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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/15/24

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Ben Clemens

3:00

so I'm gonna say him

Busch might have been the best value

Appa Yip Yip

3:00

Hi Ben, when my team is playing well they look like the best team on the planet but when they're playing poorly they look like quad a bums. What's up with that. Why don't they play well all the time?

Ben Clemens

3:00

It's to troll you specifically, Appa

Greg

3:00

With Felix Bautista out, is Mason Miller the funnest pitcher to watch in 2024?

Ben Clemens

3:00

ooooh

3:01

reliever? probably

it's cool that the A's have such a live wire going

I'd prefer Jared Jones

Rob Schneider is THE CARROT

3:01

Is there some excitement to be looking forward to with the promotion of Jonatan Clase?

Ben Clemens

3:01

Yeah! toolsy guy killing it in the minors already

maybe he's just ready

Jack

3:01

Baty has looked pretty good so far. Long-term top 10 3B? Not in the Jung or Royce Lewis caliber, right? Maybe he can stay on the field though.

Ben Clemens

3:01

I don't see any reason to limit him to being below Jung/Lewis caliber

his defense looks pretty good this year, seriously good

3:02

the bat is the real question. I'm a fan of it but it does look like the models are getting down on him after last year was so bad and this year hasn't started off hot

like I'd TAKE those guys for now

but I think Baty still has a ton of variance in his profile, and the defense improving opens up a nice range of outcomes

El Mago Fan

3:02

Javy Baez.....is he cooked offensively? Is there any hope there?

Ben Clemens

3:03

ugh I think he's cooked

Belli Buddy

3:03

Is this is a slow start for Bellinger, or the predicted regression? He's looking more like 2022 Belli right now....

Ben Clemens

3:03

regression

Colton

3:03

I read something that the A's get another year of Ruiz if he's down until Wednesday, which doesn't make sense to me considering he played the literal entire years on the major league team last year but was something that held some weight if true. They also did bench Rooker the day he was wearing TLDB bracelets so I think that idea has some validity to it as well.

Ben Clemens

3:03

sorry, digging up old responses while I hunt for Matt and I realized I should have posted this one sooner

3:04

I think Ruiz would have a good shot at a grievance if they do that

like.... the A's have Max Schuemann up

c'mon bro

Dan'l

3:04

Did the Cards massively misjudge the SP market at the end of the offseason? Surely combining the Gibson & Lynn's money and putting it toward one pitcher (& rolling the dice with a minor league SP) would have made more sense than what they did. Or is this really what they wanted, for the money it cost them??

Ben Clemens

3:05

In retrospect yes

They valued certainty and didn't want to gamble at all

they didn't gamble, they got exactly what they asked for

and eh, it turns out that the market was a little cheapher than that

Gibson does not look great to my eyes so far, either

Max Schuemann

3:05

I'm better at baseball than you, pal

Ben Clemens

3:05