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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/10/23

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Re: Trilemma

2:53

You have to take the 6 WAR guy and hope someone is clutch while he produces. Basically Pirates Barry Bonds

Ben Clemens

2:53

I think it depends a lot on how the leverage works

tongue

1

What if he only produces when you're up or down 5 runs?

cool

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Brandon Belt

2:53

If I fell out of a boat, what would I hit?

Ben Clemens

2:54

About a buck eighty

party

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Guest

2:54

Buying any of the Geraldo Perdomo early season success?

Ben Clemens

2:54

Nah not yet

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:54

Yonathan Daza appears to be a legit .300ish hitter who can stick in CF. Do we just forget about him/exclude him because Coors? Or does the no pop hurt him that much in an evaluation sense?

Ben Clemens

2:54

Little bit of both I think

bosoxforlife

2:54

What is your opinion of Hunter Renfroe? This trade is the #1 reason Bloom lost Red Sox Nation when he sent him to the Brewers for the corpse of JBJ and and 2 doubtful prospects.

Ben Clemens

2:55

Eh, not particuarly bought in

I think the trade is a six of one half dozen of another deal, just moving deck chairs around

Alan

2:55

No question, really, just wanted to say how impressed I've been with Jordan Walker. Small samples and all, but for all the concerns about the swing and miss in his game, the dude is only sporting an 18.9 K%, and to my untrained eye looks like he just has such a great approach, especially for a 20 year old.

Ben Clemens

2:55

Him not falling on his face has to be a great sign

There's always uncertainty in going from Double A to the bigs

Oaktown Blues

2:55

A's only giving Nick Allen the short side of the platoon at SS is a weird choice for his development, right? Do you think it indicates their feeling that he'll never hit enough to be a starter?

Ben Clemens

2:55

Yeah verrrrry weird choice. I agree that they seem to have given up on him being a first division starter

JK

2:55

There seem to be so many positives for the Giants, even with their 4-5 record - 7 players hitting above 120 wRC+, Disco and Manea look great, Webb looks like himself - am I being a homer or does it feel/look like they have something here to be a solid Wild Card contender?

Ben Clemens

2:56

Nah, I feel the same way

I was digging through some Giants numbers this weekend and going 'hey this could totally work'

2:57

Not like they're automatically great or anything, but records can be deciving early in the year, I like looking at whether I'm worried about core things with core players, and I think Webb's performance has been good, Conforto has shown some pop

If you were making a checklist of things that would have to go right for the Giants to be good this year, there are positive signs on a lot of those things so far

It's early, obviously

bosoxforlife

2:57

I am angry at you Ben, It is 70 degrees and you are making me spend an hour on the chat instead of doing the required gardening here in the State of Champions. Quinnipiac won the Frozen Four Saturday after the UConn men swept the floor with all their competition,

Ben Clemens

2:58

Saw one of my out-of-town friends this weekend, he's a big UConn fan. He mentioned that they've won 5 men's NCAA titles since 1999, the most in the country. That's wild

Appa Yip Yip

2:58

Bo Bichette's problems at short have less to do with his range than his arm, yea or nah?

Ben Clemens

2:58

Yes. He's scattershot

Won'tson

2:58

While we're jumping to conclusions too early, is it okay if I note that the Cubs let a catcher who isn't stellar with pitchers go to their division rival, only for the Cards' ERA to blow up while the Cubs' has gone down?

Ben Clemens

2:58

You can note it, but I'm not gonna care

That cardinals pitching staff is ewwwwwwwwww

trophy

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2:59

You could put Molina back there and like, those pitchers would still not be good

A-wristed Development

2:59

I don't even like the Red Sox and I thought the Duvall injury is a bummer. How do they replace that production?

Ben Clemens

2:59

I think that if they are serious about contending this year, they need to replace it via trade. If they're not.... I guess they'll just use Jarren Duran or something

3:00

I even kinda like Duran, but I think you want more than that if you're serious about winning this year

Activate Polymerization

3:00

If you fused the Miami pitching staff with the Cardinals hitting line-up you have a frightening team.

Ben Clemens

3:00

If you fused the Cardinals hitting lineup with a league average pitching staff you'd have a fearsome team. But yeah that'd be fun!

trophy

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Yo-Yo

3:01

Do you think Walker is better than Carlson in 2023? Walker's bat looks as good as his defense looks bad (second-worst DRS in MLB).

Ben Clemens

3:01

Way too early to pay much attention to defensive metrics, they're still noisy at hte season-long level, but I agree he's looked bad out there

I'd take Walker over Carlson ROS though, even despite that. Let Walker DH some too

Appa Yip Yip

3:01

Forgot the second part of the Bichette question. Moving him to second doesn't seem like it would help?

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