Ben Clemens
Writer at FanGraphs
Baseball writer for @fangraphs. Dog lover. A Lexus or justice, a dream or some substance.
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1 day ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
There’s a war going on across major league baseball. It’s been waged over decades, in fact, between two opposing factions of the game. Pitchers, at times aided by their catchers, want to own the top of the strike zone, the place where their fastballs have the easiest time missing bats. Hitters want to hit home runs, and the top of the zone is an ideal launching pad. But while both sides would dearly love to own the territory, they can’t both win at once.
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2 days ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
If, like me, you’re a weird baseball transactions sicko, you probably first heard of Luis Torrens at the tail end of 2016. That’s when the Padres, in the midst of an A.J. Preller-led teardown, shocked baseball by taking three low-minors players in the Rule 5 Draft and putting them all on the major league roster for 2017. It was a bold, unheard of tactic. The three players – Allen Córdoba, Miguel Díaz, and Torrens – were clearly not ready for the majors.
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3 days ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | Ben Clemens
The Diamondbacks did things the “right way,” to the extent that the right way means anything. After making the World Series unexpectedly in 2023, they went into the offseason with an exciting group of hitters and an unsettled rotation, so they opened the vault and signed two of the top-10 free agents that year — Eduardo Rodriguez and Jordan Montgomery — both starting pitchers.
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4 days ago |
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
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Five Things I Liked (Or Didn’t Like) This Week. Memorial Day marks the point at which we’re a third of the way through the season, a great time to take stock of how preseason story lines have fared in the light of the regular season day. The Orioles might be bad. The Phillies and Tigers might be great. The Rockies might be the worst team of all time. Aaron Judge might be an alien.
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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?
