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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/21/2023

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Ben Clemens

2:54

or like, adjusting for how good you can be relative to the crowd at player evaluation

Phil

2:54

Can't wait for robozone, not convinced by those who are nostalgic for framing. Give me an elite athlete like Connor Wong (did you see the play on the popped-up bunt?) over somebody who just sits there and nuances the glove a bit.

Ben Clemens

2:54

I really love the challenge system

because it's the best of all worlds

Air Horn

2:54

BWOW WAH WOW WOW OWWWWWW

Ben Clemens

2:55

excellent point

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:55

Matt Olson or Pete Alonso, the rest of their careers?

Ben Clemens

2:55

Gimme Alonso but without much conviction

ryan

2:55

Is there any player that has ever pandered as well to a city as Bryce Harper does with Philly?

Ben Clemens

2:55

Philadelphians, earmuffs: I think that Philly is one of the cities that it is easiest to pander to

just because of their strong identity

that's not a bad thing, to be clear

2:56

But Carlos Correa tried that stuff with Minneapolis and like, it just doesn't hit the same

Trout

2:56

A sweeper is really a new word for a slurve.

Ben Clemens

2:56

I don't 100% agree with this

it's like some slurves?

but some slurves are heavily two-plane

Appa Yip Yip

2:56

Wasn't one of the justifications the Orioles used for their miniscule payrolls during the tank years that they were saving money to spend later? Lmao.

Ben Clemens

2:56

Ah, internal inconsistency!

Appa Yip Yip

2:56

Do the angels even have anyone of value to trade off if they were going to blow it up?

Ben Clemens

2:56

Adam

2:56

Wondering if you have any insight into why the ATC RoS Projection for Eury Pérez went from bad to worse after his last amazing start. ATC has such a good reputation for pitching, i'm a bit confused.

Ben Clemens

2:56

I do not. ATC is an aggregator of other projections

2:57

So, I'd look to the projections it aggregates

but yeah, I disagree

Eury looks dominant

That start is going to be one of the things I liked this week, as a preview of sorts

Rick

2:57

Is getting consistently better carry on balls a skill? I see high EVs sometimes with distances that seem low and vice versa. Wondering if there’s more to it than hitting conditions

Ben Clemens

2:57

Totally

v2micca

2:57

I was reading recently that the human eye is capable of seeing between 30 to 60 frames per second. Your brain then takes this data and fills in the gaps between each frame so it appears that the world is moving in smooth continuous form to our eyes. If they could find a way to definitely measure it, do you think the baseball players with really good command of the strikezone would be those individuals whose eyes are capturing data at the high 60 to 70 frames per second end of the average?

Ben Clemens

2:58

Some of those, some people with extremely good kinesthesia, some people with really quick mental processing and pattern recognition

it's not JUST eyes, but that's obviously a big part

ryan

2:58

I would imagine that a non-zero amount of their thinking comes from watching what happened with the Cardinals pitching staff when Yadi retired (even though Maldonado hasn't been around nearly as long and never graded out as well)

Ben Clemens

2:58

Oh, this is about Maldy and I forgot to post it earlier

2:59

I mean... that shows a misunderstanding of what happened to the Cardinals (their pitching was bad because they had bad pitchers) and also very little faith in the pitching staff and coaches

so if that's what happened, that's a negative in my eyes on their front office's ability to process information

Liam

2:59

does skenes throw a pitch for the buccos this season?

Ben Clemens

2:59

I don't think so

I'd feel differently if they were still in the race at all

3:00

But I'd be worried about workload enough that I'd say hm, he might get prettttty amped to pitch int he big leagues, maybe we let him build up to it with a normal offseason instead

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