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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/11/24

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Ben Clemens

2:13

It's cool, but I already have a good amount of bananas gear and Im' not a big fan of the Rocket as a person

]immaculate taste in last names, though, of course

bosoxforlife

2:13

O'Neil hit two scalding rockets in the first two innings yesterday and I still can't get enough of Elly. I will be doing a lot of channel switching to try to capture their AB's this season

Idiotic Failson

2:13

I've been hearing speculation that the potential Cole injury increases the chances of a Snell signing for the Yankees. Color me skeptical, I haven't seen any indication that they are interested in spending twice the amount required to secure his services. Do you agree?

Ben Clemens

2:14

I guess I covered this up above but I think it's reasonable assuming the Cole injury is serious

if it's not, I don't see it

2:14

o/u $40M guaranteed for Snell? (total, not AAV)

Ben Clemens

2:14

over

Quadzilla

2:14

for all the talent and hype around Strider, he gets hit hard way too much...is he more of Cease 2.0 with better ratios than Degrom?

Ben Clemens

2:15

I don't think that's quite right, but I have never been a big Strider-is-new-deGrom guy

People throw around deGrom comps so liberally

some scout said Cole Ragans was lefty deGrom, like wtf

2:16

deGrom has a career 2.53 ERA! Since 2018 it's 2.08! He's thrown 400 fewer innings than Gerrit Cole in that time and is 1.3 WAR behind him for first among all pitchders

like, just stop trying to say that pitchers who seem pretty good are the next deGrom, no one is

Refugee

2:16

Do you believe the Lunch Question Asker is one person or many people who wear the cowl?

Ben Clemens

2:17

I'm not gonna pull IP addresses and try to find out or anything, and I'm not even sure if I could. I like to think that it's one person largely but that should they falter, someone will step in

Zach

2:17

I just found out you worked for Goldman and Citadel. I'm curious if you have any links to discussions you've had about your previous work life and the work-life balance trade-off you experienced? Not to get into numbers, but presumably you left a lot of money on the table moving over to Baseball.

Ben Clemens

2:18

You know, I'm not sure I've ever had a good solid discussion of that, which means I should probably do that. Perhaps on FG Audio when we reboot, or maybe a one-off stream or something

2:19

So keep a pin in this, let's say, because I'm going to try to do something about it, but I'll give you a tl;dr

I greatly enjoyed working at both of those places, I really loved my coworkers and even management

2:20

I know a lot of people who have carried on doing it and been very happy. I thought my work-life balance was workable, even, and man do I love making numbers dance around and solving puzzles

I just wanted to do something different; I was already writing about baseball for free on a Cardinals blog, and I didn't quit specficially to work for FG by any means

in fact, I made up my mind to leave before the job I applied for here opened up

Do what you love and if you stop loving it, consider changing what you do would be my advice

2:21

but I really do want to talk more about it. some other time!

TomBruno23

2:21

Sign Michael Lorenzen depth for pitching and the inevitable Stanton breakdown.

Ben Clemens

2:21

Love it

TomBruno23

2:21

You are a St. Louis Cardinals season ticket rep...sell me on jumping on board for 2024.

Ben Clemens

2:21

Do you like Ozzie Smith?

Yes you do

Don't kid around

Come watch Masyn Winn, because his defense is going to be an absolute blast

2:22

And if there's another iconic shortstop in St. Louis, you want to be able to tell people that you were there when he broke in

Cardinals

2:22

With their banged up OF, do you see them signing Pham or Duvall?

Ben Clemens

2:22

ohhhh man, a Pham reunion would make me very happy

I don't think it's that likely, though, because I really don't feel that they're hurting for that level of outfield talent

and it's just creating a slightly-delayed logjam

2:23

I think it's more likely that they'll give minor leaguers some run. Look at how much they let Burleson play last year

Billy

2:23

Why did they have to hurt Noot. I am broken.

Ben Clemens

2:23

so sad

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