Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 2/29/24

Dan Szymborski: Ack, I’m right here!

Dan Szymborski: Bought misplaced fuming on Twitter

Placido Polanco fan membership president: Simply learn Ben Clemens’ article about group depth. Don’t the ZiPS projected standings account for depth? Does ZiPS deal with depth in a different way than the best way proposed in Ben’s article?

Dan Szymborski: Kind of. ZiPS at all times has a generalized mannequin that varies the taking part in time availability of high gamers so typically these Plan Bs or Cs or Ds get much more taking part in time than you anticipate

Dan Szymborski: For instance, in that one run within the AL projections that I alluded to for the O’s, the O’s largely ended up with David Banuelos and Michael Perez catching

Harry Lime: Are you able to counsel any articles that discuss on late spherical gamers for deep drafts? thx

Dan Szymborski: That’s extra a Zimmerman Q!

Angelus Novus: O’s have a ton of excellent place gamers. When will we see Mayo? Do they should make a commerce to unlock room?

Dan Szymborski: They could have to commerce, however I don’t suppose it’ll be earlier than the beginning of the season

Dan Szymborski: I feel they’ll take a wait and see method

Jeremy: When trying on the 2024 Pre-Season Projections, “Fantasy” dashboard, how are the gamers sorted by default? Doesn’t appear to indicated the “kind on” metric.

Dan Szymborski: Seems prefer it’s nonetheless sorting by the WAR order

David M: Nl solely keeper…right down to considered one of these 3.  Pfaadt, B Garrett or Bohm

Dan Szymborski: relies upon who is out there for those who don’t preserve. I’d most likely go together with Pfaadt

Refugee: Once you analyze MiLB information, do you could have a strategy to filter PA or IP versus comparable (let’s say high 100 or high 150) prospects as to keep away from exhibiting a man feasting on mediocre competitors?

Dan Szymborski: No, probably not. However these guys don’t grasp round at ranges very lengthy

Refugee: Is there hidden standards for stats to be listed? My impression is that indexing is a perfect strategy to put a stat in context, however I’ve discovered that how far it strays from 100 could be deceptive. A 111 Stuff+ changeup was one of the best amongst all certified starters in 2023. A 111 Stuff+ slider was Eleventh. I do know it will be clunky so as to add customary deviation to each index stat, however couldn’t or not it’s helpful?

Facet be aware: for stats like OPS+ or wRC+, do you additionally discover a strategy to index by place?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t normally. Usually talking, I feel OPS+/wRC+ converse for themselves, at the least they do with me

Dan Szymborski: I attempt to keep away from stats ABOUT stats the place doable. I feel it’s higher for somebody to have the long run data {that a} 110 OPS+ is mediocre for a 1B however superb for a SS somewhat than attempt to distill it even additional

tumtum: When does ZiPS see Semien hitting the age curve?

Dan Szymborski: Like most gamers his age, there’s a barely rising threat yearly

Query marks: Each Alex Kirilloff and Kerry Carpenter are 26 and have query marks after their names: Kirilloff, his well being and whether or not he’ll be platooned; Carpenter, his horrid second half and wherther he’ll be platooned. Who would you somewhat spend money on?

Dan Szymborski: I feel Carpenter’s safer, however Kirilloff lacking lots of time from accidents makes him extra unsure and thus, extra upsidey

Visitor: Who’re the most important ZiPS movers after the primary few video games of Spring Coaching? For instance, Nolan Jones is hitless in 10 PA with 4 Ks already.

Dan Szymborski: I don’t do spring so no one’s moved! lol

Who’s Fabio?: Dan, is it too early to start out fascinated by Deadlinesmas?  The Jays didn’t do a lot this offseason so I’m hoping for one thing spectacular in July.

Dan Szymborski: I feel it’s powerful till April at the least

Edgar scores, Junior scores, all of them rating: O’s prospect Enrique Bradfield appears to have a pleasant hit device, and his velocity is off the charts. He appears to be the second coming of Mickey Rivers. Why isn’t he a higher-ranked prospect?

