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Edwin Jackson, who played for Maddon in TBay, on his 3rd manager in 3 seasons in Chicago: "It's definitely cool having a good manager."
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Edwin Jackson, who played for Maddon in TBay, on his 3rd manager in 3 seasons in Chicago: "It's definitely cool having a good manager."

 

That quote was provided by Gordo though. I'd be willing to bet he took that out of context in an effort to continue being a giant turd of a person.

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Edwin Jackson, who played for Maddon in TBay, on his 3rd manager in 3 seasons in Chicago: "It's definitely cool having a good manager."

 

That quote was provided by Gordo though. I'd be willing to bet he took that out of context in an effort to continue being a giant turd of a person.

 

Yeah, that's probably what happened.

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I just saw a tweet by Brett that the owner of the South Bend Cubs is now a minority owner of the Cubs. PTR?
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I just saw a tweet by Brett that the owner of the South Bend Cubs is now a minority owner of the Cubs. PTR?

 

It was reported by other outlets this morning.

 

The Cubs are selling small stakes in the biz in order to fund the construction.

 

They bought it for ~850m and have 95% ownership. It's worth ~$1.5B today so it makes a lot of sense to sell part of their holdings.

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I just saw a tweet by Brett that the owner of the South Bend Cubs is now a minority owner of the Cubs. PTR?

 

It was reported by other outlets this morning.

 

The Cubs are selling small stakes in the biz in order to fund the construction.

 

They bought it for ~850m and have 95% ownership. It's worth ~$1.5B today so it makes a lot of sense to sell part of their holdings.

It is a great way to raise money for the construction.

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Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies":

 

5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans.

 

Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year.

 

So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.

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Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies":

 

5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans.

 

Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year.

 

So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.

So, 37.5% of the offense from the starting lineup and the #1 contributor from the bench are going to be rookies or near-rookies and you have a problem with saying the outcome of the season is highly dependent upon those guys? When two out of the three are being counted upon as the second and third best hitters in the lineup?

 

It's a perfectly valid storyline.

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So, 37.5% of the offense from the starting lineup and the #1 contributor from the bench are going to be rookies or near-rookies and you have a problem with saying the outcome of the season is highly dependent upon those guys? When two out of the three are being counted upon as the second and third best hitters in the lineup?

 

It's a perfectly valid storyline.

 

It's overrated. More or less the entire pitching staff can function without them, and that's the strength of the team.

 

And the offense can be adequate even if they aren't that great.

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Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies":

 

5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans.

 

Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year.

 

So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.

So, 37.5% of the offense from the starting lineup and the #1 contributor from the bench are going to be rookies or near-rookies and you have a problem with saying the outcome of the season is highly dependent upon those guys? When two out of the three are being counted upon as the second and third best hitters in the lineup?

It's a perfectly valid storyline.

 

Did Castro die?

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Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies":

 

5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans.

 

Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year.

 

So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.

So, 37.5% of the offense from the starting lineup and the #1 contributor from the bench are going to be rookies or near-rookies and you have a problem with saying the outcome of the season is highly dependent upon those guys? When two out of the three are being counted upon as the second and third best hitters in the lineup?

It's a perfectly valid storyline.

 

Did Castro die?

 

Castro's offensive value is elevated by his position but I'm hoping he isn't our actual 2nd or 3rd best hitter.

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Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies":

 

5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans.

 

Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year.

 

So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.

So, 37.5% of the offense from the starting lineup and the #1 contributor from the bench are going to be rookies or near-rookies and you have a problem with saying the outcome of the season is highly dependent upon those guys? When two out of the three are being counted upon as the second and third best hitters in the lineup?

It's a perfectly valid storyline.

 

Did Castro die?

If Bryant and Soler have worse OPS's than Castro, that will be disappointing.

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I agree with Kyle, though. My issue isn't with the accuracy of that claim so much as it is the relevance or meaning of it. Yeah, we're depending on some really good [expletive] rookies/2nd year guys to combine for a certain level of production. It's brought up as a knock and I think it's incredibly overstated as such. We're projecting to the mid 80's in wins with pretty modest contributions being projected for all of those guys. If anything, all of the unaccounted for upside of that high end talent makes the fact that "they're depending on rookies" or whatever a positive, if anything.

 

This team is going to be good because of its pitching, but it could be great because of the young position players.

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Fowler, then.

 

The Cubs have 3 guys projected for .330+ wOBA by ZiPS, likely have a 4th with the LF platoon, and I'm personally optimistic for a 5th with Montero(or the catchers as a whole if it's more platoon that personal catcher). They do not need terrific performances from the prospects to avoid being bad, but they do need one or two of them to be productive to be good, which given the talent and sheer volume of those prospects is a very high probability.

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ESPN compiles teams into categories based on their use of technology and analytics

 

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12331388/the-great-analytics-rankings#!mlb

 

Owner Tom Ricketts and team president Theo Epstein have been busy remaking the Cubs into a Midwestern version of the Red Sox. Ricketts hired Epstein away from Boston in 2011, giving him the authority to reshape the Cubs' front office. Based in part on Epstein's implementation of sabermetrics, the Red Sox broke an 86-year World Series title drought in 2004. Cubs fans hope Epstein's magic touch has made the trip to Chicago, as the Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908.

 

In Chicago, Epstein partnered with Bloomberg Sports to create a customized baseball info system, grabbed Shiraz Rehman from Arizona to help oversee development of the system and signed Tom Tango, a leading sabermetrician and co-author of "The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball," to an exclusive contract. This offseason, Epstein swiped Joe Maddon, perhaps baseball's most analytically inclined manager, from the Tampa Bay Rays.

 

Epstein's R&D group, led by Chris Moore, a former algorithmic trader with a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from Princeton, builds its own models. Moore studied machine learning and shares his knowledge of predictive modeling with his department, which includes a systems architect and three analysts, and they are looking to add another developer and another analyst.

 

"We have a mandate to answer any analytical question," Moore told ESPN.com about what Ricketts and Epstein expect. So while the Cubs aren't quite as far along as the Astros or Rays yet, they have the buy-in from the top and the talent they need to keep moving in the right direction and quickly.

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Jon Morosi @jonmorosi

#Cubs hire Manny Ramirez as hitting consultant and Kevin Youkilis as scouting and player development consultant.

 

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Pretty nice to hear

 

Patrick Mooney @CSNMooney

Ricketts says #Cubs can be buyers this summer: “We’ll have the flexibility to do whatever Theo needs to do in the middle of the season."

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