JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/12/21

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/12/21

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Ben Clemens

3:27

It's something I've asked about from time to time, I'll run it up the flagpole again this week. It'd be nice, totally agree

Bucfan

3:27

Gallo's chase rate and K rate down to manageable levels, BABIP has to normalize, are you convinced?

Ben Clemens

3:27

I'm in!

3:28

Always looking for a reason to believe in Gallo, so it's not exactly hard to get me to believe

But I believe!

A cat

3:28

When do the Sox decide that they need to move on from Dalbec? He’s barely above 50% zone contact, and can’t hit 94 in the heart of the plate.

Ben Clemens

3:29

Dalbec's swinging strike rate worries me -- his zone contact definitely plays a role in that. But given that it's only 28 PA, I'll give him some time to even it out -- he does hit the crap out of the ball when he connects

3:30

I'm a little skeptical of xwOBA style numbers given the new ball, but he definitely seems like he's hittin the ball harder than you'd guess from his results

Chaim Bloom

3:31

How good will this Benny trade make me look by the end of 2023?

Ben Clemens

3:31

Eh... I don't think it'll be a very big part of our estimation of Chaim Bloom

3:32

That said, if it does work out, it'll be due to the PTBNL's in the deal, and it's way too seeon to tell on them

3:33

soon*

Farhandrew Zaidman

3:33

Is Zack McKinstry the way-too-early NL ROY?

Ben Clemens

3:33

Haha, I guess so

I don't think he'll end the season as RoY, b/c he won't get enough run

But what a gem

The Dodgers are hot right now

Guest

3:33

Thanks for the chat. Buying Peralta's transformation? Seems like he will always throw balls but the shift from FB/SL to CB/CH makes his FB even more dangerous. Ceiling?

Ben Clemens

3:33

Ceiling is one of those inconsistent but unhittable demi-aces

3:34

Healthy James Paxton, let's say

righty, obv

Full disclosure: I am a huge buyer of both Burnes and Peralta and constantly overrate them

twinmh

3:34

You know, for us geezers wooing used to mean courting, or sparking. I was ready to blame the kiss-cam.

Ben Clemens

3:34

More romantic wooing, less high-pitched woo'ing

Dave

3:35

Nate Lowe vs. CJ Cron-- who do you prefer for 2021?

Ben Clemens

3:36

Presumably this is for fantasy, and I'd just take Cron and bank the Coors effect

He's off to a rough start, but it's so few games, I'd just wait it out

Guest

3:36

If you had to pick one statistical category in determining hitters and pitchers to take for DFS purposes, what would that be?

Ben Clemens

3:37

Hm.... some kinda linear weight for hitters, normalized by cost?

Opponent for pitchers

I don't really play any DFS though

LFC Mike

3:37

A Yoeman's effort today Ben. 90 minutes and not tiring.

Ben Clemens

3:37

Chatters these days, throw 70 minutes of gas and hit the showers

Back in my day, we went through the queue 4 times and didn't ask about it

3:38

When managing editors came to get the keyboard from us, we insulted them and refused to leave

laughing

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Eric

3:38

On the team pages, it shows AL pitchers under the "batting stats leaders" even though they have zero plate appearances. It really clogs up things, is there a way to address that?

Ben Clemens

3:39

I think the correct way to do this is to have a 1 PA filter, which is something I can ask Sean about, but the way we get our stats I don't think we can auto-exclude them

Farhandrew Zaidman

3:39

re: McKinstry: Insert Dodgers "they can't keep getting away with this meme." Seriously though, doesn't look like they're going to miss Kiké orJoc at all this year.

Ben Clemens

3:39

points for the accent, my friend

And totally agree

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