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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/5/22

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Ben Clemens

2:47

I think this might just work

2:48

I like the trade more for the Jays b/c I really like Urquidy, but Jansen is good

Ugh

2:48

Ben can I PLEASE sneak in a fantasy Q? Are you ok with cutting Aroldis now that he's returned? Holmes is likely going to hole the role all season, right? Thanks sir!

Ben Clemens

2:48

Oh I'd cut Aroldis yeah

spend nutting

2:48

Is Bryan Reynolds > 50% to get traded? for a team that is (in theory) trying to compete in 24/25, isn't he a guy they should keep to build a core with? feels like whatever the return would be would be underwhelming and set the rebuild back

Ben Clemens

2:48

I think that he is going to get traded, and probably for a return that's disappointing to Pirates fans and disappointing to whatever team trades for him

2:49

Like.... I think he's more above-average regular than star

But that's a valuable player, 3.5 years of cost-controlled above average regular is great

For Pirates fans, they'll wonder why they traded last year's MVP candidate for some prospects they haven't heard of

2:50

and since fans are such pearl clutchers about prospects these days, the acquiring team's fans will freak about that

So it'll be a lose-lose trade from the fan perspective, and probably win-win from the front office perspective. I don't think Reynolds is the kind of player you HAVE to keep

If they traded Ke'Bryan Hayes, I'd feel differeintly

FailedRebuild

2:50

If you were GM of the CWS... and didn't have to placate Reinsdorf... would you blow up the team and rebuild again? Jimenez can't stay healthy, Robert is mercurial, Giolito's gonna leave as a free agent after next year....

Ben Clemens

2:50

I would definitely not!

2:51

Why would you want to get rid of a team that wins plenty of baseball games and has made the playoffs two years in a row?

Are you just really enamored of what all these teams who get bad for fun have been doing?

Rebuild again? You gonna get Yoan Moncada in trade for Yoan Moncada?

Matt Damon

2:51

MATT. DAMON.

Roberto Beers

2:51

Young, pre-roid, Mike Morse was a 6'5 SS with those massive levers too. Not quite 6'7 but had the rough build

Ben Clemens

2:52

Yeah... and haha, he realllllly didn't stick there

FailedRebuild

2:52

Ha! No, but I'd like to see a team that can get past first round.

Ben Clemens

2:52

Yeah.... I mean, it's just about bites at the apple

2:53

I might try to build the team differently, or prioritize different things, but I'd just never be a GM who would take a team that's currently good and try to make it worse on purpose

Tiger's Fan

2:53

Better career: Wander Franco or Julio Rodriguez?

Ben Clemens

2:53

I will take Wander

Scott

2:53

Trying for saves, would you hang on to minter, or find another? any suggestions who's likely a good pick to replace him with? Thanks

Ben Clemens

2:53

I think I'd hang on to Minter, but I take my fantasy cues from Jason Martinez's closer depth chart

https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/closer-depth-chart

FailedRebuild

2:54

Thanks. Appreciate the input. TLR has made the last 2 y... despite actual success... feel more painful than they would seem to be.

Ben Clemens

2:54

Now that I would change!

Steve O.

2:54

Should the Yankees call up Oswald Peraza? I mean IKF has been bad and hasn't even been great defensively. Might as well see what he can do going into the trade deadline. If he stinks, they can trade for someone or go back to IKF.

Ben Clemens

2:54

I would, yeah

Not that I think it's super likely to pan out but you know what you're getting with IKF at this point, a nice utility infielder

2:55

It's nice to get a look at a potential successor before making trades

Jeremy

2:55

Cal Ripken was 6' 4", and he was a terrific (and underrated) defensive SS. It's surely not impossible that a guy 3" taller could play at least an adequate shortstop.

Ben Clemens

2:55

I mean, it's definitely not impossible, Cruz is doing it right now

But I understand people's hesitance, he's just so tall

Ryan

2:55

Is Gunnar Henderson a top 10 prospect?

Ben Clemens

2:55

For me, yes

Bill

2:55