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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/20/20

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Ben Clemens

2:32

(presumably this is the O's, to be clear)

Joey

2:32

Does Seth Brown have any impact this year? What’s your take on McBroom with O’Hearn out and struggling last year?

Ben Clemens

2:33

I think that Seth Brown is going to take Khris Davis's spot either this year or next year

Agnostic on McBroom; I dunno, it's very hard to project playing time when the team isn't trying to win

GSon

2:33

You don't have to live or work someplace to find out how "it works".. there's this thing called the internet.. you can find out all kinds of information..

Ben Clemens

2:33

Sure but why would I have researched Canadian tax policy?

2:34

Like yes, I could definitely go do that now

But if I'd ever had reason for it to come up, I'd already know

For example, my wife worked in Australia on assignment last year

So I can tell you that Australia tries to claim income and such for QUITE a while after you leave

2:35

Whereas Singapore (another place she's worked) makes you pay an exit tax and then you're good

Mayor Joe Riley

2:35

Blue Jays should play in the Charleston Riverdogs stadium. It's downtown in a city with a ton of hotels/accommodations and travel would be pretty easy up and down the east coast.

Ben Clemens

2:35

I don't know the dimensions of the stadium but yeah, the travel seems okay from there

Chris

2:35

But if they pick a park with crazy dimensions Vlad will hit fingers!!

Ben Clemens

2:35

I am picturing Vlad taking aim at outfielders' fingers

2:36

There's this old Steve Spurrier saying (or maybe he didn't make it up, I'm not sure) about throwing a football: aim small, miss small

He made QB's aim for individual spots on receivers, thought it made them more accurage

But sadly I assume you meant dingers

Rings

2:36

So, we're lucky, we play all the way through, someone wins. What do the rings say? If they're asterisked (but the Astros aren't), some will be mad. But if they're not.... But maybe we'd just be grateful it happened.

Ben Clemens

2:36

I don't think they should be asterisked

I think that WW2 and 1981 are good reasons why not

2:37

WW2 was pretty clearly not real baseball, half of the best players in the MLB were in the war

In 1981 with the strike and the split seasons, the teams with the best overall record in the NL didn't go to the playoffs

Imagine if the Dodgers arbitrarily didn't make the playoffs last year

Nats still win

Is there an asterisk?

2:38

I say no, so I say no to asterisks overall

Also pre-1947 period

2:38

If we're talking about not having the best players included.

Ben Clemens

2:38

Yeah, an even better point

That I should have made in the first place, so thank you

You think a 60-game season is "fake"-er than excluding Josh Gibson?

2:39

Baseball isn't an asterisk sport

If it happens, it happens

Mike Hawk

2:39

With Chacin leaving, has Dobnak secured the #5 in MN?

Ben Clemens

2:39

I'd say yes

Adam Dawson

2:39

Was offered Alvarez, Semien, and the Giants closer for Seager, Adell, and Lowe. What do you think

Ben Clemens

2:39

Haha uh, which Seager and which Lowe?

Guest

2:39

I asked Craig last week, but as another cardinals-adjacent writer, wondering your take on the BFIB account? I think it's kinda harmless fun if you take it with a grain of salt but 99% of the pushback I've seen on it has come from... well, cardinal fans.

Ben Clemens

2:39

I actually don't know it.

Let me take a quick look

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