Greinke? (Kap Man)

[David]

Funny that I'm posting this Tweet when I can't even see it without going incognito.

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

(sobbing) you can't just take every pitcher who doesn't throw hard and put them in your rotation

 

Jed: (points to Greinke) 4th starter

[Cubswin11]

I think I’d prefer Michael Pineda to Greinke if we are targeting another RHSP that doesn’t throw too hard.

[UMFan83]

(sobbing) you can't just take every pitcher who doesn't throw hard and put them in your rotation

 

Jed: (points to Greinke) 4th starter

 

We're gonna lull the opposition to sleep

 

Has to be an intentional strategy at this point

[Bertz]

Greinke is literally the coolest dude in the league, and the projections actually still like him quite a bit.

 

But horsefeathers there's gotta be a point of diminishing returns with all of these finesse guys. I assume this is bumping Mills from the rotation and not Steele?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Greinke is literally the coolest dude in the league, and the projections actually still like him quite a bit.

 

But horsefeathers there's gotta be a point of diminishing returns with all of these finesse guys. I assume this is bumping Mills from the rotation and not Steele?

 

I think the charitable interpretation is they didn't want to upgrade Mills' roster spot with a guy(like Greinke) who isn't much of a bullpen fit when Mills ideally isn't even making the rotation out of ST. With Adbert's injury and Mills seemingly certain of starting a non-trivial number of games until summer, they can swap in Greinke, hopefully cheap enough to not damage any other pursuits, and then Mills can fight for long relief or they can risk waivers with him(and in April there's less chance of a claim).

[Bertz]

Greinke is literally the coolest dude in the league, and the projections actually still like him quite a bit.

 

But horsefeathers there's gotta be a point of diminishing returns with all of these finesse guys. I assume this is bumping Mills from the rotation and not Steele?

 

I think the charitable interpretation is they didn't want to upgrade Mills' roster spot with a guy(like Greinke) who isn't much of a bullpen fit when Mills ideally isn't even making the rotation out of ST. With Adbert's injury and Mills seemingly certain of starting a non-trivial starts until summer, they can swap in Greinke, hopefully cheap enough to not damage any other pursuits, and then Mills can fight for long relief or they can risk waivers with him(and in April there's less chance of a claim).

 

Yeah this is what I'm hoping too. Mills would also likely have to go the other way if we did a SP trade (e.g. Paddack).

[CubinNY]

It would be kind of interesting to see what the effects of an all soft tossing SP staff followed up by an all flame throwing relief core would do to a hitter's timing in a game.

[Clem Fandango]

69mph curve balls all day son

[imb]

no fucken thanks