JotCast | FanGraphs 2023 Opening Day Chat

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Sandwich

3:41

Wait y'all are joining on names as opposed to ids!?!?!

Alex Eisert

3:41

Sometimes the IDs aren't available for one of the datasets

Davy Andrews

3:42

Right. It gets tricky when the data is coming from different places.

Alex Eisert

3:42

Razzball is helpful for that, but it doesn't have every player usually.

Dan Szymborski

3:41

It's especially weird that the second player named Boog was a completely different type of player

Anonymous

3:41

Double Wanders Franco was a thing for a hot second when they were both (admittedly different) levels of prospect

5 Run Homer

3:41

Wander Franco’s dad and brothers are also named Wander

Kwanbelievable

3:41

As somebody who works in databases all day, I couldn't agree more that everything and everybody need to be referred to by randomly generated IDs. the world would be so much simpler

Dan Szymborski

3:42

While ZiPS keeps MLBAM IDs

when I *tell* ZiPS to project someone, it's their name, not their MLBAM ID

because I don't have all those memorized

So everybody has to get have a unique name!

Will D. Smith

3:43

Big Chris Carter

Other Frank Thomas

Not That Bob Gibson

Guest

3:43

What about the two Brady Feigl prospects who looked remarkably similar

YorDaddy

3:43

Settle a debate for me: is a team a defending champion until they are eliminated from the next championship? or when a new champion is crowned? For example, say the Astros for whatever reason implode, gets mathematically eliminated from the playoffs in September. Who is the defending champion from September til the last game of the world series? You can't "defend" a championship if you're eliminated?

Davy Andrews

3:44

I love how pedantic this is. They're the reigning champion until someone else wins it, I guess, but the defending champion as long as there's air in their lungs?

Alex Eisert

3:43

That was a great look at Marinaccio's sweeper. You could really see the SSW

Dan Szymborski

3:44

A team is never a defending champion because the championships are not directly contested.

The instant a team wins the championship, they're last year's champion and there is no reigning champion

The actual achievement is culminated in one infinitely small triumphant moment

Hadley Wickham

3:45

I'm disappointed in you Alex.

Davy Andrews

3:45

I don't know what this is referring to but I strongly agree.

Alex Eisert

3:46

It's referring to my R skills

Joe

3:45

I have to go to the second initial of my middle name for my google scholar ID. VEXING

5 Run Homer

3:45

Luis Garcia (Funky), Luis Garcia (braces), Luis Garcia (vanilla)

Smiling Politely

3:45

Thinking of the later games, do the Dodgers work out a long term deal with Urias? Does James Outman become the dark horse rookie no one expected?

Nat

3:46

I guess a problem with opening day is that now when your team loses it counts :(

Davy Andrews

3:46

Found Mike Rizzo's burner.

Dan Szymborski

3:46

There was a baseball think factory chat a LONG time ago where we gave all the Molina boys pop tart nicknames

Joe

3:46

Wait while you’re here Hadley, how is tibbvle

YorDaddy

3:46

Good point Dan, while you're probably technically right, "defending champion" is very much a real concept in team sports vernacular.

Dan Szymborski

3:47

Remember, technically correct is the best kind of correct!

3:47

Burnes and the Cubs, just as expected 3BB 2K 4H 4ER

3:47

Yankees game over in 2:34. Gotta love it.

Dan Szymborski

3:48

Dan

3:48

If you send your young pitcher to the minors and tell them to only let him pitch on Sundays for a month does that limit his innings effectively or does it prevent them from developing the endurance needed to pitch in a MLB rotation

Bryan

3:48

If mateo plays 120 games o/u 60 steals

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