JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/5/21

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/5/21

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Ben Clemens

2:44

If he actually did it b/c he wanted the high-strikeout stuff if the game went to extras and there was a runner on second

Then eh, sure, okay

But if he's literally saying he's saving his closer for the lead? Get out of here

CWess

2:45

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/why-tony-la-russa-didnt-us...

Link to his explanation (looks bad)

Ben Clemens

2:45

Oh yeah, that was rhetorical

His explanation: very bad!

I have to hope he was lying

Sad, Confused Marlins Fan

2:46

I know experts are a bit more hyped about Elieser Hernandez but any chance Trevor Rogers can be that guy? limiting the walks in ST was huge

Ben Clemens

2:47

Gonna be honest and say that I haven't watched enough of him to know. If he can actually limit his walks, that's great, but ST is kind of a tough time to get a look at that

The stuff certainly plays

Derek

2:48

Nelson Cruz is a hero

(even though you are a well-documented Nelson Cruz naysayer)

Ben Clemens

2:48

I would consider myself a well-documented Nelson Cruz brake-pumper

Steamer projects him for a 116 wRC+ this year! That's way lower than my 'guys he's probably not a 180 wRC+ hitter' article that got so much backlash

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

2:48

The correct answer was taking lots of time between pitches. **** those pitchers.

Ben Clemens

2:49

Oooooooooh okay yeah

Re: Player Peeves

2:49

If we can keep track of and limit mound visits, can we please do the same with the amount of times players un-velcro and re-velcro their batting gloves? Batter OCD drives me nuts.

Ben Clemens

2:49

Yes fine

Pitch clocks when

2:50

I like how they said they were going to limit batters stepping out and then just.... didn't

BringBackDeSpanielHair

2:50

Glasnow's slider WAS filthy. I was cracking up because the broadcast booth was clearly unaware it was a new pitch. They kept calling it his curveball

Ben Clemens

2:50

Look at this thing

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=a6b369d0-a02f-4345...

I understand why they were confused, it has a bit of curveball bend

2:51

But it's 90 mph!

Derek

2:51

The thing about take-a-long-time pitchers is that like, yes it is extremely annoying to watch, but also taking longer between pitches correlates to pitching better so can we really blame them?

Ben Clemens

2:51

No, it's totally logical FOR THEM

But because it's suboptimal for fan experience, baseball should legislate against it

2:52

Like, it's optimal for the basketball team with the lead to dribble out the entire game in the backcourt

So the backcourt count and shot clock were invented

This isn't tough. I don't understand why it's so controversial

Manfred's man

2:53

MLB won't do anything to needlessly antagonize players (i.e. pitch clocks, stepping out of the box) until AFTER the new CBA is signed.

Ben Clemens

2:53

Yeah, very likely

Cueto's Shimmy

2:53

how do you get baseball savant to show you a specific pitch like that? Is there a way I can use baseball savant to quickly go through all of Ohtani's pitches yesterday?

Ben Clemens

2:53

Quick tutorial time

2:54

Go to baseballsavant.mlb.com

Click on search

You'll end up here: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search

So you can get whatever you want, very specifically, here

It has video of every pitch since 2018

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