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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/6/24

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Vacuum your place

3:43

For those of you who don't follow rap, Kendrick is Jeter. Drake thinks he's Mike Piazza but he's Rey Ordoñez.

Ben Clemens

3:43

oh man, don't do this to Kendrick. He's Mariano Rivera or smoething

Guest

3:44

You like Carroll or Rodriguez to recover more fully the rest of the year?

Ben Clemens

3:44

Julio for me, because I'm more worried about injury with Carroll

and also I would have taken Julio over Carroll before the season so I'll just stick with it

RMR

3:44

Since April 22 the Reds offense has hit .182/.247/.280 and averaged 1.8 R/G. They're obviously playing short-handed due to injuries and I know random variation exists (more than most think). But please tell me somebody besides ELDC is going to figure out how to use a bat.

Ben Clemens

3:44

Yeah they are really giving the Cards a run for thei rmoney for worst NLC offense of the past two weeks

3:45

but eh, slumps happen, particularly when homers are'nt going out

I am most worried about Christian Encarnacion-Strand, like what the HELL is going on there

Spencer Steer looking good, though

I mean, not necessarily in the outfield. But overall

Appa Yip Yip

3:46

No love for Dock Ellis throwing a no hitter on LSD?

Ben Clemens

3:46

Oh another classic

We're going speed round here, this chat accidentally went VERY long b/c I was having so much fun

Kretch1

3:46

With a listed height/weight of 6'5", 210 lbs, I could certainly believe that Junior Bridgeman is the largest Wendy's franchisee

Ben Clemens

3:46

Gotta assume Shaq has a Wendy's b/c he seems to have an everything

Urban Shocker's Jockstrap

3:46

What is up with the Atlanta non-Ozuna power outage? I know Ronnie isn't lifting the ball much, but sheesh. Riley, Olson, and RAJ are all running horrific ISOs...

Ben Clemens

3:46

Baseball is running horrific ISO's

3:47

lowest since 2014

Bob Loblaw, Esq.

3:47

What grade would you give Shota's 92mph fastball?

Ben Clemens

3:48

60 for me, let's see how it does when it's hot in Chicago but particularly with less carry on the balls, the downside of 'what happens if they hit it' is mitigated and he misses bats plu locates well

Guest

3:48

is luis garcia jr just a babip story or is something clicking?

Ben Clemens

3:48

clicking, but also babip

Connor

3:48

How do the Mariners improve? It seems a lot of their problem is that the guys who are supposed to hit are not hitting and the guys who aren't supposed to hit are. There doesn't seem to be a clear way forward besides hoping that guys get better. Do they sit it out, or do they try to find trade targets. Jazz Chisholm?

Ben Clemens

3:48

Yeah I could see Jazz there. although polanco is FINALLY hitting a little

Mark

3:48

Speaking of "goofy stuff" in baseball writing, I recently read Frank Chance's Diamond, a Ring Lardner collection edited by veteran writer Ron Rapoport. Some straight baseball reportage, but also stuff like half in bad French, in the form of Hamlet's soliloquy, etc. I was aware of Lardner, but had never read his stuff. Plan to read more. A genius, though he always regretted the end of the dead-ball era.

Alek Manoah

3:49

Any advice to help me figure things out and re-establish my spot in the big leagues? How many innings/starts would you need to see, and how good would those innings need to be, to convince you I'm back?

Ben Clemens

3:49

stop walking everyone

I dunno, I'm always wrong on Manoah, I believed this year and then I watched yesterday and nope!

Sweepers

3:49

Sweepers are just cool slurves

Idiotic Failson

3:49

Is there a starter you WOULDN'T start against the CWS? I'm having a hard time coming up with one...

Ben Clemens

3:49