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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 5/9/22

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Didace

3:01

Hand-made-balls. I always thought it was only the stitching that was done by hand. They just can't get a machine to do it better.

Ben Clemens

3:01

Ah yeah that's what I meant, hand-stitched

Kelenic

3:01

What do the M's do with Kelenic at this point? Seems like a pretty epic bust for being one of the top prospects in all of baseball.

Ben Clemens

3:01

I mean... send him back to the minors, hope he mashes there, and give him another shot if he does

What are you supposed to do? He just looks awful

3:02

I wasn't super-optimistic about his call-up last year, but uh, I did not expect anything like this level of futility

TomBruno23

3:02

Paul DeJong...Toast?

Ben Clemens

3:03

Oof... Yeah, I think so

3:04

His swing just looks unplayable at the moment. Maybe it's a confidecne issue or something? He's so late and also so under every pitch he squares up. An average launch angle of 22.7 degrees is really hard to wrap my head around. He's just launching lazy fly balls all over the place

Also there's a hole in his bat in the strike zone. I don't know what you do, but giving everyday PA's to somebody who is just visibly lost feels like a bad decision

joe schlabotnik

3:05

thank you for saying nice things about yadiel hernandez last year. he is one of the best stories in baseball. so happy to see him putting together such a nice streak

Ben Clemens

3:05

Huge fan of his! 33-year-old rookies are always cool, his story is neat, and I love his style of player -- all-fields line drive hitter

Love to see what he's doing this year

Trev

3:05

FIP - Why is the denominator IP and not PA. Isn't IP also defense dependent to a degree?

Ben Clemens

3:05

I dunno

3:06

If I were making it and were smarter at math, etc., I'd start from wanting to use TBF for sure

Guest

3:06

Trade Kelenic back to the Mets I hear Cano is available

Ben Clemens

3:06

The Mets don't have Cano's rights anymore, they released him. But otherwise, I love this joke, I really did enjoy suggesting that the White Sox should trade Craig Kimbrel for a nice high-floor 2b like Nick Madrigal

Depot

3:06

More WAR for the rest of their careers: Yadi, Pujols, or Frank Schwindel?

Ben Clemens

3:06

Schwindel lol

3:07

Alright, on that note, I'm gonna call it a chat. Thank you everyone for hanging out with me today, and thanks as well to the trolls whose comments I didn't post. Readers are readers! Have a great week everyone, and let's do this again next Monday.

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