JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/11/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/11/20

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Ben Clemens

2:12

I think I might actually put weather last? Like, it's so symmetrical

I think recent travel and sleep gotten the night before are correlated

I sleep far worse after traveling

2:13

So I guess I'd say sleep 1 (because you get travel PLUS anything else that might make you lose sleep)

Then travel

Then Cheetos -- pro baseball players, please don't eat Cheetos, they always make me feel sluggish

Adam Dawson

2:13

I have a trade question

Hello

Ben Clemens

2:13

Hello there. I hope I have a trade answer.

Quarentino Martinez

2:13

Do you think some players have already decided that they will not play in 2020? If so, teams will have to decide whether to persuade that player to return or scramble to replace that player if there is not a viable replacement currently on the roster. And then, that player can suddenly decide to return if they feel it is safe or if their team is in a pennant race without them. Could be a mess!

Ben Clemens

2:14

That's a very interesting question. I think that some players aren't interested in playing in 2020, but I'm not sure if they've really made up their minds.

I think the other members of the team will probably exert some peer pressure, you know?

Like, not the organization

2:15

But unless you're a big star, your teammates are going to have something to say about that

And even if you are!

Adam Dawson

2:15

I want Yordan and am giving up Rendon. I already have Arenado. 12 team keeper league, Roto

Ben Clemens

2:15

Hm, interesting.

I'm really high on Yordan overall

2:17

Going through our auction calculator here to try to come up with something more specific than "oh i like one of the guys"

2:18

Basically I think I'd happily make that trade straight up

But I'm not really a keeper person if I'm being honest with you

So I'm not really sure if that's correct valuation

But I'd be happy to do it, if that helps at all.

Jeff

2:18

Should I be mentally prepared, as someone way too obsessed with this league's labor issues because I think similarly sinister stuff is happening in all industries, for the media schills and increasingly dumb sports fanbas to blame the players over the current salaries issue?

Ben Clemens

2:18

Depends on which media outlets!

I, for example, am unlikely to blame the players on this one.

2:19

I don't mind blaming the players when I think they're wrong.

But I don't think they're wrong here

I'd like to see them just say 'hey a revenue split seems great. Let's codify it for future years too!'

Matt

2:19

Not to be a bummer, but based on the data that came out about how prolonged exposure to the disease in indoor spaces is much worse than we initially thought, people probably need to acknowledge that we're not going to have fans at sporting events (particularly indoor ones) until there is a vaccine or cure for this thing.

Ben Clemens

2:19

Yeah indoor particularly, strong agree on that.

2:20

I can't imagine something I'm less interested in doing right now than packing myself into a basketball arena

Danny Almonte’s fastball

2:21

You have an MLB career: would you rather have one 9-win season, two 5-win seasons, or seven 2-win seasons?

Ben Clemens

2:21

Oh, easily seven 2-win seasons. I don't even think this is particularly close. That's how you get paid these days.

If you put it at some cutoff where I'd have a shot at being an absolute legend, I might reconsider

But I'm assuming my one 9-win season would come while I was under team control

2:22

Whereas just grinding it out until free agency rewards you pretty handsomely

Speaking of someone who made this hypothetical deal, I learned about a guy I'd never heard of thanks to OOTP Perfect Team

Have you heard of Billy Grabarkewitz?

Probably not!

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