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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/6/24

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Ben Clemens

3:10

This feels premature

also they're scoring 4.5 runs per game

3:11

that's in the top half of baseball!

offense sucks this year

Tacoby Bellsbury

3:11

We saw the Marlins' haul from the Padres, but what would it take to get Arraez out of you? (Did this pun?)

Ben Clemens

3:11

if by arraez, you mean awrychuckle, definitely yes

aces

3:11

Any reason for concern on Logan Webb? Fastball velo looked to be down a tick or two yesterday.

Ben Clemens

3:11

nah, i'm not too worried

3:12

we have this neat pitch velocity chart option on player pages under 'graphs'

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/logan-webb/17995/graphs?pitchgraphs=...

definitely his lowest of the season but hardly out of range of recent years. now if it keeps happening, I'll pay attention

but this is a good way of showing that it's definitely within career norms

actually huh

3:13

for some reason that's defaulting to a changeup

i gotta ask about that, it's usually fastballs. probably something with someone who doesn't throw four-seamers

that said, I went into the URL and changed it to sinkers:

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/logan-webb/17995/graphs?pitchgraphs=...

3:14

and same deal, it's low but not by enough to make me panic

Sirras

3:14

Can you pass along compliments to Davy on today's piece about the Mets broadcast? What a fantastic peek behind the curtain!

Ben Clemens

3:14

I can, and in fact I've been talking about that article both internally and with friends today

Davy is on a crazy hot streak

or well, maybe he's just always been this good

but he's been crushing it recently

Pat

3:15

Re- Ng- Yeah, I always figured she was an average GM..which means may be above average when you considered the Marlins ownership meddling. Not perfect, made some mistakes, but, tough to sort out the wheat from the chaff with the situation

Ben Clemens

3:15

Yeah, that's about the size of it from my perspective. I also think that GM evaluation is pretty tough

like there's tactical evaluation adn then strategic evaluation, and we never know how much ownership interferes with the strategic decision making side

Funny Baseball

3:15

What's a better fun baseball story: A) Moe Berg becoming a spy behind enemy lines in WW2 post playing career B) Ron LeFlore being scouted by Billy Martin in a prison yard game and signing a contract to kickstart a fairly successful MLB career C) Olympic sprinter Herb Washington's at bat-less career that morphed into being the largest African-American McDonald's franchisee and later a job as a Director at the NY Federal Reserve

Ben Clemens

3:16

okay for me it's Herb Washington (I've been thinking about this one for a while)

b/c you got me with the NY Fed reference

they're all pretty great stories though

Gord

3:16

Has the league figured out Julio Rodriguez? Watching his at bats these days it seems pretty obvious that teams are just pounding him inside with velocity, then making him expand the zone with off speed stuff until he strikes out. Do you think he’ll make the adjustment at some point and figure things out?

Ben Clemens

3:16

I think he'll make an adjustment, b/c he's been good at it

'figured him out' implies that it's the end of the story, but this is just a continual struggle between pitchers and hitters

3:17

and I'm willing to bet on stars figuring things out

bosoxforlife

3:17

When speaking of the sweeper I always thought Chris Sale's unhittable breaking ball was really what would today be called a sweeper rather than a slider which I perceive to be a much tighter and sharper curve. Where would the Braves be without him?

Ben Clemens

3:17

Yeah, Sale is a good example of a pitcher who didn't need new training methods to learn a bendy slider, he just had one

3:18

I mean, they'd be fine, on course to be a great team. But I think he makes their postseason roster look a lot better, and they're surely overjoyed that he looks both healthy and effective so far

it's ironic that Grissom has been the injured one

André René Roussimoff

3:18

Even with Jones here, Skenes coming and being in a mid division, are the Pirates going to have to spend somewhat to become a consistent force in the Central? The Cubs system is loaded and the Brew Crew is run by very smart people.

Ben Clemens

3:19

I think I agree with this. It's shocking that they're in last in the central with the Cardinals imploding and Jared Jones going nova

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