JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/10/20

View Full Chat Next Page

This chat is available to members only. Please log in to participate.

Ben Clemens

2:00

Hey everybody, welcome to the chat.

I'm on semi-vacation this week (well, not actually on vacation, still writing a normal amount, just doing so from a cabin in the woods) so if my internet connection is a bit jumpy, sorry in advance.

2:01

Today, I wrote about the first place Rockies as an excuse to show people that I can do statistics:https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-rockies-are-hot-is-it-time-to-re-evalu...

Let's talk about some baseball, as well as hopefully some other stuff

YardGoat

2:01

Hope you are doing well Ben. Will the Cardinals play this week? If they don't, it seems unlikely they would be able to play a complete 60 game schedule. Could you see their schedule being truncated to 50 or 55 instead?

Ben Clemens

2:02

I don't see them playing before the weekend, at which point I think they'd have to shorten their season.

There just aren't enough days to handle it otherwise

It'll be weird, but eh, this season was already guaranteed to be weird

I think we'll manage

Moose_Bolton

2:02

Do you have any favorite "fun" or bizarre facts from the short sample so far? I just looked and noticed that Aaron Judge is rocking a 3.1% walk rate and 8 of his 17 hits have gone for homers. This is certainly a sustainable rate and I'm excited to see it.

Ben Clemens

2:03

I like Carlos Santana walking 200% of the time, and I like negative FIP's, of which there are many

But I think my favorite line of the season so far is Tatis's .810 slugging percentage

Like, what?

Cronebone