JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/8/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/8/20

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Ben Clemens

2:19

We are really winning today

Jake

2:19

How much longer do you think the league will wait before just saying "screw it we're playing 50 games"? I imagine they still want to try and be the only sport in town for a little bit

The Stranger

2:19

To me, the 50-game season just feels like the ultimate screw you move from the owners. It’s just, “oh, you don’t want to play for $X? Well that what you’re going to do.” Seems like a bitter pill for the players to swallow if that’s what it comes to.

Ben Clemens

2:19

Yeah I think they'd need to do more than 50 to really get that bump

They'd need to start by August 1 probably, right?

Yeah basketball starts July 31

So actually they'd want to start July 15, and that's more like the 60 game plan

2:20

I think I'm mostly okay with that

JoJo

2:20

How do you see an agreement impacting rookies? More or less likely to be called up and play this season?

Ben Clemens

2:20

Sadly, I think less

The existing agreement, which I'm assuming would hold, calls for pro-rated service time.

So if you play for 50% of the season, you get half a year of service time, 90 days or so

2:21

I think teams are gonna be really hesitant to give someone 90 days of service time in exchange for 30 games of production

Now, one way where that wouldn't be the case

Is if a team with a top prospect is unexpectedly in a playoff position

2:22

Weird playoff runs are going to be a LOT more likely the shorter the season gets

Like if you're the Orioles and you're randomly in first place on September 5

You're calling Adley up, right?

I would

2:23

So my initial view is no. But if there are playoff race surprises I could be extremely wrong.

David

2:23

So I guess I am in the minority when I say wake me in 2021 for sports when they get back to normal season with normal rules.

Ben Clemens

2:23

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, it's not real baseball in the way that we grew up thinking of baseball

I won't argue with you there.

2:24

But I watch the WBC, which is pretty clearly a different format

And man, I'd love to see Andrelton Simmons fielding a grounder right about now

I will 100% thikn of it as a weird one-off season, but I'd still love to see it

Nathan

2:24

If Correa can stay healthy for an entire season, is he the WAR leader at shortstop?

Ben Clemens

2:24

Hm

2:25

I like this question a lot. Shortstop is reallllly deep but the top end is basically Lindor and some dudes

Everyone in the tier below that is up for debate

2:26

I think that if Correa stays healthy for the whole season, he's solidly in that Semien/Story/Baez/Bogaerts tier

I'd put him just behind Bogaerts there, probably

And I dunno, Gleyber is somewhere in there too.

Paul DeJong? Probably not

Seager if he's healthy, too

2:27

But I'd give Correa as good odds as any of those guys

Curtis

2:28

Does a shorter season benefit the streaky hitter?

Nathan

2:28

Are there types of players that will become more or less valuable in a 50 game season? Are multi position guys less valuable? Do starting pitchers become even more valuable or can teams lean on there bullpen for a full season?

Ben Clemens

2:28

I've been pondering this streaky hitter question for a bit in the background while I played 'name that shortstop'

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