JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/13/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/13/20

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Ben Clemens

2:01

Hey everyone, and welcome to the chat.

Today we'll surely cover some of the various permutations of here's-how-we-baseball plans.

Maybe some OOTP Brewers as well.

Plus, as always, plenty of room for nonsense.

Let's go!

Adam

2:02

Odds on there being a minor league "season" have to be below 25% right?

Ben Clemens

2:02

Uh, yeah, for sure.

That's really weird to think about, because baseball usually means all baseball.

2:03

But just looking at the hoops MLB is talking about jumping through to get the major leaguers to play, there's no way they are doing anything similar for minor leaguers.

You might see some shuttle squads of players who play enough to keep in shape for call-ups

Instructs and back field scrimmages and such

If one of the Spring Training-centric plans goes forward.

But like, regular minor league season? How?

Desperate parent

2:04

Ben, thanks for doing these chats and keeping some normalcy! I have two teenage daughters and want to get them into board games. We currently enjoy playing Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, and similar games. Do you have any suggestions for games that are a step up strategically?

Ben Clemens

2:04

Ooh I think Ticket to Ride is already awesome.

There's a lot of fun depth there, and it's also a fun theme for me.

2:05

I'm assuming it's the three of you playing, or potentially four, so games that hit that amount of players well:

I played Carcassonne for the first time ever this weekend and it was quite fun

Played it on an online board game site, boardgameareana, because I'm a big nerd.

2:06

I absolutely love Aeon's End, which is a cooperative game, and then I know people like Dominion, which is similarly styled but competitive.

Seven Wonders is pretty fun with four as well.

Ticket to Ride is awesome, though, this makes me want to play it again.

Jerome

2:06

Good piece today on the AZ/FL plan. If games begin on, say, July 4th, when should the season end? I don't see why they couldn't play through November, thus making negating the doubleheaders issue. When is the latest date the season could end?

Magic Kingdome

2:06

Wouldn't the easiest solution to the FL-AZ plan be one team gets a day off but also plays a doubleheader that same week (against another team that gets a doubleheader that week)? Weekend day offs really do not matter with all teams so close and no fans attending in person. P.S. Fangraphs Ad-Free is fantastic.

Ben Clemens

2:08

So if they can start on July 4 and are going to play 108 games a team, they could do that entire slate without double headers in 116 days with a team getting an off day every day.

That would have the season end on October 28th assuming no rain-related nonsense delays the very end.

2:09

That's probably the very limit of doable, because that's pushing up against games in December. But that's possible if they can start right on July 4.

That would negate the whole double header issue, which is nice.

2:10

As to the second question, that's one of the two solutions I think could work. I still don't see why you wouldn't split 16/14, but if you don't want to, I think the day off plus doubleheader plan is the way to go.

And yeah, Ad Free makes the website really hum. I've had it for a while now, because I was a person who ran a lot of queries for my own curiosity long before I was a writer here.

2:11

To the point where I had kind of forgotten that I had it until we started this most recent membership drive.

But yeah it's great!

Appa Yip Yip

2:11

For anyone else who panic bought a cabbage because they last forever and now just have a whole cabbage in the fridge - 8 equal wedges, salt and olive oil both sides, lay them flat on a baking sheet and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, flipping halfway.

Oh, at 425

Ben Clemens

2:11

This sounds pretty great.

2:12

We've been making a lot of broccoli and cauliflower recently but don't have any cabbage. But if we did, I'd try to make this. Baked veggies with a good amount of olive oil are awesome.

Brian

2:12

Any rumblings on how teams may treat those prospects who normally would have had their service time manipulated (i.e. Pearson, Howard, Carlson, potentially Adell/Gore)?

Ben Clemens

2:13

I haven't heard of anything at all yet on that front aside from the initial agreement.

That said, that agreement calls for service time to be given out proportionally.

If I'm understanding it right, if you play in half of your team's games, that's half a season's days of service time, and so on.

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