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Looking at the stats:

- Rizzo, Bonifacio, Castro have been good

- Valbuena has great OBP but no slugging, needs more steroids

- Mike Olt has serviceable numbers due to slugging alone.

- Junior Lake has decent numbers if he were starting in CF

- Outfield is complete trash other than that (the other guys are playing at sub-replacement player level), Barney sucks, Castillo off to slow start.

 

Pitching has been pretty much league average overall. Hammel/Wood/Shark have been pretty great. Jackson has been trash along with Villanueva, Schlittler, and Veras.

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I wonder what contributes to your curiosity about this. I'm not sure why anybody would care, aside from a best writer looking for an easy story.

Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in.

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I wonder what contributes to your curiosity about this. I'm not sure why anybody would care, aside from a best writer looking for an easy story.

Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in.

Um, Castro was called up in 2010.

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I wonder what contributes to your curiosity about this. I'm not sure why anybody would care, aside from a best writer looking for an easy story.

Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in.

Um, Castro was called up in 2010.

But Castro can't possibly be a team leader...

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I wonder what contributes to your curiosity about this. I'm not sure why anybody would care, aside from a best writer looking for an easy story.

Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in.

Um, Castro was called up in 2010.

But Castro can't possibly be a team leader...

Too brown and mexicany

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Too brown and mexicany

 

You aren't supposed to put it that way. Use the code words.

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I wonder what contributes to your curiosity about this. I'm not sure why anybody would care, aside from a best writer looking for an easy story.

Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in.

Um, Castro was called up in 2010.

But Castro can't possibly be a team leader...

I didn't mention Castro b/c hasn't there been some who question whether or not he fits Theo/Jed's ideal? Jed's traded for Rizzo twice.

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More North re: Travis Wood

 

I'm going to have to revise my viewpoint on Travis Wood soon. He's impressed me, surprisingly, so far. He's throwing his cutter more this year (13% more). That's good because his cutter is significantly better this year. Before I go into it, let me preface all the data by saying the season is still young, but not young enough to consider that Travis Wood changed his game and got better. K/9 stabilizes at about 70 batters faced. This doesn't, though, mean Wood will have a 9 K/9 the reason of the year, but over the course of that sample, half the variance was ruled out. I want to focus on Wood's cutter, because he is throwing it about half the time.

 

The league average cutter generates about 9.6% whiffs per pitch. Wood this year:

http://s13.postimg.org/3zvczaqtj/Scr...8_16_36_PM.png

 

The league average cutter generates about 44% grounders per BIP. Wood this year:

http://s13.postimg.org/fdhwai1c7/Scr...8_30_27_PM.png

 

Travis Wood has changed his release point:

http://s13.postimg.org/d6dnmkw1z/Scr...8_17_19_PM.png

 

As a result of his changed release point, his cutter has moved more horizantally:

http://s13.postimg.org/vxfkwqqmf/Scr...8_17_09_PM.png

 

Because Travis Wood's cutter is a better pitch, we can assume there will be two outcomes moving forward: 1) he gets more grounders and 2) he gets more whiffs. These are what pitchers, ideally, want to accomplish.

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Nobody gives a [expletive] what some random poster says from a different board.
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Nobody gives a [expletive] what some random poster says from a different board.

 

You seem really upset about this.

 

I recall posters responding pretty positively to his other posts, so I think you're wrong about that, though.

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