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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/11/24

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Mary Kate Olsen

2:58

MARY. KATE. OLSEN.

Guest

2:59

After listening to Ben Lindbergh on Effectively Wild, I hear all of your chat comments in my head in his voice. Totally weird, or perfectly normal?

Ben Clemens

2:59

Totally normal

I hear a lot of things in Ben's voice, I've been listening to EW for a decade at this point

Princess Leia

2:59

Who TF is Mary Kate Olsen?

Ben Clemens

2:59

Oh right, you're not from around here

Alderaan didn't get Full House reruns?

Nats Fan

3:00

a few teams could still use a solid Dh. JD Davis will find a home.

Ben Clemens

3:00

Yeah there's no question of him not finding a job somewhere. It's all about the salary

when you're looking at his risk/reward

Darryl Vanilla

3:00

Have you tried Forbidden Jungle yet?

Ben Clemens

3:00

No but I'm absolutely going to. I really liked Desert and Island

Princess Leia

3:00

Spring training, and all that.. but my goodness, Luis Gil's fastball looks sensational today

GraphsFan

3:00

How often do you sit down to watch / observe / scout a full game? Do you skip around games via MLB.tv? Or do the box scores + Baseball Savant + Twitter tell you everything you need to know?

Ben Clemens

3:01

I'm not a scout. I do watch a ton of games, though

an entire game? Eh, maybe not THAT often, I do like to flit around

I also go to a lot of Giants games during the season

I get a lot of info from box scores, savant, and twitter, that's for sure. But particularly for writing Five Things, you have to be watching the game, not just seeing a box score

so many of those "things" are little observations rather than scoreline stats

Greg

3:02

"5% of people that go to arb" doesn't seem like the correct way to think about it though. I can look at the average probability of being attacked by a shark but that does not consider whether my client is a surfer or a landlocked 80 year old. But I do know that about my client, or I should.

Ben Clemens

3:02

Right, yeah, I'm not saying that the answer is obviously one way or another. But I don't think it's as easy as saying 'eh 350k is nothing, get a guarantee'

Jake S

3:02

If you could get everyone at FanGraphs together for one game night, what would you pick? I played Blood on the Clocktower for the first time this weekend and I feel like Dan's energy would have been incredible.

Ben Clemens

3:02

hmmmmmm

3:03

oh man, I'm looking at my board game shelf and I have a great idea. Rush MD. It's real-time based and there's a lot of yelling which sounds perfect for hijinks

Tim

3:03

Orioles prospect not named Jackson Holliday who is going to have the biggest impact this season?

Ben Clemens

3:03

Westburg if he still counts

Mayo otherwise

Wigglebot23

3:03

Is there any merit to the idea that rest weakens top teams in the Division Series? Or is it just a fluke?

Ben Clemens

3:03

Dan and I both wrote about this last year and neither of us found anything

we used extra-rest games going back a long time

3:04

Wild Card era, maybe?

wheelhouse

3:04

more likely: the yankees suddenly believe adding Snell is worth adding 210% of whatever his market rate is to their payroll plus tax bill, or hal steinbrenner says "Oh thank god, an excuse to suck! What a relief!" and trades Soto et al

Ben Clemens

3:04

I mean, Soto is just not getting traded

Krusty

3:04

Let’s say a club decided to select and develop its starting pitchers for endurance and durability — they want to create a new crop of Workhorses. The goal would be at least 00s types of workloads(Halladay/Johnson/Sabathia, etc., 35ish GS, 250+IP, 7-10+ CG) and, ideally, more like 80s-90s levels.

A series of interrelated questions: do you think it *could* be done in the modern game? Would it just be the old process of picking Big Strong Guys and then seeing which arms survive getting slagged? Would it work? Would any of those pitchers be any good?

Ben Clemens

3:04

I think it might work but that you'd blow out a lot of arms around the way. One thing I'm not sure about is whether they'd really be able to get guys to buy in on not being max effort