Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 8/28/23

Ben Clemens: Hey everyone, welcome to the chat

Ben Clemens: Busy day so I’m gonna purpose for an hour of centered chatting

Rick Dugo 3000: Trevor Story putting out in 1/3 of his purple sox at bats and having not been an above common hitter since 2020 is okay proper?

Ben Clemens: Truthfully I’m not *that* nervous in regards to the starting of his 2023, he hasn’t performed shortly and that is as a lot about shaking the rust off as anything

Ben Clemens: to the extent that it issues, he additionally has 48 PA of hitting the quilt off the ball in his rehab video games, he simply hasn’t performed that a lot but. I’d give it extra time

Ben Clemens: the broader query of whether or not he’s an above common hitter? I imply, we’ve him projected for a 100 wRC+ the remainder of the 12 months, and I think about the following few years will appear to be that as effectively

Ben Clemens: That’s okay, I believe? That’s form of what I anticipate from Story. However he’s not Corey Seager, you recognize?

CAL: Hey Ben – has baseball ever had a extra bummer week of participant information (i.e. not a lockout) than final week? I can’t consider something previously 20 years.

Ben Clemens: I believe in case you exclude gamers dying, sure

John Bowker Appreciator: Hey Ben – Why isn’t WPA extra closely factored into MVP discussions? I totally perceive that it isn’t a predictive measure of success (I’m not a “clutch gene” truther), however aren’t we attempting discover who WAS essentially the most beneficial over the 12 months in any case? It appears to me like we must always care in regards to the contexts of the participant’s at bats and their contributions to the groups success to be able to perceive the worth that they introduced.

Ben Clemens: I’m with you!

Lunch Angle: I’m interested in stories that Strasburg will proceed to obtain everything of his contracted wage even after retirement. I’m all for participant rights however.. it appears that evidently by selecting to retire reasonably proceed a fruitless rehab, Strasburg will not be fulfilling the phrases of his contract. And if he isn’t honoring his contract, why do the Nats must? Is that this the usual for gamers retiring whereas on contract, or do you suppose that is one thing particular to Strasburg’s contract language or scenario?

Ben Clemens: I’m assuming that the 2 sides got here to some form of settlement about this

Ben Clemens: I don’t know the wording of his contract however this isn’t the usual. Pondering again to Prince Fielder, who was in the same scenario, he by no means formally retired regardless of not with the ability to play for some insurance coverage and wage causes

Benny: If a time traveler advised you initially of the season, that on the finish of August, all 3 of the Yankees, Mets, and Cardinals can be in final place, what would your response have been?

Ben Clemens: I believe I’d be least shocked by the Yankees simply b/c the AL East is basically powerful, no apparent weak hyperlink

Ben Clemens: however yeah, I’d be extremely shocked

Visitor: Un-fun reality for the Angels: You might make a complete beginning lineup out of their place gamers on the IL, and the one factor even barely out of the extraordinary can be Urshela within the center infield.

Unhappy Yankees Loser: Would love your ideas on Rodon and Severino for the unhappy yanks. Their stuff seems to be nasty they usually seem principally wholesome, what do you assume that’s making them so ineffective? Is it a Yankee pitching philosophy drawback? Is it in Rodon’s case only a wretched case of unhealthy luck?

Ben Clemens: It actually seems to be like unhealthy luck to me, notably from Rodon. Once I watch him pitch I don’t assume ‘oh this man is washed’ or something

Ben Clemens: I’m rather a lot much less satisfied about Severino. His absolute incapacity to overlook bats is a large purple flag imo

Ben Clemens: it principally boils all the way down to his slider, and it’s breaking much less and drawing a ton much less chases, and likewise hitters are making way more contact once they do swing

Ben Clemens: only a actually unhealthy omen

Mike M: Mookie is now the Vegas odds favourite to win NL MVP.  You agree?  Leads NL in fWAR, bWAR, OPS, SLG.  Large positional flexibility.  Nice smile.

Ben Clemens: He’d get my vote proper now by a hair

Ben Clemens: The tear he’s been on for the previous, I don’t know, half season, has simply been insane

Ben Clemens: He’s by no means had energy numbers like this in his profession, and it’s a adorned profession

Ben Clemens: what are you able to do however marvel

marginal utility participant: Has there been any work carried out on measuring hitter efficiency based mostly on the standard of pitcher they’re dealing with?

