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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/28/21

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Ben Clemens

2:41

So, it's extremely small

Mark Canha leads baseball with 13 HBP this year

Base Ball

2:42

Do you think we see a female player in your lifetime?

Ben Clemens

2:42

I think the odds are probably below 50% if you're talking about a major leaguer, but certainly non-zero

But uh, I'm not doing this with some scientific process

It's just a guess

Chungus Khan

2:43

If there were a leading website on analytics for professional fishing, would it be called FinGraphs?

Ben Clemens

2:43

It would actually be called TroutGraphs, as we've been longing to rebrand the website in Mike Trout's honor

2:43

You mentioned working on the trade value series, what are some of the biggest challenges with drafting that list? I've enjoyed previous iterations, but imagine a lot of time is required.

Ben Clemens

2:43

I'll let you know when I get there!

It's been really fun so far but lots of talking about 'hey would you take this player or tihs similarly good but totally different player'

Can lead to insular thinking

So I hope we're doing a good job with it

RedsoxManiac Original

2:43

Is Taylor Trammell or Akil Baddoo for you ROS? Does Trammell become a star easier by trimming his SO rate vs Akil adding some velocity to his BIP? Or should I stay safe with Captain Nimmo?

Ben Clemens

2:44

I think Baddoo is likely to produce the better fantasy line, I think trimming SO rate in-season is really hard

That said, I'd just keep Nimmo for sure

And Captain Nimmo is a great nickname

Matt

2:45

Looking at spray charts, it seems like Tatis pretty much never hits shallow ground balls to the opposite field versus lefties. Do you think a team could try and take advantage of this via a shift or is it just noise?

Ben Clemens

2:45

Honestly, it's probably just noise, and that's a hard thing to shift against anyway

Shifting against righties is just generally less effective

And everyone mostly pulls when they hit grounders

Matt Damon