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Ben Clemens

2:12

or well, I'm not musing that he was injured

he had surgery after the year

Guest

2:13

How does this upcoming J15 class compare to previous years classes? Who are some names we should look out for?

Ben Clemens

2:13

Not really my area of expertise, but I bet you Eric Longenhagen woul dhave ansers for you

Guy

2:13

Is Matt McLain's time in the infield over? Should he be valued as an OF moving forward?

Ben Clemens

2:13

We're gonna have to see in spring training

I'm very surprised that this is the way they're going, they must have really strong views on the likelihood of injury aggravation

2:14

because he was an excellent defender in the infield. Maybe they think he'll be spectacular in the outfield too but I'm a bit confused

Booney

2:14

Do you think the Yankees regret adding Bellinger during their post-Soto frenzy of moves? Bregman and Alonso are still available and it seems pretty likely at least one of those guys would’ve gone to NYY for a similar AAV and not too many years. Perhaps even on Fried, too, it feels like the Yankees misjudged just how robust free agent demand would be a little further down in the market.

Ben Clemens

2:14

why?

like... they could just sign someone else and put Bellinger in the outfield

they literally got him for free

2:15

I guess that would move Dominguez? or like, maybe Stanton loses a efw DH AB's? But I'm just kinda confused here

ah sorry

brain freeze here

they already got Goldy and Bellinger is gonna play center

so now I'm even a little more confused by your question

2:16

it's not like they can't sign Bregman, and if anyone's making Alonso worse, it's Goldschmidt

Matt

2:16

Hey Ben, love these chats! I was reading the Mets ZIPS projections and Brett Baty is getting a decent amount of love, looks like he's projecting for about 2 WAR. is there anything in his profile that indicates why? He's looked great in AAA at times, but has looked lost three straight seasons at the MLB level

Ben Clemens

2:16

Probably a question for Dan Szymborski, but ZiPS has consistently loved Baty

Bencle Mens

2:16

What is OOPSY

Ben Clemens

2:16

There is an article about this coming out soon

prono

2:16

How crazy is it to think that Kristian Campbell might just be better at baseball than Alex Bregman right now and the red sox really don't need to give bregman 7/175 or whatever ... ? Bregman had a .315 obp last year...

Ben Clemens

2:16

So, two separate questions

2:17

how crazy is it to think that campbell would outperform Bregman in the majors this year? Definitely crazy

I'm not saying it can't happen, but that's very clearly not an even odds bet

2:18

Bregman's offensive production was 18% above average last year and didn't look wildly fluky. That'd make him one of the best regulars on the 2024 Red Sox, who notably employ Kristian Campbell and didn't call him up

2:19

Also I think the Sox might need Campbell in left or at second

I guess my point is that I'm not in love with the idea of Bregman to the Sox because I don't know how it'd go with moving Devers, but I don't think it's a case of blocking someone

Bosoxforlife

2:19

Do you think the Red Sox are the favorites for Bregman? I keep having this dream of him playing 3rd, Devers moving to 1st and the team putting Casas and Rafaela and a middling prospect in a package for a solid player or pitcher.

Ben Clemens

2:19

I think they probably are the favorites if Devers is into it

2:20

I'm just not sure he is, I guess we'll see

Casas is a very interesting case. I like hijm quite a bit but he hasn't really produced

so I dunno what he'd be able to get in trade, but like, I do like him

Bill Lumbergh

2:20

What program/language do you utilize for databases?

Ben Clemens

2:20

In this case, I'm setting up a sql database of my own (i generally just read data from teh FG database) for a project I'm doing

but normally Python

Roman

2:21

How much of the Padres off-season depends on Roki's decision? Would his decision to take his talents to SoCal mean they double down on the roster? Conversely, without him do they do a mini rebuild by trading off the expiring contracts?

Ben Clemens

2:21

Yeah, this sounds right to me

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