You’d anticipate a hitters wRC+ vs “unhealthy pitchers” (nonetheless you want to outline that) to be larger than once they face “good pitchers”. However I wouldn’t anticipate the speed of efficiency drop to be constant in any respect throughout MLB hitters.

For instance, anecdotally, I view Paul Goldschmidt to (clearly) be an incredible hitter in opposition to poor-mediocre RHPs and principally any LHP, however it actually appears to me he struggles greater than most nice RHHs when dealing with “elite” RHPs (like Nola, Wheeler, Woodruff, Scherzer). This particular instance might be affirmation bias on my finish, however I really feel like there’s something to some gamers being “good in opposition to the very best”

Ben Clemens: I checked out this as soon as however I’m having bother discovering the article now, I suppose that’s the draw back of writing so continuously about random subjects

Ben Clemens: There’s an anticipated performnace drop, and from what I bear in mind, having a distinct drop in a single 12 months wasn’t notably predictive of the following, however I’m gonna do some extra analysis and get again to you, probably in article kind

Sodo Mojo: Given the price and early outcomes does this years free agent class go down as the most costly per win?

Ben Clemens: It appears unlikely, simply because Albert Pujols exists

Byron Denniston: When will the insane chorus {that a} younger man ought to “simply get TJ surgical procedure out of the best way” go away? This 12 months has been horrific for that overrated, archaic medication! It had it’s day, nonetheless has it’s moments, however we will do higher

Ben Clemens: “simply get TJ” has at all times been form of loopy to me

Ben Clemens: like…. it’s main surgical procedure. individuals don’t at all times come again. typically they get TJ once more

SP: Suppose I noticed final week that you simply’re out on Keibert – is that this due to his poor protection? Offensively, it looks as if manufacturing is catching up quickly to consistency/high quality of contact.

Ben Clemens: Yeah protection primarily. No matter you consider his offense, I don’t assume it’d play effectively at first base. And his protection is ‘possibly he ought to simply play first’ stage

Ben Clemens: I’m not enamored by the offensive manufacturing, simply because it’s actually reliant on softly hit line drives

Ben Clemens: Like, his high quality of contact will not be nice! He’s under common in onerous hit charge, barrel charge, common exit velocity

Ben Clemens: He does MAKE a whole lot of it, however he’s actually gradual, so grounders aren’t nice. He wants line drives to make it click on

Ben Clemens: it simply doesn’t sound like a profile I would like from a nasty defensive catcher

SP: Do you ever play Marvel legendary? If that’s the case, what are your ideas?

Ben Clemens: I performed it early on in my grownup board recreation journey, as in when my spouse and I walked right into a retailer and had been like ‘suggest us some video games;

Ben Clemens: Beloved it, performed a ton, I believe that deckbuilders like which are tremendous enjoyable. We’ve moved on, however we play a whole lot of equally styled video games. Aeon’s Finish might be my favourite of the style

Princess Leia: Assist us Obi-wan Clemon-obi, You’re our solely hope!

Princess Leia: Roll with CES, Ke’Bryan Hayes, or Candelario in a factors league this week?

Ben Clemens: This was the complete message in Star Wars, kinda tousled that they reduce it off quick

Ben Clemens: additionally this can be a good unfold of Star Wars sounding names. Jeimer Candelario may completely be a smuggler in Mos Eisley

Ben Clemens: Let’s see. I’d truly go exterior hte field and take Ke’Bryan

Ben Clemens: The opposite two have powerful pitching slates, whereas he will get the Royals and the unhealthy a part of the Cardinals rotation (Hudson, Drew Rom, Wainwright)

Ben Clemens: He’s been main off, too, so plenty of alternatives in opposition to these terrible pitchers

Ben Clemens: (I’m assuming that is weekly rosters)

Derek: Don’t look now, however Ke’Bryan Hayes is raking! And his underlying metrics appear to assist the outcomes! Is he lastly “figuring it out”?

