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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/15/23

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Ben Clemens

3:34

AD looks unstoppable

Armadillofury

3:34

Is Miguel Vargas good or meh?

Ben Clemens

3:34

good, maybe still hurt

He and Outman are both gonna be dudes, I don't have a good quantitative way to prove that but I feel it in my bones

bighen

3:34

I love Mets announcers but Gary keeps talking about Lindor having 31 RBI and what a pace he's on. He's hitting .223 (i know no one care about batting average), so how about his .309 OBP and .729 OPS. He's been mostly terrible this season and feel like he gets off a little easy

Ben Clemens

3:35

yeah.... I mean, i don't quite agress that he's been terrible, but he has been worse than last year by a fair margin

and I agree, I'm surprised that the decline in his OBP and increase in K% isn't mentiond more

heck, decline in slug too

The Lord’s Stanley Cup

3:35

Who do you have winning the best trophy is all of sports?

Ben Clemens

3:36

Carlos Alcaraz

we're talking Wimbledon, right?

but no, I don't have a strong take on hockey but I hope it's the Kraken b/c that'd be cool

okay, last question of the day is gonna be pure nonsense, but first let's have a good penultimate question

Clase Cutter

3:36

Is there a favorite pitch you enjoy watching most?

Ben Clemens

3:37

Yeah, for me it's a 12-6 curveball

just a big hammer

Guest

3:37

Off The Wall Question: Which "class" of Big 4 team names is historically best? You've got "Ursine" (Bears, Cubs, Grizzlies), "Patriotic" (Yankees, Patriots, etc.), "Colorful" (Red Sox, Reds, Browns, etc.), "Feline" (Panthers, Jaguars, Tigers, Lions, etc.) . . . others?

Ben Clemens

3:37

okay!

So historically, patriotic is hard to beat, just b/c you get the best baseball team and a football dynasty

3:38

the worst is almost certainly 'does not end in s'

you get two sox teams who have historically bad records (with intermittent good seasons obv)

some newer franchises, who always tend to be worse b/c they have less time to be great

and i guess your best team is probably the Miami Heat or the Red Sox?

3:39

underrated option: jobs