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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/5/21

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Ben Cherington

1:01

David Puddy counts. He was only in like 10 episodes in seasons 6 and 9. Watching the show in syndication plays tricks on you. Plus those season 6 episodes are classics.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

He feels more important

Don Jenver

1:01

You ever see The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh where as it turns out, all of Dr. J's teammates are astrologically incompatible, so the GM trades for players whose signs are more aligned with their star's & voila they win it all? Do you think any MLB GMs have examined the feasability of this strategy?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I've heard of the movie, but I haven't actually seen it

It seems like something the Royals would do

Boots MacFarland

1:03

So on baseball reference, they have regular WAR, oWAR, and dWAR. It has always confounded me that the oWAR and dWAR totals don't add up to the total WAR. Do you know why this is the case? Like Derek Jeter has 71.3 bWAR but 96.3 oWAR wtf

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Becuase you'll double-count the positional value!

Fart Master

1:04

What games are you playing?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Hearthstone right now since expansion

Just finished a runthrough of the first nine Legend of Heroes games

1:05

Up to Hajimari no kiseki

But while I'm going to play that before English release, I at least want the Japanese PC version over PS4

Moog Powell

1:05

We just say Analytics

Tigers Fan

1:05

Are Bellinger and Gleyber Torres from this point on below average players? What is the probability they will perform better moving forward?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I'm not THAT pessimistic

I think Bellinger will be fine.

I'm more worried about Torres

Who's Fabio?

1:05

the Boba Chet story was amazing - maybe now the nickname will take hold in actual reality - fingers crossed!

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Your Name

1:06

what comes out first, gta6 or es6?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Elder Scrolls VI

1:07

GTA Online still drives a lot of revenue

So Rockstar's not pressured to be fast at all

Adam

1:08

What inning is it acceptable to relocate to better seats?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I say after 3.

El Zilcho

1:08

The neural network outputs make me laugh like a crazy person and should be a regular feature at the site. If Dave won’t allow it, then I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I would hate for a neural network to become TOO competent.

It becomes less funny if it does!

1:09

I gave the neural network a list of existing mascots

and had it generate new mascots for all 30 MLB teams.

1:10

I then asked the neural network the origin story for five of them.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/LR1SDyr

Appa Yip Yip

1:11

Hanging out by the railing on the concourse is also an excellent choice for the viewing of baseball

Your Name

1:12

Follow up- Where would you want the next ES to take place?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

I'd love to go to Hammerfell

Morbo

1:12

If someone had the power to make you dictator for life over any mlb franchise, you can construct the roster anyway you want, make the team move cities, really anything other than leave the MLB what franchise would you choose to rule over with your iron fist?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Rockies

1:13

I love Denver, and trying to rebuild that team with unlimited authority is just so fascinating a challenge.

Tigers Fan

1:13

Should MLB change the pitcher substitution rule for Ohtani so he can DH after he is done pitching like in the all star game?

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