JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/10/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/10/20

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Ben Clemens

2:24

In our OOTP league he got moved for a 45 FV guy after the Giants ate basically all of his salary

Not that this is representative of reality, but something like that DOES make sense to me

2:25

He can hit, and the Giants are gonna be paying him anyway

Why not pay him to play somewhere he can make the playoffs and get an interesting name out of the deal?

Adam

2:25

Say the Reds finish 33-27 (.550) and the Cardinals finish 25-20 (.556) in the fight for 2nd place in the NL Central. By winning percentage the Cardinals would have the claim on the playoff spot, but by the traditional "games back" metric, the Reds would be in front by half a game. I assume that winning percentage would carry the day, but should it?

Ben Clemens

2:25

I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I don't.

2:26

Which *should* win? I'd side with winning percentage but I'm not confident in that at all

Just off the top of my head

Alan

2:26

Thoughts on Andres Gimenez so far? He doesn't look overmatched at the plate to me, which is a bit of a surprise

bighen

2:26

absurdly SSS but Gimenez looks so much better than Rosario - whose ABs look terrible and never seems to improve. Not sure my question other than what is scouting community seeing with these two and how much longer until they switch?

Ben Clemens

2:27

I'm a long-term believer in Rosario but he has looked *lost* at the plate this year

Like, total disaster lost

2:28

Too early to say much on Gimenez, I think, he's just BABIP'ing a ton

The Mets don't have to make any decisions just yet given their injury issues, but I think they'd have to consider at least making them co-starters when everyone's back and healthy

Rosario has bad stats but he also just looks so bad at the plate

Give him a reset or something

He's just swinging with no clue what's coming

Garrett

2:29

why aren’t the giants bringing up Bart, haven’t we crossed the threshold where he would accrue a full year of service so the money can’t be the reason

Ben Clemens

2:29

Yeah but if they hold him down all of this year and then for the first 14 days NEXT year

that's even an extra year of service time

And if one free year of service time is good, two is better

Appa Yip Yip

2:29

So the visitor training facilities at Sahlen Field are apparently outside, meaning no/poor AC, I think? Is it so wrong of me to hope for a *minor* heat wave?

Ben Clemens

2:29

So long as you really mean minor, I don't think so

2:30

But boy that doesn't sound like a great situation

What happens if it rains?

nb

2:30

The 1981 season had teams play unequal numbers of games due to the strike. I think deciding the standings based on winning percentage is inevitable. It's not just that Miami and St. Louis have lost a bunch of games, the clubs they were supposed to play have had their schedules affected too.

Ben Clemens

2:31

Yeah that makes sense to me. I think the Cardinals broke the camel's back, not everyone is playing 60

:)

2:31

gregory soto .. favorite reliever of 2020 so far

Ben Clemens

2:31

I'm partial to Jonathan Hernandez b/c I wrote about him on basically a hunch

And then he's good

Free Ian Happ

2:31

Why do the Rays insist on platooning Brandon Lowe? I think his bat is for real, 30% k rate aside

Ben Clemens

2:32

Because they can, basically. If they weren't so stacked I think they'd be happy to run him out there every day

But the temptation to upgrade is strong

Guest

2:32

Hi! I recently became a member and started learning more and about analytics. Are there certain blogs or other things you suggest i check out? thanks!

Ben Clemens

2:32

So, I wrote a few refreshers on sabermetric concepts earlier this year

Which I will dig up:

2:33

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/for-your-begrudging-enjoyment-a-batted-bal...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/for-your-enjoyment-a-home-run-rate-refresh...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/for-your-enjoyment-a-groundball-rate-refre...

2:34

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/one-last-refresher-on-strikeouts-and-walks...

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