Ben Clemens: Oh, I’m wanting now

Ben Clemens: I’m at all times wanting, I can’t assist it

Ben Clemens: I’m positive I’ll get sucked in once more subsequent 12 months

Nick: With Strasburg’s retirement, I’ve been excited about how everybody was freaking out about how he had a *changeup* that would high 90. We’ve at all times had elite changeup specialists however by no means ones that threw them that onerous. Was he the primary of his form in that regard? He feels just like the harbinger of pitch gifs.

Ben Clemens: My preliminary intuition was Felix

Ben Clemens: and searching again at it, he averaged 89.2 on his changeup in 2009

Ben Clemens: and hey, now that I have a look at it, Strasburg by no means truly topped 90 in common velo, although clearly he threw fairly a couple of of them that onerous

Ben Clemens: so yeah, I’ll say Felix barely predated him, however that each did rather a lot to place the pitch GIF period on the map

Bryzzo: I’m nonetheless very unhappy about Shohei. What do you imagine to be the most probably consequence for his rest-of-career pitching? If he changed into a relieve like Kerry Wooden, how does that work with the DH? Are you able to DH after which come into the sport in a while from the bullpen?

Ben Clemens: I believe that warming up can be actually tough, and also you’d must lose the DH, however there’s no rule in opposition to it particularly. I believe I’d want to have him play outfield if he wasn’t going to begin, although. Hey, it labored for Babe Ruth

bosoxforlife: The Mets at the moment are comfortably ensconced in final place. It is rather seldom that something drops to its 1% likelihood however this has to come back awfully shut. The story of the season is definitely the whole disintegration of so many extremely rated groups. Even a $10 parlay on the Mets, Cardinals, Padres and Yankees all ending under .500 would have set one up for all times.

Ben Clemens: Yeah, the story is much less ‘topsy-turvy standings’ than ‘some good groups had been BAD’

Ben Clemens: AGain, the Yankees didn’t utterly disintegrate, they’re in final place with a greater report than the Guardians, however nonetheless a really disappointing 12 months

Ben Clemens: The opposite three? Hindenburgian

Insert Witty Identify Right here: Meals ?: how typically do you stick to what you want vs making one thing new that will or might not be good? Observe up query, how do I inform my companion to make meals that don’t use our total provide of cookware that I’ve to wash afterward?

Ben Clemens: Ah, now THIS is a query that’s in my wheelhouse

Ben Clemens: I strive new issues rather a lot once I’m cooking for 2, and nearly solely outdated requirements once I’m cooking for one

Ben Clemens: As for cookware, I don’t thoughts that a lot, I’m a clear as you go sort. The large adjustment for me has been shopping for a whole lot of bowls in order that I don’t must IMMEDIATELY clear one thing to be used later in a recipe

Visitor: Additionally price mentioning re: “Strasburg isn’t honoring his contract” that the accidents have taken a toll on him to the purpose the place even primary on a regular basis duties are painful for him, so it’s not precisely an apples-to-apples argument.

Ben Clemens: Yeah I imply, he’s not in a position to play

Ben Clemens: nobody is disputing that

Ben Clemens: the query is simply whether or not he’s obligated to maintain faking the motions to be able to get his cash, and I believe it’s cheap for workforce and participant to resolve that the fitting reply isn’t any

Jrod: Am I placing myself in consideration for AL mvp votes?

Visitor: Why is Nootbaar’s damage described as an stomach?

Ben Clemens: as a result of we will’t say that he received hit within the noots

mmddyyyy: Is there a systemic cause the central divisions are weak?

Ben Clemens: The very best argument I’ve is a geographical one

Ben Clemens: The largest cities and thus budgets are inclined to congregate on the coasts

Ben Clemens: That’s notably true since Texas has two groups which are each within the “west”

Ben Clemens: as a substitute of the central; Houston is just about due south of Kansas Metropolis, for instance

Ben Clemens: however actually, what it comes all the way down to is that rust belt cities don’t spend like New York/LA/SF/Texas

Ben Clemens: I believe that’s an enormous structural concern

J: When’s the final time an MLB season has been this shocking? I believe there are going to be exceedingly few pre-season predictions that received even 7 of 10 playoff groups right, relying on how issues shake out this subsequent month.

