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If Twitter is to be believed, Junior Lake connected on a punch in a bench clearing brawl in the DWL tonight.
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If Twitter is to be believed, Junior Lake connected on a punch in a bench clearing brawl in the DWL tonight.

First thing he's connected with in a while, AMIRITE?

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You guys didn't disappoint.

 

Here's video:

 

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Seriously wtf is he doing

B2v6_1DCAAAZFHY.jpg

 

I don't care about him making amends, we're not going to invite him back to Wrigley Field simply because we are afraid of scaring the children attending.

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The roster I'd build with what we have right now with patented WAG projection system.

 

Bryant* (1.5)/Alcantara (1.5)/Soler (2.0) [Coghlan, Ruggiano 2.0]

Valbuena (2.0)/Castro (2.5)/Baez (1.0)/Rizzo (5.0) [La Stella, Watkins 0.5]

Castillo (1.5) [baker (-0.5)]

 

Arrieta (4.0)/Hendricks (1.5)/Wood (1.0)/Wada (1.0)/Turner (0.5) [All Kind of Guys 1.0]

Rondon/Ramirez/Grimm/Rivero/Wright/Rosscup/IowaShuttle (4.0)

 

Total WAR: 32

Projected record: 80-82

 

All the usual caveats apply. Replacement level is 48 wins. Projections tend to be conservative because of bust rate (i.e. a 90% chance of getting 5.5 wins from Rizzo and a 10% chance you get a castrophic injury or something leads to a 5.0 projection). You could fidget with every single spot by a win or so in either direction and get wildly different results, it's all just WAGging.

 

I've been doing these for a few offseasons now and this is easily the hardest to project. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Bryant triple his projection. Baez could come in anywhere from -2 to +5 and it wouldn't shock me.

 

That's a few more wins than I thought I'd get to going into it. There's some actual good things on the roster, like Anthony Rizzo and the bullpen. And there's some really low-hanging fruit to be plucked this offseason. It's easy to see why a pitcher or two is such a focus, it makes a huge difference on the projections. And we *really* need a catcher.

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Sammy should leave his hair like he had it in his playing days. He looks like he belongs on the Munsters with his hair slicked like that.

 

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Yeah, I think it is much less a skin tone issue than a sartorial/coiffure issue.

 

 

http://media2.whosaystatic.com/692998/692998_800wc.jpg

 

 

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The roster I'd build with what we have right now with patented WAG projection system.

 

Bryant* (1.5)/Alcantara (1.5)/Soler (2.0) [Coghlan, Ruggiano 2.0]

Valbuena (2.0)/Castro (2.5)/Baez (1.0)/Rizzo (5.0) [La Stella, Watkins 0.5]

Castillo (1.5) [baker (-0.5)]

 

Arrieta (4.0)/Hendricks (1.5)/Wood (1.0)/Wada (1.0)/Turner (0.5) [All Kind of Guys 1.0]

Rondon/Ramirez/Grimm/Rivero/Wright/Rosscup/IowaShuttle (4.0)

 

Total WAR: 32

Projected record: 80-82

 

All the usual caveats apply. Replacement level is 48 wins. Projections tend to be conservative because of bust rate (i.e. a 90% chance of getting 5.5 wins from Rizzo and a 10% chance you get a castrophic injury or something leads to a 5.0 projection). You could fidget with every single spot by a win or so in either direction and get wildly different results, it's all just WAGging.

 

I've been doing these for a few offseasons now and this is easily the hardest to project. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Bryant triple his projection. Baez could come in anywhere from -2 to +5 and it wouldn't shock me.

 

That's a few more wins than I thought I'd get to going into it. There's some actual good things on the roster, like Anthony Rizzo and the bullpen. And there's some really low-hanging fruit to be plucked this offseason. It's easy to see why a pitcher or two is such a focus, it makes a huge difference on the projections. And we *really* need a catcher.

 

I think you're low on Soler and Hendricks, but then again I think you're high on Rizzo (as far as what a reasonable/conservative leaning projection is - which seems to be where you're going), so overall I think this looks about right.

 

Projecting around 80 wins with that scrub pitching rotation is not bad at all.

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4.2 fWAR for Castro + Arrieta and no Bryant makes that like 5 wins light off the bat.
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