JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/7/22

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/7/22

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Ben Clemens

2:33

I do

Regardless of how the owners think he did in the negotiations or how long the deal is, I think commissioners in general have a limited shelf life

They just build up resentment on various axes -- fans, ownership, players -- until you get someone new

Guest

2:34

Your estimation that the Pirates are one of the most profitable teams made sense, but is such a logical mess for baseball. Is there any way to reasonably fix an imbalance that large? It feels like tying profits to performance should be the number one goal of players

Ben Clemens

2:34

I agree, but the owners basically said 'lol we're not touching this' when the players proposed tying revenue sharing to wins

and if you have some places you think you can make gains and one where the other side tells you to go pound sand, it's hard to keep pushing in that area

2:35

I'd like to see a cap/floor structure tied to revenues, but given ownership's ability to hide revenues as non-baseball-related (parking, real estate, ownership in tv networks, whatever) I think it would be really tricky to negotiate

More importantly, I don't think owners would agree to it given how well the current system has been working for them revenue-wise

Sir Nerdlington

2:35

These D1 baseball games fly, it's awesome. The MLB procurement teams should look at whomever supplies batting gloves to college kids. They don't seem to loosen up every time they take a pitch.

Ben Clemens

2:36

Tom C

2:36

Hey! Been itching to share this idea I had about an OOTP board game where you play in commissioner mode and run into vignettes which give players various boosts and nerfs (e.g. Doug Latta gives a lesson to your worst ranked position player, +50% Gap and Home Run Power). Thoughts?

Ben Clemens

2:36

OOTPDND, we'd call it

I'd definitely play

mike tyson: designated hitter

2:37

Give me hope for Matt Manning.

Ben Clemens

2:37

The stuff plays and I thikn his minor league swinging strike rates are more representative of true talent than his big league season

2:38

It's only 85 innings, and I think he can do better

Arms Race

2:38

At what point is keeping too many pitchers actually too many? 12 team keeper league with contracts, QS. Standard auction. I can keep Weeler (21), Montas (on contract for 15), Ray (6) and Webb (5). I

I'm tempted to trade for a bat but I also think those 4 arms for $47 is pretty solid!

Ben Clemens

2:38

There's such a thing as too many pitchers but I don't think you're there yet

Montas is kinda cuspy?

2:39

But the rest, I'd want to get a bag in return for them if I moved them

Don Russ

2:39

What were your most prized baseball cards back in the day and do you still have them?

Ben Clemens

2:39

I can tell you my number one by far

I went to a card convention and saw a signed Ozzie Smith card from his first year with the Cardinals

He was my favorite player growing up, and it was only 8 bucks, so I bought it

2:40

It's in a thick protective case on my desk right now

That aside, my most prized cards were Future Stars type cards of Carlos Delgado (he played for Knoxville in the minors and I saw him all the time) and Michael Jordan

And those have been lost to the sands of time

But signed Ozzie? Heck yeah

Sir Nerdlington

2:41

Can we skip the second generation of MLB team ownership and go straight to the third where they're super lazy and squander the family fortune?

Ben Clemens

2:41

Tangent: do people like successoin?

2:42

I've been watching it on a recommendation from friends and ugh, I just don't like any single character in it

Please don't spoil things, but is it worth continuing with?

Quarantino Martinez

2:42

People sometimes (less this time, thankfully) get angry at the players because they shouldn't care about money so much since they get to do this amazing thing we all love, but wouldn't most people here also love to own a baseball team, even if it wasn't profitable? That would also be a dream, no?

Ben Clemens

2:42

Sure, but we don't get to SEE them own the team

and playing baseball feels more relatable, I think

I can picture what it would be like to hit a line drive in the majors

2:43

I cannot picture how it would feel to own a team

Matt

2:43

Succession is incredible, everyone sucks but you somehow root for them. Definitely stick with it

Quarantino Martinez

2:43

It took me a while with Succession. The main thing is to see it purely as a comedy, not a drama. Then the terribleness of the characters is less tiresome.

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