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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/11/20

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Ben Clemens

3:35

This would be a better question for Dan, I think. I'd guess it's not possible, though? The Orioles aren't 48.5% to win a single game against he Yankees

I think it's probably not happening :(

3:37

I'm gonna start winding this down soon, so let's do a lightning round of whatever catches my eye

ChrisDavis4Prez

3:37

MLB owners have approved a proposal for the 2020 season to present to the players’ union, source tells The Athletic. Meeting expected between union and league tomorrow.

Ben Clemens

3:37

Maybe they'll just send them a punch in the stomach

Lean into the symbolism

baseball

3:37

when do you think the Hall Of Fame ballot and induction happen in 2020?

Ben Clemens

3:37

In 2021

Jeff

3:37

Yeah, seeing those 80s and 90s athletes in Save the Last Dance has me thinking people are made different now...Everyone was lean af but ripped in a way that you just can't get from only a gym

Ben Clemens

3:37

Yeah people look way different now

Athletes, rather

Chris

3:38

Who will have a better season David Dahl, Willie Calhoun or Justin Upton?

Ben Clemens

3:38

Gimme Dahl

No good reason, I just like him

Danny Almonte’s fastball

3:38

What is your favorite player with a lower-than-expected WAR? Mine is Sammy Sosa. His post-career has been so bonkers/fascinating that it makes me like him even more

Ben Clemens

3:38

Aledmys Diaz

Big soft spot for him

I'm gonna break from lightning round to tell a story

I'm a Cards fan, was a bigger one Aledmys's rookie year

3:39

So a friend of mine is a salesperson, she's going to see a big important client in St. Louis

In late July

So I tell her, hey, if you want some inside cred, ask them about Aledmys

They'll be like dang, this random salesperson from New York knows her STL baseball

she goes

Mentions it

They're like, uh, who?

I was quite sad

Sam

3:39

The proposal is just 20 pages of middle finger emojis

Ben Clemens

3:39

Plus a poop emoji thrown in for value

Danny Almonte’s fastball

3:40

The most, “this isn’t sustainable” but it was to me was Daniel Murphy that postseason (think it was 2015) where he just decided to be insane

Ben Clemens

3:40

Yeah that was 2015, and that was wild

He just became a fire emoji

Was living in NY then, the city was super into it too

And then he left and it was like, eh, never liked Murph anyway

Danny Almonte’s fastball

3:40

what players would you most want to: have a beer with, play a board game with, talk baseball with, babysit a child you cared about, protect you from aliens?

Ben Clemens

3:41

have a beer with: sean casey

play a board game with, dan haren

talk baseball with, hm.... jeff mathis

babysit a child: i dunno, maybe trout?

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