JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 12/1/22

Dan Szymborski

12:01

And started, the chat has!@

DanIsOurMan

12:01

Love love love Zips season! Can you dig into Cruz’s projection a bit more? Surprised his 80th percentile didn’t show more power?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Remember, it's the 80th percentile projection overall, not the 80th percentile projection of a specific aspect

If he hit the 80th percentile for all his measurables then it would be a higher than 80th percentile projection!

DanIsOurMan

12:02

What’s the schedule for the roll out?

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Four or five a week

oh good

Damn text

Four or five a week.

12:03

I keep the order a secret, simply because otherwise I get a ton of people asking and trying to convince me to move their favorite team up

So completely random

ZiPs

12:03

Have you considered putting out projections for all the free agents in one place. I'm sure there are a bunch of team dependencies.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Well, they all get updates when tehy sign!

DanIsOurMan

12:03

Zips loved Bryan Ramos going into last season, and he was fine but not incredible last year, I assume that dinged his projection a bit?

Dan Szymborski

12:03

He basically held serve this year

Dirk Diggler

12:04

Since the Giants seem to be hesitant to sign any pitcher to a long term deal should they try trading for someone in hopes they can be the next Gausman/Rodon? Someone like Lucas Giolito?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Giolito would be a fun eventual add

9761014

12:04

Do you think one of the SS will get a 10 year contract? I assume ZiPS would think no. Was Seager’s 10 year deal an outlier or what we should expect?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I suspect no

DanIsOurMan

12:04

The Zips top 100 is maybe my favorite article on FG every year, what date should I heart on my calendar this year? And, could you extend it to a top 200 for us mere mortals? Or at least go a bit deeper on the SPs? Again, love the work you do!

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I hesitate farther because once you get really deep into the prospects, there are going to be granularity issues on the lower-level prospects

Scotty

12:05

Hello Dan, will 2023 ZIPs projections be available to download once they are complete? I'm looking to use them for some fantasy projections. Thanks!

Dan Szymborski

12:05

They always are!

Scarp

12:05

Who makes the NLCS first, Reds or Pirates?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Possibly Pirates

Scarp

12:05

Dan, why doesn't my toaster work?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Is it plugged in?

Does the coil turn orange?

Note that I cannot fix your toaster

Guest

12:05

Can ZIPS tell me what current player is most like Mo Vaughn?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

Hmm, I don't think I can do it reversified

12:06

Where is everyone? This is like a quarter of the audience of the chat! Is the link not working?

Guest

12:07

Hayden Wesneski zip better or worse than you thought?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Better

Liz

12:08

Let's say the Red Sox see the ZIPS depth chart projection and decide to free up some room on their 40-man roster by bringing Hoscabec to life ... but could, for some arbitrary reason, only choose the best aspects from each player instead of adding them together ... would they have an everyday quality first baseman or would they still need to bring in another one?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I think if they just chose all the Casas parts they'd have a decent starting 1B

with upside

Jake Alu

12:08

Who am I?

Dan Szymborski

12:09