JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/5/21

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 8/5/21

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Beanball

1:14

I feel like you've said you're a legends of heroes fan. I started the series with trails of cold steel, and have played the second. Really enjoyed both. Do I need to go back and play the other trails games before moving on to cold steel 3 & 4?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Beanball, it's not *necessary* but it makes the experience richer

1:15

It's still perfectly playable, but there are a lot of Trails in the Sky characters in final two games

and Crossbell becomes a very big deal and the center of the story in a lot of ways

There are translations available of the Crossbell games

1:16

I'm going to IM you my email address. I can help you get those (with the EVO soundtracks) but best off chat

Appa Yip Yip

1:16

I hear Ian Desmond has some upside at 1B

Dan Szymborski

1:16

BRIDICH BURNER

Adam

1:16

Are you in favor of MLB games at gimmick locations i.e. Field of Dreams and Williamsport? Where else would you like to see them go?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

I'd like to see more games in other countries

There are a LOT of frigging baseball games

Steve O

1:16

If DJ LeGroundOutToTheSecondBaseman is a 2.5ish win player, is the contract underwater? Still 5/75 left.

Dan Szymborski

1:17

ZiPS isn't there yet

Morbo

1:17

At Busch stadium there is a bar in center field directly behind where the center field camera used to be before the angle was changed and ruined. One of my favourite cheap spots to watch a game (you can sit there with any ticket that gets you in the stadium)

Guest

1:17

Do we penalize 1B prospects too much? the wRC+ for 1B is only 106 this year (in line with prior years). Lots of teams have poor first baseman yet some say there is no such thing as a 1b prospect.

Dan Szymborski

1:18

It's possible

But one of the things about 1B prospects is that they HAVE to hit in most cases

Baseball fan

1:19

The Astros drafted a player named Kobe (Kato) in the 13th followed by a player named Bryant (Salgado) in the 14th. What are the odds that was a completely random happenstance?

Dan Szymborski

1:19

Here's the thing, there are TRILLIONS of weird coincidences like that

So you're obviously going to see the ones that happen

not the ones that don't

1:20

And with unlimited chances at these trillions of coincidences, it's likely that you'll see some

1:21

Like the odds of any two hall of famers at the same position being born the same day are pretty long

any two specific ones

But you can observe Thomas/Bagwell

you're not really observing all the great players not born the other day as another similar great player

brad penny for your thoughts

1:22

do you have any 2nd thoughts about playing activision/blizzard products with the recent lawsuit news? im not huge blizzard person but I had interest in the D2 remake....now not so sure.

Dan Szymborski

1:22

My general philosophy is for the legal issues to play out between the parties.

1:23

Victims should get justice.

And I don't have any issues with someone who feels any differently.

1:24

I only care about boycotts in very specific situations: boycotts targeted to remedy a *specific* situation and are likely to get those results.

Your Name

1:24

Rich Hill has played for 11 teams so far. Does he hit 15?

Dan Szymborski

1:24

No

1:25

When I say, "I don't have any issues with someone who feels any differently" I don't mean for the victims should get justice part

obviously I DO have issues with those who don't agree with that!

FancyGraphs

1:25

Why do teams never do front loaded contracts for the more productive years as opposed to backloaded?

Dan Szymborski

1:25

money costs less later

and luxury tax looks at whole contract

1:26

and they do sometimes

but mainly to shape their payrolls

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