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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/18/24

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Ben Clemens

2:11

Man, Noda already stepped up

BTinVT

2:12

Do you see Vientos reducing the strikeouts? Thanks

Ben Clemens

2:12

I don't

There's been a lot of discussion of this on Mets prospect Twitter, which I read b/c I read everything I can

He's been really overhyped compared to both pedigree and production

2:13

and I don't see a ton in the data that makes me think "oh this guy is just an adjustment away from a 15% k rate"

he struck out 29% of the time in Triple-A in 2022, 28% in AA in 2021

He's run colossal swinging strike rates at every level of the minors

2:14

I think this is just who he is

I mean, I don't think he's gonna keep posting such low batting lines, my guess is he'll hit for more power

but the strikeouts are just a core part of his profile

Well-Beered Englishman

2:14

Green beer. What other national celebration or holiday should have its own food coloring beer? Or is St Pat's one too many already?

Ben Clemens

2:14

red white and blue beer for the fourth of july

I'd be in for orange halloween beer I guess

Zach

2:14

Gavin Stone's changeup looked unhittable last night/this morning, albeit against a non-MLB professional team. Is he an average third-pitch away from being a middle-of-the-rotation starter? Reports claim he was tipping pitches last year too, which helps explain the drop in K rate at the big league level.

Ben Clemens

2:14

I think so

2:15

He looks pretty good to me and the whole 'one third pitch away from dominance' profile is one I'd like gambling on if I ran a team

Joe

2:15

NL only 5x5 roto final keeper spot mclain, suzuki or kim

Ben Clemens

2:15

McLain for me

I'm just a huge fan

2:15

Have your friends ever called you Ben Twain?

Ben Clemens

2:15

At the risk of getting mocked in the future, my middle name is Samuel and yes, people have definitely made jokes

Broseph

2:15

Who are this year's under-the-radar setup/holds guys without a defined role but undeniable skills (a la Duran or Clase a few years ago) ... ?

Ben Clemens

2:15

Phil Maton

Ben

2:15

Better fantasy shortstop this season: Bichette or Henderson? Next few years?

Ben Clemens

2:15

Gunnar

2:16

I think that people are underestimating the hit that Bichette's fantasy profile took when he started running less

Robert

2:16

Is 2024 the year Arenado finally gets his MVP.

Ben Clemens

2:16

I'm not feeling it, no

I feel like it needed to be 2022 if it was going to be ever

Guest

2:16

are you going to get up super early or do anything special for the game on Wednesday? I'm farther east than you so it won't be as big of a deal, but am planning to get up early and make chilaquiles!

Ben Clemens

2:17

I'm probably not gonna do anything special but I'll definitely watch

Christian

2:17

Chances Cole Ragans ends the year top 10 in War for Pitchers?

Ben Clemens

2:17

ooh good one

40%

bigredmach

2:17

is Jackson Jobe good enough to be a MLB SP5 right now?

Ben Clemens

2:17

I think so

Oakland Stroke

2:17

Do you think there exists any threshold of incompetence by Fisher & co. that would be impossible to spin/overcome, such that he would be pressured into selling the A's by the league & fellow owners (in the near term, not post-Vegasish)? Certainly it would be difficult to imagine a worse job being done in the PR dept up until now, so given the already-damning facts working against them I wonder if you could envision any circumstance that would make it infeasible for the others to continue to back his ambitions?

Ben Clemens

2:17

I think it'd have to be a series of really publicly embarrassing things that include some on-field goofs

2:18

like the team has a spate of injuries, so they call up some players, only Fisher puts them on commercial flights that get delayed so Ryan Noda has to pitch six innings

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