JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 12/7/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 12/7/20

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Andoru

2:42

Where do you think Tomoyuki Sugano lands and how do you see him performing in the bigs?

Ben Clemens

2:43

I personally don't have a great feel for it

However, Eric did a board update with reports and scouting grades and such on everyone who might come over

Which you can find here:

https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/international-players/su...

Reader

2:43

Favorite baseball book?

Ben Clemens

2:43

Probably Dollar Sign on the Muscle, I just found it fascinating

2:45

If we're going for more of a good writing style thing, something by Roger Angell

Guest

2:45

Do you see the Rays trading Adames once Franco makes to the big league team? Or will they try to move one of them to another position?

Ben Clemens

2:45

I see them trading him, because I think he's kind of a weird fit at third

But that'd be the other option

Scout

2:45

How young is too young for a kid to start getting scouted

Ben Clemens

2:46

This is probably more of a question for Eric, but I'll try to answer it anyway.

Actually, eh, no I won't

Changed my mind

I find the hwole process of scouting high schoolers weird perios

Period*

So I'm the wrong person to ask

64 Slices of American Cheese

2:46

Play Demon's Souls, Ben. It took me 9 hours to beat the tutorial boss, but by golly is it pretty

Ben Clemens

2:46

Hard to disagree with that ringing endorsement

2:47

But seriously that's my next game most likely

Sam

2:47

Cards likely to look at Ha-Seong Kim? A lot cheaper than Lindor and could bring some pop with room left for Joc and save the prospects

Ben Clemens

2:47

I don't think so. Seems weird to move DeJong off of short for a maybe

Jake

2:47

Mets fan here. Is it right to be very concerned with George Springer's aging and potential fit on the mets. He is a year + older than bauer and realmuto and would be kicking nimmo or conforto out of a corner next year and thee OF defense would still not be great. Meanwhile I think SPs age much better and a realmuto being a year younger and a catcher will also age better and thus rank them: realmuto > bauer > springer

Ben Clemens

2:47

I rank them that way, but I don't see a problem with people who have Springer higher

2:48

I'm not an infallible arbiter of defensive value, and I definitely don't have all the data that teams do

Springer does seem like a weird fit for the Mets, to me personally, but if they sign him, they clearly disagree with me on that

Chatter

2:48

Would puig be a good fit in miami?

Ben Clemens

2:48

Yeah, I like that. They really need outfielders

Johnny5Alive

2:49

Given his struggles in NY last time, should the Mets look into Sonny Gray? They need pitching. And with the Reds tipping their hand that they are trying to unload salary, what would a return be?

Ben Clemens

2:50

Hm, he's ont he books for basically 2/20, which would be a crazy bargain. Maybe Dom Smith plus a prospect? Even if the Reds are trying to unload salary, they'll have leverage, Gray is a good pitcher who many teams will want

But I'm not good at making up trade returns on the fly so, eh

Sam

2:50

You think Dejong has more truly solid years ahead? I know Covid had an effect this year, but I never really bought into him as a consistent high producer

Ben Clemens

2:51

Let me put it this way: I'll take DeJong's 2021 production over Kim's straight up

Steamer seems to agree, they project DeJong for a 105 wRC+

2:52

I'm not saying he's a year-in year-out All Star but he's a nice player on a reasonable deal

Derek

2:52

Has Moneyball reached the point of being so popular that it's uncool for someone to call it their favorite? Michael Lewis is a great writer, and that book is fun and engaging in addition to all the groundbreaking, actual *moneyball* stuff. Not sure if it's my favorite either, but it's definitely up there!

Ben Clemens

2:52

I'd argue that it's fine to pick Moneyball as long as you're not picking it for the OBP stuff

2:53

My biggest beef with that book is that everyone looks at the things Beane did as the lesson

'hunt for OBP, ignore scouts'

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