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  1. CubinNY
    My opinion (obviously) is that they should let Assad and Rae pitch until they demonstrate they can't do the job. There is no sense in making a panic move or signing scrap heap guys. I'd like to give Brown a shot too, but he needs to throw more strikes. Unless he develops a better third pitch he can use with higher regularity, he isn't a starter.
  2. CubinNY
    They have a great staff, so anyone is a tough assignment.
  3. CubinNY
    Bats awake
  4. CubinNY
    My guess would be Michael Bush Lover.
  5. CubinNY
    But he was washed and addicted by 30. I think there are some issues with evaluation and chasing mythical wins. Are starting pitchers more valuable than relievers? Yes, but how much more? it's hard to quantify. If they pitch half a game 2x + how many innings on average more than a reliever - days between appearances? Should they be given more time between starts? Who knows, but it may be time to give a six-man rotation a try. Or maybe forget about the concept of starter and reliever and pitcher wins as a statistic of importance. Maybe have a system with three or four three-to-five-inning guys, four or five two-inning guys, and three or four one-inning guys. And have a better system to quantify outs, so they can all get paid accordingly. Now kids are going to college and getting routinely abused by their coach, who only cares about keeping his job and moving on to the next better one. So by the time they get to pro ball, they're already damaged goods. On the flip side, the ones who survive are so rare that they rake in the highest money come draft time. It seems like a good time for the smart people in baseball to start thinking differently about the game. But the economics make it hard for both Capital and Labor to do that.
  6. CubinNY
    lol, he hasn't been healthy in a 2.5-year stretch since he was in high school.
  7. CubinNY
    The Cubs drafted Horton after 53 sporadic innings and a TJ surgery in college. I don't know what the track record is for guys like this becoming starters, but I can't imagine it's good, or that there's a long list of guys who turned out to have long careers.
  8. CubinNY
    yes
  9. CubinNY
    Wiggins is progressing?
  10. CubinNY
    Everyone kind of knew Boyd was going to break at some point. Hopefully this isn't one of those one month things that lasts until July. On the bright side Edward Cabrera's arm hasn't fallen off yet. I'm glad Shota took the QO
  11. CubinNY
    10 Commandments! Let My People Go! Gangster calf worshiper, what could be better?
  12. CubinNY
    IMHO - his destiny is as a closer. I said that when they drafted him.
  13. CubinNY
    Zack said he grabbed his left shoulder?
  14. CubinNY
    Not good, LT, not good.
  15. CubinNY
    I was thinking Aramis.
  16. CubinNY
    Did you miss CB Bucknor's performance over the weekend?
  17. CubinNY
    That's because you are an insufferable horsefeathers. No need to overthink it. IDK give a horsefeathers that they lost, and I don't give a horsefeathers about the WBC. I do give a horsefeathers about how they project American ideals and social morals. But because you are an insufferable horsefeathers, you pick one thing to glom onto and miss the bigger picture. I have about all I can take of people like you.
  18. CubinNY
    I don't know what the exact ingredients are for my ambivalence about the Cubs. But it's some combination of the lack of ST games covered, the owners, our society in context, and the boorish behavior of the American team in the WBC. I've listened to a few innings of the games on Sirius, but I just don't give a horsefeathers about this team. I mean, I've been on this site since 2003, and I so don't care about the Cubs. I've never experienced this before.
  19. CubinNY
    The good thing about Jamo is that we will usually know what version we are getting right off the bat.
  20. CubinNY
    The owners want to do away with low A leagues, drafting high schoolers, and a bunch of other cost-saving measures.
  21. CubinNY
    Get used to it, because if the owners have their way, it will become much more common in the future.
  22. CubinNY
    Skeens got lit up today
  23. CubinNY
    gonna be hard to come up with three more runs, but the Nationals bullpen is pretty bad.
  24. CubinNY
    boooooooooooo!
  25. CubinNY
    I have a VPN (don't judge) with an ad blocker, and the site won't open for me on Safari. I'm not sure if that is by design or not, but it's going to limit how much I interact with NSB(B) if it is intentional.
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