian?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I have a pair of Marantz speakers and a Denon receiver. The old Intel Core 2 Duo is managing the music system

12:40

But more often, I use my main PC, with an external DAC and Sennheiser HD 650 phones

12:42

I used Media Monkey to manage library.

(I keep FLACs for archival purposes, high bitrate MP3s for listening as I can't tell the difference past this point)

Grammarly Coder

12:42

Please use asteriskesque in a sentence. We will then consider your assertion it is a real word and not something your neural network created in a late night fit.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

I used it in a piece!

12:43

If a pitcher had broken the modern ERA record in 2020, the shortened season would have made the feat seem a bit asteriskesque.

(I just refreshed the library, so sadly all my counts are back at 0, so I can no longer tell you what I listened to the most)

asnbrv

12:43

Has a team ever contacted you in an attempt to buy ZiPS from you?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Haven't got far enough in a conversation about it to be a possibility.

12:44

SO I guess the most accurate answer is no.

I have very little interest in selling ZiPS

12:45

In any case, the data packages I offer are far more economical than the number it would take to make me give up ZiPS

Appa Yip Yip

12:45

Is the league actually going to crack down on sticky stuff, and which pitchers do you think are going to regress to mediocre or fall off a cliff? Should they just legalize rosin and sunscreen and if anything else is found on the ball the pitcher gets automatically suspended?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I think they should, but it's a bit tricky because it's really enforced right now in such an arbitrary manner.

You'd have to have a post-inning hat inspection be standard I think

Dalton Wilcox

12:45

Who can German Marquez bring back in a trade?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

A lot, so naturally it won't happen

Dalton Wilcox

12:46

Do you prefer if your cowboy boots go jingle jangle or jangle jingle? Says alot about a man

Dan Szymborski

12:46

How am I gonna sneak up on do-badders if I'm jingling?

OR jangling?

Jimmy Wynn's Toy Cannon

12:47

Have you seen enough from Altuve this year to reverse your (justifiable) pessimism pre-season? Right now Zips has him finishing with a ~90th percentile outcome from the initial projections

Dan Szymborski

12:47

Yes

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