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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/13/20

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Ben Clemens

2:29

My dad was asking me if he could watch Yadi

(he's a big cards fan)

But then again, he listens to spring training games on the radio, so he's probably not the person you're worried about attracting

2:30

Maybe that makes it less valuable? But I certainly don't think it hurts

Chris

2:30

I've been watching Yankee summer games on YES, for the record

Ben Clemens

2:30

That's cool that YES is streaming them. Love it

Trent

2:30

How about a poll re: streamed games?

Ben Clemens

2:30

Great idea

Would you watch your favorite team's streamed sim games?

Yes (64.8% | 35 votes)

No (20.4% | 11 votes)

Just snooping, no opinion (14.8% | 8 votes)

Total Votes: 54

Jimmy

2:30

"Crying poor" is a negative way of saying "more profitable", which is not a bad thing. Of course they should act in their best interest

Ben Clemens

2:30

I mean, sure?

2:31

This is obviously untrue at the limit

So we can just debate at what point it's true and at what point it's not

But that seems like it will head a little further into politics than I like to here

So, let's just say owners are great at making money

And expansion seems like a wise way to make some more at this point.

Guest

2:32

Brewers are hosting a best of seven intrasquad World Series this week. Avisail Garcia and Omar Narvaez are drafting the teams today for the Blue and the Gold squads. Games are in each night in prime time (6:40pm CT) and streamed on Brewers.com. Actual announcers. I'm actually pumped.

Ben Clemens

2:32

What?

I'm going to watch tihs

What a great idea

I mean, I'm curious why those two were the captains

Jimmy

2:32

The wording is a glass half full vs. half empty

Ben Clemens

2:32

Look the owners said they were going to take a financial bath and lose 4 billion dollars by playin this year

2:33

So like, chill

Charlotte

2:33

Carolina seems like an obvious choice for expansion. They have teams in all of the other major sports and the population there is booming.

Ben Clemens

2:33

Used to have a bunch of work colleagues/counterparts who lived in Charlotte

2:34

They would head to Knights games after work because the stadium is so easy to get to

I wonder if having a major league team would ruin that experience, but on the other hand the area is booming, like you said

Marko from Tropoja

2:34

Buy or sell: Kershaw's FB velocity is back? If sell, when (if?) do we see a serviceable CH from him?

Ben Clemens

2:34

I do not think we're going to see a changeup from him, to be honest

2:35

It's been an obvious thing for him to add for FOREVER

But he hasn't b/c his curveball does enough against righties

I buy a tick up, though

2:36

Kershaw more than perhaps any other pitcher in baseball has been in a cycle of overwork, nagging injury, pitch through it, overwork

Some rest might have done him good

Curious

2:36

Jay Jaffe used Pete Alonso as an example of "service time shenanigans" today, alongside Vlad Jr. I feel like Alonso is a really weak example, especially next to Vlad Jr. or someone like Bryant, or a guy who was strongarmed into signing an extension before being promoted. I feel like it was a really unnecessary politicization of his look at the Mets 1B options. I don't actually have a question, I'm just slightly het up about it

Ben Clemens

2:36

Well, I wrote about Alonso's start last year and very specifically mentioned their Super Two shenanigans with Alonso

Hm, double Alonso'ed there, that's my bad

2:37

But I think you're right that it's a far weaker example than Vladdy

2:38

B/c when he made it obvious that he belonged, they caved

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