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Ben Clemens KBO Opening Day Chat

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Ben Clemens

1:07

Ohhhhhhh

I see

Yeah, sorry about that, totally misunderstood you.

Yeah, Lindblom is a big loss for the Bears

He's going to be a good pitcher in the majors, so like.... that'll do.

Kyle Schwerin

1:08

As a Tigers fan, I have to be an Eagles fan with Saupold and Chad Bell. But then there's Dixon Machado out there, too on the Giants...hmm...

Thank you very much for the link, Ben!

Ben Clemens

1:08

Yeah it's actually really hard to know who to root for!

1:09

When I was writing up the blurbs for all the foreign-born players I changed allegiances about five times.

Gallo Dongs

1:09

bullpens look really weird, lots of below average pitchers. kinda like older times where getting to the bullpen seems to be a good thing!

Ben Clemens

1:09

Yeah one thing that I've been told to keep an eye on is foul balls

1:10

And pitch counts generally

Pete

1:10

I just opened the app - seems to need a VPN to work. It gave me "not available in your country" message when I tried to watch the SK game.

Ben Clemens

1:10

Basically if you get to the bullpen here, it's more valuable, it seems

Clayton Kershaw

1:11

I allowed my first grand slam to Aaron Altherr!

Ben Clemens

1:11

That's quite the stat there

Odds that Kershaw is watching this game are certainly higher than 0%

1:12

I know he has kids and all, but he seems to like baseball well enough and major leaguers are really big baseball fans overall

Like look at Mookie

stever20

1:12

like the tweet from Mookie Betts....

Ben Clemens

1:12

He's just the best.

I find myself liking the Dodgers more just b/c Mookie plays for them

That's silly, he didn't have any say in it, but he's just awesome

Waffles

1:12

Is the pitching similar to NPB with a lot of off-speed and big pitch arsenals?

Ben Clemens

1:13

Velo's a little lower but it's not, as far as I can tell, exactly like that. Some of the spin and velo numbers I've seen would look right at home in the majors

1:14

If someone has a better idea I'd be happy to be corrected, but yeah, I think of it as a midpoint between the NPB and MLB in terms of style

Gallo Dongs

1:14

pretty sure naver needs a vpn bc of the espn deal.

Ben Clemens

1:14

Ohhhh uh yeah that makes sense

Fair enough, though.

Guest

1:14

Hello! Is fangraphs going to run metrics on kbo?

Ben Clemens

1:14

I am actually not sure. I know we're going to have projections up tomorrow, but I haven't talked to David about that yet.

1:15

Maybe a question for Meg tomorrow?

David

1:15

Yes, pitching velo is slightly lower than MLB on average but more off-speed pitches

Ben Clemens

1:15

Thanks!

Pete

1:15

http://www.multitwitch.tv/kbo1/kbo2/kbo3/kbo4/kbo5

All the games!

Ben Clemens

1:16

My man

David

1:16

Warwick Saupold......very quietly put up some amazing statistics in the 2nd half of last season. 68 IP, 1.85 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 6.09 K/9, 6-2 W-L for a last place team

Ben Clemens

1:16

Yeah, I used to only know Warwick Saupold as the most ridiculous name in the majors

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