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

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/15/20

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Ben Clemens

1:37

When we're live

It will just be on the main page

Available at www.fangraphs.com :)

Domingo

1:37

I play in semi pro, and I can kinda see where the catcher moves, but it's distracting to try to pick it up while also focusing on the pitcher

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Ben Clemens

1:37

It seems that it varies hitter-to-hitter

Deathclaw

1:37

Dom Smith evolving into a star hitter?

Ben Clemens

1:37

Star, eh

1:38

Comfortably above average? Yes

Trent "Goat" Grisham

1:38

Agreed there are some current questions about the Padres pitching but with Gore/Patino/Morejon coming soon the rotation looks great the next few years alongside Clev! Clev/Lamet/Gore/Paddack/Patino with Davies and Lucchesi as 6/7 is pretty good.

Ben Clemens

1:38

Oh yeah if Patino and Gore work out in the bigs the gap closes

Jake

1:38

Padres - White Sox World Series. What recent WS was that as much fun as that would be? Check out Concordia for 2-4 players if you haven't.

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Ben Clemens

1:38

Ooh I'll add that

1:39

I thought that Astros/Dodgers was a really good WS

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SteelThunder

1:40

What anout Astros-Nats?

Ben Clemens

1:40

also good

Trent "Goat" Grisham

1:40

Oh also, Raiders of the North Sea played and replayed surprisingly well.

Ben Clemens

1:40

Ooh that sounds fun

Jon

1:40

Padres-White Sox the best WS since the Cubs won?

Ben Clemens

1:40

Another good one!

There have been some great matchups recently

Grusdar Baterol

1:40

Ben how do you usually brainstorm ideas for articles? The Yandy Diaz one was super interesting and I'm like how did you find that

Ben Clemens

1:41

I watch a lot of baseball and spend probably an hour or two a day browsing statistics

Weird stats, not like who's the leader in WAR

Safety Stegosaurus

1:41

What would be your guess for which stadium experience feels like, as one of your colleagues describes, "watching baseball inside of a Costco, but like, a really nice Costco"?

Ben Clemens

1:41

Oh wow

1:42

This sounds like Meg

so I'm going to say T-Mobile

But I'm into it

Oh, Grusdar Baterol, I should add that I bounce a lot of ideas off of people

"is this interesting? no?

mostly the answer is 'no'

Best matchups

1:42

Is the coolest matchup always the one that makes the best series though? I don't think we thought last year's would end up that way. We assumed Astros blowout, then we thought the Nats might romp, then we thought, well, Houston wins, and then and then. So I just hope it's compelling play, I guess? Watch Padres White Sox end up, like, really dull.

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Ben Clemens

1:42

Yeah how the series goes is more important than the matchup

1:43

But before we know how it goes, all we have is the matchup

Jeff

1:43

Padres have by far the largest year-over-year jump in xwoba going back to 2015 at +.074. Next closest is the jump the Twins made from 2018-2019 at +.039. They also have huge home-road splits. Anything to this? Or am I just letting my Dodger fandom cloud my judgement?

Ben Clemens

1:43

Haha probably letting your fandom cloud your judgment

Come back with more data next year, I'd say

Safety Stegosaurus

1:43

One for two not bad! It was Meg, but she was describing Chase Field.

Ben Clemens

1:43

Dang, it was always gonna be one of two

1:44

Missed it

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