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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/11/20

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Ben Clemens

2:59

Which is kind of impressive

Snuds

2:59

Do you see Miquel Andujar becoming passable at 3B or is he basically a DH? Does being a DH lessen his trade value?

Ben Clemens

2:59

I mean, he could play first!

But I don't think he'll ever be a big asset at third

3:00

I could see him being Ryan Braun or something

Where he finds a position we didn't expect and is at least passable there

Bob

3:00

I love baseball as much as the next guy, but I’m very okay with players refusing this nonsensical initiative to play this year at a reduced pay rate, while team valuations skyrocket by the year. After what Manfred did about the draft, I have zero sympathy for him. And as owners try to undercut players, establishing winning cultures, expecting talent to take “hometown discounts,” I would be fine seeing the players union stick it to them. You don’t ask people who are risking their health to deepen your pockets to take a prorated paycut

Ben Clemens

3:00

100% agree with this

I really hope that the tone-deafness comes back to bite the owners here

3:01

I'm afraid it won't, because look, people are out there protesting their hair dressers not doing their hair.

There's not a lot of public support for the little guy

Or at least, the public is divided on who to support, and I have a feeling that baseball's demographics don't match my own, let's just say.

Sam

3:01

Any long term revenue split would likely require the implementation of a salary cap which has historically been a non-starter for the MLBPA. What share of revenue do you think they need to go back on their opposition to a salary cap?

Ben Clemens

3:02

Maybe 50/50?

I actually think this is really tricky due to the RSN issue

Many teams own significant stakes in their own RSN's

.But at a 50/50 revenue split I think they should take it

Derek

3:02

Apologies if this language doesn't fly in this chat... But Mean Word (edited by Ben) the owners. It's just pathetic what they are trying to do.

Ben Clemens

3:02

Haha yeah, your original wording was, let's just say, more PG-13 than FG likes to be

3:03

But I completely agree with your sentiment.

I think that I'm less sympathetic to the player's union than some of my colleagues

I don't particularly care whether Bryce Harper makes 30 bucks a year or 25

(buck = dumb finance slang for million)

But my horse in the race is minimum salary players and minor leaguers

3:04

and fixing a revenue split I think would go a long way towards helping them

Jeff

3:04

Will Puk and Luzardo in the rotation finally get Oakland to the promised land?

Ben Clemens

3:04

Depends on whether you mean winning the AL West or winning the WS

I'm super high on Oakland, though

Relative to projections

I'm down on the Astros

So, yes?

Derek

3:04

What would it look like for a baseball player to dominate the way MJ did basketball? Like, Mike Trout is really freaking good, but just watching Mike Trout in a random baseball game won't likely give you the sense that you may be watching the greatest baseball player in history. I guess maybe '99 Pedro is the closest we'll get?

Ben Clemens

3:04

I'm sad that I didn't feel more impressed by Pedro as that was happening.

3:05

What about that one CC year

Was talking to my mother-in-law about it last night, the Milwaukee RSN has been replaying a lot of games from that year

That feeling of like, oh it's CC again! Oh he won again!

Was just awesome

Jeff

3:06

WS for Oakland

Ben Clemens

3:06

Okay, then yeah, I mean the odds are still against them. It's hard to win a World Series! Even if they're, let's double our playoff odds, 7% to wiin the WS each year

3:07

And that's every year

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