JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/28/22

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/28/22

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Ben Clemens

2:24

rinse, repeat

They are going to commemorate the CRAP out of the best Cardinal since Ozzie Smith, and I'm cool with that

Also, fine, Pujols was better than Ozzie was, but he never signed a baseball saying "Ben, you are my wizard, good luck", so nuts to him

Phil

2:24

As a survivor of David Ortiz's last season, I can see the answer to the question of how much commemoration one team can do is, quite a lot.

Ben Clemens

2:25

Joey Caltrain

2:25

Do you know anything about how Molina and Wainwright feel about the Pujols signing? Feels like it could be kind of weird to have spent a decade sticking by the franchise working hard to cement your own place in its history, and finally deciding - seemingly with your friend and longtime battery-mate - to hang up the spikes after one last year... only for the team to bring back the superstar who always overshadowed you for his own goodbye tour.

Ben Clemens

2:25

I'm confident they asked them**

5 Run Homer

2:25

The last time the Blue Jays had a very powerful right-heavy lineup, they won 93 games and the division. They're fine

Ben Clemens

2:25

Yeha, this is basically how I feel

Chris

2:25

Did the As overplay their hand on manaea? Seems like they are asking for a ton

Ben Clemens

2:25

I don't think so, but let me elaborate

Yeah, they asked for too much

But if they come back at a lower asking price, so what?

Teams will still trade for him

2:26

I like the idea of starting kinda big and then dropping down when that doesn't work

5 Run Homer

2:26

I was about to say, Pujols is the best Cardinal since Stan Musial

Ben Clemens

2:26

I think there's an argument to be made that Bob Gibson fits the bill, for the sheer peak dominance

But yes

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:27

Is Matt Beaty the answer to the Padres’s outfield woes?

Ben Clemens

2:27

Nope!

But he'll improve them and he wasn't doing much on the Dodgers

Pretty reasonable trade

2:28

I love that the Dodgers are willing to trade their blocked role players, even to competitors or other good teams

Really smart long-term idea

bob

2:28

am i wrong to think trevor story might hit, like, 40 HR this year? savant seems to indicate colorado suppresses HR in general and that story's xHR was 37 (!) last year. that, plus the monster ... ?

Ben Clemens

2:28

xHR doesn't actually work for Coors

as I understand it, at least

because it looks at the distance stuff?

I should look that up to be certain

2:29

but the whole 'that would be a homer in 29 of 30 parks and the only one it wouldn't be in is Coors'

Is nonsense

Coors is huge b/c the ball travels farther

I think Story will top 30 but 40 is a lot of dingers

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:29

I just joined Twitter, and boy are there some bad takes on there. Any recommended follows for baseball nerds?

Ben Clemens

2:30

I'm going to give you exactly three, and my huge apologies, because there are plenty of good names out there

Cameron Grove, @pitching_bot, is my vote for best public-side analyst

Russell Carleton, @pizzacutter4, is Russell Carleton

2:32

Those are my two favorite, and after that I really enjoy @FoolishBB, though to be honest his Twitter is secondary to his Youtube

For me Russell and Cameron are must-follows, and I have them both on notification actually b/c they don't flood the timeline

Tango is an interesting follow but also tweets 20 times a day about hockey, for exmaple

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