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Ben Clemens

2:32

I don' tihnk it's likely, just more than 0%

hot take, I know

45 blows billygoats

2:32

Last year's exhibition season, Oracle Park closed the right field fence access which made for a different environment for hitters and pitchers. How does this factor in, if at all, to your projection for Giants players if they go back to keeping it open?

Ben Clemens

2:33

I'm not in charge of that, but I assume you just further weight down the 2020 results

Given that it's hard to do that systematically, you probably just let it be. But given that it made the park play more hitter-ish, you can shade everyone's productions down (in wOBA or ERA)

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

2:34

I know you're not big on accumulating kitchen gadgets, but we got an immersion circulator for the holidays, and wow, sous vide steaks are delicious and idiot-proof. Also makes for an impossibly juicy chicken breast. Thinking salmon next since minimizing albumin (the icky white stuff) has been a thorn in my side forever.

Ben Clemens

2:34

I've learned from Top Chef that salmon is tricky to get right in sous vide. That said, that's from a Top Chef from 2007 so maybe it's gotten easier since then

2:35

My wife is on a big bread baking kick that has toned down the rest of our cooking

Guest

2:36

Okay so FG Depth Charts has Boston as the sixth best team. Am I missing something?

Ben Clemens

2:37

Hm, I see them at 10th-best, but I don't know, we chop stuff up differently on different pages. I think what this reflects is how good we think the core of the team is, plus I think that Steamer is a smidge high on Alex Verdugo (just my opinion)

2:38

The thing is, though, they have enough great players that they can afford some holes and they'll still be competitive

It's a lot easier to have a good team when you start with Bogaerts and Devers

We also have Sale pitching 100 innings, so if you're lower there, that will also hurt

Magical Mangina

2:39

Soooo....no DH? For one, I am tired of the rules being used as political footballs in CBA talks. Hard for a GM to properly construct a roster without knowing the rules of the game, I would think.

Ben Clemens

2:39

It's indeed very frustrating. I hope they just do it

Morbo

2:39

I used sous vide for steaks for probably a year and a half but I have entirely converted to reverse searing my steaks. Season the place in a 200 to 225 oven until internal temp is roughly 10 degrees below your desired temp then sear in the hottest you can possibly get a cast iron for about 90 seconds (less if the cut is thin) a side. Feel free to butter baste while searing

Ben Clemens

2:39

Iiiiinteresting

I'm not much of a steak person, but that style makes sense

2:40

Also, instant read thermometers -- if you're cooking, buy one

They're so great

Appa Yip Yip

2:40

Brad Hand watching Captain Holt yell "Vindication!" on repeat for days.

Marc

2:40

With their newfound cap space, which pieces do you think the Yankees will go after? I assume they'll bring back gardner with something like 1/6, maybe with a team option, and they want/need bullpen help. Think they go after Rosenthal, or maybe a cheaper option like Kintzler, or perhaps an upgrade somewhere else for depth?

Ben Clemens

2:40

I'm thinking just Gardner. Spreading it out over many players feels like a weird thing given their 40 man situation

I think they'll audition various minor leaguers as relievers for hte first half of the season and make a trade if nothin works out

Ottavino #0

2:41

If the Mets really play JD Davis at 3B and Dom Smith in LF, opposing managers should start 9 RH hitters and tell them all to pull everything or you're benched.

Ben Clemens

2:41

I think that's too harsh to Smith

Probably appropriately harsh to Davis

2:42

Like, he's definitely not a good left fielder

But he's learning it on the fly and I think you can say with some conviction that he's a better outfielder than Davis

2:43

Statcast doesn't hate Davis's defense at third but uh, I do

5 is greater than 6

2:43

I'm not gonna even lie. I hate the 6-man rotation trend because this almost kills the 2 start week for fantasy baseball purposes. Tigers, Mariners, Angels - anyone else?

Ben Clemens

2:43

It sounds like the Padres are gonna goof around with it here and there

I think the Red Sox will when Sale comes back

Morbo

2:43

This just in: Its Monday

Ben Clemens

2:44

Disastrous news

furtive stan javier

2:44

Why is everyone projecting that Enrique Hernandez will play 2B in Boston? He's a capable CF, a much more demanding position, and there are many more 2B on the market (Villar, Miller, Santana, Hernandez, Wong, Schoop, La Stella, Cabrera, Lowrie, Kipnis, et al.)

Ben Clemens

2:44

Eh, just depends on who they sign. On their current roster, he's a 2B

2:45

Well, he's a super utility guy even then, b/c he's also kind of their fourth outfielder

But yeah, he can play a competent CF, I'd argue

major puig baseball

2:46

what do you think the end of the dodgers' offseason ends up looking like — turner and/or semien and that's it? that plus a reliever (rosenthal or ???)? something totally out of left field like getting another SP?

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