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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/27/23

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Dan Szymborski

1:06

Please not Connecticut

Medium Chungus

1:06

For about a 2 week window, it looked like Andrew Vaughn was about to break out...now it seems hes back to being a boring if-i-have-to 1B in a deep league. Is there any hope of him taking a step up or is this just who he is?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

I was hoping that this would be his year

but it hasn't really been and there's less of a chance now

Sanford

1:07

Vouching for the ad-free membership—it makes a huge performance difference (and I'm of course glad to support the staff)

B'ryce Szymbobski

1:07

Fangraphs membership is totally worth it, fyi!

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Yeah, we weant people to have a good experience, but we *also* do want to pay our full-time staff competitively and *not* have a paywall

Every choice is going to have a tradeoff.

Light on ads for everyone probably means a paywall.

1:09

Light on ads *and* no paywall probably means being part of a huge media coporation that doens't necessarily need to turn a profit on us, but there are context risks there; one day everythin gmight pivot to video or something!

At least that's how I see it, I can only speak for myself, not in any official capacity here

Byron Denniston

1:09

Does ZiPs included batted ball data these days?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Has for years

Farhandrew Zaidman

1:12

to continue to Johnny Damon comp - you're a valuable asset, just not for the reasons people think, and probably overrated all things considered?

Dan Szymborski

1:12