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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/26/24

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2:42

Do cutters depress BABIP or was that only a Rivera thing? I was watching Clase and figured there's no way anyone's hitting that cutter hard consistently.

Ben Clemens

2:43

This year, cutters have allowed a .290 babip and the overall league babip is .290, so in the aggregate, no

but I think that plenty of specific cutters do

Sodo Mojo

2:43

Should the Mariners trade from their pitching depth this winter for bats. Are Emerson Hancock and Logan Evans enough to hold down the 5th starter spot?

Ben Clemens

2:43

it feels like they always should

2:44

they're not going to

I feel like I answer some version of this question a lot with some version of this answer: I think that we've seen that the Mariners value all of their pitchers extremely highly. There's a revealed preference here: they don't want to trade these guys

they would have by now otherwise

Brian

2:44

Speaking of the triple crown, Ozuna leads the NL in average, RBIs and is 4 back in homers

mpv

2:44

In years past I've read a lot of discussion about productive teammates weakening each others' MVP positions. No one's talking that way about Judge and Soto this season - is that because Judge's performance is a freakish extreme? Or because the argument itself is poor?

Ben Clemens

2:44

I think it's b/c the performance is so outrageous

2:45

like... c'mon

this guy's the MVP

you cannot be serious in thinking otherwise

so the teammate vote splitting plays no role

GA Blood

2:45

Did you watch any of the Greg Maddux special on MLB Network last night? It was such great content, I wish they'd gone a full 2 hours with it. The segment where they had him and Bonds break down a few PAs was some of the greatest insight I've ever seen on what players are actually doing when they're at the top of their game.

Ben Clemens

2:46

I linked to some of those Bonds/Maddux clips a few weeks ago in 5 things b/c I liked them so much

they were doing the rounds on the internet as a preview

very very cool

bobby witt

2:46

I'm on pace for a 10 fWAR season and no one's even pretending I'll so much as sniff the AL MVP - has anyone with more fWAR ever been so overshadowed in this race?

Ben Clemens

2:46

I don't know the answer to this historically

Just putting it up here in case someone does, you readers are great

Liam

2:46

appreciate that feedback, thanks a bunch - talked to Brian Bannister a bit after, and he had some similar input. Said they typically start pitchers in the lower levels with more FB heavy arsenals, then will boost secondary usage as they mature, but when and by how much to increase secondary usage is pretty up in the air. Thought that was interesting and something I'd like to look into more. (feel free to post this or not just wanted to share)

Ben Clemens

2:46

for sure! and yep, that makes sense and is quite interesting

Dodger Homer

2:46

Is this the end of the line for Heyward? Very grateful for the last bit of production he produced for the Dodgers ... very sorry to see him leave the team so unceremoniously (even if it made sense on paper)

Ben Clemens

2:47

Yup, agreed on both, always been a big Heyward fan aside from when he callously betrayed the Cardinals and called them old

(j/k about everything except the old part, think he's a great player and that players should go where they want)

Mariners fan

2:47

What’s this conference that happened last weekend, and is there anywhere I can watch/read up on these presentations?

Ben Clemens

2:48

Saberseminar is this awesome baseball research conference that happens every August. It was at Illinois Tech this year, I think it's likely to continue being there, and while it was my first time going it won't be my last

as to where you can watch or read up on them, I don't know actually

J

2:48

2012 Mike Trout is the obvious answer. Topped 10 WAR but lost to Miggy because of the triple crown.

person

2:48

Trout got pretty screwed by Cabrera's triple crown year

JK

2:48

Mediocrity again for the Giants. Where do they go from here?

Ben Clemens

2:49

I think they're gonna extend Chapman, lose Snell, and kinda keep doing a similar thing next year with some of the veterans cut out and hopefully a youth movement

it feels really hard to get off the path they're on

Victoria

2:49

The NL rookie class is pretty insane this year. Michael Busch is going to have a 3 WAR season and not appear on a ballot

Ben Clemens

2:49

Yeah absolutely nuts

what's the top 5? Merrill/Skenes/Chourio/Fitzgerald/Winn in some order?

but like, the only questions on the order are 1/2 and 3/4/5

Victoria

2:49

BEN. SHOTA.

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