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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 2/7/22

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Ben Clemens

2:36

Really into Vargas, but I like Busch quite a lot too

Appa Yip Yip

2:36

How many of Oakland's starters do you see them actually trading away? They do need some players left to haul innings.

Ben Clemens

2:37

Yeha, like..... two?

171

2:37

Can you believe that KLaw ranked my favorite team's farm system at the number that he did?

Ben Clemens

2:37

Offensive, right?

Can't believe Keith would do that to me

It's even worse for me b/c he ranks board games too

2:38

So he can get me on multiple axes

Jesse

2:38

The typical fantasy player has about the knowledge and skills of a GM in what year?

Ben Clemens

2:38

I think that's harsh to GM's

2:39

But if you mean statistical/player projection knowledge, it's probably in the 21st century

Grant

2:39

Is it just me, or are "anti-pro-owner-fans" fans more abundant than "pro-owners" fans?

Ben Clemens

2:39

There's somewhat of a selection bias here. Like, I mostly think that, but I talk to people about baseball who mostly agree with e

me*

2:40

Not on baseball things, but like, about life in general

I associate with people who are like me, at least relative to the proportions of those people int he world as a whole

Like, readers of FanGraphs are probably MEANINGFULLY less pro-owner than the average baseball fan

Ryan

2:40

Which would make baseball worse, adding one position player on the field or removing one?

Ben Clemens

2:40

Adding, and it's not particularly close

2:41

Lower BABIP more?

hard pass

removing a fielder is basically upping BABIP

it might be too much.... but adding a fielder just sounds miserable

Roger

2:41

MLB and MLBPA must at LEAST agree on the universal DH. It is pretty much unanimously good for everyone.

Ben Clemens

2:42

I'm starting to think there's some chance of a delayed implementation

Just because we're getting down to brass tacks timing-wise, and NL teams might not have the easiest time wrangling a DH

but yes, I think it will almost certainly be in the final agreement

Insert Witty Name Here

2:42

Predicting the future is a fools game, and being the fools that we are, let’s predict.

dammit I didn’t finish my witty question: what does baseball look like in 20 years ?

Ben Clemens

2:44

I think.... hmmm

Chat, if you hvae any ideas, I'd love to hear them too

2:45

But I think the field will be differently shaped (I like Andrew Perpetua's idea of more fair territory by pushing the foul lines back sideways), there will be robo umps, and there will be some type of tiebreaking or game-speeding mechanism that everyone just accepts and likes

hombre

2:45

It'll be like Blernsball

Inaccessible Rail

2:45

Nothing but Ks and dingers.

Ben Clemens

2:45

I hope not, for the sake of any New New York Mets fans

171

2:46

An aspect of the lockout that I think isn't being considered enough is that the owners might not all be on the same page. I think there's a decent possibility that there exists a rift between owners and that could be playing into their lack of counter proposals and asking for a mediator.

Ben Clemens

2:46

I definitely think that's the case

the owners are not a unified front at all

not just in terms of their on-field spending but in terms of the extent of their non-baseball but baseball-adjacent revenue

the Cubs and Cardinals should be willing to concede a lot to get back on the field

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