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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 1/25/21

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Ben Clemens

3:23

My mother-in-law got me Taverns of Tiefenthal for Christmas (a board game about drinking beer? amazing!)

And after we played it a few times and wanted to put it on the shelf.... we didn't have the shelf space

3:24

The biggest problem with board game collecting is that you can't stop

Dee Arby

3:24

What does Ben Clemens register on the speed pitch at the ballpark?

Ben Clemens

3:24

probably

I have never had much of an arm

3:25

if you wanted a player comp for my college intramural softball league I'd be James Loney

scaled way down

BABIP-y first baseman

Steve O

3:25

How much do you think Rosenthal will cost? Seems like he'd be a big upgrade in the Yankees pen. Maybe around what Yates got?

Ben Clemens

3:25

I think he'll cost less than what Yates got

3:26

And yeah, I think he'll be a bargain at that rate

But I don' see the Yankees doing it

Lucas

3:26

Do expanded playoffs benefit free agents? Wouldn't a lower win threshold to get in incentivize the projected 75 win team to spend on FA more than under the current 10 team system?

Ben Clemens

3:26

Yeha but it would disincentivize the 80-win team from spending

3:27

I find it almost inconceivable that it would help unless teams started giving huge financial payouts to teams who made the playoffs

Okay, a few quick hitters and then I'm out of here

Both about baseball writing, as it turns out, and both probably from the same person

Guest

3:27

Out of curiosity do you read all the stuff published by the other writers at Fangraphs?

Ben Clemens

3:28

Depends on the day but mostly yes

I got into writing baout baseball b/c of how much I loved reading about baseball

So unless I'm just completely swamped with work, for sure

It's also a great way to get ideas

Guest

3:28

Of all the non-fangraphs MLB writers, whose work do you like to read the most?

Ben Clemens

3:29

I'll just quickly say that I read a lottttt of other baseball stuff and think that there are a ton of great writers out there doing interesting work

But favorite? I think it's Tom Tango, b/c I admire his ability to frame questions so well

3:30

A Tango Tiger blog almost always means you're in for a treat if you're into that kind of thing, and it's very much something I enjoy

On that note, I'm out of here

Have a great week, everyone, and I don't know, some generic platitude

May all your days be good ones, bam, there

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