JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/11/21

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/11/21

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Ben Clemens

3:40

Them not picking up a shortstop at the deadline was surprising

Lash

3:40

Crystal ball me. Rank these teams in 2025. Pirates, Diamondbacks, Orioles

Ben Clemens

3:40

DBacks, O's, Orioles

Wasn't super sure on DBacks/O's

Whoops, that should have Pirates third

But sick burn not ranking them at all, yeah that's definitely what I intended...

Chris

3:40

He might stay a Dodger, but if he's available do you think the yankees would be more likely to target seager than correa both because of the history and for the lefty bat?

Ben Clemens

3:40

Sure, but I don' thikn the history matters so much

jaysfan9293

3:40

jays moves this offseason? they're in a weird spot at the moment with on one hand their core set and a 40-man crunch looming, but on the other a thinnish farm and shaky depth / bullpen - is their best move to spend rogers' money to paper their issues or try and trade off their fringier pieces for improvements (up to and potentially including cavan biggio and lourdes gurriel jr)?

Ben Clemens

3:41

Some mixture. I don't think trading Biggio is the way to go, I think with Semien leaving they need him

Chester Arthur

3:41

Pitchers stand ~53 feet away from these guys mashing 110+mph line drives… if someone can calculate the odds of Randy Johnson exploding a bird in flight, surely we can determine what the odds are of a pitcher getting a linedrive hit at his head is without time to react. I’m growing less and less optimistic baseball will protects pitchers until something terrible happens (I know Eric shares my opinion that something terrible already has happened more than once this year), but I’d be curious what the odds being reckoned with are, and am realizing this is a shameless request for an article on the topic.😬

Ben Clemens

3:41

Terrifying, I wish they wore those goofy hats

>this guy<

3:41

kung pao chickpeas? this is 'merica, bub!

Ben Clemens

3:41

And what's more American than taking some other culture's food and putting a spin on it?

Lash

3:42

Does Greinke get the Wainwright treatment this offseason? Or is he still in demand?

Ben Clemens

3:42

Similar treatment. Age came for him

chilly

3:42

so frustrating that az keeps giving pt to asdrubal, peralta, etc almost equal to that of rojas, varsho and other youngsters. can u think of any logical reason theyre doing this? ive tried and im stumped

Ben Clemens

3:42

Just to have some semblance of competition, but yeah, I dunno, I'd like to see more of Varsho

Appa Yip Yip

3:42

Canned or dried?

Ben Clemens

3:43

Canned, but coated in corn starch and pan fried

Alright, have a great day everyone, and I'll talk to you all next week.

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