Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 7/18/22
Ben Clemens answers your questions about all baseball.
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FanGraphs 2022 Day One Draft Chat
Join Eric Longenhagen for a chat as Day One of the amateur draft unfolds.
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Nationals To Entertain Trade Offers For Juan Soto After He Rejects $440MM Offer
3:04PM: While the Nationals’ offer didn’t have any deferred money, the $440MM was “heavily backloaded” into the offer’s last six seasons, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports. The offer’s backloaded nature played a part in Soto’s decision, according to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, and other factors included the relatively low AAV and the…
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Fernando Tatis Jr.’s Return Gets Closer But No Firmer as Padres’ Slide Continues
As the Padres remain to await their super star to return, times have actually transformed negative in San Diego.
To be reasonable, the 21-year-old novice had simply 42 video games at
Double-A and as well as at Triple-A when the Padres brought him to the majors in the wake of Tatis’s injury. When readily available, he’s struck a weak.234/.276/.306(65 wRC+)in 134 for the Padres, generating simply 0.1 WAR. The Padres have actually obtained also much less infraction from facility area through a. 186/.282/.314(75 wRC+)line. All of his various other devices are
at least the very least grade quality listed belowStandard with his hit tool device rated30/35, though it’s worth noting he’s striking out at a 17.4 %rate price year, down from 20.7 %last year and 26.6% in 2019.
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Updated 2022 Draft Rankings Are Now On The Board
With the draft around the corner, it’s time for some updated rankings.
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Marlins To Promote Max Meyer
The Marlins are set to promote top pitching prospect Max Meyer, the team announced on Twitter (with video of him learning the news). Craig Mish of SportsGrid reports (Twitter link) that Meyer will start on Saturday against the Phillies. It’ll be the major league debut for the right-hander, who flew through the minors. Miami selected Meyer with…
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Could Lucas Giolito Be This Year’s José Berríos?
On this date one year ago, the Minnesota Twins were 39-50, placing them 15 games behind the White Sox in the AL Central and 11 1/2 games out of a Wild Card spot. They fell a little bit further back by the deadline and decided they had to do some selling. This was surely a…
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An Under-The-Radar Controllable Starting Pitcher Trade Candidate
The old saw that states “you can never have enough pitching” gets bandied about a lot at this time of year. With the trade deadline now three weeks away, just about every contender is looking to bolster its staff by adding an arm or two. Even the Yankees, who have managed to keep their five…
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American League West Prospect Notebook For July
A diminutive Astros second baseman who produced big results in the upper minors headlines our July organization reports from our five American League West correspondents.
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Should The Orioles Rethink Their Trade Deadline Approach?
Few teams in baseball are playing as well as the Orioles lately. That’s not what anyone would have imagined entering the season or as recently as a couple weeks ago. As the calendar flipped to July, Baltimore was 35-43 and separated by six teams in the American League Wild Card standings. They were among the…
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