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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/20/20

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Ben Clemens

2:59

Not that he's great, but with no Stripling, they just need bodies.

swansby danson

2:59

Did you follow the MLB dream bracket games today? Yankees still look to be a favorite, winning their series 4-2 against the Mariners but, as we all expected, Jamie Moyer went 7 shutout innings against a lineup of Jeter/DiMaggio/Ruth/Gehrig/Mantle/Reggie/etc.

Ben Clemens

2:59

Nope, but that's awesome.

Jamie Moyer is the best.

Tracy

2:59

Is Voit going to play every day? Is he capable of 30/100?

Ben Clemens

2:59

Play every day? I thikn so.

And a pro-rated 30/100? Definitely within range.

3:00

I don't think anyone is capable of 30 or 100 this year though.

CLK0 update, for the incredibly narrow subset of readers who care about this but aren't also just looking at it on BBG or something: CLK0 hit -40.32 at one point. That's just, like.... expiries are goofy.

BASEBALL SZN

3:00

Another Sanderson reader! I haven't read Stormlight Archive yet, but Mistborn is an all-time series for me. Have you checked that out?

Ben Clemens

3:01

I've read some of them, but a while ago.

I'm on a baseball book kick right now, but when I switch back to fiction, I need to read the latest Expanse book and then I'm considering Mistborn.

Derek

3:01

My OOTP game just finished up the 2024 season and Yordan Alvarez hit 71 home runs and had like a 210 wRC+. And I wasn't even surprised.

Ben Clemens

3:01

Oh, so you're saying it does a good job of reflecting real life then?

3:02

I'm really high on Alvarez

I mean, that's still preposterous

But I buy him as one of the best hitters of his generation.

Early? Maybe

3:03

But he just does everything so well, and it's hard to produce at his level for as long as he did without being great.

Nat Pack

3:04

Does the Astros scandal make the 2019 Nationals arguably one of the most impressive World Series champions of all time?

Ben Clemens

3:04

Not really sure what impressive means, but they're one of the teams whose win was best for baseball

And their degree of difficulty was insanely high.

If you had some narrative scale, difficulty of journey + fun stories on team + legacy importance

They're wayyyy up there.

3:05

Scherzer, Stras, Zimmerman are all HOF-ish guys who didn't have rings, Soto is the best, and beating the evil cheaters right after the cheaters' AGM boasted about how much he likes domestic violence?

And it saved baseball having the reigning world series champions have their GM and manager suspended

3:06

So in that sense, yeah.

Luis

3:06

What are Yandy's prospects for a true breakout this year? Will he play everyday?

Ben Clemens

3:06

Let's just assume this means next year for now so I don't have to be grumpy about the likelihood of baseball this year.

I don't really buy it. The Rays are teaching Tsutsugo third

And they're platoon-happy

3:07

I mean ,there's always a chance, but if we're talking All-Star, 5 WAR kinda guy, I'm not buying it.

Justin Verlander

3:07

Am I the 3rd best SP right now behind Cole and deGrom? Who dares to challenge me?

Ben Clemens

3:08

I'm not sure who's the third best, but I am sure that there's a big drop off after the top two.

Third-best -- I'd buy Verlander, Stras, or Scherzer.

Maybe Flaherty or Buehler?

Sale if he's healthy by the time baseball comes back.

3:09

Yu Darvish is in this range if he's his second-half self.

But none of those are close to DG and Cole

Pepper

3:09

Austin Riley smells like a bust to me. In a non sexual sense, of course. Odds he becomes a top 12 3B

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