JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/30/21

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/30/21

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Ben Clemens

3:09

They were just TERRIBLE behind the rest of the Phils' pitchers

So he got credit for playing in front of one of the worst defenses, but also got an above-average defensive performance

double-counting

I'd prefer to use our RA9 WAR and just bag the defensive component altogether

Rick

3:10

Brad Penny for your thoughts made me think obviously of Brad Penny. I remember when he pitched in the all star game and was hitting 100 and throwing harder than he ever did. I don't think he was ever the same after that all star game. Of course I could also not be remembering correctly. Ok, you can now go back to answering real questions :)

Ben Clemens

3:10

remembering some guys is always a good reason for a chat

JP

3:10

If you developed a crazy new, accurate, and representative statistic, aka this generation's version of WAR. Would you "name" it an acronym, or name it after yourself and just call it The "BEN"?

Ben Clemens

3:10

Acronym for sure

3:11

and probably not even a backronym

lame of me, I know

Patrick Wisdom

3:11

Can I keep striking out 40% of the time and still succeed as an MLB player?

Ben Clemens

3:11

No, but I don't think you'll keep striking out 40% of the time either

Derek

3:11

Do you think the Tigers go after one of the big-name shortstops this offseason? They actually seem pretty close to being good, are in a relatively weak division, and have like, the biggest imaginable MLB roster hole at shortstop!

Ben Clemens

3:11

Interesting

3:12

I hadn't considered them as a destination, tbh, but I think it makes sense

Laffy Jaffe Taffy

3:13

If next year you did nothing but watch every single Cardinals game, then at the end of the year you had to guess what each players WAR was, how close do you think you’d be?

Ben Clemens

3:13

Oh boy

So I don't get FanGraphs, presumably

Do I get to see the stats they post in-game?

I'm not sure I'd be good at figuring out each player's OBP, for example

Laffy Jaffe Taffy

3:13

You get no information whatsoever.

Ben Clemens

3:13

Am I allowed to keep track of their batting line?

Laffy Jaffe Taffy

3:14

No

Ben Clemens

3:14

Oh, I think I'd be kinda bad

Sam Miller wrote a great article about this actually

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18683274/in-world-stats-baseball-b...

TKDC

3:14

You’re cooler than Big Ben. It’s just a big clock. Clocks aren’t cool. And it’s British so it’s even less cool. Don’t sell yourself short.

Ben Clemens

3:14

I think British can be cool, so we'll hvae to agree to disagree here

Someguy

3:15

Do you think Kyle Shwarber's production is sustainable year to year?

Ben Clemens

3:15

Uh... I mean, in a word, no

But in several words, I don't think it's sustainable, but I do think that getting back to a 120-130 wRC+ kind of production level seems more reachable than it did last year

3:17

He's made some meaningful gains in underlying numbers

Doing a better job elevating the ball, that kinda thing

He won't keep hitting quite this much, I don't think, but I feel way better now than I did going into the year

I thought he was kinda just Joc Pederson before the year

3:18

with worse D

Though to be fair I thought Joc was better than this

YardGoat

3:18

Are minor league ballpark factors available anywhere that you know of?

Ben Clemens

3:18

Ohhhh man

So baseball america calculates them in a slightly weird way

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