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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/23/20

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Ben Clemens

2:54

What's not to love?

Also you can pay whatever price you can afford, which is appreciated in these tough times.

TheDude

2:55

Who is the AL MVP in 2025? Wander Franco, Jarred Kelenic, Joey Gallo, Gleyber Torres, Joe Adell, Luis Robert?

Ben Clemens

2:55

Uh, gimme Trout?

Like, Franco is awesome and all.

2:56

But Mike Trout is great!

And he'll be 33/34 that year, not truly past his peak

I don't know if you guys have seen the MLB the Vault game

2:57

https://www.mlb.com/the-vault

But it's pretty fun

I might write an article about it at some point, just because look, being a baseball writer with no baseball is not exactly easy.

2:58

But I took Trout for a lot more things than I probably should have, because he could lap the field by so much in the first half of the decade that the second half doesn't matter.

Nick

3:00

If you placed bets on teams' preseason over/under win totals, are those bets just totally off now? Or are the "unders" looking really good?

Ben Clemens

3:00

Hm, I think it depends on where you placed them?

3:01

I will tell you that I had a terrible gambling bad beat when I bet on the 2016 Cubs over

Had a 'All 162 games must be played for action' rider on the ticket.

And they weirdly played only 161 that year

Because they won by so much and couldn't schedule a makeup game.

Oof.

3:02

My guess would be that everything is off.

But it will depend heavily on your local regulations and rules.

Scott

3:02

If MLB does not have a 2020 season, are the Reds the biggest loser amongst the 30 teams? Akiyama, Moustakas, Miley, and Castellanos are all at or past their primes, and the contracts given to those four don't look nearly as good if the Reds don't get productive 2020 seasons from them.

Ben Clemens

3:02

Hm.

I don't think so?

Let's take a look at average ages by team.

Derek

3:03

I would imagine all bets are off at any reputable sportsbook...

Ben Clemens

3:03

Haha yes that's what I was dancing around. I dunno who everyone gambles with.

3:04

But if you've placed it with a real company, the odds are like 100% that it'll be off.

Alright annoyingly the easiest one for me to find right now is 2019.

But that would have the Nats, A's, Astros, Cubs, Graves, and Yankees as the oldest teams

3:05

Obviously everyone trying to win this year is hurt more by not having a season.

Braves*

But all of those teams are contenders.

The Reds are surely up there, but you know, make the whole league a year older and lots of teams get worse.

Nolan

3:05

Are the Braves really SO old you called them the “Graves”?

Ben Clemens

3:05

More fraught than usual at the moment!

3:06

But honestly, I'm surprised to see the Braves there? I think of them as a young team

Maybe I'll weight age by playing time for an article.

While we're on the topic of article ideas

I have a question for you, chat.

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