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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/22/20

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Ben Clemens

3:29

But now it's at least close

Dave

3:29

Is the deadline for signing UDFAs the same as signing drafted players (August 1st)?

Ben Clemens

3:29

I am not sure

Might be a question for Eric

Frank

3:30

You say "I mean" way too much. And I mean, it's not even necessary in the course of the conversation.

Ben Clemens

3:30

Oh that sounds entirely possible and now I'm going to read up and see it a lot

I used to be a 'like' person though I've largely kicked that habit

And a 'fair enough' person too

3:31

If Meg is reading this, I'm truly sorry for all the word repetition you have to edit out of my articles

I mean is just a filler word, and I am surprised I use it so much in writing, but I'm not at all surprised that I use filler words a lot

ghost of bruce bochte

3:31

I'd like a couple of Congressfolks to start publicly talking about the anti-trust exemption and see if that changes things...

Ben Clemens

3:32

I think Congress has bigger fish to fry at the moment.

Ideally yes, I'd like this too, but there are a ton of things I'd like to see fixed before we get down the chain to changing the anti-trust exemption for baseball

That's not so say I don' think it's worth bluffing about

Mention that you're considering a bill about it or some hearings, etc.

3:33

But that's 100% not 2020 business

And probably not 2021 business given that if Democrats win they'll have a lot of cleaning up to do in 2021 and if Trump wins he'll have a lot of scores to settle

3:34

I do wish that Congress would do *something* instead of voting on bills to suppress minor league salaries but hey

Betting on Congress doing the wrong thing has not been a *terrible* bet the past few years

So I'm going to keep assuming they will do the wrong thing, and hope I'm wrong

3:35

Have you ever played Strat-O-Matic baseball? My friends and I are drafting with the Hall of Fame deck and the question at #1 is take the two-way Babe Ruth or the stud at a weak position in Josh Gibson. Your thoughts?

Ben Clemens

3:35

I love Strat-O-Matic, and my dad and I used to do similar drafts

I haven't drafted the HoF collection before, and I don't remember how two-way players work in the game

3:36

How many players is the draft?

3:37

8 teams, 22 players per team

Our league is allowing you to own both Babe Ruth cards if you draft Babe Ruth

Ben Clemens

3:37

There are presumably at least 3 or 4 catchers worth rostering

And I don't know what the dropoff from Gibson to, say, peak Bench/Berra/Piazza or whatever is

3:38

I'd probably lean Babe Ruth

But without having seen the set it sounds like both options are really good

Getting an extra pitcher just seems quite valuable

Assuming Ruth's pitcher card is a mid-rotation starter or decent bullpen arm

3:39

Like if you get a 10th round pick out of the back end of his card, and then also the best offensive player with the first overall pick, that's pretty nice

OOTP has given me newfound respect for two-way players in baseball sims

3:40

They have capped tournaments there, which aren't quite like drafts but are a similar thing -- you have a constraint to operate under

And finding extra space on your team through a single player that can perform a few roles is big

3:40

Yeah, I think Ruth's pitching card is even better than that, to be honest. I think I'd agree with you and lean Ruth

Ben Clemens

3:40

Ah yeah if he's a top-10-round pick I'd just snap that up

(he = the pitcher card by itself here)

3:41

One thing that's a little weird about Strat-o-Matic, if it still works the way it did when I plyaed, is that the pitcher/batter interaction isn't really a proportional thing

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