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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/17/20

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Ben Clemens

3:23

Oh I see

Huh

I'm not sure of a way to do that either, unfortunately, without doing a TON of manual work

Like, downloading every line ever a ton of work

Hector

3:23

Where would you set the over/under on career innings pitched in Shohei Ohtani's future?

Ben Clemens

3:23

Ugh

Boooooo

But this is a good question, to be clear

Just a sad one

I think it's honestly like 200

3:24

Because I thinkt here's a real chance that it's 0

And so you have to get very few other scenarios to find a breakeven line

Hope I'm wrong

Justin

3:24

Do you think the Red Sox will look to sell Brandon Workman and/or JD Martinez at the deadline?

Ben Clemens

3:24

Yes, and I think they find a taker for Workman but not JD

Joe

3:24

Jeff Passan wrote today that the time between balls in play has gone up by nearly 40 real time seconds since 2011. That legitimately does seem like a problem. How can baseball fix this? Is it even possible?

Ben Clemens

3:25

It's a really hard thing to fix, and I wouldn't ocnsider myself the best qualified person to ask about it

But I've always liked the idea of a deader ball but a further back mound

NO idea if that would work

But I'd like to see a lot more thought given to deadening the ball at the same time you take something major away from pitchers

Gunther Centralperk