JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/15/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/15/20

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Ben Clemens

1:29

Sometimes he just overpowers guys

Or drops in a beautiful curveball

Sometimes he's hucking 99 3 feet above the zone

1:30

deGrom is great to watch, though more for his greatness

Yusmeiro Petit when he's in

Chase Anderson, because he's all over the mound

SteelThunder

1:30

What about SIxto Sanchez i've been watching him more and mkore

Ben Clemens

1:30

Sixto is great as well

I've only seen one start

It was a blast

Chip Chipperson

1:30

My Uncle Paul sez that Ty Cobb was a better baserunner than the late great Lou Brock. I say phooey to that cause I think Lou was better. What is your opinion?

Ben Clemens

1:31

As a son of a Cardinals fan born in 1949

I'm pretty sure I have no choice but to say Brock

My dad might disown me otherwise

gcat

1:31

thanks for answering my earlier question on lugoat, ben. follow-up: what's the likelihood that lugoat found another gear and/or figured out how to harness his stuff this late into his career, sort of like how degrom did? i've been really impressed with his stuff this year.

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Ben Clemens

1:31

Took me quite a while to realize who Lugo(at) was

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1:32

I think the odds are low that it happened exactly that way, but he's been low-key excellent for three years now

1:33

If he can handle a starter workload, that's goin to be huge

Mike

1:33

Has Clev always done the weird rocking back and forth before throwing from the wind up?

Ben Clemens

1:33

He has

It's weird!

Swinging Friar

1:33

Slam Diego/Pad Squad/Most exciting Team in Baseball is 1.5 games back of the Dodgers... Just think people should know. People often describe the Dodgers as a juggernaut, but is the talent gap closer than people think?

Ben Clemens

1:33

Mmmm, I think that the gap is appropriately valued?

1:34

The Dodgers are better

Still a lot of pitching question marks on the Padres

The Padres' brightest stars are tons of fun, though

And they are maybe the second-best team in the NL

Cueto's Shimmy

1:34

Can batter's pick up where a catcher is setting up? Or might benches be able to relay it in time? Seems like some catchers really move around back there.

Ben Clemens

1:34

I'll get in another plug for FanGraphs Live here

Eric discussed this quite a bit last night

1:35

He thinks that catchers are increasingly aware of batters peeking or getting a queue from base coaches

and that they're deking more than ever

Watch a game for a catcher to pound the ground with his glove before an elevated fastball

I've seen it more often this year than ever before

Pad squad

1:35

Can match up with the Dodgers if all healthy, but don't have the depth.

Ben Clemens

1:35

Yeah this is a good way of putting it I think

Cueto's Shimmy

1:36

Where do you find Fangraphs Live?

Ben Clemens

1:37

We haven't done a good job of advertising it just yet, that's a great point

But it's available at twitch.tv/fangraphslive

And also

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