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Ben Clemens KBO Opening Day Chat

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Ben Clemens

1:54

And we don't actually have to do play by play or anything

Matt

1:54

Any idea on current plans for baseball in Japan?

Ben Clemens

1:54

Last I saw (last week) it was still postponed indefinitely

1:55

Baek looks to be settling down

Waffles

1:55

I really like Baek's motion, it is just so aesthetically pleasing...

Ben Clemens

1:55

One thing I've noticed from my extensive watching of twitter and youtube clips of the kbo

Is that pitching motions are way more diverse

And I love it

1:56

Baek dealing now!

Rob

1:56

"Establish the fastball." Drink

Ben Clemens

1:56

haha yeah you can take baseball out of the US, but you can't get rid of the platitudes

Kirk Timjan

1:56

How are people choosing which KBO team to support? I'm an SF Giants fan, so I went with the unsophisticated answer..

Ben Clemens

1:57

Anyone with a good way of doing it, feel free to chime in. I checked out the mascots and the players I knew

stever20

1:57

I'm going Dinos in honor of Eric Thames being a Nats fan.

Ben Clemens

1:57

Sweet name too

Guest

1:58

Is there an equivalent that MLB front offices estimate off of? Meaning do they assume say a .320 hitter in the KBO is a .240 hitter in the MLB? Or something along those line?

Ben Clemens

1:58

Dan wrote about this recently:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/putting-kbo-players-in-an-mlb-context/

Kyle Schwerin

1:58

Ben - any idea how the KBO and CPBL compare? I was watching some of the CPBL games the last couple weeks, mostly because they had English announcers on their streams, and it seemed like pretty good ball.

Ben Clemens

1:58

KBO is significantly higher-level

I haven't seen any equivalency numbers for the CPBL but it's like indy ball I believe

1:59

This is Double-A, Triple-A, somewhere in between those?

There's big talent disaprity though

Among players. You might face a veteran of a 20 year old

Chang Koo

1:59

Though a Dodger fan through and through, I'm originally from Busan, so was a Giants fan before I was a Dodger fan.

Matt

1:59

Yeah my buddy and I went Dinos for the name

Chad Muszynski

1:59

I gotta go with Dixon Machado's Lotte Giants

Ben Clemens

2:00

Every Ben Clemens chat is now a Dixon Machado lovefest

Social Dingering

2:00

Just for reference, here is the hierarchy of how evaluators and front office officials generally view the quality of the various Asian leagues compared to MLB and MiLB.

MLB
NPB (Japan)
AAA
KBO (Korea)
AA
High A
CPBL (Taiwan)
Low A

Ben Clemens

2:00

Hey, I was pretty close!

2:01

Rucinski's two seam is looking really nice so far tonight

I don't know how much I like the third-base-side foot positioning for righties

I wasn't paying attention to see if he shifts to the first base side against lefties

2:02

That's something I'd been considering writing about. The Rays seem very into having their relievers move spots against opposite handed hitters

Meanwhile lol that slider

That was filthy

Kyle Schwerin