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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 10/25/21

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Didace

3:09

Pitchers in the past may have had to ability to throw as hard as today on occasion, but they also couldn't do it as consistently as today's pitchers.

Ben Clemens

3:09

100% this

TomBruno23

3:09

Anyone wanna guess the only hall of famer to have played for both the Braves and the Astros?

Ben Clemens

3:09

Chat can fire some in here, I'm going to assume that this is some guy who I thikn of mainly with one or the other team

did Joe Morgan play for the Braves sometime and I forgot it?

3:10

He did not

James

3:10

Eddie Mathews. Hit his 500th HR during his brief Astros stint

TomBruno23

3:10

There you go, James. 1968 World Series Champion, Eddie Matthews.

Ben Clemens

3:10

Good work James!

Appa Yip Yip

3:10

The thing of it is that the ceiling of the elite players hasn't gone up by nearly the amount of the floor of the regular players.

Ben Clemens

3:10

This is a REALLY good way of putting it

Standardization of training benefits the rank and file a lot more than it does the crazy standouts

Alex Anthopoulos

3:11

On a scale of 1-10, what's your level of alarm regarding the lockout and the 2022 season?

Ben Clemens

3:11

8.5

It's easy to forget about it when the playoffs are going on but I'm really worried

Mark

3:12

Does anyone really know what the Rockies are trying to do? Not even the Rockies know what the Rockies are trying to do.

Ben Clemens

3:13

Too true

TomBruno23

3:13

LIDOM begins on Wednesday. Hopefully with fans in the stands. This is exciting.

Ben Clemens

3:13

Now we're talking

Re: CBA

3:13

No deal means an indefinite delay for the winter meetings? Of course teams will still be able to communicate, no?

Ben Clemens

3:13

That's correct, though winter meetings are not really for teams to communicate anymore

3:14

Or maybe they are, for teams to communicate in person at least

But a lot of them are for vendors, job seekers, that kinda stuff

They're a blast, too, don't get me wrong

But yeah, the meetings will definitely not happen if there's a work stoppage

Bret

3:14

Has the COVID season and the hit to revenue for owners made it more or less likely that we see a work stoppage in 2022?

Ben Clemens

3:15

I'd say less, but not by a ton. Most teams did lose money in 2020

But they have reserves, and they've been making record revenue (and profits before reinvestment) for years

And they have the ability to borrow against their astronomical enterprise values

3:16

So I think that some owners will feel pressure to keep things going due to short-term financial stress, but there aren't a lot of owners left who aren't thinking about this in the big-picture, longterm PV standpoint

And from that standpoint, COVID is kind of irrelevant to absolutely sticking it to the players and leaving no stone unturned in revenue maximization

So my guess is that they'll still play hardball

3:17

Alright, gonna do a quick lightning round before I stop for lunch, we meal prepped some Portuguese rice last night and I'm anxious to try it

Appa Yip Yip

3:17

These older baseball players swung slower with janky mechanics of course it felt like the guys were tossing 110

Ben Clemens

3:17

Yeah, that's certainly part of it

Tom

3:17

Where does Shildt land?

Ben Clemens

3:17

San Diego seems too easy.... but it's a lightning round, so San Diego

TomBruno23

3:17

How about a FG Fantasy Camp where us schlub chat posters can spend a weekend living the live of a FG scribe?

Ben Clemens

3:18

Depends on how you feel about watching a ton of baseball and parsing through leaderboards

Or, if you're David Laurila, doing awesome interviews with baseball players

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