JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/20/21

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/20/21

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Ben Clemens

2:57

I haven't been able to pinpoint anything going wrong for Gausman, which makes me still lean that way, but he's been pretty uninspiring of late

Richie

2:58

Given that the Giants/Dodgers is going down to the wire, whoever loses of those 2 will be starting whomever is on line to start (with an aggressive bullpen, of course).

Ben Clemens

2:58

Yeah, but given that they each have co-aces, the odds that they'll be able to finagle things to start one of them for the WC game are pretty high

2:59

Last game of the season has two rest days before the WC

so unless you happened to start your co-aces the last two games, you can just figure out which of them you'd prefer for the WC and stack it that way

Barry

2:59

Who’s the best player you’ve watched in your lifetime? Your favorite?

Ben Clemens

3:00

Best? I think Barry Bonds

My favorite? Unquestionably Ozzie SMith

Evan C

3:00

Is Tyler O'Neill for real? Is this what you expect from him next year?

Ben Clemens

3:00

I don't think he's THIS real but I buy the general improvements he's made on the year

3:01

I wrote earlier this year about how his low walk rate didn't reflect his true talent:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/tyler-oneill-two-true-outcome-king/

And I think that his current production on contact numbers probably flatter him a bit

But I do think he's closer to what he's doing right now than to an average hitter

kyle

3:01

What does Dusty do with Zack Greinke in the playoffs? He's been miserable against RHH since the ASB.

Ben Clemens

3:01

Use a short hook and hope that's just small sample size noise

But it can't feel good

He's probably the Astros pitcher I trust third-most

3:02

No, fourth-most

(behind McCullers, Framber, and Garcia)

3:03

On that note, everyone, I'm going to call it a day. Thanks for chatting baseball with me in a Brooklyn apartment (me, not you, though maybe you too), and I'll rejoin you next week from sunny San Francisco

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