JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/9/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 3/9/20

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Ben Clemens

3:26

Not for this august website, but I wrote about his decisions last playoffs

I hated them

And despite that, I think he's a fine manager.

3:27

I truly don't get why he was so afraid of the bullpen in the playoffs last year, but aside from that, I'm pretty happy with what he's done. And he actually seems really good at making playing time work. A worse manager might not have been able to make the Carpenter/Edman situation work.

I'm optimistic, is basically my point.

DRB

3:27

Yordan: The projections are stupid on him (in a good way). Has he always been seen as this offensive monster?

Ben Clemens

3:27

No, I think projections are gonna take a second to catch up. His season last year was truly historic.

3:28

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/youre-probably-underrating-yordan-alvarez/

I never miss a chance to promote my own work.

tom

3:28

as if we need another reason to drink!

Ben Clemens

3:28

Precisely. I do enough 'guess I'm staying in tonight, let's have a few beers and play board games' these days that I don't need to also drink when people are optimistic about their team.

3:29

The world is scary, so I choose to be happy about baseball.

I am Me

3:30

Which Josh bell do we get in 2020?

Ben Clemens

3:30

This is maybe silly, but I think closer to first half JB than second half.

3:31

It's very encouraging to me that he had some disastrous batted ball luck in the second half and was still above a 100 wRC+ due to his walks and strikeouts working out.

3:32

He underperformed his xwOBA (not predictive! But still interesting)

And he mostly looked still okay

3:33

THe specific thing I was worried about was his mechanics getting all wonky again.

And that never happened, which I think is a HUGE mark in his favor.

3:34

Alright guys, with that, I'm going to call it a day slightly early today. I have a few pre-emptive quarantine protection related errands to run.

And I need to get started on some positional power rankings, which will be coming your way soon.

Have a great day, everyone, and thanks again for taking the time to hang out with me. See you same time next week!

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