JotCast | Ben Clemens Trade Value Series Chat -7/26/24

Ben Clemens Trade Value Series Chat -7/26/24

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Ben Clemens

11:37

I know 'look at the projections' is kind of a cop-out here but I do think it's a nice blanket way of looking at things

and he's the 8th-highest projection over the next 5 years (Gunnar, Witt, Ohtani, Yordan, Tatis, Acuna, Elly, Julio in order)

Guest

11:37

Do you think we’ll ever have 2 DHs in the top 10 again ?

Ben Clemens

11:37

Three! Gotta count Adley

11:38

or like, count Adley plus Will Smith as one

I think Yordan is a fair bet to be on next year's list depending on what goes down in the next year

every year I run the numbers and I'm like oh look, Yordan Alvarez is great still, who knew!

Ohtani isn't really a DH, you know?

but yeah, golden era of truly titanic DH batting lines

11:39

did you know that David Ortiz only had two SEASONS where his wRC+ was higher than Yordan's career mark?

and one of those was an abbreviated 2012

Tyler

11:40

Asking for a peek behind the curtain here, but do you really do most / all of the writing for this in a week? It seems like you could be pretty confident in at least 30 names on the list by April or so and pre-write those blurbs. Not meant as criticism in any way (these lists are great!), just curious.

Ben Clemens

11:40

Oh yeah I write it all in a week

obviously there are some names who would definitely been on there, but a lot of the blurbs on those guys are less 'this guy is good' and more 'here's how I thought about their final ranking'

I suck at pre-writing, too

11:41

I always wrote my essays in english class the day before they were due