JotCast | Dan Szymborski Fangraphs Chat - 9/10/18

Dan Szymborski Fangraphs Chat - 9/10/18

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Lunar verLander

12:59

re: synthetic ligament: we already have them, but James Andrews & Neal ElAttrache are being paid by #bigligament to keep the news quiet

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Gub Gub

12:59

What is your least favorite bank?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

This dentist in rural PA named Bank.

A few years ago, I was at a festival in which a friend was a vendor.

1:00

She asked me if I could run to the bank and get bills of varying denominations.

I just typed Bank into my phone without looking at to what it brought me to

and it brought me to a dentist named Bajnk

Bank

Lawdog

1:00

Greater love: ZIPS for Acuna or Zim for sammiches?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Acuña for sure

The Old Buccaneer

1:00

Jordy Mercer has the highest WAR of all the Pirates’ regular infielders at 1.1

Davy

1:00

Hey Dan, just wanted to say I'm really enjoying your articles at FG. Thanks.

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Thanks!

1:01

I'm very excited for the new challenge.

hscer

1:01

I wrote a paper on Gallipoli in grad school! Basically, a disaster operationally. Failures of logistics, communication, command/control, training. Even their maps of the area were terrible.

Dbo

1:01

Dan, when I become president I want you to become head of Health and Human Services but you're only task is stirring controversy by declaring foods eligible/ineligible for certain categories

Dan Szymborski

1:01

Can I work remotely

KETCHUP = POISON

1:02

TACOS = VEGETABLE

HOT DOG = SAUSAGE SUBMARINE

Lunar verLander

1:02

Why do kickboxing after 11 innings when you can do chessboxing?

James

1:02

Hey Dan! In the last few years, someone at fangraphs wrote an article on the success rate of top prospects getting traded and the importance of information assymetry where teams had more information on their own prospects. Do you recall an article like this?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Vaguely!

Maybe someone will chime in.

Tooty McButtface

1:02

What if your name was Tooty McButtface?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

My mom would go into the worst nursing home I can find around 2030.

Moltar

1:02

Okay, so I just read that thing about BABIP in Citi Field, and I was at the game yesterday and had the same thought I always do - why the heck is the ballpark oriented the way that it is? Not only is the wind always blowing in off the water, but if you stand off to the side of the shake shack line and crane your neck over the railing, you get a super awesome view of the Manhattan skyline and at the right time of night, a really pretty sunset. Why not make the skyline a focal point of the outfield? Why not make the inexplicable "Shea Bridge" in the outfield look like a suspension bridge, with the Manhattan skyline behind it, and have it look like the awesome Mets skyline logo? How freaking dumb are the Wilpons?

Gub Gub

1:03

You're thinking of Chief Yeehaw! Chief Yahoo is an 84-year old seat usher with an AOL emaill

Lunar verLander

1:03

...did this dentist named Bank have bills of varying denominations?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I didn't go in!

Do dentists do a lot of cash transactions?

"Doc, let's keep this filling...between us. <wink>"

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

1:03

Would the worst World Series ratings be the Rockies versus the A's or Cleveland?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Probably Rockies/A's

D

1:03

Can ZIPS do anything to enforce is ROS projection of 3 HR on Mookie Betts? I would like him to be forced to hit more HR.

Dan

1:03

Has baseball reached a point were it doesn't have to worry about individual holds outs like Levon Bell in the NFL? I know stars did it in the past but that was all pre- free agency right?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Holding out has more consequences in baseball, so it's not actually a thing anymore.

1:06

Restricted List can easily result in delaying FA by a year.

I believe Le'Veon Bell can just show up on Week 10 and not lose anything but the salary

LFC Mike

1:06

How about Rockem Sockem Robots after 11 innings?

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