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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/9/20

David Roberge is

12:01

Fat

Dan Szymborski

12:01

Dan is too! We can have a club.

Domingo

12:02

Are Evan Longoria and Kris Bryant the same person?

Longoria and Bryant: well rounded third basemen, peaked early, face of franchise, similar stats when you compare age.

Dan Szymborski

12:03

Eh, I'm nto sure they're hte same.

Longoria had more glove

and Bryant's peak may have beenc omplicated by his injury

Derek Smalls

12:03

Have we received your thoughts on the sandwich-ness of a hamburger? Is a fried bologna sandwich a sandwich? If I sliced a hot dog in half, then lengthwise, and fried it and put it on a hot dog bun (like I may or may not have two days ago), is that then a sandwich? What is the difference between bologna and a hot dog? Would you eat a cold hotdog? These, and only these, are the important questions of the times.

Dan Szymborski

12:04

A hamburger is a sandwich, a bologna sandwich if it's between two bread slices is a sandwich

but if it's on a hot dog roll, it's not
a sandwich

And if you roll up bologna and then fry it and put it on a hot dog bun, it's not a sandwich

Sonny

12:04

How important are head to head splits and is there a # of PAs where you’d give weight to them?

Dan Szymborski

12:04

I've found little value

Far more than anyone has.

Dbo

12:04

Alright Dan, buckle up because I've got some hot salad takes coming today

12:05

Which of these do you consider a salad?

1) Caesar Salad
2) Fruit Salad
3) Wedge Salad
4) Pasta Salad
5) Chicken Salad
6) Taco Salad
7) Tuna Salad
8) Cobb Salad

Dan Szymborski

12:05

I was told on Twitter that ANYTHING is a salad

so yeah, anything ever is a salad

Hire Joe Morgan?

12:05

In a discussion last week it was proposed that temperature is a binary variable as regards salad construction. If you apply your structure/ingredient matrix in combination with an oscillating function, could you develop an accurate salad model?

Dan Szymborski

12:05

The question is hot salad just gross or is it necessary for the construction?