JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/15/23

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/15/23

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Ben Clemens

3:03

one of the strangest I've ever heard

Matt

3:03

Do you expect STL to call up Liberatore anytime soon?

Ben Clemens

3:03

I don't get it!

They really should, right?

But I'm gonna go with the path of least resistance and say they won't

I truly do not understand it

Guest

3:04

Going on a big family-reunion type vacation soon. What's a good non-taco recipe for a crowd (think 20+)?

Ben Clemens

3:04

Sadly I don't have one fo ryou

I haven't done a lot of cooking for groups that big, or really any

I think that generally, stuff you can grill works well for that

Slow-cooked meat isn't bad, either, presuming you have a big enough slow cooker and or two

because there's less cooking to order for that, you can do the heavy lifting at 11 am and eat at 7pm

Mugghead

3:04

Re: Abreu falling off a cliff
Closest thing I can think of is Roberto Alomar becoming absolutely awful at baseball once he joined the Mets.

Ben Clemens

3:05

This is a callback to a while ago but yeah, not a bad comp

Guest

3:05

What is your projected order of finish for the NL Central?

Ben Clemens

3:05

I'm gonna go Brewers Cubs Cardinals Pirates Reds

Guest

3:05

Out of the MN starters, how would you rank them in terms of confidence that they keep up this crazy start?

Ben Clemens

3:06

Okay, so likeliness to continue their performance. I'll go Lopez, Gray, Ober, Ryan

Ryan just can't keep up a 2.16 ERA, you know?

I'd actually have him second (behind Lope) in who I'd want for the rest of the year

I'm very bought in on Lopez, in case that wasn't clear

Guest

3:06

Cards said they were moving Contreras to DH to take pressure off him as well as to work on gameplanning. They're 6-2 since. Maybe they were right and a bunch of folks are overreacting to a poorly messaged 10 day situation. How do you think he and Flaherty will do tonight? (the 10 day situation is over, btw)

Ben Clemens

3:07

I mean... their messaging made no sense, and it's nice that Andrew Knizner had an above average batting line last week, but the pitching remained awful

28th in baseball in starter WAR in the past week

3:08

the starting pitching is quite bad, regardless of who is behind the plate

He specifically said he did no work to change, and there was no evidence that he needed to work on game planning

3:09

It's pretty rough that he made Jack Flaherty lose 5 mph of velo, while not even cadtching him, etc.

How do I think Flaherty will do tonight? Poorly!

And I bet he'll make a snide comment about how it's not actually his fault, because he has after the past two starts

But I hope he does well

Farhandrew Zaidman

3:09

What's more likely to happen first, Diamondbacks make a deep run, Pirates win their division, or Reds end over .500?

Ben Clemens

3:09

DBacks

3:10

I really believe in the youth movement there, and they've shown more willingness to mix it up with the big boys spending wise

The Reds and Pirates just have such dire ownership situations that I can't make longterm bets on them, and I think that as a bonus the most likely thing to happen this year is the DBacks making the playoffs

Captain Mex

3:10

An aging borderline HOF 1B in his mid 30's who had begun to decline but you would probably expect solid production with a change of scenery....how about Keith Hernandez going to Cleveland in 1990 then quickly calling it a career? Not the same with Abreu's contract/commitment but kinda similar.

Ben Clemens

3:10

I did not even know this happened

So yeah, probably a great example

Just Fowl

3:10

How many more starts do Kluber and Pivetta get before the RS send them to the bullpen, or DFA if they refuse? They might be better off giving street FAs tryouts to find starters who can deliver an ERA under 6.

Ben Clemens

3:11

Yeah, Kluber has looked ROUGH

I think he might just be cooked, sadly

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