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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/28/25

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Ben Clemens

3:15

it's very hard to see proactively, though perhaps teams are better at it than I am

but a guy who mostly punishes mistake sliders, that kinda thing

Guest

3:15

We refer to Pete Crow-Armstrong as PCA, Christian Encarnacion-Strand as CES… why don’t we use the same shorthand for AJ Smith-Shawver?

Ben Clemens

3:15

3:16

Jason Martinez was talking to me about this in the preseason. "All of Braves Twitter is talking about Smith-Shawver but he needs a better acronym nickname"

Max

3:16

Bregman is having the best start to a season of his career, small sample size and he's not going to maintain a .364 babip all year, but his hard hit rate is up and his iffb are way down. It's not simply Fenway either, his road numbers are better than his home. How much of this do you think is sustainable?

Ben Clemens

3:17

I think that the BABIP is gonna come down but you have to be pleased that he's swinging harder than ever without missing more

and catching the ball out front more than ever

all sounds amazing ot me

3:18

alright, on that note, I'm gonna go listen to my brother in law defend his PhD. Defense! Defense! I already have the cheers ready

have a great week, everyone

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