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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/27/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:53

Have to consider that low-level catchers have a massive flameout rate

Appa Yip Yip

12:54

Moreno is in the 60 man pool and the PTBNL is not so it's not Moreno.

OddBall Herrera

12:54

You have to have an appreciation for comedy if you follow the Orioles. *bwaaabwaaaaahhh*

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Hey, they're almost a t.500!

ZiPS Master

12:54

Can ZiPS backwards project or fill-in the first-half career of a late bloomer? Like what would a player’s early 20s have to look like to project Randy Johnson or Nelson Cruz’s 30s (even as, say, a 75th percentile outcome)?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Yeah, I did that for the Ted Williams Time Warp

12:55

One of the things I've done during pandemic downtime is making that easy in ZiPS

I can now tell ZiPS a target projection for a year and ask it to find the most likely seasonal lines to lead up to that.

Frank Costanza

12:56

Serenity Now Dan..Serenity Now........no more talk of killing...just force feeding of Skyline Chili..like waterboarding..but with food..

Guest

12:56

picturing a slum dog millionaire situation where Dan was reflecting on his past job as a museum custodian before answering that question

Fluffy-Uranus

12:56

Szymborski you left wing hack

Szymborski you fascist Trumper

Sarah

12:57

Jon Tayler disagrees

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Lots of people disagree with me on things. It's OK, I'm wrong plenty.

And I'd be bored as hell if everyone agreed with me.

A world in which I have nobody to argue with is a bleak kafkaesque nightmarescape

John

12:57

Did you take any prop or RSW bets?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I shied away from betting this year.

Guest

12:58

If everyone agreed on everything there'd be no cause for jousting, and then where would we be as a society?

Guest

12:59

harmony?

Fluffy-Uranus

12:59

Happy?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Sounds boring!

There's some simple and elegant about right and wrong being determined just by who is better with a pointing a large stick while riding a horse.

Slapshot

12:59

Darn, I thought today's chat was at 12 PM Central, not 12 PM Eastern.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I got by Eastern Awesome Time

Elliot

1:01

I disagree with you on chili dogs, should I go get my jousting pole?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

We don't have the jousting society yet.

Can I name a jousting champion? I don't want to cripple the poor horse trying to carry

I CALL BRONN

Guest

1:01

I'm chewing Big League Chew (grape) while in a baseball chat, avoiding real work and responsibilities. Do I have a baseball problem?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

They still make Big League Chew?

Guest

1:02

ohhhh they still make big league chew, Dan

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I would have assumed some busybody group protested whoever makes it that it normalized tobacco chewing or something by now

Elliot

1:04

I’ve never even seen Big League Chew in a store for years now that I think about it, how are they still going?

Numpty

1:04

How else can we get kids to simulate chewing tobacco?!

Dan Szymborski

1:04

That was my reaction Elliott!

Fluffy-Uranus

1:04

Bronn of the Blackwater?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

I'm not sure where we are in the timeline

Sonny

1:05

Better record next 3 years, Baltimore or Boston?

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