JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/19

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/19

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Cream

12:40

How about Rizzo as an analogue to Luck? He's about the same age, good not great, but probably has better name recognition than many others with comparable production (like I think Luck may have garnered). Maybe Sonny Gray if you wanted a pitcher?

crying

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Dan Szymborski

12:40

Sonny Gray to little

Mickey Callaway

12:40

Has anyone looked into why bullpens are trash this year? Should starters not be pulled as early as we thought?

Dan Szymborski

12:40

It's possible, but you also have more offense which makes every X run lead a little riskier

12:42

There's a relationship between league offense and league relief WPA

E

12:42

Is a chili dog a sandwich? What if it has beans?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Why would you say such a thing? a chili dog with beans isn't chili or a sandwich

Matt W

12:42

Sending you love for Galileo from you and my beloved cat, Cat Harvey. Cats are the best, and it sounds like you had a great one.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Thanks, I appreciate it! Galileo was a terrific cat

Johnny

12:42

Yeah I thought the point of making it all black and all white, was that they were going to decorate the unis or something interesting?

Dan Szymborski

12:42

Why don't they just let players where whatever they want?

12:43

You don't really NEED baseball players to match as long as everyone knows what team they're on

Nobody ever went shirts and skins to play wiffleball

Fun article idea

12:43

Would you consider doing a ZIPS what if article? Like Griffey’s career after 1999, Pedro after 2000, Nomar after 2000, Eric Davis, etc...

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I've done them from time to time

I know I did eric davis before

love

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12:45

I'll have to find it, it's not easy to find

Indians

12:45

How much weaker is CLE without the good version of Ramirez? He may return but likely not full strength. Do they hold on anyway, but present as a weaker opponent?

Dan Szymborski

12:45

I think they hold on to a playoff spot, but they're weaker now that J-Ram remebers to not suck

Ryan

12:45

Please don't talk about Rizzo retiring, especially after you already jinxed the Cubs with your pulling away article

Alex Cora and Dave Dombrowski

12:45

What should we do this offseason

Dan Szymborski

12:45

How about SOMETHING?

E

12:45

Have you ever outed someone for being an astronomy enthusiast?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

CANCEL TYCHO BRAHE

Greg

12:46

Strasburg as Luck? That smelled like a fit to me at first but I'm not sure anymore

Cat Latos

12:47

MEOW MEOW I AM CAT.

Dan Szymborski

12:47

It's something hard for someone who has covered the game so closely for a long time to know exactly HOW a player is considered in wider baseball fandom

Johnny

12:47

I'd love a deep dive into Jimy Wynn actually. I can't find the dimensions of Colt Stadium from the 60's anywhere... Although I might just be an awful researcher.

Dbo

12:49

Alright Dan, I'm going to pick up Potbellys for lunch, my condolences for your loss last week.

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:49

Are you worried about keeping up with the cutting edge of baseball knowledge in your older years? That someday a 30 year-old in a vintage Fortnite tee who still flosses unironically is going to post disparaging comments about you for clinging to WAR when teams have long switched over to predicting player success using a combination of genetics and time travel? That your Excel-based analysis will become redundant to an octopus with a slide rule?

trophy

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Dan Szymborski

12:49

I think it's the way of the world that everyone becomes outdated

To let the new generation have their way.

I hope I can, but there' salways a chance I end up out of touch

12:50

I'd like to finish my career someday as more of an advisory role to young writers

cool

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Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:50

Fangraphs meetup at Skyline? Early-bird registration gets extra spaghetti?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Count me out

Number's rights activist

12:50

Why do letters get capital and lower case but not numbers? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! I DEMAND YOU MAKE A FORM OF LOWER CASE NUMBERS IMMEDIATELY

Dan Szymborski

12:50

Anything is lower case if you can write small enough

Soxtober2020

12:50

Will you be challenging Craig Edwards to the octagon after getting the prized "Best Friend of the Pod" distinction on the latest Sox Machine?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

DID JOSH BETRAY ME, I"M POISONING HIS GORDITA DORITOS LOCO CRUNCHITO

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