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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/20/23

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1994 Expos

12:55

Hey, Dan. Do you know if all 3 of a team's primary starting OFs all had 6.0+ WAR in the same season? Discussing with some buddies the 1994 Expos OF of Alou, Grissom, and Walker. They all had 4.0+ WAR at the time of the strike and were *roughly on pace* for 6.0+ WAR. Just curious if it's ever happened before. Thanks

Dan Szymborski

12:56

off-hand, no, and it's awkward to try and do this quickly on a laptop!

Bighen

12:56

I think if Mets get to .500 by call it august 15th I think they have a good shot - too optimistic?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I mean at a playoff spot, sure

but it's going to be tough given what's baked into the cake

MilwaukeeBeerJays

12:56

Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan DAN.

Have you ever seen the magic card Dandan?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I had not seen it

What I *did* see is that some group makes, in Second Life, what is surely the best damn pickup truck to ever exist.

Scrapper

12:57

Article idea--projections for Ohtani's next contract, with different hypotheticals, including where he is exclusively a hitter and where he becomes a RF/high leverage reliever.

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I'm not sure this one would be super-interesting as we don't have a lot of data on two-way players like Ohtani and how they develop if only going with one thing

because the two-way players like Ohtani are basically...Ohtani

Billy

1:00

What does Zips think about Adolis Garcia being a top 20 player going forward?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

It does not concur

Guest

1:00

...I believe in Kyle Bradish 100% within the framework that most of us perceive as reality

JWR

1:00

Has any organization had a better first half of the season than the Reds? It seems like many of their young players are performing at the very highest point of their preseason projections.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

It's kinda like the O's last year - something like 13 of the top 15 prospects had their projections go up in the first three months

JWR

1:01

What is the most that you can recall a player's ZIP projections changing within the course of a year?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I think Dellin Betances when he was young

MilwaukeeBeerJays

1:01

If Cincinnati makes the playoffs, with you rescind your chili dogma?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Never. If they made the playoffs, it wouldn't be due to chili

Joe Randa

1:01

Do you use R at all? Are there any languages you would recommend avoiding for any baseball related projects?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Only when I need to. I like to think I'm fairly clever at this point at getting what I need in the ways I'm most comfortable

as for languages, I'm not an expert there remotely

I'd bug @octonion on Twitter

Because he spends his middle of the night learning new languages and complex mathematical issues

whiel my middle of the nights are usually AI pictures

1:03

Which is fine with me!

Cat Damon

1:03

CAT. DAMON.

Nate

1:03

Help me settle a dispute. I work with just one other person, they hate being cold. But it's miserably warm...

What's the proper thermostat temperature, and why is it 66 degrees?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

My house is too big for me to do 66 degrees, especially because then my office will be about 50

though I'm there in the winter

Oddball Herrera

1:04

Everyone knows the best language for baseball related projects is Esperanto

Dan Szymborski

1:04

And on that note, it's time for me to head out for another week.

Thanks for coming everyone

Jason

1:04

How long do the AI pictures that you post on Twitter (often involving satirical photos of historical figures and baseball players) take to generate? Many of them are quite spectacular.

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Surprisngly not that long. Unless I take time to do some inpainting cleanup of things like extra fingers or stray hands

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