Ben Clemens: This seems like an incredible query to reply with our playoff odds, so I’m most likely going to put in writing one thing about this on the finish of the 12 months

Ben Clemens: however it additionally provides me an opportunity to have a look at my very own predictions. I received: BAL, HOU, MIN, SEA, TBR, LAD, ATL, and probably the Giants

Ben Clemens: so like…. yeah not nice

Ben Clemens: randomly sampling another person, Dan Szymborski received: ATL, LAD, MIL, HOU, TBR, SEA, and possibly TOR

Ben Clemens: I really feel like the actual surprises haven’t been the misses — yeah nearly everybody had the Playing cards Mets and Padres making it, however it’s not like there are THAT many different surprises

Ben Clemens: however simply how badly these have missed

Ben Clemens: nobody picked any of these groups to complete the place they did within the division

Colton: Cardinals mentioned they had been going to be in play for 3 SP’s this offseason, one in all which being the Nola, Urias or Snell. For a workforce that’s by no means went out and spent huge in free company this can be a little bit of a purple flag in my view as a result of it alerts desperation to me and that they actually don’t know the place the workforce goes. Do you will have any opinions about this assertion and the state of the workforce shifting ahead?

Ben Clemens: I believe they need to go be in play for 3 beginning pitchers

Ben Clemens: in case you made me choose two weaknesses of the present Cardinals regime, it’d be creating pitching and understanding when they should push the price range to make up for inside weak spot

Ben Clemens: The ’16-’19 Cardinals had been notable as a result of they’d some good homegrown gamers, and the workforce did NOTHING to assist them in free company

Ben Clemens: so I believe this can be a welcome change. Like, clearly their pitching is unhealthy

Ben Clemens: I don’t assume sticking their heads within the sand this winter would make me MORE assured in them

mmddyyyy: Would the commerce deadline go otherwise the 12 months earlier than an enlargement workforce/draft?

Ben Clemens: It might for positive, however how a lot otherwise would depend upon the timing of roster safety. Mainly groups which have actually stuffed rosters would extra aggressively attempt to consolidate, as a result of they know a whole lot of the gamers they’re buying and selling would get taken in an enlargement draft in any other case

Trout: Sean Murphy’s second half wRC+ is decrease than any of his particular person months. How is that?

Ben Clemens: It’s as a result of halves don’t break up evenly by months, they break up on the All Star break. Murphy hit .444/.524/1.111 in six pre-ASB video games in July, goodness

Ben Clemens: After which .105/.227/.132 the remainder of July, whoops

Ben Clemens: that’s a heck of a one-month turnaroudn although

Mike: Does the service time assemble nonetheless work in immediately’s MLB, particularly because it pertains to relievers who’re shuffled backwards and forwards, pitch three innings to save lots of a bullpen after which return down instantly?

Ben Clemens: No, it’s fairly detrimental to pitchers notably, such as you mentioned

Ben Clemens: I believe that’s unlikely to get bargained away meaningfully, although. THe system doesn’t worth relievers a lot in case you use them that manner, so groups are simply gonna hold doing it. It’s value efficient and likewise simply efficient

Baseball Thinker: Re. marginal utility participant query. I’ve at all times been interested in a “energy of schedule” sort metric. Can be attention-grabbing to see, over a season lengthy, who confronted the “best” and “hardest” pitchers. Similar for a profession too!

Ben Clemens: Yeah this is able to be actually cool, I believe

Wither Wander: I’m a bit shocked that FanGraphs hasn’t had any items in regards to the troubling stories behind the absence of one of many recreation’s greatest names and brightest begins from one in all its greatest groups. I at all times recognize how FanGraphs handles tough issues thoughtfully and with care, so when ought to we anticipate to learn extra in regards to the Wander Franco transfer to the restricted record, right here?

Ben Clemens: In all probability when there’s something on the report about it, however don’t take my phrase for it

Ben Clemens: That’s simply once I’d really feel comfy discussing it

mmddyyyy: Are participant brokers paid when the contract is signed or paid? Pondering of Strasburg’s case

Ben Clemens: They’re paid as a proportion of every verify the participant receives

mmddyyyy: Do you get extra questions on gamers who’re struggling or gamers who’re succeeding?

