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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/29/24

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Playing like Astros

2:37

Is it getting late early for the Astros?

Ben Clemens

2:37

It is. I really liked Dan's article about this last week:

2:38

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-astros-are-rapidly-digging-their-hole-...

basically a few more weeks like this and it's over for them

Snit

2:38

Too soon to be worried about Acuna Jr. yet? K% is back up to 24%, ev, barrel%, & hard hit% are all markedly down from last year - and even his career averages. And to top it off he often looks lost at the plate. Not catching up to fastballs, bad swings, etc.

Ben Clemens

2:40

I'm not worried yet. I guess I'm more believing last year was near a career year for him, but I kind of thought that to begin with.

He's underperforming his expected production (which he'll probably always do, due to his spray angles, but I don't think by too much) and still above average

2:41

I think things are gonna be fine, 150 wRC+ rest of the way or something

Insert Witty Name Here

2:41

Re: Mason Miller, I remember fellow Phillies fans clamoring that trading Ken Giles was a dumb idea. Granted the return was awful (Vince Velazquez and Mark Appel headlined), but the A’s should absolutely trade him.

Ben Clemens

2:41

Yeah, it's not fun but I think it makes sense

Trader Jerry's

2:41

On a scale of 1 to 10, how concerned are you about Polanco and Garver's slow starts?

Ben Clemens

2:41

7, 6

Polanco is one of those guys where every year I'm like 'oh it's over after this year right?' and then it isn't

but eventually I'm gonna be right!

2:42

and this year does not look promising, his defense is bad enough that if he's not hitting he's a real anchor

2:43

Garver I haven't looked at as much, to be honest with you

as I look over his data now, maybe I'm a 7 on both

2:44

but I also don't think he's gonna run a 9% line drive rate all year

2:45

Hey everyone, sorry to call this off early, but a little bit of a home improvement emergency here so I'm gonna have to head out. I'll make it up with a longer chat next week, have a wonderful day everyone.

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