JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/23/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/23/20

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Ben Clemens

3:07

What weird nonsense should I do with our Brewers OOTP team?

I don't think the team is set up well for an opener necessarily.

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

3:07

Are Oaxaca switches still legal in OOTP?

Ben Clemens

3:08

Posting this largely because I like Oaxaca over Waxahachie as a term.

But uh, I actually have no clue given the 3 batter minimum change.

I'm going to look into weird in-game stuff, but my sense is that I'm going to have limited in-game control (it would be really tedious for both managers to have that)

Derek

3:08

I wish you could deploy "The Strategy" as discussed on Effectively Wild, but unfortunately I don't think that's possible to set up in OOTP simulation

Ben Clemens

3:09

Yeah I actually poked around to see if I could set that up. It seems that you cannot :(

You could do it if you were simming out each game pitch by pitch

But, given the way they simulate it I'm not sure you'd get the edge you want?

3:10

Trying to pick up an effect that's really hard to measure will probably not be measured in this simulation

3:11

A moment, please, for me to eat some lunch.

John

3:15

three teams that benefit from half year off: Nationals, astros, Yankees

Ben Clemens

3:16

Yeah, I think the Yankees are best set up for it.

3:17

Or rather, would benefit most.

3:18

Nats and Astros, yeah probably as well.

But also every longshot would benefit

Because they'd be more likely to spike the playoffs

Guest

3:20

posted this in the comments of your article, but I think we should try out *never* bunting!

Ben Clemens

3:21

Interesting. I need to look at the math of pitchers bunting, I'd guess given how badly they hit these days it makes sense

But sure we can try it!

Derek

3:21

Assuming there is baseball played this year (please please please please please...), is there anything in particular you want to see MLB experiment with (schedule/format-wise or anything else)? This year is also going to stand out as an extremely weird outlier no matter what, so it seems like a great opportunity to try some things out and maybe strike gold with some wacky idea that actually works!

Ben Clemens

3:23

I'd like to see a tournament. I'd like to see experimenting with doubleheaders, and potentially with playing at empty stadiums in spring training sites.

Brian

3:23

Any guess on how MLB will address service time? Coming from an owner who gambled on Nate Pearson and Spencer Howard making an impact this year to start the season...

Ben Clemens

3:25

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/covid-19-round-up-the-service-time-elephan...

And I believe Craig is writing about it as well.

Marshall

3:26

When baseball eventually starts up again, will people still hate the Astros? Or, has that sentiment passed due to the world being turned upside down?

Ben Clemens

3:27

I think people still will. Maybe less, because everyone will be so happy baseball is back, but they're still kinda villainous

Darragh

3:28

With your tournament idea, if a team is eliminated in the first round, is their season done? After all this waiting, that team gets only 5ish games? Or am I misunderstanding?

Ben Clemens

3:28

Could play consolation brackets as well.

But yeah I dunno, needs more planning and design

I think that could be okay though?

Maybe have a consolation tournament for the first pick in the draft

Sam

3:28

Hey Ben who do you like more, Mitch Keller or Julio Urias?

Ben Clemens

3:29

I'll admit that I'm a sucker for people I've listened to.

But gimme Keller

I thought that his interview with Ben Lindbergh was awesome:

3:30

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1511-season-previ...

Particularly a big fan of him learning what FIP was on Google after seeing it on the Giants' scoreboard.

Like, what a killer anecdote.

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