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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/13/20

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Ben Clemens

3:23

And then have no idea how to get them playing time

Not Curious

3:23

Can you tell BVW-Curious to chill out? Shenanigans is by its nature a light-hearted term, geez.

Ben Clemens

3:23

Huge waste to not make your user name incurious here

3:24

But I must say

What about evil shenanigans?

3:24

Dylan Cease? Does he have a higher upside than a #3 starter?

Ben Clemens

3:24

I think so!

3:25

I don't have a percentage chance he reaches it handy for you

3:27

But I could see him being Luis Severino or Tyler Glasnow or something

Biggie

3:27

How often do you expect to see the Yankees 5 man infield? Which pitches / team could also pull this off?

Ben Clemens

3:28

Ugh

I wrote something about the dodgers doin this to eric hosmer last year

And now I'm struggling to find it

Music City

3:28

Doesn't Chattanooga have a team already?

Ben Clemens

3:28

They do but they were on the cut list

3:29

aha!

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-dodgers-get-shifty/

re: 5 man infields

Logan

3:29

Would you rather attend the Futures Game or a regular season MLB game featuring your favorite team?

Ben Clemens

3:29

regular season game

3:30

I love the atmosphere of a baseball game and I'm not sure the futures game would really have that

It's just such a weird thing

Jon

3:30

Doubling down on earlier comments about concerns before becoming a member, the fact that Fangraphs has taken such a frequent political stance makes me lose interest. I need an escape from politics, which this place used to be

Ben Clemens

3:30

Gosh, I struggled with whetehr to post this question, because I'm pretty sure that you're not going to like what i have to say

But screw it, we're here

If you think that we are getting too political, I think that you have far too broad of a view of what is political

3:31

If you think wanting people to be safe and healthy is political, I don't thikn you're using the word correctly

If you think that having a position on the state of labor in baseball is too political

I mean, it's baseball

what are we supposed to do

Just completely ignore it?

If you see politics everywhere you look

3:32

Maybe you are guilty of over-politicizing everything

It's not a political opinion that I'm worried that poor governing has led to thousands of deaths

It's not a political position to say hey, people should think carefully about these labor issues, and here are my views

3:33

If that bothers you so much you can't read our analysis, that's one thing

But it clearly doesn't, you're participating in my chat!

So like, get off your high horse of 'don't talk politics but I still want all your dang free content'

You're probably not defining politics right and it doesn't seem to stop you from liking the site enough anyway

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