JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/12/23

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/12/23

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Ben Clemens

3:06

basically he got back to his batted ball form of 2021, hitting the ball in the air more frequently and still making hard contact, but that hard contact has found a ton of gloves so far

it's not like he's a career xwOBA underperformer or something; he made a lot of the changes I'm sure the Jays were hoping he'd make, and hasn't been paid off for them

3:07

I'm a skeptic of any particular player being the next Miggy, just because he's a first ballot hall of famer

but I would be encouraged by Vlad's start if I were a Jays fan

the worrisome thing with him in 2022 was whether he would be able to go back to getting the ball in the air to make his prodigious contact and power play up

Jason N

3:07

Looking for a game recommendation I can do on family night. 4-6 players which could include a 12 and 14 year old, and a couple of senior citizens. What you got?

Ben Clemens

3:08

I'm a huge fan of Oh Hell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Hell

great game for a wide mix of age ranges

John b

3:08

Corbin Carroll as ROY and MVP. Odds?

Ben Clemens

3:08

Presumably this is the same as the odds of Carroll winning MVP

3:09

Through a quick perusal of some betting sites, that's something like 20:1

Steve E.

3:09

So will the Pirates take Dylan Crews?

Ben Clemens

3:10

Presumably, though that isn't my area of expertise

Farhandrew Zaidman

3:10

Would either the Dodgers or the Red Sox agree to a complete swap of their respective former players? For posterity, it would be Mookie & JD for Duggie, Kiké, JT, Kenley and Chris Martin.

Ben Clemens

3:10

I mean.... the Dodgers would say no

3:11

Mookie Betts is very good

Jose

3:11

What odds would you put on there being a 40-40 player this year

Ben Clemens

3:11

longer than I'd expected coming into the year

3:12

we're talking Carroll, Acuna, mayyyybe Julio and Arozarena?

BWJ I suppose, but I don't think he's hitting 40 bombs

I guess I'd say 8%?

3:13

Just ballparking it

Dan the Man McGRAWWWW

3:13

A lot of people like to harp on the Yankees for not signing Profar in free agency but he wasn't the solution. Who do they trade for at the deadline?

Could Soto be traded?

Ben Clemens

3:13

Combo of two questions

I think there's a 0% chance of Soto getting traded

you can't give up the haul they did for him and then turn around and flip him

3:14

As for who the Yankees will try to trade for in the outfield

Cody Bellinger makes sense to me if the Cubs are selling

Teoscar Hernandez, maybe?

3:15

There aren't a lot of teams a)with good outfielders and b)selling

hey, if they want to deal with the Cardinals again, how about Tyler O'Neill

it's a pretty thin market out there, though

Adam

3:16

The Twins trades for Mahle and Lopez look awful .. Add in the Arraez deal, is the front office on the hotseat?

Ben Clemens

3:16

Do... they?

Actually yeah the Mahle trade looks pretty rough

3:17

Arraez/Lopez hasn't been that big of a gap in WAR, despite the fawning coverage of Arraez... Arraez is both good and tremendously fun, and I think that we in the media over-lean towards the tremendously fun part at times

3:18

Jose Salas has not looked great, though, which does take the wind out of my sails a bit

but byron chourio is tearing the doors off the complex league in a robust 13-PA sample

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