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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 9/16/21

Dan Szymborski

12:03

And happy Thursday!

The last 9/16/21 of your lifetime.

Dansbee

12:04

Dank Schwindel

Dan Szymborski

12:04

Dank Frank Schwindel or Dank Dizzy?

The Great Giambino

12:05

I have been having an intense argument with my friend and need your take: is a taco a hotdog and therefore a sandwich?

Dan Szymborski

12:06

The Great Giambino

12:06

The Cardinals are now leading the NL wild-card race?? How the hell did that happen?! I am confusion, ZIPS explain

Dan Szymborski

12:06

The competition has been very unimpressive and the Cards have just plugged away this summer

Since mid-June, they've only had two three-game losing streaks

12:08

Plus the pitching has been really solid

It's really been solid every month but June (and June is their only losing calendar month, I think)

TomBruno23

12:08

Do you think Impossible Sliders is an appropriate way for me to break my fast tonight? Asking for myself.

Dan Szymborski

12:08

I don't trust food that lies about the probability

12:09

I would more trust the Unlikely Burger or the Suprisingly Plausible Burger

Tacoby Bellsbury

12:09

Precisely noon, my ass.

Dan Szymborski

12:09

There was still attendance even though I was a minute late!

I was checking the smoker outside

12:09

With ZIPs as your guide, will Jose Altuve become a hall of famer?

Dan Szymborski

12:09

I think from a performance standpoint, he'll get there

12:10

Whether he gets into the Hall, it remains to be seen just how writers treat the Astros

HEY THIS IS A TRICK TO GET ALTUVE CAREER ZIPS WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ARTICLE

12:12

ZiPS has him with 14 yet

which puts him in the borderline for WAR. Also 2700 hits.

Which makes it interesting

Because for a player on the edge, those issues can matter even for the most forgiving.

12:13

If Bonds were a borderline candidate, his positive amphetamine test in 2006 may have put me into the no column.

In a theoretical world, of course, in which Bonds wasn't an inner-circle HoFer and I got my vote before 2025.

Guest

12:13

Who does ZIPS have as the wild cards?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Yankees and Jays

Dansbee

12:13

what non baseball websites do you reguarly visit?

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Lot of computer tech and gaming stuff

the usual reddit and youtube like most people

12:14

I'm on Tom's Hardware a lot, I enjoy helping walk people through their custom PC builds

TomBruno23

12:14

Free MILB.TV rest of the season means I need a Daily Zips Post on what games I need to target on the app. Please and thank you.

Dan Szymborski

12:14

oh god!

Legazy

12:14

Do you think about whether Zips will be used/useful 5, 10, 15 years after you choose to / are no longer able to run it?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

Haven't really given it much thought

12:15

Après moi, le déluge and all that

Depends how much baseball changes

12:16

Besides, we know baseball ends in 2042

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