Dan Szymborski: Nicely, you’d need to ask Eric and Tess if it’s in regards to the FG rankings

Dan Szymborski: As for ZiPS, it simply doesn’t have quite a bit to go on

Dan Szymborski: and faculty stats, which ZiPS does use when it has to, are actually erratic in worth

Dan Szymborski: And let’s simply say his 2023 Vandy translation didn’t go effectively

Donut holestein: Do you personally agree with the ZIPs projection of Adolis Garcia?

Dan Szymborski: I feel it’s honest

Dan Szymborski: We’re speaking a 31-year-old participant; there are for extra chutes than there are ladders and it solely will get worse from right here

Eric: After MJ Melendez’s horrible first half, he hit .273/.352/.485 within the second half and eventually tapped again into his energy. ZIPS sees him bouncing again as effectively. Ideas on a possible breakout?

Dan Szymborski: Bearish on a breakout. ZiPS hasn’t discovered a ton of worth in chopping up the season

Refugee: Ought to two-seamers and sinkers be tracked individually? They’ve completely different columns in all of FG’s dashboards, but it surely looks like no one is being categorized that method, which I discover exhausting to imagine.

Dan Szymborski: Pitch monitoring is hard in that it’s not merely a cluster evaluation train, you even have to provide classifications that followers are acquainted with or they’ll simply not care and never use it

Smitty*: oh, and don’t you hate pants?

Dan Szymborski: I really like working at house so I can largely simply put on gymnasium shorts. Ah, mesh gymnasium shorts, the working man’s silk

>this man<: Dan have you ever had the neural community or Copilot create any chili recipes?

Dan Szymborski: I’ve not

Dan Szymborski: wait, I HAVE

Dan Szymborski: however I don’t use the AI that tries and offer you proper solutions as a result of that’s no enjoyable

Dan Szymborski: Inferkit’s GPT implementation is far more enjoyable

Dan Szymborski: (it’s rawer and fewer targeted on the right reply)

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Mason: Does gamers not signing until into spring actually make anyones lives worse?

Dan Szymborski: No

Dan Szymborski: As a result of it’s probably not about that, and MLB hopes silly individuals will purchase that

Visitor: Dan fuming on Twitter? glad i simply re-joined after deleting the previous account

Visitor: Aliens are going to invade Earth, and also you don’t have entry to ZiPS. They ask you to mission the highest 30 gamers with the very best batting common for this season. What 5 metrics do you have a look at?

Dan Szymborski: BA, contact price, strikeout price, BABIP, stroll price

Romorr: Don’t you adore it when individuals overreact to Spring Coaching stats? At all times makes me snort. Anyway, Coby Mayo must be the Orioles opening day 3B, proper?

Dan Szymborski: They’ll see what occurs at AAA I’m certain

Visitor: Is that this your first ever leap day chat?

Dan Szymborski: Perhaps?

Dan Szymborski: Leap Yr was a Monday in 2016, lemme see

Dan Szymborski: Nope, did one in 2016

Dan Szymborski: Keep in mind, whereas FanGraphs didn’t rent me till 2018, I’ve been doing chats longer than that as ESPN gave me permission

Andrew P: If the Pink Sox signal Montgomery, how a lot increased does their rotation transfer within the league rankings? I feel they have been at 18 or 19 proper now

Dan Szymborski: Given how carefully clumped groups are, Montgomery LOOKS like it will bump them to the Eleventh-14th vary in our depth charts for SP

JV19: Does ZIPS ever have bizarre chance distributions?  Much like (I feel) Chris Mitchell had on prospects the place some had bi-modal distributions on FV.  I bear in mind some have been 60/10/10/10/20 for bust, 40, 50, 60, 70 for instance.

Dan Szymborski: It does! I famous a number of years in the past that there have been two pitchers that had considerably bimodal distros: Tanner Scott and Michael Kopech

Matt Waters: Though Elly De La Cruz understandably will get ample pub, I’m extraordinarily bullish on the futures of Encarnacion-Strand and Will Benson for the Reds. How do you’re feeling about these gamers, Dan?

Dan Szymborski: Moreson on CES. I’m bullish about inheritor future

Dan Szymborski: My relative grumpiness in regards to the Reds is usually as a result of a weirdly designed roster and after they select to spend cash, getting the least bang for the buck

Kevin: Why do you suppose the opposite projection techniques are a lot increased than ZiPS on Jazz Chisholm’s 2024 PAs? It looks like ZiPS is the one one appropriately contemplating his harm historical past.

