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

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 12/7/20

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Ben Clemens

3:16

Let's try this: I could see some teams thinking he's worse than Spencer Turnbull and some teams thinking he's meaningfully better

v2micca

3:17

I swear every Cub fan I talk to thinks that the fact that they gave up Torres for 3 months of Chapman is more than enough justification for some other team to give them 3 top quality prospects for an entire year of Bryant. Any thoughts on how to prep them for reality?

Ben Clemens

3:17

I think you just show them the Mookie Betts trade and ask whether they think Bryant is better than Betts

3:18

Not that he's WAY worse or a lock to be terrible or anything remotely approaching that

But I'd obviously take Betts, and his return wasn't 3 top quality prospects

Stevil

3:18

Am I wrong to think Oakland could be a dark-horse on Kim? Also curious if you're familiar with the extension pieces for Carcassonne, and if so, if you recommend them.

Ben Clemens

3:18

You are not wrong. That makes a lot of sense to me

3:19

As for Carcassonne, never played the extension pieces. The game is so well-implemented in the base version though that I assume a lot of thought has gone into the extensions (assuming the same developer published it)

Sean Huff-Scheidel

3:19

What are your top 3 Jackbox games? I've found Survive the Internet an underrated powerhouse

Ben Clemens

3:19

Okay, so, I don't know the names of all of them exactly, so bera with me

3:20

I like the Saw-esque one

I love Drawful

I've never played Survive the Internet, but I'm intrigued

Appa Yip Yip

3:20

The Jays are already rehabbing Robbie Ray on a year they want to contend don't see them grabbing another project in Boyd

Ben Clemens

3:21

That's definitely a consideration. I don't think Ray is as much of a project as Boyd, in that he was fine after going to Toronto and reverting to his old mechanics

But they'd have to think Boyd was really good to make that trade

I do not share that view, but certainly some analysts do

Paging Alex Fast :)

Derek

3:21

The Devils and the Details is so much fun with 8 friends. It's just total madness

Ben Clemens

3:21

At that point I'd be tempted to just play Among Us, but that's another Jackbox one I should still try

Andoru

3:22

What do you think a package for Snell would look like, coming from the Angels?

Ben Clemens

3:24

Uh, I can't think of one off the top of my head, to be honest. I see the Rays as wanting to get someone who they can use immediately in return, because it seems weird to trade Snell for future value only. That said, I probably wouldn't be trading Snell either, so maybe I'm thinking about it wrong

3:25

But would you trade Adell for Snell? Maybe! Snell has three years left at $13m per, more or less. That's crazy value for someone of his talent

And you know, specifically, that he's going to turn out to be Blake Snell. Your risk is the same as any player, injury and whatnot

3:26

Whereas Adell's risk is that he just doesn't pan out (he's 21 so it's way too soon to say obv)

Sean

3:26

Can you do an expansion draft?

Ben Clemens

3:26

Like, where we do a hypothetical expansion team? I'm not gonna rule it out but it sounds like a lot of work (figuring out hypothetical protections and stuff) in exchange for a small payoff

Guest

3:27

How valuable are the historic rights to Babe Ruth? If the Phillies traded Zach Wheeler to the Yankees in exchange for the historical narrative that Babe Ruth was traded from the Red Sox to the Phillies and the Phillies get all of his individual stats (but no additional World Championships) who comes out ahead? Can you imagine the number of red #3 shirseys you'd see in Philadelphia? He'd be an instant icon in the city!

Ben Clemens

3:28

Would this retroactively mess with people's brains to where they remembered Ruth as a Ted WIlliams-esque Phillie?

If so, wow, it'd be tremendously valuable

If it's just happening in the present dya, it's worth zero dollars imo

v2micca

3:28

I think it fair to say that Sean Newcomb could use a change of scenery. Which coaching staff do you think has the best chance of reviving his career?

Ben Clemens

3:29

I've really liked what Minnesota is doing with pitchers, but probably the answer is Tampa or Cincy

Just want to give a shout out to the Twins before going with chalk

Gonna head out in 5 minutes, so let's do a lightning round of questions where I give brief and poorly-thought-through answers

Fun!

ThanksTheo

3:29

Who are you more excited to root for this year: Financial Flexibility or Cash Considerations?

Ben Clemens

3:29

Financial Flexibility by a hair

Appa Yip Yip

3:29

Snell recently said he really didn't want to be traded, but did anyone think he was going to finish that contract in Tampa?

Ben Clemens

3:30

I did! It's so cheap that he could anchor it, and it doesn't escalate as much as I expected. If Kiermaier can do it Snell can too

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