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Ben Clemens KBO Opening Day Chat

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Kyle Schwerin

1:45

Warwick Saupold perfect through 3 with 36 pitches thrown. Someone tweet out the Perfect Game Alert.

Ben Clemens

1:45

Dealing!

dannnnnnng

Now that's a heck of a catch

1:46

This is a small sample, obviously, but the defense here has been ML-caliber

Oh boy, Saladino looking ridiculous

Rucinski is another guy who was just a fine major leaguer

1:47

He was good enough to get innings in a lot of bullpens

But he probably never would have made above the minimum and he would never be THAT far away from getting cut

But like, that's major league stuff

Saladino looked very comfortable in that at-bat, but his hair is making me a little uncomforatble

Rob

1:47

It also wouldn't be a FanGraphs chat without a food discussion.

Ben Clemens

1:48

That is true, and I had some delicious Thai food for dinner tonight but this talk of Korean barbeque is making me hungry

I was *supposed* to get barbecue tonight, Texas barbecue, but we called a last-minute audbile

1:49

It was takeout night, we try to get takeout once or twice a week from local places we like

Kyle Schwerin

1:49

I saw rumors today about a June 6th spring training date and a July 1 start date for MLB? Was that made up? Or did that come from someone legitimate?

Ben Clemens

1:49

I haven't seen that but the July 1 thing has popped up a bunch of times

1:50

I think it'd be a little early but I dunno, I'm increasingly thinking there will be baseball this year

Matt

1:50

I think Stark tweeted that was not a valid rumor

Ben Clemens

1:50

Thanks!

Rob

1:50

These Rucinski sliders are pretty good.

Ben Clemens

1:50

Yeah and his two-seamer is fine too

I love that get-me-over curve

1:51

I mean, I'm not sure it's a good pitch

But he threw one that just kinda whiffled in there

Brian CashGod

1:51

it was Trevor Plouffe who reported it, he's a former MN Twin who I believe is doing media stuff with Jomboy these days

Chad Muszynski

1:51

Seems like a start date is still very much at the rumor stage but it had to come from somewhere. I saw multiple players talking about it.

Ben Clemens

1:51

We'll see. I feel reasonably confident that they'll make something happen at least for the playoffs

Just because of the money at stake.

Waffles

1:52

Lions Jerseys > Dinos Jerseys

Ben Clemens

1:52

I feel like the Dinos font is a little too aggressive for me

But I like the helmet

Brian CashGod

1:52

Manfred doesn't want to lose an opportunity to give out the "piece of metal"?

Ben Clemens

1:53

Haha well as I understand it, the ESPN, TBS, and FOX contracts matter a lot

And they're more or less playoff contracts

Social Dingering

1:53

Pretty tough job last-minute for Ravech and Perez, think they're acquitting themselves nicely thus far

Ben Clemens

1:53

I agree with this

This would be hard!

1:54

Dan, Paul Sporer, and I have been doing commentary over the show

And we have issues with cross-talk

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