Dan Szymborski: Nicely, Steamer makes use of the depth chart taking part in time!

Dan Szymborski: Invader Zimmerman did a have a look at it

Dan Szymborski: and located for the blokes who have been undeniably main leaguers, ZiPS really did a extremely good job with taking part in time, significantly better than I had anticipated

Dan Szymborski: So ZiPS is SORT OF a taking part in time predictor, only for some dudes

Dan Szymborski: however not for, say, Samuel Basallo, who is not going to play within the majors in any respect this 12 months

Dale: Hey Dan, very long time listener, first time caller. First off, thanks for all of your work with ZiPS; It’s an enormous benefit in fantasy baseball! Is there any method for the general public to entry ninetieth percentile projections? I’m attempting to establish some breakouts

Dan Szymborski: I don’t publish 90s as a complete, however I do publish 80s!

Eric: The Cubs aren’t going to trot out Nick Madrigal at 3B on Opening Day, proper?  RIGHT??

Dan Szymborski: They could. We’r enot give up ein March but so wait and see

TomBruno23: Have you ever seen Leapday William but right now?

Dan Szymborski: Ha! I recognize 30 day reference

Dan Szymborski: 30 rock

Visitor: Is that this 12 months dragging on for you as effectively? Appears like we must be in March already…

Dan Szymborski: No, January-March at all times flies by for me

Dan Szymborski: Becuase I at all times have a bazillion tasks I wish to get carried out over the winter after which I end like 7 and see it’s March twenty second and shit’s about to get actual

Nervous Flyball Pitcher: Roughly talking, is the offensive acquire in platoon benefit well worth the defensive penalty for having somebody play a number of positions? Occupied with Gunnar Henderson taking part in 3B vs. SS so as to get Jorge Mateo in in opposition to LHP. This isn’t a query about Jorge Mateo per se, I simply imply if there was a generic RHH shortstop.

Dan Szymborski: It CAN be

Travelling: Perhaps a greater query for Eric, but when one was going to the Dominican for per week starting April 1, and wished to observe some good baseball, any clue the place they’d discover it?

Dan Szymborski: That’s undoubtedly an Eric Q!

Dan Szymborski: I’ve by no means even been to the DR!

eighth total choose: Rank these three by video games performed in 2024: Yordan Alvarez, Decide, and Ohtani

Dan Szymborski: a, o, j

TomBruno23: I’m a Cardinal BFIB fanatic happening Season 40 of the cleaning soap opera…promote me on buying season tickets please. Thanks.

Dan Szymborski: 2024 virtually HAS to be bette rthan 2023

Tino: Do you’re feeling like Nolan Schanuel has potential within the MLB? I’m deciding between him and Harrison Bader (have each as low cash keepers and may signal to three 12 months contracts). Thanks!

Dan Szymborski: I feel so. You’re not correctly incentivized to love Bader in a fantasy format

Dale: Do you imagine in ghosts?

Dan Szymborski: No

Dan Szymborski: Although I don’t categorically *deny* their existence. If ghosts do exist, we at the moment don’t possess the scientific data of the way it may come aside, nor the instruments to substantiate their existence.

Dan Szymborski: However the null speculation is that ghosts don’t exist, so I’ve but to see something that may trigger me to reject the null speculation.

Dan Szymborski: I’m open to lots of issues, such because the idea of some form of creator, even when not precisely described by anybody but. To an ant, a human is supernatural, in any case.

Jack: With RSNs going beneath and MLB lastly embracing in-market streaming, will the league have to start out subsidizing even massive market groups to keep up aggressive steadiness? It looks like for those who don’t have already got a profitable TV deal just like the Dodgers, Phillies, and many others, you’re screwed.

Dan Szymborski: I’m actually undecided the way it’s all going to shake out, actually

The Subsequent Billy Beane: Any advise for entering into information analytics via baseball? Particularly via SQL Server, R Studio, and many others.?

12 to six: i do know, i do know, its one spring coaching sport and we dodger followers shouldn’t get too excited but, however yama’s splitter:

teeheeheheheheheheheheeeheeeeheeeheeeheeee.

the one who asks the lunch query: what’s for lunch?

