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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/11/21

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Ben Clemens

2:56

Let's say Trout and Betts

boring!

Guest

2:56

Is selectiveness a trait Rosario can still learn at this point?

Ben Clemens

2:56

Uhhhh.... qualified yes

I don't think he's going to turn into Carlos Santana out there

2:57

But I think that he has the kind of game that allows you to make gains by doing things like, say, just going up to the plate thinking take every time

He's displayed the ability to be a little patient before

Not for any lenght of time, admittedly

But I think a chance to play every day will help with that

Ben Clemens Replacement

2:57

I now have decided to have a chat every day!

Ben Clemens

2:57

Hm, good luck Ben Clemens Replacement

That sounds like a lot of work

Ben Katz

2:57

Where do you see George Springer ending up now in light of the Mets trade?

Ben Clemens

2:58

I'll go with the Blue Jays

Fun landing spot for him

They'll be an exciting team for years to come

Ben Clemens Replacement

2:58

I now have decided not to have a chat every day!

Ben Clemens

2:58

Hope I'm not this fickle in real life

Guest

2:58

Mets now have 4 players who will be free agents after this season - Conforto, Stroman, Syndegaard, and Lindor. How many do they re-sign?

Ben Clemens

3:00

Huh

Didn't realize Conforto had been up for so long

I expect them to re-sign 2.5 of them

Or well, that's my over under

3:01

I think Lindor is quite likely, Conforto is quite likely, Syndergaard and Stroman are both marginally unlikely

Guest

3:01

Will Carlos Martinez ever be good again?

Ben Clemens

3:02

I sure hope so!

One of my favorite players to watch pitch

I love that he just throws every pitch

Appa Yip Yip

3:02

If someone were to throw Mookie out of a car Mookie would simply busy out his hitherto unknown acrobatics expertise to land safely on the side of the road.

Ben Clemens

3:02

I guarantee you Mookie Betts is better than I am at correctly exiting a moving car

3:03

That said, I guarantee you he's better than me at pretty much everything

He's even my equal at being from Tennessee, the one thing I thought I might have on him

Tacoby Bellsbury

3:03

If you put the Pirates, Royals, Rangers and Tigers into a blender and skimmed the best 25 players off the top, could you win the NL West with that roster? (Providing, of course, that no overly important body parts got caught in the blade.)

Ben Clemens

3:03

Ugh, you answered my snarky response before I could even make it

Hmmmmm.... no

You could not

3:04

You might be able to win the NL Central

There just aren't any great players on any of those teams, unfortunately

If you threw the Rockies in, we could talk, but it's like

3:05

KeBryan Hayes, Gallo, some random Tigers, Whit and Mondesi...

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