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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/5/22

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Ben Clemens

2:55

He better. He's clearly deserving

Ryan

2:55

Mancini best available bat on the market?

Ben Clemens

2:55

I'd go with Contreras

Tiger's Fan

2:56

Most likely return to MVP form next year...Tatis Jr., Acuna Jr., Soto?

Ben Clemens

2:56

Boy, tough one

I'm gonna go with Tatis, I'm just such a sucker for his skil set

Bill

2:56

Is Julio in the discussion for #1 on the trade value series?

Ben Clemens

2:56

Sure

2:57

But I'm pretty sure he will not finish number one

Steven

2:57

Besides getting healthy SPs to return, what move that the Mets could make would really have them jump into the Dodgers tier?

Ben Clemens

2:57

Catcher upgrade, but I think they're kinda close to that tier already

Maybe a few extra relievers, too

Dan

2:57

Tangentially related to the large SS conversation, would you make Tatis your CF going forward? Wrist-aside, he still has a shoulder problem and isn't great defensively at SS, but I keep going back and forth about the relative risk of diving plays in the outfield.

Ben Clemens

2:58

Nah I would keep him on the infield. I'm worried about the diving, too, and I think that the kind of bad he is at shortstop (errors, basically) is something that will smooth out over time

Lavish Lavin

2:58

Old-timey pitchers barely struck anyone out by modern standards. Cy Young's career K/9 is 3.43. How did good pitchers in earlier eras distinguish themselves from their peers, if not by their strikeout totals?

Ben Clemens

2:58

By not walking anyone, by not allowing home runs, by being durable, and by inducing weak contact

pitching was just so different then compared to now that I barely know how to compare it

Logan

2:58

Speaking of custom FG dashboards, what all is on yours other than barrel rate?

Ben Clemens

2:59

Swing rate, barrel rate, hard hit rate, swstr%, and then just regular dashboard stuff

Tiger's Fan

2:59

Kyle Tucker should be an all star and gold glover this year? T or F?

Ben Clemens

2:59

I really have no idea on gold glove

But All Star? yes

Jeremy

2:59

Among Derek Jeter's more impressive achievements was being defensively overrated despite being 6' 3".

Tim Teufel

3:00

Do you think the Braves catch the Mets? If not, Do you think deGrom/Scherzer returning or an offensive rebound is more likely to be the reasoning the Mets stay afloat in 1st/top of the league?

Ben Clemens

3:00

I think that the Mets will hang on

3:01

and, uh.... I guess I'll take an offensive rebound. I like the Mets' offense quite a bit

Blake Seams

3:01

Is there any way to find batter stats that can be filtered by pitch velocity?

Ben Clemens

3:01

You'll have to do it yourself on baseball savant, but it can be done. They have filters there, so you could, say, sort by pitch value, but limit it to pitches thrown 95 mph or harder

Pedro

3:01

What do you see for Parades ROS and in 2023? Thanks in advance

Ben Clemens

3:02

I think that he'll be an above average regular

So, 120 wRC+ let's say, driven by solid K/BB numbers and meaningfully less power than he's showin right now

3:03

I am obviously a big Paredes backer, I've been the high person on him at FG for years now, and I'm glad to see his skill set popping in the majors, but he's not gonna keep hitting for this much power

RTJ

3:03

playoff odds page aside, who's more likely to miss the playoffs: Padres or Red Sox?

Ben Clemens

3:03

Sox, I tihkn the division is just so tough that I can see them going on a 2-8 stretch where they only play great teams

Games

3:03

By how many games do you think NYY and HOU win their divisions by? I know what FG says but what do you think?

Ben Clemens

3:04

NYY: 8, I think they'll cool off. HOU: 75

adambulldog

3:04

What do the Yankees have to give the Cubs in exchange for Happ?

Steve O.

3:04

If you're the Yankees would you give up Oswald Peraza+ for Ian Happ, or would you rather just go for someone like David Peralta or Benintendi?

Ben Clemens

3:05

I would not trade Peraza plus for Happ, who in my estimation is a nice player who's only an upgrade on Aaron Hicks in the Yankees' OF

I'd prefer to go smaller, like Steve O. said

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