Dan Szymborski: Egg salad

Dan Szymborski: effectively, egg salad sandwich

Dan Szymborski: Eggs, mayo, salt, pepper, celery seed, worcestershire, mustard, paprika, gochujang

Colton: Is not any information or manufactured information worse in a projection system? Had a dialogue final week with a good friend in regards to the lack of highschool prospects on ZiPS 100 and we have been at a crossroads over the subject.

Dan Szymborski: Relies upon precisely what you imply by manufactured information

Jack: I do know it’s hardly remarkable for rookie hitters to start out sizzling after which pitchers determine them out. However what’s up with Davis Schneider? Going again to final September, he’s gone from Barry Bonds to Bartolo Colon.

Dan Szymborski: I feel individuals freak out an excessive amount of about upsa nd downs

The man Dan was arguing with on Twitter: Yeah that’s proper, I adopted you right here to proceed our discourse

McGraw45: Odds you do that chat on the identical day subsequent 12 months?

Dan Szymborski: Zero. There’s no 2/29 till 2028!

Dan Szymborski: And it’s a Monday

John Angelos: Why didn’t the O’s promote for greater than $1.7 billion?

Dan Szymborski: I imply, it’s not the Dodgers when it comes to market

KC Ache: Would you somewhat have Baz or Ragans long run?

Dan Szymborski: Baz

Victoria: Who wears their eyeblack one of the best in baseball? Chris Morel? Lindor? Harper?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have Smoky+ however possibly Eno does?

Dan Szymborski: I’m now conducting this chat

Dan Szymborski: FRAUD!

Dan Szymborski:

Not Mike Morse: How a lot does ballpark and group protection have an effect on a projection for a strikeout pitcher? Does the distinction between say Yankee Stadium and Oracle Park do a lot to Snell’s projected stats?

Dan Szymborski: Barely. The park elements *are* predictive, even when comparatively small in comparison with different stuff

Dan Szymborski: You must see me in MLB the Present when there’s a Second or another sport in Goal throughout day video games! lol

Dan Szymborski: Ah, another person had this criticism

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KC Ache: Who do you see the Orioles transferring?   They cant probably preserve all their prospects with a logjam at positions.  They’ve to maneuver some earlier than the shine wears off, age, or harm strikes proper?  They didnt even clear a spot with the Burnes transfer lol

Dan Szymborski: I think Santander may go in the fitting commerce

Nate: Re Melendez: ZiPS might be extra involved in regards to the 1100+ MLB PAs of beneath alternative stage manufacturing primarily as a result of a glove fabricated from lead

Gold Star: Are you on Bluesky but? It appears to have taken the lead for changing Twitter.

Dan Szymborski: I’m, however I’ve to confess I’m kinda lazy on posting on it

Dan Szymborski: since so many individuals who learn me are nonetheless on twitter they usually solely JUST opened up

szyn pouches: in a hypothetical world the place the diamondbacks lose gallen and kelly to free company in 2 years, am I flawed to be unreasonably optimistic a few combo of Pfaadt-E-Rod-Mena/Lin?

Dan Szymborski: If you’re, then so is zips

Jeremy: I’m assuming ZiPS takes into consideration the participant’s teammates and place within the order, proper? For instance, does the projection change/refine as soon as they signal as a free agent? Pondering a Justin Turner, for instance.

Dan Szymborski: SPECIFICALLY, no. Although it does use proxies that work

Dan Szymborski: For instance, it estimates the extent of group offense by the projections of the returning guys and common manufacturing elsewhere. Similar with protection

Dan Szymborski: And as a kludge, it really works surprisingly effectively

Dan Szymborski: And I discover the draw back right here — lacking one thing on a group with HUGE turnover — isn’t worse than the price of continually altering everyone’s projection daily

Visitor: Clearly Trevor Bauer isn’t on a group but when he does go to 1 does fangraphs have his anticipated stats?

Dan Szymborski: I do have his projection within the system someplace

Dan Szymborski: Waitk, he’s projected

Visitor: Who would be the brewers beginning third and 2nd baseman?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t suppose our depth charts are off

Dale: Christmas got here early this 12 months! The place can I discover the eightieth percentile ZiPS projections?

