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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/11/21

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Mike

3:05

Who's the "Blender Team" staff ace? Danny Duffy? Matt Boyd? ugh.

Ben Clemens

3:05

Oh I like Pittsburgh's pitching

Musgrove is the ace, I'm interested in Keller in general

Marquez is good

Duffy and Boyd might not have spots in my rotatoin

3:06

We project the Pirates for more WAR out of their starters than the Cubs, DBacks, Giants, and Cardinals

Just to pick some marginally interesting teams out of a hat

Appa Yip Yip

3:06

If you still have all your hair Mookie is balding a little. Technically he is mortal.

Ben Clemens

3:06

Always looking out for me, I appreciate it

NashvilleSounds

3:07

If the new CBA did away with up front contracts and everyone got paid for their war or wpa or whatever at years’ end, with some base salary for injury time, would the gains to younger players outweigh the losses for older players? Or would the dollars spent just balance out? The players would have less long term certainty as they age but would also get their $$ to invest way sooner.

Ben Clemens

3:07

It would depend on what number you put on it, but assuming it evens out, I think it would be a way better system for everyone

Er, maybe not better for owners, to be honest

3:08

Imagine planning a budget and then your team rips off a 100-win season (or worse, you underperform your BaseRuns by a ton but the payouts are based on WAR)

Tacoby Bellsbury

3:08

How many more bottom-feeders would you have to throw in to get the NL West then? Mariners? Rockies?

Ben Clemens

3:08

The NL West is just hard. The Dodgers have three different players who are better than anyone on any of these teams

3:09

Same with the Padres, I think

Re: Nats

3:09

It seems to me, any system that seeks to properly compensate younger players, at the expense of over-compensating veterans, is gonna screw over a generation of players about to hit free agency. Does that keep it from ever getting done?

Ben Clemens

3:09

Yeah this is the big sticking poin

Initial conditions matter

3:10

I agree with you that that generation would be in the donut hole. I'm not sure if it prevents something from getting done, but I tihnk that the PA would need to provide some concessions to them from other existing players

Which might be tricky to work out

3:11

Okay, today was more of a lightning round chat. I think I hit my normal volume of questions answered in a compressed time, but now I'm off to hvae some leftover roast chicken for lunch and finish an article that makes me sad (more reasons that stolen bases aren't as good as people think)

Have a great day, everyone

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