Ben Clemens: Succeeding, however solely by a hair

Ben Clemens: I used to maintain observe of it, truly, as a result of I used to be actually curious

Visitor: Much more un-fun reality re: injured lists: In case you checked out each LA groups’ ILs and likewise included “pitching Ohtani”, not solely is that sufficient for a full workforce, however it may be sufficient to win the AL Central itself.  Under no circumstances would it not be good (again of the rotation and bullpen look shaky, 3B is middling, LF depends rather a lot on Adell lastly turning it round), however that wouldn’t be a straightforward workforce to face both.

Ben Clemens: ‘win the AL central’, so that you’re saying they’d be about pretty much as good because the precise Angels have been this 12 months

Kirk: Mariners? Mariners.

Body Body go Away: The entire sudden the AL West is loaded with younger catching expertise that may hit. Which AL West catcher do you’re taking subsequent 3 years?

Ben Clemens: I believe I’d do the unwise factor and wager on Diaz’s upside

Ben Clemens: I believe the share choose is Heim, with O’Hoppe subsequent

Freddie Freeman: Probabilities I set the trendy period doubles report? I’ve 50 and it’s not even Sept 1

Ben Clemens: I’m wanting this report up proper now

Ben Clemens: 59 by 2000 Todd Helton, wow

Ben Clemens: ZiPS truly initiatives him to tie the report

Ben Clemens: that’s wonderful

Ben Clemens: I believe there’s a 40% probability of you setting it, I may see the Dodgers sitting him

Greedo: Oona goota Candelario?

Ben Clemens: flows proper off the tongue

mmddyyyy: Is the record of stuff you appreciated this week a dwelling doc or is it born each Thursday evening?

Ben Clemens: It’s extra the previous than the latter for positive, and it’s normally carried out Thursday afternoon

Ben Clemens: I simply hold a notes doc in my telephone, and each time I see a play I like, I write it down

Ben Clemens: then I have a look at these, choose a couple of favorites, and go over what I’m pondering with Meg

Ben Clemens: typically I’m a couple of quick, or two of them don’t play effectively collectively, and we’ve to improvise – I’d say 10% or so are steered by her reasonably than me. However for essentially the most half, I do know what I’m going to be writing baout earlier than Thursday morning

Random Truth Generator: If Anthony Rendon was solely being paid per homerun on his present contract he would have made $6,047,619.05 batting lefthanded.

Jason N: I believe Todd Worrell had a 90mph changeup

Ben Clemens: Eh, I believe starters doing it feels a bit of totally different, plus now a whole lot of guys do it. However yeah, I wager among the huge stuff relievers of the 80s and 90s would have a area day with Pitching Ninja

v2micca: How does Wheeler have half a recreation lead on Strider in fWAR?  They’ve almost the identical variety of innings pitched, and Strider edges Wheeler in xERA, FIP, and xFIP.  I do know park components and workforce protection play a roll, however it looks as if these shouldn’t be giving this a lot of a result in Wheeler.

Ben Clemens: So, xERA and xFIP aren’t elements of WAR, simply FIP

Ben Clemens: so Strider has a decrease FIP, however in a better pitcher’s park. Then we add a further transformation, we depend infield pop ups the identical as strikeouts

Ben Clemens: You don’t see this in our FIP, however it accrues to WAR

Ben Clemens: as a result of an infield come out is simply an out

Ben Clemens: Wheeler has 10 additional on Strider, in order that’s like 10K’s per our method

Ben Clemens: it’s an try and account for the batted balls the place there’s no luck concerned, they’re simply outs each time

Ben Clemens: truly, the park components are kinda the identical now that I’m wanting

Ben Clemens: so it’s simply that and the 5 additional innings

Sodo Mojo: I’m guessing prime Randy Johnson Change Up was over 90

RAH: I simply wished to say how completely satisfied I’m that the Orioles are having a pregame ceremony in September to honor Adam Jones and retire him as an Oriole… this after listening to over the previous few years that the connection between Jones and the O’s was rocky and he wasn’t invited to totally different O’s alumni occasions.

Ben Clemens: Completely agree, I actually take pleasure in Adam Jones and the extra he’s round, the happier I’m

Alf: Is there a possible different to TJ? Clearly no person needs to get surgical procedure as a primary choice. Are you saying that medical doctors/groups are too fast to suggest TJ?

