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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/1/24

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Ben Clemens

3:19

I'm going to ask him about it

Appa Yip Yip

3:19

Idk Danny Jansen breaking a bone in his hand has happened every year for like four years. Always an outlier.

Ben Clemens

3:19

The exception that proves the rule

Marshall

3:19

How has Mookie looked at shortstop so far?

Ben Clemens

3:19

I haven't watched enough to be able to say for certain, to be honest

3:20

I had to sacrifice some baseball watching to hit the slopes

But I'll have a better feel after watching some Giants Dodgers games this week

Oli's delayed reaction

3:20

can you surmise why ryan fernandez hasn't gotten an appearance yet?

Ben Clemens

3:21

Because the Cards are worried he isn't very good and don't want to mess with him by having him debut against the Dodgers

Honestly, though, I think that it's bad bullpen management

you can't just carry an empty roster spot like that against the Dodgers when you have a starter on an enforced pitch count and are missing your ace

3:22

find a way to give the guy confidence, you can't say 'our bullpen was extremely innings constrained' and also just not use someone at all

brad penny for your thoughts

3:22

as a cardinals fan and mlb.tv subscriber, i can't tell you how excited i was that 50% of the early season was blacked out to me because the mlb corporation has partnerships with other giant corporations. MLB is for the fans.

Morbo

3:22

I actually make homemade bagels that are very good. My secret is I use a brown malt extract from a brewing store. I use King Arthur bread flour and absolutely abuse my KitchenAid by having it kneed the dough for like 20 minutes straight.

Ben Clemens

3:23

Poor KitchenAid

Okay, everyone who's still in this chat is pretty clearly a loyal FG reader and baseball fanatic, so I have a question for you guys

Would you be interested in a semi-regular twitch/youtube stream where I try to learn how to code using baseball problems?

3:24

the idea would be that I start with an interesting question and then spend an hour or two exploring it, perhaps with computer programming, perhaps using some generative AI to help me organize my thoughts, perhaps by asking readers, etc.

maybe bring on guests once in a while

I'll poll it, because I've been thinking about doing this

3:25

Would you watch me trying to learn computers using baseball?

Yes (25% | 13 votes)

No (21.2% | 11 votes)

I'd watch one to see if it's interesting (53.8% | 28 votes)

Total Votes: 52

Stephen

3:25

Re: Judge and Soto. I think I agree with the previous question. I think Judge has been more productive as a hitter and fielder (while healthy) than Soto, but Soto looks like he's on another level while batting compared to Judge. Complete control.

Since 2019, Judge has a 169 wRC+, 27.6 WAR in 2,367 PA, Soto has a 156 wRC+ and 25.2 WAR in 2,901 PA. WAR closeness comes down to Judge being injury prone.

Ben Clemens

3:25

Yeah. If Soto had Judge's power, that would be the perfect hitter I think

Morbo

3:26

"Honestly, though, I think that it's bad bullpen management" a Cardinals manager with bad bullpen management, color me shocked! Starting to think it's the FO and not the Manager at this point

Ben Clemens

3:26

I think it can be both

I actually think that Marmol makes some good and hard bullpen decisions

he's very good about understanding the reactions that opposing managers will have, and their knock-on effects

3:27

like he often brings in a platoon-immune righty against a pocket of righties where the opposing manager will PH

so that he can then use his lefty against the pocket he created

Morbo

3:27

I'd watch that! Would there be a way to follow along at home? Because I've been meaning to learn some python or similar. I learned some java and basic back in the day

Ben Clemens

3:27

Yeah the idea is for people to follow along at home

I don't think it'd be interesting if it's just me talking to myself so I'd try to have a data set we can all use together, that kinda thing

woodberry

3:27

I thought Caminero was hurt?

Ben Clemens

3:28

He is, but I think he'll be up not long after he gets healthy

J. Holliday

3:28

Any idea if I can still give the team that may or may not be manipulating my service time the draft pick promo if I win/get 2nd in ROY and am on the team in the next week or so? Most reporting says I have to be on the Opening Day roster -- but some say it's more flexible (https://theathletic.com/3187914/2022/03/16/mlbs-collective-bargaining-...). And when is that day specfically... tick tock @mike elias!

Ben Clemens

3:28

I do have an exact answer for you, actually. He needs to accrue a full year's service time, which is not the same as being on the opening day roster

I think it's 170 days

3:29

172**

3:30

So that's... April 10?

3:30

Are you concerned about Michael King? Or just a weird early season start?

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