JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/25/23

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/25/23

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Thomas

2:16

For folks looking for econ books, I'd highly recommend Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber. It's more a critique of economics from an anthropological perspective, but it's really fascinating and a lot of food for thought

Ben Clemens

2:16

Love some good book recs

Frogs

2:16

I see you're not answering my mob question due to your own fears of the mob.

Ben Clemens

2:16

Lightning round

what question does this refer to

get your guesses in now

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:17

Mother of the Bride - everyone rational fears the Mother of the Bride

Tacoby Bellsbury

2:17

Mobb Deep

Ben Clemens

2:18

Alright, I didn't see any guesses better than Mobb Deep, but let's answer the question

laughing

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Frogs

2:18

Why is Dominic Leone on the Mariners roster right now and how much does it have to do with Jerry Dipoto's ties to the mob?

Thomas

2:18

It was about mop recommendations, but there was a typo

Ben Clemens

2:19

I actually think Canzone is at least reasonable

I truly cannot explain Leone continuing to get work, it's amazing

give him an offseason to retool at least

SF Giants

2:19

Arizona, LA, and SD all are building impressive farm systems. Do you think SF will be able to take the nl west next year?

Ben Clemens

2:19

Haha oh man

Yes, but I also think they're able to get Ohtani

2:20

failing to do the second is going to limit their ability to get the first done

the Giants are consistently good about building a good role player backdrop

they need stars though

Tom

2:20

Robbie Alomar/Vizquel. Bret Boone/ARod. and my favorite underrated duo, Placido Polanco and Carlos Guillen

bringbackpologrounds

2:20

Andrus/Kinsler? TEX has had some good ones.

Bogaerts/Pedroia had 3 good seasons together.

Ben Clemens

2:20

We've got plenty of options, but none of these are really jumping out as better than Seager/Semien to me

2:21

Seager and Semien are really good!

Jazzy

2:21

With the universal DH and seemingly more defensive versatility than in the past is it time to rethink Postional Adjustment and maybe even zero it out (could raise replacement level to account for the difference)?

Something like DH (-12) 1B (-9) LF (-6) RF (-3) 2B (+2) 3B (+3) CF (+5) SS (+8) C (+12) is a little flatter distribution and adds up to zero for instance.

Ben Clemens

2:21

We've discussed this internally a few times. Honestly I think some kind of FG summit to nail this down would make sense but we always end up with more pressing stuff

2:22

I'm hoping to do some work on the playoff odds model this offseason, for example

which honestly feels both easier and more impactful to me than figuring out new positional adjustments

Sir Nerdlington

2:22

Immaculate grid led me down a bbref path that taught me there was a player named Lil Stoner (Full name Ulysses S Grant Stoner). Modern baseball nicknames stink.

Ben Clemens

2:22

a classic OOTP Perfect Team player

and yes, cannot agree more, old baseball names rocked

Greg

2:22

Ke'Bryan Hayes has a 104 WRC+

Ben Clemens

2:22

Oh boy, let's go

Guest

2:23

Hey Ben, I'm trying to learn more and conduct my own sabermetrics analysis and fantasy research to gain experience and build up my portfolio. Do you have any tips/suggestions for this type of research?

Ben Clemens

2:23

Find something you want to know or that seems weird to you

that's how I got started

2:24

just, something that draws your interest and that you are going to be interested in digging into

Idiotic Failson

2:24

Tejada and Brian Roberts

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