JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/24/20

Prev Page View Full Chat Next Page

Guest

12:52

wait that Dan Szymborski thing was real? How did that happen?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Hey, I didn't make it up! Dan Szymborski is now a canon character on a soap opera.

http://baseballthinkfactory.org/szymborski/yrd.mp4

Dbo

12:54

Kodos Or Kang?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Kang. I do appreciate the choice between abortions and miniature American flags.

bighen

12:54

I've read about Bauer wanting to sign 1 year deals. Doesn't the QO kind of kill that - teams will be reluctant to sign him and give up a draft pick if/when the Reds slap a QO on him to have him for only 1 year. He's probably best off taking the QO and then trying that the following year when that can't happen again. I know there are different compensation terms now with the QO but it's not going to be as simple as he thinks.

Dan Szymborski

12:55

He might just do it out of point making

GSon

12:55

HA HA HA !!..Dan has no idea how to make Sloppy Joes !!

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I just don't!

GSon

12:55

Tom <== close relative?.. or paid influencer?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

Considering some of the uppers at ESPN used to forget that I existed, if I'm paying my influencers, I want some refunds!

Elliot

12:55

I don’t really have any constructive baseball things to say, so I’ll just say that Ronald Acuña is very fun to watch and is the closest thing to Griffey since Griffey and I think that’s neat.

Rich

12:55

Re Bauer, I'd note that he said the data showed he'd pitch better on three days' rest, and then he went out and pitched 8 innings of one-run ball with 12 strikeouts on three days' rest. One outing doesn't prove anything, but it's a data point in his favor.

Guest

12:56

In follow up to my Bauer/Red Sox silly idea. He could agree because what if the Red Sox offer him $5M more than any other team. He gets more money in his one year deal, and then Red Sox work with him on who he gets sent to. He gets more money and heads to a contender. Win for Bauer, win for Red Sox

Dan Szymborski

12:56

But then why wouldn't the team giving up prospects to acqure 1/30 Bauer not pay him 1/35 and keep the prospects?

12:57

To make this work you need a situation in which either Bauer *really* wants to help out the Red Sox or Bauer is unable to communicate with any team but the Red Sox

brad penny for your thoughts

12:58

how much will team spending go down if the 16 team playoff is ratified for future seasons?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Won't go down suddenly, but it'll be a long-term drag

Towel

12:58

Murphy leading MLB rookies in Bb%, SIS has him as a top defensive catcher, ~130 wrc+. Won't win ROY, but probably should get more talk than he is currently considering position/team record.

greg

12:58

Cat update please.

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Last I saw, Mercutio was sleeping in upstairs hallway, Cassiopeia in the second bedroom on the right upstairs, Constantine was sleeping in the big spoon thing in the cat tree in the TV room

1:00

And Justinian was thumping his tail in the kitchen because he was mad at me because I saw a trail of blood and thought he was bleeding after roughhousing with my brother but the blood turned out to be mine

I have to actually go upstairs and clean up a trail of blood with hydrogen peroxide after this chat and put a bandaid on my toe

It's currently wrapped up in some random paper towel that was lying on one of my computer tables

GSon

1:01

Bauer is sly as a fox.. he knows any club can wager huge coin on a one year deal. There are no diminishing returns that are the most concerning issue with six plus year deals. For this reason, the wager Bauer will be signing for in 2021..will begin with a 4... not a 3.. Comment?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I think the problem is that teams haven't shown a huge willingness to do that yet and if playoffs are expanded, they have even less of a reason to

Larry Jones

1:01

Dan, I have a degree in statistics, and I'm hoping to get more into data analysis, specifically with sports. Any tips/recommendations?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

You probably know everything a book can tell you already!

1:02

Most of those books hand hold you through stuff like probability data visualization etc.

1:03

Probalby something more specialized like this would be better fo ryou.

https://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Baseball-Data-Second-Chapman/dp/08153...

It's an unsatsifying answer, but the best way to learn about data analysis in sports is to explore yourself!

Ask yourself a question about sports and then figure out how to explore the answer.

1:04

If you have any kind of math background, you're well equipped to epxlore

and possibly spell better than me

MilwaukeeBeerjays

1:04

Dan I recently read in the chat that do you like final fantasy six better than final fantasy seven? Have you experienced head trauma recently?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

Yes

Final Fantasy VI *made* a bunch of modern JRPG tropes.

1:05

And the best score of any Final Fantasy game. The use of leitmotif was extremely well done

1:06

The whole opera sequence was a huge groundbreaker in terms of grand setpieces in the genre.

Connecting…

Message History

On Off

Your current subscriptions

None

E-mail Address	Chat Owner	Status	Remove

Enter your email address to be notified when Dan Szymborski hosts a chat