JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/10/20

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/10/20

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Ignatius

12:53

While your embrace of the autocratic privileges your stature as moderator of this plebeian exchange is commendable I must say that I believe your fiberless chili would play hell on my valve. Can not recommend. Good day.

Dan Szymborski

12:53

I don't make chili to move your bowels, I make it to explode your taste buds!

12:54

I have to admit, interacting with Bill James/Peter Gammons has been my favorite thing about Twitter. Those are the two writers I wanted to be as a kid as I was realistic to know I was not going to play major league baseball

Morbo

12:54

I'll shall change my tactics then. If you change the time of the chat I shall name my firstborn after you.

(No one tell Dan that I already have a child and can't actually rename him)

Dan Szymborski

12:55

OK, done.

The time was not specified, so enjoy the 12:01 PM chat next week! And you *can* rename a kid.

I await receipt of the name change to Daniel John Szymborski Morbo

Giodude

12:55

How long does it take to run ZiPS? Like if you were to simulate the 2021 season based on current rosters/performance.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

A few hours. Making baseline depth chart stuff needs some manual work

Hard screwball

12:55

Hi Dan I like your hat. Also what happened to the dbacks and how much has their 2-3 year outlook changed?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I dont' think the trajectory's really changed all that much, it's just that 2020 kinda sucks

The Ghost of Bobby Thigpen

12:56

Is it bad that at this point, I would trust Dunning over Cease in a playoff game?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I hope it isn't because I feel the same.

Not Evan

12:56

Is there a polite way to tell the guy in your fantasy league that all his trade offers are terrible and it just annoys you to keep hearing them?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Nonstop counter-proposals that you never agree to but simply change with every exchange.

Your Nam

12:56

Dan's petty enough to actually list it as a 12:01 chat too

Dan Szymborski

12:57

You call it petty, I call it breaking the wheel!

Morbo

12:57

Last week I specified a time. 1:00 pm easter time

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Not part of our agreement forged in blood just now.

Bighen

12:57

If Steve Cohen is able to wrap up the purchase and get approved as the new Mets owner do you think the current FO and manager makes it past a courtesy exit interview or anything? I can’t see what leg Bvw would have to stand on in addition to new ownership often wanting to bring in their own staff etc.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I imagine that if I'm the owner, I would clean house.

12:58

Of course, I would have done that in KC too and that didn't happen

Kyler

12:58

Dan can the Braves make any sort of postseason run with their dumpster fire of a starting rotation? The offense is great and the bullpen is solid.

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I think it comes down to if Fried and even Hamels are fine

mike

12:59

do you think nelson cruz can win mvp this year? has there ever been an mvp that old?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

He COULD. In the end of season ZiPS projections, Cruz is now third in the AL in WAR among hitters.

And he'd be like three weeks older when given the award than Bonds was in 2004.

Dane Szymborski

1:01

You had the good Bill James experience. Some get the snippy reply, and it probably hurts a little.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I'd take the snippy reply!

Morbo

1:01

Also "name change to Daniel John Szymborski Morbo" I'm pretty sure that would constitute some sort of crime against humanity

Dan Szymborski

1:01

You have permission to use your actual last name

Guest

1:01

I did a NYT crossword the other day where one of the clues was "Major component in chili." The answer was beans. So if you're wrong about that, how can I trust anything else you say?

laughing

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Dan Szymborski

1:01

If the crossword people knew cooking, they'd be writing recipes

Phillip Mamoufwifart

1:01

Are you considering getting any of the next generation game consoles? Or are you pretty much a PC gamer?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Probably will get a PS5 at some point. A lot of my console purchases in the past have been JRPG accessibility, but a much larger percentage of them show up on the PC now.

1:03

My full list of PS4 games:

The last three years of MLB the Show

Red Dead Redemption 2, which I subsequently bought on the PC

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, which I subsequently also bought on the PC.

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