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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/3/22

Dan Szymborski

12:02

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Clark the Cub

12:02

This should be good.

Dan Szymborski

12:02

Nothing is good at the moment!

Zack

12:02

What is the best possible explanation for Gleyber Torres? It just doesn't make sense

Dan Szymborski

12:03

If Gleyber Torres doesn't make sense, you must acquit!

I guess the ideal possible explanation would be that he had a secret injury which magically healed this offseason

Northside

12:03

Pretend you live in a universe where teams make crazy trades. The Dodgers and Angels swap Betts and Trout, along with the players' long-term contracts. Who got the better end of the trade?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Trout

A's fans

12:04

Majority of fans: The owners are cheap and evil! Pay the players what they're worth!

Us: First time?

MilwaukeeBeerjays

12:04

Is it that I can't find anything with the new layout which honestly I don't love, but I don't see an article about Jeter stepping down?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I don't think we had one? It's possible that nobody felt that they had anything specifically different to say about it that wasn't already

And it happened at time so other stuff was happening!

Jefferson

12:05

What do you think the food selection was during their 16-hour negotiation marathon? Do you think they could have come to a deal if it was chilli instead?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

They should do negotiations like hot ones.

The wings get hotter and hotter until you make the deal.

And if you bow out, the other side gets their most recent offer implemented if they finish *their* wing

12:06

Help me feel something that isn't emotionally analogous to dropped french fries

Dan Szymborski

12:07

I don't!

That's the reference, BTW

Formerly interested in baseball

12:07

I canceled my MLB.tv subscription after the owners scuttled Opening Day. I'm not saying it's a big deal; it just dawned on me that I had better things to do than give money to these owners, especially the team I want to see is blacked out half the time, anyway. What I wonder is whether a lot of people feel the same way and if it makes any difference.

Dan Szymborski

12:07

It certainly puts me in a conflict of interest, since my current career is baseball related!

Scotty

12:07

Hey Dan, just wanted to request you and some other Fangraphs guys and gals do some MLB The Show sim game twitch streams during the lockout! Loved watching those in 2020.

Dan Szymborski

12:08

We might! I might then have to buy the most recent one. I hadn't because I'm still trying to snag a PS5.

Though that's on hold right now.

Matt

12:08

Any realistic reason to be optimistic that the CBA is signed by April? I'm clinging to anything I can at this point

Dan Szymborski

12:08

No.

The owners appear to be intransigent and TV money pressure isn't an issue until you lose 25 games or say

Clubby Stapp

12:08

With a 12 team playoff, shouldn't they go back to just east and west divisions?

Dan Szymborski

12:08

Yes

Thomas Bayes

12:09

Does ZiPS use pitch data (movement, release point, velo, extension, etc) in its estimations for pitchers? I feel like it would be useful for smaller samples

Dan Szymborski

12:09

SOME things. A lot of other stuff we're still working on squeezing out what's predictive and useful

Guest

12:09

If the evidence is strong that playing in Coors hurts players, is there anything that could be done to the Coors environment to mitigate this? Or is altitude altitude and nothing can be done?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think the humidor is as much as you can do without other issues popping up

Like you start changing the ball itself for high elevation, you start to possibly alter things awkwardly

12:10

And while that evidence is significant, the effect isn't *strong*

Jefferson

12:10

Zips going full scorched earth on Shewmake made me sad

Also Dan

12:10

I just saw your tweet about a salary cap and it's something I've been thinking of for a while now. The CBT is already basically a salary cap so does it make sense for the players to just embrace a cap at this point? At least when you have a salary cap you also have a salary floor and the cap is tied to total revenue so it will go up as revenue goes up. That's how it works in the NFL anyway, not sure about other leagues

Dan Szymborski

12:10

That's kind of my feeling.

12:11

If the players are already basically under a salary cap right now.

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