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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/3/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:26

I haven't actually, maybe I'll do an update for Monday?

Greg

12:26

How much of the light prospect returns were analytics vs Covid pressuring payrolls and raising the short term value of prospects

Dan Szymborski

12:26

I think prospects are slightly *less* valuable right now than normal, simply because the screwed up development year has increased the uncertainty around them and cost them real time

George Herman Ruth

12:27

Saw some terrible ball/strike calls last night. Does MLB grade and provide feedback to umpires on accuracy? What technology are they using?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I know they track it, but I'm not sure the exact process they interact with the umpires on this.

Harry Lime

12:28

Should Dylan Cease pitch from the stretch? His numbers are better in the stretch.

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I'm not sure that's actually the issue. Yes, his numbers are better, but a lot of that is BABIP. But the stuff that isn't is control related.

12:29

I haven't dug deep into Cease, but I wouldn't be surprised to find he's over-nibbling

colorado rockies fan

12:29

i'm just waiting for a vac zeen

Sad Rangers Fan

12:29

Any hope for us next year? Or ever? Is Daniels on the hot seat?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

I think the offensive development is much behind schedule, to the extent that I don't think they'll be serious contenders in 2021.

I'm not sure Daniels needs to be updating his résumé or anything, but in his position, I'd be a little concerned

Dane Szymborski

12:30

Is Ty France worth losing your head over?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

Dane Szymborski

12:30

Young and the Restless? Pshaw! Watch me on Ryan’s Hope.

Swinging Friar

12:30

They have to be the most fun/interesting team in baseball. Am I wrong?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

Chris

12:31

Dan, I'm sad that luis Robert is going to win mvp since Kyle Lewis is fantastic and is a deserving rookie of the year. Anyway Kyle Lewis is awesome, that's all I got

Anonymous

12:31

why were teams so willing to make moves in this clown fiesta of a season?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

There are still benefits. And really the deadline wasn't *that* big. Only a few really big things and most of the big things were things that help past this year.

extremely unemployed guy

12:31

have you ever endeavored into bbq youtubers? fascinating stuff and very comforting

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I have not.

LFC Mike

12:32

Hi Dan..Would you rank for the future T McKenzie, Ian Anderson, Sixto Sanchez and D Dunning ..this would be for pitching ...not fronting a band playing a flute

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Hmm, probably Sanchez a the top with the other three fairly close.

I like how you add the proviso in order to forestall me from giving a weird answer

brad penny for your thoughts

12:32

what's worse, a boring team or a bad team? 'cause the cardinals are both

Dan Szymborski

12:32

I'll take bad over boring any day

Jkim

12:32

This isn't a baseball question: Are you picking up the new RTX 3090?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

No.

I don't have the GPU compute needs.

12:33

And a 2080 Super already more than adequately drives 1440p/144

The top top Nvidia skus are usually extremely inefficient purchases

Swinging Friar

12:33

I am holding my breath, but Hosmer has actually been good this year... how much does this 30 game start impact Zips projections for the next few years?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

It's certainly a bump! It's nice to see after *years* he apparently is actually trying the launch angle stuff.

We'll see if this persists long-term.

Guest

12:34

If you had access to the sports betting book from Back to the Future 2, but only for 2021, would you tinker with ZiPS before releasing the projections to get closer to what happens?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Why not! It's a valid data source!

Niels

12:35

Was it the right decision for the Padres to go all-in at the deadline?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

I don't think they really went ALL in honestly.

They only gave up one of their preseason top 10 FG prospects in the trades

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