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Walk is good too.
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A bad lounge singer. I'm picturing Bill Murry on SNL.
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I was looking at the lineups and that Brewers team is going to have to rely on pitching to win. This division is so winnable if they really wanted to field a competitive team.
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Yeah, Heyward is probably going to get the Neifi treatment this year, but a matchup like Burnes is really hard to parse out who the right choice is. I'd have gone with Frazier though knowing what we know I do wonder if their internal defensive modeling thinks much higher of Heyward than public metrics. Public metrics and the eye test think Ortega and Happ are below average in CF, so I can see a path to thinking Heyward is a 10 run improvement defensively that mitigates a fair amount of the offensive gap. Maybe Hermosillo is someone who maybe challenges in that regard, but he's not exactly a sure thing with the bat against RHP either. A cost/benefit analysis would suggest that the marginal improvement in offense wouldn't mitigate the loss in defense. I can sort of buy that, but 10 runs seem like a lot to me.
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This is the first year since it's been offered that I'm not buying MLBtv or the DirecTV package. I may buy it at some point in the season but I'm not buying it to start the season. I don't care enough about this team right now.
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https://www.audacy.com/670thescore/sports/chicago-cubs/jon-heyman-cubs-dont-spend-enough-considering-their-revenue
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The guy reporting this is saying, without saying, that Boras didn't tell Correa about the offer. A lot of players don't want to be told how the sausage gets made, and basically just want to know when it's time to choose between best and finals. If Boras thought 7/220 or whatever was a bad offer, it's not weird that it never made it to Correa. I had a few agents represent me before for various things and in all of the contacts I've signed, it is very explicitly spelled out in the contract that they have a duty to provide informed consent. I cannot imagine sports is any different. However, Boars very likely, and probably did tell Correa all the offers and let him decide, with Boras's input. Whether the Cubs actually made that offer or decided to retract that offer, we will probably never know.
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The guy reporting this is saying, without saying, that Boras didn't tell Correa about the offer.
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I'm calling [expletive] here. Yesterday the Ricketts were called out by a national media guy for fielding an inferior team on the cheap. This is a bogus story fed to friendly media by an ownership group who are about to field a 70 win team on $140M payroll with the 3rd highest ticket prices in baseball. If Boars didn't give Correa this information he would be subject to disbarment and civil litigation.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-5-22
CubinNY replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-5-22
CubinNY replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Now we know why Cubs have a low payroll this year. They're just paying themselves though.
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It was a great authentic moment captured. What a moment.
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I think it’s funny in a rouge’s gallery sort of way that people are having a debate about whether this is a 75 win team or a 68 win team. With the recourses of a big market team. It’s a god damned embarrassment of self created suck that some of us can squint at and say maybe not that much suck but definitely suck to a large degree. At least maybe Davis will be on the team in June and we can have another bunch of Sammy watch parties as they trade Wilson and Happ and whatever pops up in the bullpen that can garner a teenage blue chipper in the Cubs everlong pursuit of relevance.
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Why oof? That's right in the range I would expect them. Lower end of that range but still in there. Like the article points out the Cubs have built a high floor/low ceiling type of team IMO. It's hard to really project them so I'd expect most "experts" would go conservative on them. It wasn’t an “oof” of surprise, it was an “oof” of ESPN reinforcing the awfulness of the roster. Their rosters at AAA and AA aren't in great shape either. It's Davis and a bunch of relievers and not much else. But don't call it a rebuild.
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I read about this last week from the Rangers camp and what immediately came to mind from that term was Carlos Marmol. Apparently Jon Gray and Dane Dunning are names to watch that have taken to it immediately. Oh man I'd love to get vintage Marmol in Statcast to see what he was working with. One of the things I find interesting from a Cubs perspective is that they were fairly early adopters on the seam shifted wake front, and never really abandoned two-seamers/sinkers like a lot of the league, but they didn't really go for the sweeping sliders. With the notable exceptions of Adbert and Chafin, it's been largely two-seamer/cutter/curveball. Is that a missed opportunity (i.e. they figured out the first half of the puzzle but whiffed on the second) or is there some underlying reason they didn't jump on the sweeping slider train more aggressively? Pitching seems to be so far ahead of hitting in terms of biomechanical analysis used to improve the player.
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The Cubs have managed to make an entire roster out of replacement level players, minus Stroman, Wilson, Hendricks, and Suzuki.
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Lol, Albert will DH and barf 5th on opening day.
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Anyone see Schwarber’s HR that landed in the highway? Supposedly into the wind. I really like the Phillies’ chances this year. They are going to score a lot of runs.
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I got tickets for the Smokies when they come to Montgomery next week. I'm fired up. $15/ticket right next to the dugout.
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Wade Miley shut down.
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horsefeathering Dodgers press all the right buttons all the time.
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International Free Agency Thread, 1/15/2022 Class
CubinNY replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Maybe he's pulling an Ichiro and slumming his way through the spring to give false scouting reports I don't think we can make too much of it. He's making a lot of adjustments that have nothing to do with baseball. I can't imagine how hard this must be for him.
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I'm bracing for him to magically revert to at least something resembling STL performance levels for short stretches and be overall way better than he has been most of the time since he left. I know it's unlikely but this is STL and I never rule anything out Idiot Cards fans have caused the ticket price for the last home game this year to already spike after he signed. I was giving my friends down here a hard time and said they should plan on the last home series of July for his last game. I will say this, I don't think it's a wise decision for him to be on the Cardinals roster if they intend to win the division. But, I think it's great that he is getting a chance to end his career with the organization he started with and for the Cardinal fans. It's the sort of thing an organization that cares about its fan base does. Javy, Bryant, and Rizzo aren't in the same category of player that Pujols is/was with the history he has with the Cardinals, but if the Cubs aren't competitive I would love to see them get to retire as Cubs. I strongly suspect the Cubs are not like the Cardinals though. Sentimental nonsense, I know.