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183 pitches through 7 innings

I almost forgot what it was like for an opposing batter to hit a ball at one of our fielders.

POS? Piece of Sh*t, which he is whether you like it or not. I meant why is he a POS? just ignore rondon fan, he's a known idiot.

ok dragon how about cutting us a [expletive] break in this inning.

babip dragon not very friendly to hendricks again.

yes, it would indeed be amazing if the worst pitchers in the rotation threw quality starts every time they took the mound.

136 pitches through 5 innings.

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jim deshaies made a good point the other day - that opposing pitchers can throw rizzo a nasty slider or changeup just out of the zone, and rizzo isn't even flinching. it's like he's just seeing the ball crazy well out of the pitcher's hand.

108 pitches through 4 innings. Jesus

i keep forgetting montero is only 31 years old. he has old face.

i know he's played some CF, although it's believed that he's below average out there. i would think that an outfield of hannemann, almora and mckinney would be really good defensively.

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good game for the hitting prospects at tennessee: almora 1-5, 2k (ok that wasn't so good) schwarber 3-5 vogelbach 1-3, 2bb, 1k w. contreras 3-4, double mckinney 2-4, 2 doubles hannemann 2-4, double, k also this seems pretty weird: i have no idea how he managed to injure himself between the first batter of the game striking out and the second batter hitting a single to left field, when bruno was playing on the opposite side of the infield.

When you're giving up big time position assets and are seemingly able to pull 2 win pitchers out of a hat, that projection(and the fact that it's a projection) isn't probably enough. I mean sure, if they wanted to trade Thor and Matz in a package for Castro you're starting to get somewhere, but most Met-based conversations are still trying to figure out why Niese isn't enough for him. You're so pot-committed on Castro, you just can't get away from your hand, can you? Such is the luxury of believing in Castro, the above average shortstop getting paid peanuts until we're both dead. And I've only been talking about this in terms of absolute value, others have touched on it but isn't the point of making that trade getting better immediately too? ROS who's better, Castro or Thor? ZiPS doesn't see a huge difference either way. So then you're left to compare ROS with Wood/Wada/etc v. whoever plays 2B(Baez/Alcantara/TLS), while also keeping in mind that there's not as much buffer for Russell slumping/failing. There's enough moving pieces that depending on how you want to round the Cubs come out ahead, but we're not talking about big gains here, certainly not enough to make such a seismic change to the current and immediate future roster. This is why Castro for pitching prospects is really a bad proposition. Baez for Syndergaard would make a lot more sense as you offload similar bust risk and future control, and you actually upgrade the team in the short run too. I'm not sure if that's my preferred move to make with the chips they have, but it's a lot more agreeable than throwing away Castro's future value for a short term upgrade you have to squint to see. i think this is pretty underrated in the discussion of castro. baez is pretty clearly not somebody who can be counted on at this stage, la stella isn't a SS, alcantara could probably play a lousy SS, but basically if russell gets hurt or craps the bed, you're stuck with hoping that baez doesn't hit like the black hole he was last season. considering that russell is 21 years old and is sporting a 4% walk rate and a 41% strikeout rate, i'd really prefer to not have him be the best realistic option at shortstop.

Even when Thor's elbow explodes in the next year? Why is that going to happen? Because pitchers syndergaard did spend time on the DL last season with a flexor strain in his elbow (often a precursor to TJS), but the chances that derwood actually knew this when he posted is roughly on par with the chances of derwood not getting explosive diarrhea after eating fast food.

I didn't hear anything besides the little bit of speculation from Tuesday. Seems pretty likely that it was to line him up with Wood(or Hendricks I guess) considering there's no other big reason to do it and Wada has been rehabbing at Iowa for a month now. just read this: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/iowa-cubs/2015/05/14/iowa-cubs-tsuyoshi-wada-rehab-nashville-sounds-minior-league-baseball/27327227/ http://media2.giphy.com/media/Fml0fgAxVx1eM/giphy.gif

also, today i learned that david garner is black. and is putting up pretty nice numbers as a reliever at south bend.

was there any indication why wada was scratched from his start a day or two ago? was that to put him on the same schedule as the guy he'd potentiall be replacing (wood)?

jonathan singleton had 10 rbi's in yesterday's game for fresno, hitting his second grand slam in 2 days. in his last 3 games he has 18 rbi. that's a pretty good month for a lot of players.

eat a D, mets.

Well I just learned that if you want to see swearing on this board, just use tapatalk.

That 3-1 pitch to Bryant should have been severely donged.

Pretty excited about getting a 5th starter who isn't complete dead weight.

I hand timed him between 4.10 and 4.25 to first on that "routine" grounder that he beat out in tuesday night's game. pretty damn good for a player who isn't supposed to be fast.