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

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/23/20

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Darragh

3:30

Personally, rather than a tournament, I would prefer a Premier League-style thing. Just play as many games as you can and the team with the best record is the champion. Or maybe just a World Series between the two best. That way, each team gets as much baseball as possible.

Ben Clemens

3:31

I'd be fine with this too. What I really don't want is the standard playoff structure after a comically short season.

I think that would feel a little too like regular for something that is cleraly not regular.

Guest

3:31

can you piggyback starters in OOTP? Would help resolve some of the pitching decision. Like pairing Peralta with an offspeed guy!

Ben Clemens

3:32

Hm. You might be able to make it work by getting a little funky; put a super low pitch count limit on the starter, and keep the piggyback player low on the depth chart on non-piggyback days before making him the number one reliever that day.

3:33

Peralta plus Lauer sounds fun.

Safety Stegosaurus

3:33

What's your grade on the Rams new logo?

Ben Clemens

3:35

Like

Zero?

It's so bad

Derek

3:35

I *think* you can monkey with the opener/follower settings to get the Peralta-Lauer combo to work?

Ben Clemens

3:35

Oh that could work too. Yeah I think it's doable. It wouldn't exactly be piggybacking but it could work. New option for next time!

Guest

3:35

Given that the OOTP league is a fangraphs league, I think most of the strategies will end up being fairly similar, so there's some benefit into zigging where others zag. If we have a by-the-numbers unorthodox strategy we should REALLY lean into it and go all in on it.

cool

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Ben Clemens

3:36

Yeah, I agree with this. One thing that's really nice about this league is that Brad asked everyone to manage as if they were that team in real life.

So Adley Rutschman isn't getting traded.

But the NL Central is just gonna be a slugfest.

Everyone's going to run right up to payroll red lines, try to game whatever they can, etc.

3:37

Alright friends, thank you for chatting with me today. I'm gonna call it here, and we can take this up next week. I certainly don't have anywhere else to be.

Thanks again for hanging out today.

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