JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/29/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 6/29/20

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Ben Clemens

3:22

Keith McDonald

Aaron

3:22

Difficult second season

Ben Clemens

3:22

To say the least

50% strikeout rate isn't optimal

Though in his defense it was a small sample

GrandPubaDirtbag

3:23

Should every team have one Billy Ham due to the extra inning rule?

Ben Clemens

3:24

I don't really think so. It's quite contextual; if you have a better fourth/fifth outfielder type, just do that

I think I worked out that it's around 0.3 WPA (expected value) for a season

So if you're the Cardinals and your fourth outfielder is Lane Thomas.... I guess he's quite fast actually

But ha, maybe he's their fifth outfielder now, I don't konw.

3:25

The point is, if you're replacing a scrub, then yes

But Billy Hamilton is pretty bad at the other parts of baseball

Robert

3:25

So he's in the...fast Lane?

I'll be here all night

Ben Clemens

3:25

I will only be here for about ten more minutes, unlike Robert

3:26

So let's hop around through all our questions randomly

Springer McSpaniel

3:26

Stealing third is a very cavalier move. Who, in the current game, would you expect to be the active leader?

Ben Clemens

3:26

Feel like there's some cavalier pun going on, but I don' get it

I'll say Brett Gardner because he's played so long

Liar

3:26

My favorite broadcast is the Buck-Smoltz crew!

Ben Clemens

3:26

Didn't see the name at first and was going to get incensed

But well playe

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Robert

3:27

Puig?

Ben Clemens

3:27

Puig is indeed cavalier

Lorenzo

3:27

I'm sure you've discussed this in the past, but have you ever seen or played the board game "All-Star Baseball"? The game with the round cards and the spinners.

Ben Clemens

3:27

I have not played it. I played a lot of Strat-o-Matic when I was a kid

And in fact, today's FanGraphs prep uses Strat-o-matic cards

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-prep-regression-towards-the-mean...

with the added bonus that it's the guy who created steamer teaching you how to regress to the mean

3:28

(that's quite an added bonus)

Derek

3:28

Odd trivia guy we need you

Ben Clemens

3:28

Always true

Reggie

3:28

30 HR in 60 games? That's a lot. I won't be surprised if the HR leader ends up with 20

Ben Clemens

3:28

Totally agree. 30 is an outlandish number. Not that it isn't possible but it's not likely

David K

3:28

Mets trying to sign the 2009 cromulement all stars in Beckham and Melky?

Ben Clemens

3:29

Calling Beckham cromulent is maybe too much praise

Ryan Zimmerman has also opted out

Of playing the season

This might mean farewell for him, as Britt Ghiroli noted:

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