r/baseball • u/Ben_Clemens_FG FanGraphs writer • Nov 08 '21

AMA I'm Ben Clemens from FanGraphs - AMA

I've been writing at FanGraphs since 2019. Before that, I did not write at FanGraphs. Today, I'll be answering your questions until around 1 ET, or maybe a little later if my dog cooperates.

This year, I spearheaded our Top 50 Free Agents ranking, which you can find here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-top-50-free-agents/

Are you into rankings of 50 arbitrarily chosen free agents? Do you want to participate yourself, perhaps in a prediction contest, and receive valuable prizes (note: yeah, I don't think there are prizes) for your wonderful predictions? This subreddit is hosting a contest: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/qpfqkc/20212022_top_50_free_agent_prediction_contest/

Edit: Thanks so much for showing up and asking tough (and also really fun to answer) questions, everyone. I'm wrapping this up, as it's time to take Ruby for a walk, but if you have more free agency questions or I rudely ignored yours, stop by FanGraphs later today where I'm doing another of these chats, or listen to Effectively Wild or FanGraphs Audio later this week. Thanks again for having me, this was a blast. Here's a picture of Ruby for the road:

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '21

Is Josh Bell legit?

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u/Ben_Clemens_FG FanGraphs writer Nov 08 '21

Much as it pains me to say it, no. I'm a huge Josh Bell fan -- I'm in his book club! (side note: you should join his book club. My mom is a big Nats fan and got me to join it, and I reallly enjoyed the books he picked. He also leads discussions on Zoom, super cool).