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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 4/1/24

Ben Clemens

2:00

Oh let's chat

Darp

2:00

Imanaga time!

Ben Clemens

2:00

Excited!

GA Blood

2:00

Did you see any of Jared Jones' debut? I still can't believe how good he looked. So many swings and misses

Ben Clemens

2:01

Let's just amble on over to the FanGraphs slack and see what the most recently posted message is

Ben Clemens
10:58 AM
'let's all get irresponsibly excited about jared jones' is ready for tomorrow @Matt Martell

Oh hey, look at that

Ben

2:01

Thoughts on who wins a fight between McNeil and Hoskins? I am guessing McNeil fights dirty!

Ben Clemens

2:01

Yeah Rhys is a teddy bear, I wouldn't mess with Jeff

BaileysanAlGaib

2:01

Is Kutter Crawford going to hold off Nick Pivetta for AL Cy Young? Or will the voters go with Garrett Whitlock? Could also see Bello making a dark horse run...

Ben Clemens

2:02

I'm honestly quite excited about Pivetta, and I think Crawford is really interesting

I'm.... less sold on Whitlock

Rollie's Mustache

2:02

I see that the Sample Size and Stabilization Points research both here and at BaseballProspectus don't include plate discipline metrics. Do you know of any work that shows when things like O-Contact%, Z-Contact%, O-Swing%, SwStr%, etc. become "sticky"?

RTJ

2:03

are we worried about Max Fried already? Or just early season chaos

Ben Clemens

2:03

No but that sounds like something I should do

and no, I'm not

sorry, just inadvertently clicked the second question before answering the first

The person who asks the lunch question

2:04

What's for lunch?

Ben Clemens

2:04

Burmese leftovers

We were really tired yesterday after a weekend of incredible skiing, so we ordered in and got slihgtly too much food

Derek

2:04

Has the first weekend of play at all significantly altered your opinion of any team (either positively or negatively)?

Ben Clemens

2:05

Honestly, the Pirates have moved up in my estimation by a bit and that's pretty much it

Frankie Montas

2:05

Am I a good sell high right now? Or can this be sustained while pitching in Cinci half my starts

Ben Clemens

2:05

Kind of depends what the price is, right?

Like, no, a 0 ERA and 2.30 FIP cannot be sustained

2:06

but Montas was a nice starter until he got hurt in NY, and 'nice starter' is squarely within the possible outcomes for him again

2:07

if someone's offering you ace level returns, sure. if you're trying to 'sell high' as like ever so slightly higher than his ADP, I'd probably hold off

Too Many Mooks

2:07

Who among your people do I thank for Tyler O’Neill?

Ben Clemens

2:07

thank all of Canada

Guest

2:07

How do you feel about Royce Lewis now (after the injury)

Ben Clemens

2:07

sad

Guest

2:07

Will Betts value offensively tank if he plays more ss

Ben Clemens

2:07

The early returns don't look that way, huh?

2:08

I don't think that's an easy question to answer at all, basically. I don't know how his body will react to playing so much shortstop, or how the Dodgers will try to get him rest

but so far he's the best hitter in baseball

Guest

2:08

0 era is sustainable... if he gets to keep pitching against the Nationals!

Ben Clemens

2:08

haha right

Mary Kate Olsen

2:08

MARY. KATE. OLSEN.

Ben Clemens

2:08

New response just dropped

Dan Wadley

2:08

Overreaction alert, but aren't the Mariners the same team every year? Good pitching but genuinely poor offense? And they didn't get meaningfully better over the offseason (because they didn't try to). Why do people keep falling for their BS? They're not a top-tier team.

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