JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/24/22

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/24/22

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Ben Clemens

2:48

I kind of suck at actually playing it, but I watch a ton

2:49

I think it works a lot better for tennis than baseball, but my issue with the auto strike zone has never been whether players would argue with it

I do think it would be good at that, to be clear

2:50

I know that there are stories of people arguing with the umpires even with Trackman up, but nah

Over time they'd stop saying anything about it

It does work better in tennis where it's a comparably small part of the game, I think

Dan

2:50

Do any teams have better playoff chances with a shorter season or is it simply underdogs gain odds and favorites lose odds?

Ben Clemens

2:50

It's basically just th at

hamothy

2:51

Yeah was thinking whole salary, but Kimbrel is a little tricky to trade, bc it’s only contenders that want an expensive closer, and they don’t give up MLB contributors that also-contending CHW wants unless they have excess at a position like Toronto at C

Ben Clemens

2:51

Yeah I am more into it the more I think about it

It kind of makes sense that they n eed to target surplus somewhere

Guest

2:51

How do you think Carlson does this year. He seems like he has the basics down pretty nicely and could really put it all together. Cards outfield looks really well set up

Ben Clemens

2:51

Couldn't be any more hyped about him

2:53

I dunno if he's going to be a breakout type in 2022 but I was very encouraged by how quickly he figured it out in the majors

2:54

And I think that the Cards outfield is one of the best groups in the NL, which is kinda weird to say given how recently it seemed awful

Tom

2:54

Ben, appreciated your views on why you're not voting for HOF. On a sort of related note, if Scott Rolen goes into the Hall, this year or soon, do you think the Cardinals would retire his number and build a statue outside Busch Stadium for him? Thanks!

Ben Clemens

2:54

That was Ben Lindbergh

I am not a BBWAA member, in fact

Though I appreciate the bind he felt he was in

2:55

As to a statue outside Busch... I think they would do it

There are enough statues out there that a Hall of Famer who won a ring on the team should get one

Tom

2:55

Sorry, man! Too many Bens. My bad!

Ben Clemens

2:55

No worries at all

We are legion

Helmut

2:55

Dominic Smith: will he get another chance if there's a DH or is he done in NYM?

Ben Clemens

2:55

I'm leaning towards done

Slayer

2:56

Jose Barrero going to start for CIN this year or do they keep using Kyle Farmer?

Ben Clemens

2:56

I think they are going to keep using Kyle Farmer and I'm going to keep wondering why

2:57

Barrero deserves a shot imo

2:58

Farmer is good too!

But I think they can use him as more of a utility type and try to get Barrero established at short

Guest

2:58

Thoughts on combining a tennis style Hawkeye camera with an umpire? Hawkeye should be able to nail the “over the plate” aspect of the pitch, while the umpire can focus more on whether the pitch was in the zone vertically (which is harder to nail with Hawkeye).

Ben Clemens

2:59

My understanding is that Hawkeye doesn't have a huge problem with that assuming decent strike zone definitions, which they've been getting better at snapping. The bigger problem seems to be that it sometimes errors out on pitches right down the middle

Moog Powell

2:59

Ben, appreciated your willingness to both play and excel at many different positions for the '06 - '14 Tampa Bay Rays. You had some seasons that we're borderline MVP worthy and deserved more credit at the time.

Ben Clemens

2:59

I also wrote Poor Richard's Almanac and discovered electricty

I have range!

Appa Yip Yip

3:00

If you got beaned by a big league fastball how long would it take you to recover? I would simply cease existing.

laughing

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Ben Clemens

3:00

Uh yeah, I'd retire forever after one hit

one hit by pitch, rather

My recovery is not what it used to be an it was never particularly good lol

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