JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/4/22

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/4/22

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Ben Clemens

3:16

When I did some rudimentary calculations to "de-juice" the ball in 2018, Rendon would have been the biggest loser of the change

3:17

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/taking-home-runs-back-to-2015/

The top 10 was some Dodgers (Bellinger, Betts, Turner, Freeman), Rendon, Bregman, Belt, Castellanos, and J.D. Martinez

oh and Eduardo Escobar? Weird

baseball Randay

3:18

Hi Ben, is there a reasonable way to fix projections for teams like the Rays and Giants? I have no confidence that any of their positional power rankings will finish below 10-15 and yet I don't think the Giants have one in the top 10? (maybe short stop?)

Ben Clemens

3:18

I can tell you that the Giants have a top 10 rotation projection

But eh, depends what you mean by 'fix' because some of that is by design, and some of it is because of computational limitations

3:19

We run our Depth Charts live during the season; playoff odds are updating all the time

Really hard to have a complex system that accounts for injury and variance and all that and then also run it all the time, though we've looked into it at times (with help from helpful and smart readers)

3:20

It's something we'd love to work on in an ideal world but there are always more things to do first

Color Coordinator

3:20

Hi Ben! Thanks for the chat. If you were starting an expansion team and your only two colors choices for the team's "main" color were Fuchsia and Teal which would you choose? What would you accent colors be?

Ben Clemens

3:20

Oh man, fuchsia would be awsome

I'd go with that, and maybe blakc and white in accent colors?

Luke

3:20

Who was/is one of your favorite players to watch? Not necessarily the best, but someone you just enjoyed watching play? Josh Hamilton was one of mine. Oddly enjoyed watching Erik Bedard pitch in Seattle too. Soft spot for soft tossing lefties, I guess.

Ben Clemens

3:20

I love Carlos Martinez

3:21

He throws all these random pitches and is fun on the mound and everything is just a blast to watch

Except when he's scuffling, then he seems sad and it's no fun

Bill

3:21

You had Julio's 2021 AA slash line at .362/.461/.448 in an above answer - but it was actually .362/.461/.546... The .448 SLG you referenced was his wOBA.Dude is gonna rake - his EV's in spring training are Giancarlo like!

Ben Clemens

3:21

Ha whoops

I didn't proofread, .448 would make VERY little sense as a slugging percentage

Guest

3:22

Not a question, but Josh Hamilton's ascension and plummet was astonishing

BettsBellingerCaruso

3:22

Re: Underrated

I think of prime Choo when I hear "underrated player" of the late '00s-early 2010s lol

Ben Clemens

3:22

Very good one too

Matt

3:22

What are you more interested to see about the Phillies...their lineup, the terrible defense, or the possibility of another terrible bullpen?

Ben Clemens

3:22

The defense by a MILE

I have a feeling that they'll have some trainwreck games

3:23

The Phillies have actually already produced my favorite defensive viewing of the last five years when they made Vince Velasquez play left field for a game and he was pretty good

But they might top that this year

Adam

3:23

It's getting lonely on the Franchy Train. Any hope at all for me?

Ben Clemens

3:23

I think the train has come to a half, sadly

halt*

3:24

Alright, I need to get back to writing, and also resting my tired tired fingers. I just finished up starting rotations 1-15, and I'll probably have some editing to do on them later, plus I think it's time someone wrote about the atrocious decision to demote Oneil Cruz for the enrichment of Bob Nutting

Have a great few days everyone, and get ready for baseball on Thursday!!!!

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