Dan Szymborski: the participant pages!

Dan Szymborski: err the group rundowns

Dan Szymborski: attempting to determine how a lot we are able to stuff onto participant pages

Dan Szymborski: I do know we’ll have the splits up within the close to future

Sirras: What’s your favourite article you wrote within the final 12 months? That FG revealed, no matter writer?

Dan Szymborski: Unsure on the second, so it will be unfair to call on

Dan Szymborski: for my private fave?

Dan Szymborski: Hmm, sorry it takes a number of

Dan Szymborski: I’m the kind of one that instantly hates and regrets every part I write as quickly as I hit ship

Dan Szymborski: I feel this?

Zach: Re: Appears like we must be in March already

I feel that was a joke Dan! It’s leap day

A dumby: So for those who would anticipate about 10% of gamers to hit their ninetieth percentile and tenth percentile, does that maintain true for each percentile bucket? You must see roughly 10% of gamers roughly distributed throughout all outcomes?

Dan Szymborski: Yeah! Ideally yould’ have 10% in every decile

szyn pouches: Are you haunted by any single season a participant had that ran fully afoul of the ZIPS projections?

Dan Szymborski: Haunted? No. I do one of the best I can and that’s all I can do

Dan Szymborski: Although for groups, the O’s projection haunts me, not as a result of I remorse it, however that it led to me listening to for six months that I’ve a secret grudge in opposition to the town I’m from and group I root for, for some motive

Chichikov: If group management weren’t a factor and the Jacksons (Holliday and Chourio) have been free brokers proper now, how a lot would you and/or ZIPS estimate they’d get on the open market? Assume they’re attempting to maximise this contract and never enter free company once more of their late 20’s.

Dan Szymborski: 1.8 shitloads of cash

Eddie Planks Fixed: I ended following baseball in 2008 and obtained again into it this season. Glad to see you’re doing effectively. I bear in mind when Zips was on Baseball Primer. What ought to I do know in regards to the 15 years I’ve missed?

Dan Szymborski: We’ve got a really bizarre president and 2020 was even weirder!

Dan Szymborski: I used to be at ESPN from 2010-2018

Dan Szymborski: I’ve additionally gotten 16 years older since 2008, so I’ll be 46 in June somewhat than turning 30

Dan Szymborski: However I wager you had an analogous change in age!

Visitor: Which Brewers prospect (moreover Chourio) may have the most important affect?

Dan Szymborski: I feel Black COULD

Visitor: mookie says he needs to be thought of a legend of the sport when its all mentioned and carried out. appears to me like he would possibly hit that very ethereal benchmark
what’s his projected remaining WAR whole?

Dan Szymborski: I like when individuals ask me the issues I have already got!

Dan Szymborski: ZiPS tasks Betts finishes at 81.4 WAR, 2557 hits, 432 homers, 128 OPS+ over 9282 AB

Additionally 2016 Dan: el gasino: when will we see robotic umps?

Dan Szymborski: 2040.

Dan Szymborski: I feel we’re beating that one

Todd Bonzalez: Didn’t Grandma Szymborski hang-out this chat for generations? WAS THAT NOT CONVINCING?!?!

Pitchers of Curiosity: Which projection do you’re feeling extra assured in, Yamamoto or Imanaga? Or is it extra “they share lots of the identical information set, so each about the identical”?

Dan Szymborski: About the identical

Victoria: okay i’m carried out studying your 2016 chat, jeeeeezus was there lots of Tr*mp

Dan Szymborski: Wait, did I discuss lots of politics in 2016?

Dan Szymborski: I hate speaking politics, what did you individuals do to me that I’m suppressing?

Matt: Hey Dan, any ideas on the phrases of Bellinger’s contract?

Dan Szymborski: It’s affordable for a contending group

Jake Heisenripbauer: In 2024 it appears like MLB is the one main sport that hasnt been ruined by the affect of Vegas. NBA and particularly the NFL are jokes. Is it only a matter of time or possibly Vegas already has an enormous affect on MLB and it simply isnt as noticable? or is there one thing inherent with the sport of baseball particularly that makes it more durable to have an effect on outcomes?

