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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/13/20

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2-D

3:33

What's with the lack of running on Yadier Molina last season? Reputation? Do the Cardinals have quick pitchers? He wasn't great at catching stealers when they tried.

Ben Clemens

3:33

Rep, I'd guess

3:34

Figuring out stealing stuff is tough

(quick change of direction in the chat!)

there are really big sampling issues, and there's a great Rob Arthur article out there somewhere about how the opposite of a stolen base isn't a CS but rather not running

3:35

SB attempts are probably a better refleciton of a catcher's arm than CS's

Biggie

3:35

#nopolitics what would you like to see the Cleveland Baseball club be named?

Ben Clemens

3:35

I'd like them to be the Cleveland Naps

Nap Lajoie is awesome

and underheralded relative to how great he was

Biggie

3:36

How many teams will go with a 6 man starting rotation?

Ben Clemens

3:37

Six

For the symmetry

Realistically, if I'm being honest with you, I've been really diving into the stupid parts of depth charts

I.e. the two positions where teams just dump whoever, DH and LF

3:38

and haven't been paying as much attention to what teams are saying around their rotations

So I'm probably the worng person to ask

asnbrv

3:38

Which do you think will happen next; a major tweak in catcher WAR, or a major tweak in (or an emergence of another major variation of) pitcher WAR

Ben Clemens

3:38

So, for us, I'd say a major change to pitcher war

Framing was the big change in catcher war

and we did that

3:39

And now that Steamer is projecting framing, I don't see us goin back

BBref doesn't have framing, so for them, catcher war

But here, I think the next evolution is some kind of pitching WAR that does more with batted ball data than we currently do

In that vein, I highly recommend Alex Chamberlain's recent articles about his talks at PitchCon

The RotoGraphs lead article right now