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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/12/21

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Fernando Tatis-Buck Jr.

3:03

Clase now solidified as primary closer?

Ben Clemens

3:04

We have him that way on Roster Resource. I kind of think it will be some blend of him and Karinchak, but Jason is great at this stuff

Emmanuel Clase

3:04

I'm the man. Clase closed!

Ben Clemens

3:04

I have an irrational attachment to any player who I wrote up early in their career

3:05

Clase, Nick Anderson, Jonathan Hernandez

And that cutter is FUN

Clase has the added benefit of easy puns

BringBackDeSpanielHair

3:05

I hate roto. There... I said it. I love points leagues, and weekly H2H matchups. AmI crazy?

Ben Clemens

3:05

I like H2H quite a bit

Confused

3:06

I am a little confused by the projected standings page. The YTD run differential and the ROS run differential sum to the Full Season run differential. However, the YTD RS/G and the ROS RS/G do not ciombine in any way for the Full Season RS/G. For example, Brewers have 4.22 RS/G project for 4.60, but then the full season is 4.85. What is going on there?

Ben Clemens

3:06

Hm, I'm honestly not sure. I'll ask around

Cambodian Creamsicle

3:07

H2H Roto is awesome!

David

3:07

Agreed, refuse to play roto

Ben Clemens

3:07

I think that's one of my favorite parts of fantasy football, the H2H nature

And so I'm definitely in favor of baseball picking it up

Wild Thing Vaughn

3:08

Hey Ben, any logic to how the White Sox are handling Andrew Vaughn right now? Feels like they're doing their best Rockies impersonation while also losing a year of service time.

Ben Clemens

3:10

Um... Yeah, I am kinda hoping he had a minor injury. He was playing everyday-ish and then had three straight days off before playing again yesterday. Not sure why the layoff but he's looked fine so far

Weird TLR stuff maybe? He had an issue playing young players in StL

Dee Arby

3:10

The case against H2H is easy. Players are streaky. Therefore the H2H aspect is fluky compared to roto.

Ben Clemens

3:10

Sure, but that's why you don't play only one week to settle the season

There's more inherent variance for sure, but that's kind of fun

We're not out here playing chess

Matt

3:11

Should the Rays think about trying Meadows at 1B next year? He's DH'ing more than Yoshi and Yandy so I guess they don't seem to trust him in the outfield.

Ben Clemens

3:11

Yes, I think they should

They seemed like they were trying to protect Arozarena from fielding last year, and this year Meadows has taken over that role

H2H

3:12

In my H2H league, we play 12 categories H2H, but then the standings are the categories. So this week I am 5-7 after week 1, rather than 0 wins and 1 loss. It seems this is normal in Fantasy Baseball, but I don't like it. If we are playing H2H, I want to either win or lose (or tie) that week. Am I crazy?

Ben Clemens

3:12

Yeah, I'm a bigger fan of the win/lose/tie per week style

Jeff

3:12

As a hardcore MLB fan, can I consider myself something of a business man? I know all the buzzwords and buzz strategies...Rebuildz...Controlz...Finger on the pulse!

Ben Clemens

3:12

You need to scream 'efficiency' more often

and 'synergize'

Jeff

3:13

Nothing pisses me off more than inefficiency in sports

Nothing

Ben Clemens

3:13

Now you're getting it!

Bucfan

3:13

"Years of control"

Dan

3:13

Can you shed some insight on how minor league rosters work? Like they must get sent pitchers who need to rest not throw for a day. How do they balance coving 9 innings but also leaving enough people fresh? if their catcher gets called up to the majors well you still need two catchers to start your game right? What if the hot prospect and the rehabing vet both play the same position?

Ben Clemens

3:14

This sounds like an excellent question for Kevin, or maybe Eric. I'm in the dark on it as well, and I think it would be REALLY interesting to learn about

Guest

3:14

Any thoughts on Drew Smyly after last night's start? Have some back end starters in him, Peralta, Rodon, Kikuchi, Minor all based on spring velo that are holding roster spots until Sale and Severino come back. Can you rank them ROS?

Ben Clemens

3:15

Last night didn't really change my view of Smyly, which is that he's probably not someone you're overjoyed to be counting on but that baseball is hard and requires a lot of pitchers

For fantasy, I've got Peralta/Minor/Kikuchi in a tier by themselves ahead of the other two

I'm a big long-term Peralta believer so I'd have him first

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