Dan Szymborski: baseball is fairly coinflippy

Dan Szymborski: And it’s by no means been the favourite to wager on anyway

Damaged Bat: Get pleasure from your insights Dan. Perceive the layers of variances in searching for future efficiency of the gamers. That being apart, depth of roster isn’t simply nighest WAR and many others. of whole group however depth is having appropriate backup defensive, energy, contact, velocity, and a degeee of potential amongst others to play above the 50% projectiles. That’s my opinion, not yours. However I’m curious witzhnrosters not being set but, so it’s early, what groups probably have possibly deep rosters which may lack the STAR or STARS to be a favourite?

Dan Szymborski: However bear in mind, the extra stuff you embody, the extra work is concerned

Dan Szymborski: The FG projections can run immediately when there’s a commerce or one thing

Dan Szymborski: to do the ZiPS technique, if I’m doing the full-fat ZiPS projections, first I want two days for the numbers to crunch on two PCs

Dan Szymborski: after which about 4 hours to run the distribution of group high quality from simulated depth charts

Dan Szymborski: after which one other two hours to run one million 12 months of sims

Visitor: you’ve solely been at FG since 2018? in my mind you’ve been at FG ceaselessly, like Cameron-far again lol

Dan Szymborski: Once more, I used to be AROUND FG earlier than that

Dan Szymborski: ZiPS was on FanGraphs earlier than 2018 as effectively.

Dan Szymborski: and I’ve been a staple of the chats going method again

Dan Szymborski: and bear in mind, I used to be behind the ESPN paywall

Dan Szymborski: I accepted the job provide on my fortieth birthday (6/19/18) about 20 minutes after I almost drowned myself with my life jacket whereas kayaking

Visitor: what are the TO’N 80/20s? I didn’t see them on STL or BOS

Dan Szymborski: they’re there!

Dan Szymborski: seek for eightieth and twentieth

Dan Szymborski: I feel fourth and eighth charts?

Bobby: ZiPS have any attention-grabbing longshot ROY of the 12 months candidates? Perhaps Busch in Chicago?

Dan Szymborski: Busch isn’t a nasty one actually

Visitor: Let’s say there’s a projection system that debuts this 12 months and is 30%-40% extra correct than every other system for 2024, 2025, and 2026. Would you imagine the creator is extra more likely to be a time traveler or has discovered a breakthrough within the artwork of projections?

Dan Szymborski: Oh, time traveler for certain

Dan Szymborski: we’ve been squeezing out a fairly dry sponge to get extra enhancements

Dan Szymborski: and I don’t suppose groups have discovered the magic key, else they wouldn’t purchase information

Dan Szymborski: presumably no one offers me cash only for liking me

Dan Szymborski: I definitely wouldn’t. I’m not that likable

All of the wong strikes: I agree together with your level about quick signing home windows being a disservice to participant fairness, however isn’t there an inescapable, pre-set window outlined by the low season?

Dan Szymborski: Yeah, however 5 months is quite a bit simpler interval to make selections than seven days

Eh?: Dan, I image you being the kind of individual to snort hysterically by your self at one thing you noticed in your laptop. I’m additionally like this. Am I flawed?

Dan Szymborski: No, I typically lose my shit at issues

Austin Riley’s HoF Plaque: If Ronald Acuna’s twentieth percentile consequence is over 5 fWAR and his eightieth is over 9, what’s his 99th percentile consequence?

Dan Szymborski: it’s not open, but it surely was like 10 one thing

Man Who Asks The A number of Alternative Query: Generally, what’s your favorite nickname for hotdogs?

a) Glizzys
b) Meat Missiles
c) Tube Steaks
d) Dongs

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have a nickname for decent canine

Felines: Put up the latest image of your cats. No dishonest.

Dan Szymborski: OK, most up-to-date is 2/20

Dan Szymborski:

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have a single image with all 4 cats

Dan Szymborski: essentially the most i’ve gotten for my present cats is three

Dan Szymborski:

Dan Szymborski: Okay, that is the one image I appear to have EVER of all present cats in the identical image.

