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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/30/18

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3:04

Surprised not to see a Jerry Dipoto trade in your earlier article. What gives? No faith in another Jerry trade?

Dan Szymborski

3:04

He does a lot of little trades.

zurzles

3:04

Do the O's offer Jones a QO?

Dan Szymborski

3:04

They actually might

Ben

3:04

Get stuffed with your classical logic. I reject your P or not P axiom. https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/intuitionistic+logic

John Sterling

3:04

Dan, how do you pronounce your surname? I was thinking of making a home run call for you: "Szymborski! The ball will soar-ski!" Eh? Eh?

Dan Szymborski

3:04

zim-BORE-skee

which is actually wrong. I'm told the original Polish is absolutely horrific to say

3:05

Besides, my nickname, since there are a billion Dans, has been Zim for like 35 years.

3:06

I'm supposed to have my nickname be SHJIM now? I'm not living another 40 years as Shjim.

Dbo

3:06

Hey Dan, sorry I'm late. I was outside of Sunway protesting their evil structure neutral sandwich ways

Dan Szymborski

3:06

I like the typo.

Protesting which stars can be classified as stars or not

"Not enough mass to go supernova? NOT A STAR."

Woad Raider

3:07

Who is the best last place team?

Dan Szymborski

3:07

Reds

Dee Fenz

3:07

How reliable are the various defensive stats these days? And can you recommend a decent guide to summarizing how and when to use the various metrics?

Dan Szymborski

3:07

They're reliable OVER LONG PERIODS. The general rule thumb is to consider a chunk of defensive stats about the same as you would a third of offensive stats.

3:08

So if you go nuts over a half-season of defensive stats, you better go nuts over a month of offense.

JayHoss

3:08

Archer to the Indians seems like the no-brainer

Dan Szymborski

3:08

Wuld be fun.

Mountie Votto

3:08

Encouraged by Luis Castillo's recent run? He was a bit unlucky early on, but says he tweaked mechanics and looked filthy yesterday.

Dan Szymborski

3:08

He's got the stuff to succeed. I'm really hlpeful

Dodgers Shirts

3:08

Should I apologize for wearing Strikeout Cancer Shirts? It may have offended a team striking out at the trade deadline :(

Dan Szymborski

3:09

There's always something weird about those fundraisers where X amount of donation is given per strikeout.

3:10

I mean, yeah, it's a great cause, but I don't like that feeling that Mike Leake is killing children, relative to Max Scherzer.

How about, like $10,000 * (5 - FIP)

3:11

Let Dallas Keuchel save lives too!

Moelicious

3:11

My son loves Cities Skylines!

LudeBurger

3:11

do you think players like Tony Womack or Manny Margot are even the type of players who would join your chat?

Dan Szymborski

3:11

Probably not.

I said some mean things about Tony Womack's abilities, so definitely not him.

Dbo

3:11

Do you think all these stories about players' twitter accounts is encouraging lazy journalism? Instead of researching a story, any reporter can just find something controversial in a young players twitter feed and whistleblow to get attention on their reporting.

Dan Szymborski

3:12

I think it can be a bit lazy if it's just a pile-on.

Like Sheryl has a cool interview upcoming about it. That's journalism.

But on the flip side, on HaderNight, there were some fake tweets thrown in that sources that should have known better got fooled on and had to submit corrections

3:13

My Door Dasher is leaving the restaurant with my tacos, so let's burn through quick ones.

CamdenWarehouse

3:13

Are you going to take over Cameron's former weekly appearance on FanGraphs Audio? We all want more Dan/Carson together.

Dan Szymborski

3:13

Haven't spoken on schedule, but I'll be on audio a lot

Allard

3:14

Do you think James shields will be traded

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