Ben Clemens: No, I (and the questioner) had been particularly speaking a few pressure of youth coaches/baseball thinkers who say “everybody will get TJ, may as effectively simply get it out of the best way”

Ben Clemens: I imply, nothing they’re saying is sensible

Ben Clemens: nobody does this, and nobody considers it severely

Ben Clemens: it’s only a factor individuals say to impress a response

Appa Yip Yip: My favorite second from the HR Derby was when JD Martinez was giving Mookie a pep discuss and telling him to simply pull the s*** out of the ball within the air and Mookie mentioned, “I don’t know the way” what a participant.

Ben Clemens: ah yeah that was nice

Ben Clemens: it’ll be humorous when he out-homers each different Derby participant

Ben Clemens: It seems to be like he’s solely trailing Alonso proper now

Joe: remark received reduce or one thing. In a world the place groups adopted markets, the one groups at present within the MLB from the Centrals can be the Chicago groups. American sports activities want to determine a approach to get groups within the precise high 20 markets.

Ben Clemens: Yeah… I imply, or have extra income sharing and mroe enlargement

MLB parity: In order for you parity in MLB, shrink TV markets of the east/west groups. Add groups to Charlotte, Sacramento, Portland, possibly even San Antonio.

Ben Clemens: Notably the South, Michael Baumann had an award-winning article about this

Appa Yip Yip: The noots shot thus far up into his abdomen they rattled round like pinballs and bruised his abs

Ben Clemens: that sounds terrible

That Man: Serious about the Angels dropping Trout and Ohtani’s pitching in the identical day – are you able to consider a time that workforce misplaced extra WAR in in the future? I don’t assume I can.

Ben Clemens: It’d must be a workforce dropping an incredible participant early within the season. However on a per-game foundation, nope

Getting uninterested in it: At what level do you say “F it”. and END a commerce dialog that’s getting….tiresome?

Ben Clemens: Oh man, I do that manner too simply

Ben Clemens: In fantasy, I imply

Ben Clemens: if I’m not having fun with myself, I don’t wish to hold doing it

Ben Clemens: I believe that’s a very cheap response at any level. the purpose of a recreation is to have enjoyable, and the marginal achieve or loss from haggling over the finer factors of a commerce simply isn’t going to be that prime

Ben Clemens: simply give a final and ultimate provide and transfer on if nothing is there

Kretin: Okay, bizarre query for you. The place do Gamers hold their cash? Like, do they use common banking accounts like us or is there some kind of particular account to retailer these thousands and thousands? Or do they hold it in funding accounts?

Ben Clemens: I’m not a participant accountant, however I’ve a reasonably good concept of the overall mechanics

Ben Clemens: There’s no particular account; in case you bear in mind the entire Silicon Valley Financial institution ruckus, a whole lot of what brought about that run is that there AREN’T particular accounts for if in case you have some huge cash, and actually having some huge cash in a single checking account signifies that cash isn’t insured

Ben Clemens: so the accountable factor to do is break up the cash you retain within the financial institution throughout a large swath of accounts, every underneath the FDIC restrict

Ben Clemens: After which yea, a ton of the cash goes to be in funding accounts of varied varieties. Athletes appear to favor venture-style investments, and personal markets generally, so I might assume that some portion of their cash is tied up in share certificates of varied varieties in non-traded firms. However then they most likely hvae a ton in mutual funds and ETF’s, at Constancy or one thing related

KC Ache: Will we’ve a knuckleball starter within the subsequent 5 years or is that artwork useless?

Pat: How far again does the “factor you want” go? Apart from the EDLC throw to nab Carroll on the plate, the very best factor I noticed this weekend was Parker Meadows walk-off along with his household within the stands on Friday Evening.

Ben Clemens: There’s positively no onerous cutoff

Ben Clemens: Kim hasn’t faked a 3-0 bunt in weeks

Ben Clemens: I simply felt like writing about it

Ben Clemens: amazingly, I’ve one thing from that recreation, even from that INNING, written down, and it’s not Meadows

Ben Clemens: it was Miggy turning again the clock and breaking Ryan Pressly’s chokehold on the inning with some old-fashioned singles hitting

Pat: Joe is fallacious. Detroit is clearly a high 20 market

Ben Clemens: I haven’t regarded up markets not too long ago, however I imagine you

Ben Clemens: I believe the purpose is only a braod structural one, the particulars I’m not completely positive of however the two central divisions positively hvae the smallest common market sizes

Ben Clemens: if nothing else, one another division has both a New York or LA workforce in it

Dusty Runtz: In case you had been Ohtani’s agent? Wouldn’t you make him get TJS now? The longer he waits, the more cash it’s going to possible value him

Shohei: Why doesn’t Ohtani shut it down for the 12 months?

