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BCB asked who everyone's favorite 2016 Cub is and the results are interesting I guess. Most things at BCB suck but there is a sheer high volume of responses so interesting to see. #mildlyinteresting

 

 

No Schwarber votes?????????????

 

Ill have to assume that the "others" are all for Schwarber, unless there were a handful of Kawasaki enthusiasts.

 

But who are the 11 meatballs who prefer Travis Wood to the 2 guys who finished just below him; you know, the ones who nailed down the 7th-9th innings for the first 3-4 months of the season.

 

Whenever I see "Wood" I just prefer to lie to myself and believe it's Kerry.

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BCB asked who everyone's favorite 2016 Cub is and the results are interesting I guess. Most things at BCB suck but there is a sheer high volume of responses so interesting to see. #mildlyinteresting

 

 

No Schwarber votes?????????????

 

Ill have to assume that the "others" are all for Schwarber, unless there were a handful of Kawasaki enthusiasts.

 

But who are the 11 meatballs who prefer Travis Wood to the 2 guys who finished just below him; you know, the ones who nailed down the 7th-9th innings for the first 3-4 months of the season.

There are 20 other votes and individual players are listed with 3 votes. That means Schwarber couldn't have had more than 2.

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No Schwarber votes?????????????

 

Ill have to assume that the "others" are all for Schwarber, unless there were a handful of Kawasaki enthusiasts.

 

But who are the 11 meatballs who prefer Travis Wood to the 2 guys who finished just below him; you know, the ones who nailed down the 7th-9th innings for the first 3-4 months of the season.

There are 20 other votes and individual players are listed with 3 votes. That means Schwarber couldn't have had more than 2.

or they chose not to list the guy who hasn't played above several guys who have.

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I expected to see our big three up high on that list, and Lackey somewhere near the end of it. Montgomery, though? Pleasantly surprised.

 

What's fascinating to me is that there has to be some type of organizational component to it. Maybe they're actively seeking out guys who do this well, or maybe some combination of Bosio's teaching or the team's approach to sequencing/game-planning lends itself to more soft contact. Fangraphs is using different data so it's difficult to use that to draw too many conclusions, but looking at Lester, Lackey, and Montgomery(since Arrieta and Hendricks don't have a valid 'pre-Cubs' sample), there doesn't appear to be a sharp movement in batted ball types before and after joining the Cubs. So maybe that leaderboard is a bit of an offseason wishlist if they want to add a SP, Smyly is a half bit more interesting to me seeing his name so high.

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so I guess Theo is kind of a weirdo?

 

"I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was and I could watch them."

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so I guess Theo is kind of a weirdo?

 

"I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was and I could watch them."

 

At least he said he knew how weird it sounded.

 

But yeah, I read that, tried to figure out what the hell that actually meant for about 10 seconds, and then decided to pretend I never read it.

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Theo is probably flipping out about this

 

That was the case two days ago. Then yesterday it wasn't. Guess it is again. Either way, I'm guessing the Cleveland injuries combined with the Rangers not actually being any good (especially in the eyes of their projections, I'm sure), have a lot to do with it.

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Theo is probably flipping out about this

 

That was the case two days ago. Then yesterday it wasn't. Guess it is again. Either way, I'm guessing the Cleveland injuries combined with the Rangers not actually being any good (especially in the eyes of their projections, I'm sure), have a lot to do with it.

Yeah it's a thing that's probably always in flux between the two and the big drivers are probably more who the Red Sox would go through than us. Cubs and Red Sox are 1, 2 in "power rankings" then the next 3-4 teams are probably all NL teams before you get to an AL team in terms of "strength of opponent" going into the calculation.

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The big difference in the odds is in the NLCS vs ALCS. The Cubs will face a much more difficult team in the Nationals/Dodgers than Boston would with either Cleveland or Texas.
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The big difference in the odds is in the NLCS vs ALCS. The Cubs will face a much more difficult team in the Nationals/Dodgers than Boston would with either Cleveland or Texas.

 

Right. Note how low the Rangers and Indians (both of whom will win their divisions with ease) are.

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The big difference in the odds is in the NLCS vs ALCS. The Cubs will face a much more difficult team in the Nationals/Dodgers than Boston would with either Cleveland or Texas.

 

Right. Note how low the Rangers and Indians (both of whom will win their divisions with ease) are.

(I much prefer the "Season to Date Stat Mode" results, btw)

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Cubs are no longer fangraph's favorites to win the pennant. Dodgers have a slight edge on them.

I'm gonna say that has to be one of their occasional data entry errors. They aren't 5 percentage points less likely than us to make it to the NLCS but more likely to win it despite that.

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Cubs are no longer fangraph's favorites to win the pennant. Dodgers have a slight edge on them.

I'm gonna say that has to be one of their occasional data entry errors. They aren't 5 percentage points less likely than us to make it to the NLCS but more likely to win it despite that.

 

Either that or all of these other teams are suddenly becoming much better while we wait for them to finish up their seasons.

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