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Ben Clemens KBO Opening Day Chat

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Ben Clemens

12:54

Yeah like that line is just ridiculous.

12:55

That's a 180 wRC+

If statiz's park adjustments work

stever20

12:56

we have baseball on TV right now.....

Ben Clemens

12:56

Praise be.

I realllllly hope this doesn't get delayed.

Waffles

12:56

Ben, Thank you so much for doing this chat!

Ben Clemens

12:56

Thank you for showing up!

12:57

Us baseball degenerates have to stick together.

It's only 10:00 here but for people tuning in from the East Coast, thanks!

I'd watch baseball at any hour of the day

But it's literally my job

Guest

12:57

Ben, try kbofancystats.com. They do use BR WAR but at least you have familiarity with how that's calculated. It also has Elo ratings for each team. And guess what? All English!

Ben Clemens

12:57

Ooh a second one!

12:58

Hey this looks quite nice.

Yeah, you can see that they rated Baek Jung-Hyun a bit more highly than statiz did.

12:59

Unsurprisingly, it's because of his FIP/ERA differential.

stever20

12:59

what would be more 2020 than a rain out tonight?

Ben Clemens

12:59

Yeah, seriously.

Waffles

12:59

I somehow hope the streams between Karl and Ed get slightly unsync'd just for goofs for an inning lol.

Ben Clemens

1:00

I really like how jammed in those books on Eduardo's shelf look

What is going on there?? Some of the books are at crazy angles even

David

1:00

Thought you might like that one. There are a ton of ones like the one you mentioned (statiz.co.kr). I am Korean and I even laugh at the translations. But it is very very in-depth. Probably even more so than MLB!

Ben Clemens

1:00

Yeah I've been tolerating Google Translate because the stats are so in-depth, like you said

1:01

It just feels like FG almost exactly

WHich I mean as an extreme compliment; I spent years and years as a baseball fan using FG before working here

Gallo Dongs

1:01

how does the best team have no pitcher with above 2.5 war last season? is pitching really that bad in the kbo?

Ben Clemens

1:02

Uh, no, I don't see that.

1:03

For example, Hyeon-Jong Yang (again, sorry!) on the Tigers was preposterous last year

22.3% strikeout rate, 4.3% walk rate, FIP in the 2's

ERA in the low 2's even.

1:04

Given the lower true outcomes rate in Korea, FIPS are naturally going to be more compressed

1:05

But translate those numbers to the majors and they'd look about the same. If you have a K-BB% approaching 20 and don't give up dingers, that's just elite in any run-scoring environment.

Kyle Schwerin

1:05

I need to find a streaming link for the Eagles so I can watch my dude Warwick Saupold.

Ben Clemens

1:05

Check out that mykbo link again

Let me find it really quickly:

http://www.mykbo.net/faq

1:06

There's an FAQ there for streaming all the games.

1:07

Sung Min wrote that, and it walks you through how to stream everything, complete with a quick character guide and everything.

David

1:07

Ben, I think he's talking about the Doosan Bears (2019 KBO champs). Without Lindblom who's coming back to US (and on the kbofancy metric of WAR), he is right. They have no current players that posted a 2.5 +WAR from last year.

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