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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/5/25

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Ben Clemens

2:55

so here it is for 2025:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/outs_above_average?type=Pit...

Andre Pallante has a +6 defense behind him so far. Max Fried has a -7 defense behind him

Broken Bat

2:55

Is Matt Brash a tradeable chip, or too soon to injury?

Ben Clemens

2:56

too soon due to injury but I think that his time will come

A-aron

2:56

Every article should basically be about Aaron Judge at this point, right? This is Ruth and Bonds back on the diamond.

Ben Clemens

2:56

basically

imo

not every article because there are so many great things about baseball to appreciate

but this is the story of the year

HappyFunBall

2:57

How much longer do the Nats need to play decently to be considered "frisky"? It's kind of weird that a surprisingly bad bullpen is what seems to be holding them back. Not that I expected a good BP, just better than it's been...

Ben Clemens

2:57

I think they already seem frisky

Tacoby Bellsbury

2:58

I'm loving the back-and-forth years of Judge and Ohtani. What's Shohei going to do to one-up this in 2027?

Ben Clemens

2:58

what about a 50-homer, 150 IP season

Weird1@Portland

2:58

Is it wise to roster multiple multi positional players? I've got Arias, Romy G., Ibanez for example.

Ben Clemens

2:58

I like doing it

2:59

but! I'm not amazing at fantasy baseball

so take that with a grain of salt

KC Pain

3:00

How much is Elias job in danger? Drafting prospects is one thing. Only having a AAA championship to show for it is another. Stowers and Norby making him look pretty bad at the moment. Ownership said publicly hed spend, whether that is same behind closed doors who knows, but if he cant spend he has the prospect chips for reinforcements. The current team structure makes no sense, and why is Holliday still splitting time too often with Mateo?

Ben Clemens

3:00

I think that this is a question I can't answer from the outside

I don't know how the conversations between ownership and front office have gone, whether ownership thinks the current plan is what they should be doing, etc

3:01

okay, sorry for the abbreviated chat today but I've got some work to get to

Next week, I promise longer discussions of board games, food, non-baseball stuff that I've been skipping talking about b/c I've been trying to make these concentrated baseball since I've been in a hurry

have a wonderful week everyone

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