Dan Szymborski:

Dan Szymborski: From 2015

Visitor: I might suppose it’s extremely uncommon, if it’s ever occurred, {that a} wholesome participant has hit their triple-digit or destructive percentile in ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski: You possibly can’t!

ryan: Have you ever thought of including zStats to participant pages over xStats

Dan Szymborski: I’ve thought of it

completely satisfied birthday Rose: Is that this rose’s fb? i used to be advised this hyperlink i may want you content needs. needs to you and your greatest fiends. needs for an additional nice improbable to return and akin to. birthday.

Justin: Hello Dan! Do you play out of the park, and for those who do what does your typical save/sport appear like?

Dan Szymborski: I do

Dan Szymborski: I normally play rebuilding groups

Dan Szymborski: or the O’s

Dan Szymborski: It’s particularly enjoyable since OOTP makes use of my projections as a place to begin

Tom: Rose, better of luck to you in your endeavors. i do know this wasn’t simple for you, however hector is proud.

Mason: Is Gunnar a high 5 3b or ss at this second?

Dan Szymborski: sure

Victoria: Complete mentions in that chat: 12 of Trump, 4 of HRC, 2 of Sanders, 2 of Bush, 2 of GOP

To be honest, our brains have been collectively damaged by winter of 2015-16

Dan Szymborski: I’m certain it was the fault of you guys, as a result of it’s a extremely bizarre day once I convey up politics alone

Have you ever?: Have you ever ever used your final title spelling as if it have been the phrase “simulate” aka “szymulate”.

Dan Szymborski: I’ve, sadly

Dan Szymborski: I’ve additionally described one thing as szympatico

Buford: Who’s the worst normal supervisor to have gained a World Sequence?

Dan Szymborski: worst as in absolute or worst relative to GMs of the time?

Dan Szymborski: if the latter, Dayton Moore

Dan Szymborski: however he’s most likely be tenth greatest or so in 1985

Victoria: sizzling canine is a nickname for a frankfurter

brad penny in your ideas: What number of of those have you ever had?

Dan Szymborski: six I feel

Dan Szymborski: If I’m consuming a sizzling canine, I largely simply need kraut and somewhat mustard

Tom: Rose, thanks for posting my needs in your timeline

Visitor: so, technically talking, does each participant have a 1.000/1.000/.4000 ceiling and a .000/.000/.000 ground?

Dan Szymborski: Yeah, although that’s purely theoretical

SC: Would you somewhat preserve Royce Lewis within the ninth spherical or Josh Jung within the sixteenth?

Dan Szymborski: Lewis

Dan Szymborski: YOu don’t need to have him wholesome sufficient to play exhausting positions to get the place qualification

brad penny in your ideas: are you a fan of the baltimore sizzling canine?

Dan Szymborski: I assume you imply the previous Attman’s canine?

Dan Szymborski: No, I don’t look after bologna or double up on my sizzling canine meats

TomBruno23: Matt Carpenter v Patrick Corbin proper now oh babbbbbeeeeeeeeee

TomBruno23: and Corbin with the backwards Ok on a pitch down the center.

Dan Szymborski: Resistible drive 1, movable object 0

Phil: You and I are about the identical age, and I’m beginning to consider retirement. Do you could have a succession plan for Zips? Might another person even do it, or is an excessive amount of of the method in your head?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have a succession plan, actually

Dan Szymborski: I most likely ought to have one for if I drop useless all of a sudden

Dan Szymborski: it’s doable, however there’s a studying curve and I’d have to doc how I do extra issues

Dan Szymborski: just like the database that goes into the projections has a zBABIP subject for hitters, for instance, however somebody who has ZiPS wouldn’t know the place to get the zBABIP

Tom: Rose, thanks for posting my thanks in your timeline. not crucial and you may cease now. Regards

Cat Latos: What do my cat buddies do?

Dan Szymborski: Final I used to be upstairs (about an hour in the past) all 4 have been sleeping

Eric: Talking of sizzling canine, ideas on Cincinnati chili/cheese coneys? Most Ohio transplants I do know have very sturdy emotions in some way…

Dan Szymborski: No.

Dan Szymborski: That’s my opinion of Cincy chili

Dan Szymborski: Not a refusal to reply

Dan Szymborski: and on that be aware, it’s time for me to take off for an additional week!

Dan Szymborski: Thanks for coming all!

Dan Szymborski: Nicely, not for the one who preserve submitting the identical very prolonged Trump query I’m not answering