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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/20/20

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Ben Clemens

2:57

He just has no idea

No one has seen the guy play!

It reminds me of hte early 2000s hype when Daisuke was coming over

2:58

Talent evaluators had seen Daisuke play, of course

But fans hadn't at all and we all had no idea what to expect

That fan 'hey who knows but he's probably great' mood is what talent evaluators are feeling about Dominguez

2:58

Best multi-position infield depth option: Straw, Berti, Camargo, Fletcher, Daniel Robertson?

Ben Clemens

2:58

FLETCHER

Fletcher is good enough to start

2:59

Largely due to his defense, but still

I think the rest of them are a little stretched

clemlibby

2:59

Ben attended his first baseball game at the age of 3 weeks!

Ben Clemens

2:59

And there you have it, guest

I never stood a chance

Father Padre

2:59

How does the padres bullpen preform without Munoz, Castillo and Wingenter? I thought they were all ticketed for significant roles

Ben Clemens

2:59

I tihnk it'll work out. They have a lot of depth and things will inevitably go wrong

I like the Padres team construction this year

Guest

2:59

I've often wondered if a team could just hype the hell out of someone nobody's ever heard of and then trade them for a haul. Or bring him in to pitch a really important situation and he throws, like, 50 when the batter is expecting 100. (Michael Scott voice) It's probably a better screenplay idea than a serious suggestion.

Ben Clemens

3:00

Well the classic form of this is that a team's number one prospect tends to be overvalued if the team has a bad farm system

Because he's a TEAM'S TOP PROSPECT

but he'd be #13 on the Rays list or whatever

Guest

3:00

Eno's chats were weird in a good way, even for fangraphs, it was like its own little community within fangraphs

man back in the day I used to waste MULTIPLE hours of work on Eno's chats in here, like he'd do 2-3 hour marathons of complete nonsense

Ben Clemens

3:00

Yeah I dunno how the Athletic does chats but the Eno (and Jeff, really) chats here were wild

Wandering About something

3:00

Who is the best major leaguer you would trade for Wander Franco straight up?

Ben Clemens

3:01

Depends what team I am

Guide me

Eddie Waitkus

3:01

Am I thinking about WAR correctly when I say that last Mike Trout was worth the same as Acuna pitching like Fried every 5th game? Or would Acuna with Fried's arm be worth so much more than just adding up the individual WAR's?

Ben Clemens

3:01

Well.... you're kind of right. We don't have a great way of handling the value you get from conserving roster spots

3:02

And also if Acuna got to hit as a pitcher that would be good

(not that that matters this year)

But kind of?

Wandering

3:02

I suppose I meant in a vacuum, the promise/risk of Wander Franco is worth no worse than player X. Team context, salaries ignored.

Ben Clemens

3:03