JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/28/23

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/28/23

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Ben Clemens

2:48

I mean, nothing they're saying makes sense

no one does this, and no one considers it seriously

it's just a thing people say to provoke a reaction

Appa Yip Yip

2:48

My favourite moment from the HR Derby was when JD Martinez was giving Mookie a pep talk and telling him to just pull the s*** out of the ball in the air and Mookie said, "I don't know how" what a player.

Ben Clemens

2:48

ah yeah that was great

2:49

it'll be funny when he out-homers every other Derby participant

It looks like he's only trailing Alonso right now

Joe

2:49

comment got cut or something. In a world where teams followed markets, the only teams currently in the MLB from the Centrals would be the Chicago teams. American sports need to figure out a way to get teams in the actual top 20 markets.

Ben Clemens

2:49

Yeah... I mean, or have more revenue sharing and mroe expansion

MLB parity

2:50

If you want parity in MLB, shrink TV markets of the east/west teams. Add teams to Charlotte, Sacramento, Portland, maybe even San Antonio.

Ben Clemens

2:50

Right

Particularly the South, Michael Baumann had an award-winning article about this

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-playoffs-arent-too-big-the-league-is-w...

Appa Yip Yip

2:50

The noots shot so far up into his stomach they rattled around like pinballs and bruised his abs

Ben Clemens

2:50

oof

that sounds awful

That Guy

2:50

Thinking about the Angels losing Trout and Ohtani's pitching in the same day - can you think of a time that team lost more WAR in one day? I don't think I can.

Ben Clemens

2:51

It'd have to be a team losing a great player early in the season. But on a per-game basis, nope

Getting tired of it

2:51

At what point do you say "F it". and END a trade conversation that is getting....tiresome?

Ben Clemens

2:51

Oh man, I do this way too easily

In fantasy, I mean

if I'm not enjoying myself, I don't want to keep doing it

2:52

I think that's a completely reasonable reaction at any point. the point of a game is to have fun, and the marginal gain or loss from haggling over the finer points of a trade just isn't going to be that high

just give a last and final offer and move on if nothing is there

Kretin

2:52

Ok, weird question for you. Where do Players keep their money? Like, do they use regular banking accounts like us or is there some sort of special account to store those millions? Or do they keep it in investment accounts?

Ben Clemens

2:52

I'm not a player accountant, but I have a fairly good idea of the general mechanics

2:53

There's no special account; if you remember the whole Silicon Valley Bank ruckus, a lot of what caused that run is that there AREN'T special accounts for if you have a lot of money, and in fact having a lot of money in one bank account means that money isn't insured

so the responsible thing to do is split the money you keep in the bank across a wide swath of accounts, each under the FDIC limit

2:55

And then yea, a ton of the money is going to be in investment accounts of various types. Athletes seem to favor venture-style investments, and private markets in general, so I would assume that some portion of their money is tied up in share certificates of various types in non-traded companies. But then they probably hvae a ton in mutual funds and ETF's, at Fidelity or something similar

KC Pain

2:55

Will we have a knuckleball starter in the next 5 years or is that art dead?

Ben Clemens

2:55

dead sadly

Pat

2:55

How far back does the "thing you like" go? Other than the EDLC throw to nab Carroll at the plate, the best thing I saw this weekend was Parker Meadows walk-off with his family in the stands on Friday Night.

Ben Clemens

2:55

There's definitely no hard cutoff

Kim hasn't faked a 3-0 bunt in weeks

I just felt like writing about it

2:56

amazingly, I have something from that game, even from that INNING, written down, and it's not Meadows

it was Miggy turning back the clock and breaking Ryan Pressly's chokehold on the inning with some old school singles hitting

Pat

2:57

Joe is wrong. Detroit is clearly a top 20 market

Ben Clemens

2:57

I haven't looked up markets recently, but I believe you

I think the point is just a braod structural one, the particulars I'm not perfectly sure of but the two central divisions definitely hvae the smallest average market sizes

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