

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about new options for supporting FanGraphs and a potential plan to play the 2020 season with a radically realigned league structure, then talk to FanGraphs writer and ZiPS projection system proprietor Dan Szymborski about how a shortened or canceled season would affect projections for 2021, whether players would exceed or fall short of their projections after a long layoff, how a canceled season could impair player development, how returns from injuries, strength of schedule, and fewer games could help or hurt certain teams in 2020, tactics and roster strategies that could be beneficial in a shortened season, whether Statcast has improved projections, doing away with divisions, the appeal of streaming/esports in the absence of traditional sports, the MLB The Show players tournament, and how projecting baseball is different from projecting pandemics.

Audio intro: The Mountain Goats, "This Year"

Audio outro: The Strokes, "Ode to the Mets"

Link to FanGraphs financial update

Link to FanGraphs membership page

Link to FanGraphs gift membership page

Link to FanGraphs donation page

Link to realignment report

Link to Rob Arthur on uncertainty

Like to Matt Trueblood on shortened-season tactics

Link to Dan on playoff odds changes

Link to Dan on healing teams

Link to Dan on embracing weirdness

Link to Ben on esports

Link to Hannah on simulated seasons

Link to MLB The Show league

Link to Mets broadcasters calling MLB The Show

Link to FiveThirtyEight on modeling COVID-19

Link to Dan’s COVID-19 Twitter thread

Link to order The MVP Machine

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