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seanimal South Bend Cubs

seanimal

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let me preface this by saying that i know this is not going to happen.

 

the cubs have:

 

ONE a crazy offense-leaning farm system

 

TWO top minor league pitchers who mostly seem to have big stuff but questions about durability

 

THREE no big established successful starters in their major league rotation

 

FOUR no apparent willingness to sign expensive pitchers to long-term contracts.

 

aren't they in a perfect position to be the team that throws out the normal pitching rotation and does the all piggy-back pitching staff and just pitches guys slightly more often but for briefer outings?

 

i've been in love with this sort of thing for a long time and i think the game will evolve closer to this eventually

 

imb brings up a good point, especially given the power of the players' union. but as powerful as they are, i think they'll conform to the market. we can use the recent trend of long-term deals through peak ages as evidence of this

 

so in the example of kershaw, you run him out there every 4 or 5 games for as long as he can be effective. but for those other games, you platoon the position in a way that attempts to give you the maximum utility of any particular guy in any particular situation

 

on that note, it'd be interesting to see how workload is managed and what implications that has on roster spots

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also, to point FOUR, i think they absolutely do go out and overpay for an arm or two at some point over the next 2 or 3 offseasons. if something comes up via trade that they can't pass up, then i don't think they hesitate to pull the trigger. but it seems clear that if available, money is just money and we should avoid sacrificing impact offensive players for pitchers of any variety provided the need can be satisfied via free agency
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Alcantara already worth 0.2 fWAR in 2 games.
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The pitching coach getting trapped between the two hotel doors is my nightmare.

Hahaha. Completely forgot about that scene but remember thinking how that would freak me the hell out. Also, caught between joint hotel room doors, too.

 

Edit: didn't read your post fully and thought I remembered him being caught between some doors in the clubhouse?

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The pitching coach getting trapped between the two hotel doors is my nightmare.

Hahaha. Completely forgot about that scene but remember thinking how that would freak me the hell out. Also, caught between joint hotel room doors, too.

 

Edit: didn't read your post fully and thought I remembered him being caught between some doors in the clubhouse?

 

he was stuck inside like a cage/fence thing in their fake clubhouse

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The pitching coach getting trapped between the two hotel doors is my nightmare.

Hahaha. Completely forgot about that scene but remember thinking how that would freak me the hell out. Also, caught between joint hotel room doors, too.

 

Edit: didn't read your post fully and thought I remembered him being caught between some doors in the clubhouse?

 

he was stuck inside like a cage/fence thing in their fake clubhouse

That's what I was thinking. Thanks.

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Chris Coghlan over the last 28 days (85 PA's):

 

.307/.369/.533

BAbip: .345

 

The glory of Bill Mueller.

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Chris Coghlan over the last 28 days (85 PA's):

 

.307/.369/.533

BAbip: .345

 

The glory of Bill Mueller.

 

Seriously, between Bosio and Mueller we have our own magic pixie dust.

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http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/07/12/cubs-gm-jed-hoyer-reiterates-that-the-team-should-have-an-active-offseason/

 

The question, offered by Dave Kaplan on The Game was pretty simple: Do you anticipate a far more active offseason than we saw last winter?

 

Hoyer had been asked a variant of that question before by Kaplan, but, given the timing – coordinated with a trade that was consistent with a near-term (2015/16) competitive timeline – it was an appropriate, and more specific, re-ask.

 

Hoyer’s response this time around was even more pointed.

 

“I think it probably will be. It’s hard to say. Certainly we’ll be a popular team that teams will come to if they’re trying to address hitting needs, there’s no doubt about that. But also we have some money to spend. Obviously we don’t have a lot of long-term contracts on our books, and I expect to be active. You can never force it. I feel really good about the health of the organization, and the last thing we want to do is try to be overly active and hurt that. But that said, I think if the right things come about, there’s no reason to think we can’t be really aggressive this Winter or the following Winter at some point.”

 

Hoyer then added, unprompted, that one of the most attractive things about Addison Russell as the center piece in The Big Trade is that he’s already at AA, and the Cubs are very talented at AA and AAA right now. So they’re trying to time things up – and the implication was, the timing is soon.

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http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/07/12/cubs-gm-jed-hoyer-reiterates-that-the-team-should-have-an-active-offseason/

 

The question, offered by Dave Kaplan on The Game was pretty simple: Do you anticipate a far more active offseason than we saw last winter?

 

Hoyer had been asked a variant of that question before by Kaplan, but, given the timing – coordinated with a trade that was consistent with a near-term (2015/16) competitive timeline – it was an appropriate, and more specific, re-ask.

 

Hoyer’s response this time around was even more pointed.

 

“I think it probably will be. It’s hard to say. Certainly we’ll be a popular team that teams will come to if they’re trying to address hitting needs, there’s no doubt about that. But also we have some money to spend. Obviously we don’t have a lot of long-term contracts on our books, and I expect to be active. You can never force it. I feel really good about the health of the organization, and the last thing we want to do is try to be overly active and hurt that. But that said, I think if the right things come about, there’s no reason to think we can’t be really aggressive this Winter or the following Winter at some point.”

 

Hoyer then added, unprompted, that one of the most attractive things about Addison Russell as the center piece in The Big Trade is that he’s already at AA, and the Cubs are very talented at AA and AAA right now. So they’re trying to time things up – and the implication was, the timing is soon.

Nice.

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