JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/6/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/6/20

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Ben Clemens

3:09

Hm, that's a fair point

Let's specify that you have no control and no secondaries

Like you have a 55 mph slider somehow

Member of So-ciety

3:11

That Cleveland idea with the popular player names is TIGHT

Ben Clemens

3:11

I know right? Excellent call by Derek

This chat is usually full of nonsense opinions and me making stupid takes

But this is emphatically not that

I'm super into it

Sam

3:12

Could a 95 mph fastball, 55 mph slider be effective given the massive velocity difference?

Ben Clemens

3:12

If you had the same arm action, maybe?

You wouldn't, though

You'd look like a regular major leaguer for your fastball and then the kid from rookie of the year for your slider

Morbo

3:12

Ugh I had to vote for dunking. I'm typically a kicker on my rugby team and I can already bend a rugby ball which is harder than a soccer ball IMO. But I'm 6'3" and I've never been able to dunk not because I can't jump quite high enough to two handed dunk and my hands are about 1/2" too small to palm a basketball for a single handed dunk which I at least used to be able to jump high enough but I'd always drop the ball.

Ben Clemens

3:12

Oh man I know EXACTLY what you're talking about

3:13

I have long arms but only regular-sized hands, which was a perpetual disappointment to me in basketball

Derek

3:13

Following up on the Cleveland team name - if this system had already been in place we could have gotten a feel-good team naming after Carlos Carrasco... And also a MLB team named the Cleveland Cookies.

Eel Ffilc

3:13

Cleveland could use that idea to pitch to Lindor to keep him around!

Ben Clemens

3:13

Cleveland Cookies

3:14

Make me a Carrasco jersey with a sweet cookie logo and I'm buying it right now

Dunning-Kruger on the right

3:14

What happens in a case scenario of massive outbreak on a single team...say 7-10 players?

Ben Clemens

3:14

Honestly, no idea! Less than that and they'd just keep playing as normal. Probably even at 7-10 they'd just keep playing like normal

3:15

Becaues there aren' really other good options

I think in the extreme, say 15-20 players all testing positive at once, they'd just forfeit

But at that point I wonder if the baseball season would just stop

3:16

The odds aren't particularly high of one team spiking that rate without a lot of cases overall

Name game

3:16

If the original intent of the Indians name was to honor native americans, they should be the Cleveland Native A's

Ben Clemens

3:17

Eh, I don't love it. The problem for me here is that the Indians have the Chief Wahoo baggage

3:18

So if you keep the name in this vein, it's just going to invite the continued usage of the chief

I think you want to make a clean break

Kramer

3:18

thoughts on the schedule matchups that have been reported? Feels like Cardinals May have easiest Schedule with their pool play. AL central could be better but I think I read they are getting more against the royals due to geography.

Ben Clemens

3:18

Yeah agreed with this

NL Central gets the most boost, and whoever gets to play the Royals and Tigers the most gets the most of that boost

Member of So-ciety

3:19

Why is Haagen-Dazs so hard to scoop?

Ben Clemens

3:19

Sharp left turn!

I haven't had Haagen-Dazs in a long time, to be honest

Stupid coastal elites and their stupid coastal elite Ben and Jerry's

(also my wife is lactose intolerant, a truly cruel fate for a native of Wisconsin, so we err on the side of dairy-free desserts)

Derek

3:20

Ben and Jerry's actually sucks. Like, 30-grade ice cream.

Ben Clemens

3:20

Oh I'm gonna have to disagree

I think they're willdly inconsistent

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