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  1. Rob
    While the pitching is surprisingly good, the offense completely falls apart. Bryant is constantly dealing with minor injuries that hinder his performance and tanks his trade value. Baez tries too hard and is awful. Rizzo is injured and misses a bunch of time. Contreras has a weirdly low BABIP. Heyward turns back into a pumpkin. Happ is merely okay. The only hitter who actually hits is Joc Pederson, who is traded off at midseason. We will find out at some point that an interesting prospect was offered to us for one of our tradeable assets. But instead, we'll take nothing useful and toss in Heyward and a bunch of cash for the partial salary relief. He'll be great for his new team. I wont watch a single game after August 1.
  2. Rob
    Yes, and then everything went [expletive] up for four years.
  3. Rob
    Somewhere this morning, TT is waking up in the best mood of his life.
  4. Rob
    I always used to get so mad when playing games like MVP Baseball 2005. The computer GM in franchise modes would make the weirdest moves like trading an ace pitcher for a bunch of nobodies, and then bring on some retread old dude who barely deserves to be in baseball anymore. In fact, those were the only players available -- retreads and nobodies. No real GM would ever try to fill out a championship team like that. It was so frustrating, having a GM like that.
  5. Rob
    My interest in chess has been mostly in the last five years or so. Is Leko roughly equivalent to Giri now?
  6. Rob
    This cracked me up something fierce when it happened. Now all these "respectable" sites like chess.com have to list the Bongcloud in their lists of openings. It was a hell of a way to achieve a fast draw.
  7. Rob
    They're picking us at about 78 wins, so 90+ wins seems a little excessive. I'm not sure anyone else in the NL Central will get to 90+ wins either. I think it's certainly possible. Standard variance combined with the fact that basically any NL Central team that starts slow will quickly transition to seller mode.
  8. Rob

    Jake is Back

    Rob replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Jake is looking pretty washed up. Velocity is down from his peak. Not getting the same results from his offspeed stuff. Maybe they see something they can tweak. Add some spin, change an arm angle, alter pitch sequencing, etc...Pitching is complicated, and there are a lot of levers to pull. The Cubs know him well, so if they think it’s worth a gamble I’m inclined to believe them. But I’m not expecting much.
  9. Rob

    Joc

    Rob replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Assuming it doesn't cost much, it's a solid move. He was replacement-level last year, but IDGAF about 2020 stats given all that was going on. Prior to that he looked like an average or slightly-above average regular. Young enough worth taking a gamble on with a short term deal.
  10. Rob
    I am probably alone in stating this, but I wouldn't mind a Wil Myers acquisition. Don't get me wrong, I think if we acquire him we can kiss 2021 goodbye. But he's a former top prospect with a few pretty good years under his belt, and who positively mashed last year. I don't think he keeps it up. But given his ability to fake it in an outfield corner or at 1B, he might be attractive to a number of contenders at the deadline. So if he is hitting well, there should be some suitors.
  11. Rob
    Is this when we finally get Jake Peavy?
  12. Rob
    There really needs to be a public list of who was banned and why. Then we can vote on who to un-ban. Let's bring back Da Bum.
  13. Rob
    Knowing full well how insensitive it is, I was nonetheless a bit sad to see the moniker has run it's course... until I saw this. [tweet] [/tweet] And then suddenly I was over it for some reason.
  14. Rob
    Yeah, I imagine Len is well enough in demand that he doesn't need to put up with what this franchise has become. But damn this hurts.
  15. Rob
    Last year aside, he’s largely been a league-average regular. With the DH in the NL, that’s a bat worth keeping around.
  16. Rob
    If they non-tendering Schwarzenegger, they’re just being cheap.
  17. Rob
    With the team underperforming and the Ricketts being as shitty as they are, the last few years have been tough. More than once I've found myself thinking "at least we've got Theo" and found respite in knowing that he would do the right thing. He's the reason the draft had the acknowledgment that black lives matter. He's the reason our team didn't have COVID outbreaks while all the other teams had major issues. He's a good part of the reason I was still willing to watch the Cubs.
  18. Rob
    Well that’s sad. Poor announcer or not, he was a big part of baseball. One of the best 2B ever.
  19. Rob
    Knuckleballer, of course.
  20. Rob
    He should get in the Hall of Fame. He's currently 15th all-time in manager wins. 1,892 with a .532 winning percentage. And the next most wins for a non-white manager is Frank Robinson in 56th place with 1,065. The only guys ahead of him on the list who aren't in the HoF are Bruce Bochy (who just left the Giants last year) and Gene Mauch, who had a pretty rough .483 winning percentage. And for as much crap as Dusty deservedly got during his time with the Cubs after his complaints about walks "clogging the bases" and his tendency to overwork his pitchers -- he's seemingly learned his lessons. Too little, too late for the Cubs of course. But while he isn't a cutting-edge sort of manager he seems perfectly willing to adjust his game as he learns more -- albeit he remains a few years behind the curve most of the time. It's not like he's still out there routinely throwing his pitchers 120+ pitches a game, though. When you factor in his long career, Dusty Baker has been a notable part of baseball for north of 50 years. And he may have invented the high five. You can't keep a guy like that out of the Hall forever.
  21. Rob
    How long before they hire Marty to come back?
  22. Rob
    Oh, conveniently cutting it off to exclude Zambrano? NOT COOL. Na. Very cool. I feel like this acknowledges how much better Z was than anyone ever. He's the moment in history from which you measure time. I got bored, so here's some numbers for some top "mashers" on the mound from the last few decades. Mike Hampton - .246/.294/.356 ,16 HR, 67 wRC+ Carlos Zambrano - .238/.248/.388, 24 HR, 57 wRC+ Livan Hernandez - .221/.231/.295, 10 HR, 32 wRC+ Zack Greinke - .225/.263/.337, 9 HR, 60 wRC+ Madison Bumgarner - .177/.228/.303, 19 HR, 45 wRC+ Dontrelle Willis - .244/.287/.378, 9 HR, 75 wRC+ and the undisputed champ: Micah Owings - .283/.310/.502, 9 HR, 104 wRC+ Surprisingly low on the list was Kerry Wood, with a .171/.196/.249, 7 HR, 9 wRC+ line. He would occasionally get a hold of one, but didn't do much else. I always thought he was better than that when I was younger. Oh well.
  23. Rob
    Whelp, looks like I missed a hell of a game today. Stupid sick daughter...
  24. Rob
    Oh, I really really hope Levine gets fired. But we aren't that lucky.
  25. Rob
    I still hit fangraphs pretty regularly.
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