JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/18/22

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/18/22

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Ben Clemens

2:58

It's my least favorite part of baseball

It's funny, you'd think that coming to baseball from finance would make me like that part the most

But it's kinda the opposite

Strawberry Bonds

2:58

Onions and garlic are the only s tier vegetables. There are a lot of other great ones, but these two are key to so many recipes they are on a tier of their own - hence s tier.

Ben Clemens

2:58

I don't think that garlic is a vegetable, but onions were a huge miss on my part

automatic S tier, totally agree

CB

2:59

Is there any player who - if added to the trade block - could get the league more hot and bothered than Soto?

Ben Clemens

2:59

Yeah, for sure

Julio, Tatis, Acuna, Yordan, Vlad

just to name five

Morbo

2:59

Shallots > onions

Ben Clemens

2:59

onion family in general

I'm counting shallots, white, red, yellow, and scallions all as onions

Morbo

2:59

Fight me

Ben Clemens

2:59

I prefer not to

3:00

My go-to salad is arugula with a dressing of minced shallots, olive oil, lemon juice, and salt

Guest

3:00

How much does Mike Trout fall on the list?

Ben Clemens

3:00

A lot, sadly

the health issues are still there, and he's getting older and not any cheaper, and I'm honestly starting to worry just a bit about his contact rates

Brandon

3:00

Will the Soto trade ultimately come down to what top 15 prospect the Nats like most? Like if it's Walker vs. Abrams vs. Alvarez, if the Nats just prefer Walker, doesn't that put Soto in STL?

Ben Clemens

3:00

Yeah I think so

That makes this whole thing hard to handicap

The Real Ben Clemens

3:01

how good would deGrom have to be over an approx. 11-13 start span to get legitimate Cy Young consideration

Ben Clemens

3:01

It's just not possible sadly

he put up 4.9 WAR in 15 starts last year

and didn't get legitimate consideration

that's one of the best 15-start stretches of all time

1.08 ERA, 45% strikeout rate, 3% walk rate

3:02

if deGrom came back and didn't allow a single run all year, maybe?

Morbo

3:02

I mean Jake arrieta won a cy young for basically the second half of a season and degrom is obviously better

Ben Clemens

3:02

right... but we have a great example of the fact that voters won't vote for something like that

and it's deGrom himself

bron cena

3:02

oh I misread that lol. I thought that was three descriptors of one guy, a 3B who looked like a bust for his first 500 PA, who’s young and didn’t make HM, and got wildly unlucky his first two months this year

Ben Clemens

3:02

ohhhhhh that makes more sense

Yeah it was three mystery items

3:03

Moncada is a strange one. We had him off the list last year and that was probably wrong. But I think this year it'll be right to leave him off

cool

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jas

3:03

Would the Reds trade Castillo to the Cardinals? Would the Cardinals trade future pieces to the Reds? Not sure who would be more reluctant

Ben Clemens

3:03

I thikn they'd be willing to. The future is in the future. Now is now. Do the thing htat helps you out the most

White Sox

3:03

Would Romas, Montgomery, Colas, and Vera be laughed at for Soto? 28th-30th system means not worth a great deal, so add a 5th prospect?

Ben Clemens

3:04

it would be laughed at

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