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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/8/20

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Ben Clemens

3:24

Whatever I see at the store, or at a farmer's market, or whatnot

Moving to California has been great for that; I tend to like Mexican and Asian spices and yeah, right place for those

3:25

Oh, honorable mention to the chili paste that the Sriracha company makes

Derek

3:25

Oh that sausage take is a bad one.

Ben Clemens

3:25

Ha, see, it's a hot take!

I'm not a huge red meat guy though

I wouldn't give up bacon

And I wouldn't give up hamburgers

3:26

But aside from those, I don't really eat very much red meat at all

I know some people swear by sausage, but to me it's just easy to get close to its taste, and so much of sausage is the grease, which I think chicken and turkey do well

Less sold on some of the vegan/vegetarian options

Nathan

3:26

Are you pro DH? As an Astros fan always hatred but to be honest I haven’t missed the pitchers hitting and didn’t even notice it at first.

Ben Clemens

3:26

I'm pro-DH

3:27

I wish I weren't

Not like I wish I just thought differently, but I wish pitchers could hit well enough that the variation mattered

But eh.... they just don't hit at all!

If every pitcher hit like Zack Greinke, sure, I'm in

But I don't like the strategy implications enough for it to be worth just how awful pitchers are at batting

aaronsaron

3:28

The range of pitching pace last year was about 20-29 seconds. If we say everyone shaves off 8 seconds a pitch (which not every pitcher would of course, but humor me), at an average of about 290 pitches a game, that would save 38.66 minutes a game! That's crazy!

Ben Clemens

3:28

Yeah; I mean, you wouldn't save that much, but even if you save half of that (not a terrible guess), that's some value

3:29

Just clone Mark Buehrle