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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/10/23

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Dan Szymborski

12:27

Which I know is funny since my pieces this week are literally writing *about* numbers

But I don't do that many of those

James

12:28

Is staff ace JP France a legit middle rotation guy?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I t hink he *can* be but I'm not quite there yet as he's got a really small margin of error for what he's done

Darb

12:28

Favorite non-FanGraphs baseball podcast?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I don't really listen to many baseball podcasts because I already have a huge baseball overload

12:29

I mostly listen to podcasts that involve humor, cars, or video game nerdery

Springer

12:29

finally homered last night for the first time in a month but it left the bat at 96 mph. worried about aging here yet?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

I've been

Royals fan

12:29

KC lost a run because a ball got stuck in a lightbulb in Fenway, then lost the game by one run. I think I'm done with 2023. (This is not a question.)

Dan Szymborski

12:30

Look, even the baseballs don't want to be at a Royals game

captainjameshook

12:30

I know Greinke's on the IL now but, assuming he comes back, and with nothing else to play for this year, shouldn't the Royals let him play all 9 positions in a game and let him go for his quest for 10 career HRs and SBs? Is there a petition we can start?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

That would be fun

AL Lifer

12:30

Now that we have the universal DH, how long before postseason awards are combined between the two leagues?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I think that's unlikely for now

Appa Yip Yip

12:31

Have you played Baldur's Gate 3 yet?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I have not

Does Chewbacca use TP?

12:31

What do ZIPS think about Yoan Mondada? Is there any hope for a 2024 rebound, or is he in DFA territory...has one year left at a pretty sizable number...

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Last check he's at .243/.324/.400, 1.7 WAR in 111 projected games in 2024

Appa Yip Yip

12:32

In honour of José Bautista going on the Blue Jays level of excellence this Saturday I would like to reiterate my belief that his bat flip in 2015 was a watershed moment for the sport in regards to players celebrating and having fun. Joey's bat flew so Soto could shuffle.

John Mozeliak

12:32

will you do a john angelos vs kevin brown wwe match?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

The problem is that MLB the Show dominates a lot of game playing this time of the year

if I make a wrestling matchup, it'll be Anderson and Ramirez

Key Flaw

12:33

5 man rotations are there to protect pitcher's arms, but with the amount of throwing in between is it really different than a 4 man rotation? Is there data about the effects of 4 vs 5 man rotations? Or is it just "it could be really bad and we don't want to risk destroying arms to test it out"?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

The thing is that the data suck

And it's one of those things that teams don't want to test because you don't really have a scenario when you can test without costing careers and your team hundreds of millions of dollars

TomBruno23

12:34

On this, the day after Michael Lorenzen's no-hitter and as a reminder to Mike Warren, let's remember that Bud Smith, with a career record of 7-8, tossed a 134 pitch no hitter at San Diego on September 3, 2001.

fantasy football

12:34

can I join? ; p

Dan Szymborski

12:34

This is the old Baseball Primer Fantasy Football League. We've been going on since 2001.

12:34

If you are the Orioles this offseason, do you trade one or more of Hays, Mountcastle, or Santander to make room for Kjerstad and possibly Mayo? Of the three, who is the one that you think the Orioles should most keep?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I'd prefer to hang onto Hays than the other two, but who I would keep would come down to who is being traded

Appa Yip Yip

12:35

Rather than make players up it might be fun to run ZiPS projections for players in old NES baseball games. How would Sleve McDichel fare in today's high velo environment?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I've actually made a ZiPS Playoff Edition hack of RBI Baseball before. Lemme see if I can find it

12:36

http://bit.ly/ZiPS12RBIRom

https://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/oracle/discussion/2012_zips_rbi_b...

Alex Remington

12:37

I'd like to ask you the same question I asked Ben Clemens about Bryce Elder:

Despite everything – his Tiffany-blue baseball savant page, his having given up seven runs in three of his last five starts, and on the other hand also All-Star selection – based on his first 22 major league starts, Bryce Elder *seems* like he’ll settle in as a pretty good 4/5 starter, somewhere in between Jon Niese and Dillon Gee. Is that fair?

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think it's possible he does even better than that

12:38

In the 7/15 batch run of ZiPS, Elder was up to 23rd in five-year WAR

Ren Kosenthal

12:39

Gun to your head who wins NL CY?

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