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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/3/20

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Ben Clemens

3:22

The decline years are not necessarily a great deal, though they could be

I do think that teams, in general, aren't willing enough to commit to Martinez types

If I were an AL team I'd be willing to talk trade

But baseball teams seem to disagree with me on that

Lorenzo

3:22

Saturday Soto played in an intrasquad game, but afterwards said he wasn't sure if he'd be ready to go on Tuesday? What's that about?

Ben Clemens

3:22

I don't know

I wonder if he's just still not convinced he's in game shape

3:23

But I hope he's just being whimsical, somehow

Daniel

3:23

I remember an issue of Baseball Digest circa maybe 1997 where Ted Williams suggested that there were too many strikeouts in modern baseball and that the league should consider taking a half a percentage point off a batter's batting average for every strikeout. Thoughts on this wonderful mathematical idea?

Ben Clemens

3:23

You could do that right now and I don't think anyone would care

Teams have done a wonderful job of driving home the fact that batting average doesn't matter to players

They care, and they especially care about RBI still

But much less than they used to

And teams don't care at all

3:24

Fun look at this from me and old (and also current) master Tom Tango last year:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/tom-tangos-triple-slash-conund...

Tango's the man, great way of phrasing this too

Derek

3:24

It would have been cool to see Mark Reynolds try to get a negative batting average

the487

3:24

Ooh I could see players caring about this in 1997

Ben Clemens

3:24

Both true!

Jhaven't

3:24

Do you think you would have to clarify more to strangers that your last name has no 't' at the end if Roger Clemens didn't become famous?

Ben Clemens

3:24

Surprisingly, people REALLY struggle to spell my name

3:25

He and Mark Twain are just not famous enough, I suppose

I kid you not, I can count on one hand the number of times I've told someone my name and they've spelled it correctly without me spelling it out

Clemmons and Clemons are the most common ones

But Clements too

Mike Hawk

3:26

Time to worry about Altuve?

Ben Clemens

3:26

April!

Huh, it's August

But

April1

Give him a minute, he's not gonna BABIP .185

Joshua

3:26

What type of contract do you see Realmuto signing this offseason? 5/100 make sense?

Ben Clemens

3:27

I'm taking a pass on predicting offseason contracts for now

Too much depends on revenue this year

and expectation of revenue next year

Aaron judge

3:27

When I pull fly balls good things happen

Ben Clemens

3:27

People forgot how much Judge smashes

Reminder:

a lot

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