Ben Clemens
Writer at FanGraphs
Baseball writer for @fangraphs. Dog lover. A Lexus or justice, a dream or some substance.
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blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
Welcome to another edition of Five Things I Liked (Or Didn’t Like) This Week. I won’t try to slow-play it; there was nothing I didn’t like this week. Baseball is freaking great right now. There are huge blockbuster trades that ignite passionate fanbases, for better or worse. The playoff chase is starting to heat up as we approach the All Star break. Crowds are picking up now that school is out. The weather is beautiful in seemingly every stadium.
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1 week ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
As you might have heard, the Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the Giants earlier this week. In my breakdown of the deal, I ranked the players headed to Boston in the order of my interest in them: James Tibbs III, Kyle Harrison, Jose Bello, and lastly Jordan Hicks, though that’s contract-related, as I think he’s probably the best current player of the four. The next day, someone in my chat asked me why I preferred Tibbs to Harrison – was I particularly high on Tibbs, or particularly low on Harrison?
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blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
On Monday night in Los Angeles, Shohei Ohtani made his first major league start for the Dodgers. For any other starter signed before the 2024 season, that would be a disastrous sentence to type. Ohtani, of course, became the charter member of the 50/50 club, won the National League MVP, and then helped his team win the World Series.
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blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
Ben is a writer at FanGraphs. He can be found on Bluesky @benclemens.
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1 week ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
Look, I’ll just get right to it:The San Francisco Giants are acquiring Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox for Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison and more, according to sources familiar with the deal. — Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) June 15, 2025That’s the kind of blockbuster you don’t see every day. Rafael Devers is the best healthy Red Sox hitter. The Sox are above .500 and in the thick of the AL playoff hunt.
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Issuing a correction regarding the Chicago Bears: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
RT @GrantBrisbee: @_Ben_Clemens if albert pujols signed with the angels at Soto's age, the deal would be remembered as one of the biggest F…
The number of keyboard warriors who flood FanGraphs comments with "I'd hate for my team to pay for Soto" just baffles me. Do they all think they're going to get hired by the Rays front office for their brilliant understanding that great players sign big contracts?
