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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/17/21

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Ben Clemens

3:34

Oh goodness, I got into that story at the perfect time

He set the record

Then! He hit a dinger for his first ML hit

Then! He hit another dinger for his second hit

He has no other hits in the majors

Guest

3:34

Doesn't Joey Wendle mainly play 3rd for the Rays? He's pretty good

Ben Clemens

3:35

Yeah look, I don't get the "rays have no long-term solution at 3B either"

to be fair I don't know if Wendle qualifies as long-term

But I didn't say it! I think they are set in the infield

That's why when I listed potential areas of return for Adames I said outfield and rotation

Underrated Pitchers

3:35

Tyler Anderson and Christian Jaiver top 30 SPs?

Ben Clemens

3:35

Gonna say Anderson yes, Javier no for now

3:36

I am really leery of the control

I think that Javier has a chance to be HUGE

He just hasn't dialed it in yet

3:37

He only has a 9.3% walk rate this year, so you'd think it's all good, but if you watch him pitch it does not feel that way, and he doesn't draw enough chases or throw in the zone enough to make me think I should trust the small-sample rate over my eyes and his history

Pitchers

3:37

Don't look now, but the pitchers seem like they are really pro DH with their performance so far this year. Maybe they all agreed "Hey if we suck extra this year that'll really put the final nail in the coffin."

Ben Clemens

3:38

It's gonna happen

All these guys trying to get one last dinger in are taking AWFUL hacks, too

3:39

Alright guys, on this note, I'm going to do a quick lightning round and then head out

Gotta get back to writing, and I'm gonna grab coffee with a friend in a few as well

Lord Hugginton

3:39

What happened at the end of March which caused the spike/dip in Fangraphs' membership?

Ben Clemens

3:39

That's largely b/c we did our first membership drive last March

3:40

So there are a lot of up/downs in there, people letting theirs expire for a day and then re-upping, or us getting new members as old ones drop out

Houzer

3:40

T or F- Tigers should extend Mazara to a 3 year 5.25M contract and consider him a high upside, low dollar project

Ben Clemens

3:40

MIke

3:40

What are the Diamondbacks doing with Varsho? I suppose now with Kelly down for a while, he'll get more playing time. Up to now, though, he mostly was on the bench. Would think he'd be better off in AAA gettings AB's every day.

Ben Clemens

3:40

Yeah, with Kelly out it solves the hproblem

Sticky Situation ;)

3:40

Thor must be in the lightning round! SYNDERGAARD

Chris

3:40

Kikuchi or Alzolay as a streamer and/or long term?

Ben Clemens

3:40

Yes to both to both

Family tie(s) game

3:40

Watergate sounds exactly like a game Alex P. Keaton would love and teach kids when babysitting.

3:41

unrelated to anything, but I can’t stop myself from confusing John Gant with John Gast and John Gaub even though Gant is the only one of the three with any sort of success in the majors

Astro's fan

3:41

Will Myles Straw become an average CF?

Ben Clemens

3:41

Yeha, I think so

Dan

3:41

Why do the team I want to miss the playoffs keep rostering players I want to do well?

Ben Clemens

3:41

Ah, that endless question

Thanks everyone, have a great week, and Kiermaier's piercing green eyes, I made a delicious fermented bean sauce that I can't wait to tell you about next week, I just ran out of time.

The rest of you: you can hear about it too. Have a great one!

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