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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 11/29/21

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Ben Clemens

3:30

If your love involves you scremaing at the top of your lungs about your team's mismanagement when they lose, I imagine it might be rough on your blood pressure

Spleebs

3:31

Seems like the Gausman/Ray contracts are in the same ballpark (not including the opt-out which is really valuable to Ray, of course). If you were the Jays and had a pick of either Gausman/Ray with the (preliminary) terms out in the open, which would you take given their needs/team configuration

Ben Clemens

3:31

I'd take Ray, but look, I'm just gonna have to continue pointing out that I'm low on Gausman

I don' think that's necessarily how a team should act if they disagree with me on that

Appa Yip Yip

3:32

Kind of like how the Ray/Gausman stuff worked out for the Jays. They get a comparable pitcher, no opt out, and a draft pick from the QO. Getting two extra picks next year frees them up to deal prospects to say ... Oakland for a pitcher and a third baseman? Manaea or Bassitt with that rotation would be awesome.

Ben Clemens

3:32

The QO kicker is nice

That's a reason to like the way they did it for sure

Sonny

3:33

A big part of me wants the Mets to run wild next year and force the discussion back to, "teams make truck loads of cash and the best way to get championship tier good is to write checks for the finishing touches."

Ben Clemens

3:33

I think it would be interesting. I do wonder how they're going to fill out their pitching depth, which remains a position of worry

gorga

3:33

What in the world is LAA even doing at this point? I'm convinced they're actually satisfied with Thor and Lorenzen as their big pitching adds and we're getting another year of no Trout/Ohtani in the playoffs. I've never gotten this mad about a team I'm not even a fan of!

Ben Clemens

3:34

I'm with you

Alright, I'm going to call it a chat and go back to writing about Gausman for tomorrow

3:35

Thanks a ton to everyone who hung out with me today, though I'm EXTREMELY disappointed that baseball was so busy we didn't have time to talk about Italy and Christmas present suggestions

I'm counting on everyone here to make up for it in next week's chat.

Have a wonderful week everyone, and may your life boom like Avisail Garcia's free agency market

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