Ben Clemens

I- It is exceedingly rare for any player to add 90 points of on-base percentage in their career, even when they're early in their career like PCA is at 24.

Um, that is kind of incredible, and I think it was Ben Clemens over at FanGraphs had a piece recently that showed sort of the damage PCA is doing in, on different pitches, like on that heat map that they have.

And l- it was the, it was the big map, right? So it's the one that has, like, six across and it's, like, huge.

Uh, and there's like four quadrants out of, like, 24 or however many it is that he has a OPS under, um, like, 700.

The Brewers can't make that same mistake with Harrison.

So that article was written by Ben Clemens, who I'm somewhat familiar with.

I don't really read a ton of Ben's stuff.

I did enjoy back before Kevin Goldstein got another job in baseball, I believe with the twins, but when Goldstein went back to work for fan graphs and was doing his podcast, Ben Clemens was a regular co-host with him.

And I really liked his stuff when he was doing that.

But yeah, this article is kind of a, A head scratcher.

Okay.

So what are we doing? So I brought this up to Ben Clemens, who informed me that in his prior life as a finance person, he, like, had some dealings with this bank.

And apparently, the reason for the name is that those were the, the streets that it-

Yeah

So it's from a little while ago, like maybe a week or so.

Ben Clemens over at Fangraphs did a look at Pete Crow Armstrong.

The piece is titled Pete Crow Armstrong.

Isn't slowing down.

We were, we are also gonna talk to Do Hyun Kim, uh, a former quant analysis for, uh, analysis for the Phillies, who's now a U of T student, uh, and just created a really cool pitching evaluation device called OpenCommand.

Um, Ben Clemens and Davey Andrews are gonna join us a little later as well.

We'll get you set for Max Scherzer against Keibert Montero.

This was originally potentially a bullpen day for the Tigers, but Keibert Montero coming off that paternity list, uh, so he will make the start opposite Scherzer today.

He is a U of T student who, uh, at Saber Seminar presented about Open Command, his new way, and open source, by the way, so you can go in there and play around on GitHub, um, of measuring pitcher command.

We're gonna get into some of that with him.

We'll talk to Ben Clemens and Davey Andrews in the second hour of the show, get you set for Jays-Tigers game three and White Sox-Guardians game three, uh, with Anthony Kay hoping to help the Blue Jays, uh, out in that one.

All that's next as Jays Talk Plus continues on Sportsnet 590 The Fan and Sportsnet 360.

... um, which doesn't mean that that will continue forever.

And, you know, as, as Ben Clemens noted, and here I'm skipping ahead a little bit, sorry, this is just the most interesting part of it, because the, the, the Angels as like a, a, a baseball team, you know, this is a, a momentous thing and is going to be important, and also isn't going to change their immediate fortunes all that much, right? Like, the, the degree of work that that franchise has to do to revitalize itself and sort of catch up to some of the, the franchises around the league that we think of as being sort of marquee teams, uh, they, they have, they have a lot of work to do, you know.

Whether they have access to big payroll or not, they're behind in a number of ways.

So it's also interesting to me that, that right before this sale got announced, like the day before, they, the team announced sort of some really significant restructurings up and down the org with changes to their scouting department and their front office, and it's like, well, is any of that gonna hold? Like, you have a new owner coming in.

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Then we're gonna take another quick break, uh, and then we'll talk to our pal Ben Clemens of FanGraphs.

We'll also talk to Kyrie Oler of FanGraphs a little bit later in the show about the, uh, women's pro baseball league that is, uh, in its final week of the regular season right now, and a lot of really good Canadian content in there, including a former guest of the show, Jada Lee of St. John's Newfoundland, who is emerging as, uh, one of the best women's pitchers in the entire world, uh, right now over the course of that WPBL season.

We will also, of course, get you set for Dylan Cease against Joey Cantillo, uh, tonight as the Jays look to even up the series here and keep the option open to win the season series and the pivotal tiebreaker against the Cleveland Guardians.

Welcome back to Jays Talk Plus.

Blake Murphy with you.

We will talk to Ben Clemens, uh, in a little bit here.

We got a couple minutes before we take another break.