Ben Clemens: Dude loves baseball, in my view

C-Low: The damage to Felix is way more damaging within the playoffs the place he can pitch each recreation than the common season. How do the Os deal with such a loss?

Visitor: Ideas on giving Corridor an opportunity on the nearer job and maintaining remainder of bullpen rolls in place. Has the stuff and mentality if not the expertise.

Ben Clemens: I’m form of considering letting Corridor give it a strive, that sounds enjoyable

Ben Clemens: however yeah, this one hurts. I believe they simply must hope the bullpen holds up, like what else can you actually do?

Jake Marogersnik: Re workforce spending and market measurement, its probably not all the way down to TV viewers in a significant manner, the individuals who personal these groups are among the many richest individuals on this planet, they may spend in the event that they wished to. Detroit used to run a tax breaking payroll as a result of Mike Illitch felt like spending the cash, I don’t assume the market was that larger a decade in the past

Ben Clemens: Certain, house owners CAN try this

Ben Clemens: however like, on common they don’t

Ben Clemens: the AL Central performed larger when Ilitch was doing that

Ben Clemens: there’s positively some correlation in coastal groups being owned by richer house owners, I gained’t argue that

HappyFunBall: Bryan Woo … the talents are super however with an innings cap looming massive I’ve bother beginning guys who I don’t assume will go deep sufficient to earn a QS. Do you assume he’s going to be allowed to method 100 pitches in an outing in any respect the remainder of the 12 months?  Not simply his personal IP limits are in query, however pondering particularly about SEA not desirous to worsen his damage

Ben Clemens: Yeah, I believe they’re going to deal with him with child gloves

Ben Clemens: very powerful from a fantasy perspective

Buster Olney: Who’s the very best historic comp to Kim Ha-seong?

Ben Clemens: I’m truly a fan of Baseball Reference’s similarity scores for him, Brian Dozier however with higher protection

Billy: How do you’re feeling about groups utilizing the specter of shifting to get extra tax {dollars} for stadiums? After the A’s, it looks as if Milwaukee, Tampa, Baltimore, and probably Anaheim may all use threats to maneuver their groups within the upcoming years. Do you see cities like Portland, Nashville, Salt Lake Metropolis, Charlotte, and so forth getting used as leverage for brand spanking new stadiums earlier than they get enlargement groups?

Ben Clemens: I don’t prefer it, haha

Ben Clemens: I believe it’s fairly gross, and I’m not gonna lie, I’m having fun with how poorly that is all going for John Fisher

Ben Clemens: I hope the Vegas undertaking brings him nothing however vexation

Ben Clemens: the Milwaukee shakedown can also be actually irritating

Ben Clemens: I don’t know what to say; I believe this can be a actual draw back of baseball, I don’t prefer it, and but I nonetheless like the game despite all the cash they’re extracting from native and state governments

Farhandrew Zaidman: Don’t look now however the Dodgers are on a 100 win tempo…

Ben Clemens: at all times wager on the dodgers

Ben Clemens: i imply, except we’re speaking ‘To win the World Sequence’

KC Ache: Slade Cecconi good SW identify?

KC Ache: or his wingman Blade Tidwell?  (Meant to he one huge SW query however fats fingered on telephone)

Ben Clemens: Oh man, these are each glorious Star Wars names

Ben Clemens: Slade Cecconi was Poe Dameron’s wingman 100%

Ben Clemens: Alright, we’ve hit the one hour mark and I’ve to go end writing about how the Rangers are falling aside. Have an incredible day, everybody, and hey, the Rangers are falling aside

Ben Clemens: Learn all about it right here tomorrow

Lake Meade: Don’t fear, y’all, I’m taking John Fisher down with me.

Ben Clemens: Tremendous one final remark 🙂