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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/26/24

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Dan Szymborski

12:52

Player crushes his hand trying to do an impression of Michael Scott in the Office episode where he was talking about using the baler? Mets Moment

Guest

12:53

Has MLB ever moved a game to another stadium to avoid weather?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Yes

The Marlins played two home games in Chicago like 20 years ago because of Hurricane Ivan

12:54

And there was an Astros-Rangers series at Tropicana several yeras ago

Guest

12:54

Would MLB even have considered moving Mets @ Braves to a neutral site?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

They shoudl have!

Guest

12:55

who from the current rookie class will have the best career?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

Is it cheating to use ZiPS? ZiPS says Merrill

12:56

Note that the future has no effect on my ROY ballot, so I am not spoiling who I am voting for in any way whatsoever

Dbacks fan

12:56

our CEO got ripped for asking for $100’s of millions at a hard time for so many. Doesn’t the FO have someone who works there that knew this would look bad? Talk about being unaware

Dan Szymborski

12:57

MLB teams seem to be devoid of shame and since politicians of both parties love just handing massive amounts of cash to very wealthy sports franchise owners, MLB teams rarely get punished for their shamelessness

12:58

The A's aren't leaving because Oakland took some grand moral stand about giving them free money. It's just that Fisher wanted even MORE free money than that

David

12:58

It seems pretty likely Cole Young debuts next year as the Mariners Starting 2B and potentially opening day, I can't imagine there's a great projection on him from ZIPs?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Not great, but it's not a BAD projection

AL Central Casting

12:58

Do you ever look at team-wide changes in ZiPS from preseason? As a Twins fan who assumes many of their young players (Lewis in particular, but also Julien) will have worse forecasts after this season, I'm wondering what effect that will have on the team as a whole.

Dan Szymborski

12:58

I don't really, simply because the construction of a team changes so much

marc

12:58

If I'm reading it correctly, Zips projections for Chourio overr the next 3 years are middling at best. I watch him almost every game and to me he looks like a superstar in the making. Any explanation?

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Thos were preseason

Sam

12:59

If we put the Monforts, Jerry Reinsdorf, and John Fisher in the Rockies pit and told them "first one to escape doesn't have to sell the team", would any of them try to escape?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

They might try to escape

But if anyone succeeds, we didn't do our job right

1:00

You can throw Castellini and Nutting down there too

Guest

1:00

Are you forgetting Bobby Ojeda cutting off the tip of his finger with a hedge trimmer and missing the 1988 playoffs?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

But they just won the World Series in 1986, so the Mets needed a really big Hilargedy number

War2d2

1:01

PS: sorry for spamming you with questions, I saw you said you had less of an audience than usual and was trying to help with content 😂

Re: MLB moving a game bc of weather: Carlos Zambrano's no-no was a "road game" in Milwaukee against the Astros because of a hurricane.

>this guy<

1:01

Carlos Zambrano pitxhed a no-no against the Brewers at minute maid

wait no Big Z no-hit the Astros at Miller Park in MIL

Bosoxforlife

1:02

The Red Sox have 4 exciting prospects. Anthony, Mayer, Teel and Campbell. Is ZIPS actually excited about any or all of them

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Yes

ZiPS is excited about any or all of them :-D

Tyler

1:02

How do you explain so many Braves vastly underperforming their projections?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Injuries are a pretty big deal

I mean, they lost nearly *15* WAR from last year in Acuna and Strider alone

(now, they didn't lose 15 additional games of course, since that's not how that works)

Aaron Judge hall of fame chances

1:03

What are my chances of making the Hall?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Excellent

I'm already a Yes on Judge based on peak

Guest

1:04

Is Bowden Francis an actual starting pitcher now instead of a #6/swingman?

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