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he's one of those randos I actually remember. he had a ridiculous amount of saves in the first half even though he sucked I recall the Cubs trying to trade for him or people wanting to trade for him or something. Ah yes, the fabled Hendry-MacPhail connection that never materialized into anything worthwhile, but meant that all our trade chatter was constantly about the Orioles. And then pretty quickly after we hire competent people for the front office, they traded Scott Feldman and Steve Clevenger for Jake Arrieta and Pedro Strop.
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I think the Giants and the Dodgers kinda get it after the 2016 playoffs. I will never forget him stealing home against the Dodgers. Maybe my favorite play of all time.
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You're both wrong. A nomrom is the opposite of a mormon. I'm a dad now. If my jokes don't make people cringe I'm doing them wrong.
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i love kris bryant but think how cool a bizarro kris bryant would be. black atheist who loves to get drunk and occasionally gets extra base hits an atheist isn't the opposite of mormon, a bachelor is the opposite of mormon. Because a mormon marries lots of ladies and a bachelor marries none. You're both wrong. A nomrom is the opposite of a mormon.
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I also would like to agree with TT that the moon landing was a hoax perpetuated by the lizard people.
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This has been one of the dumber arguments I've seen on this website (non-Da Bum division). -
I'll be surprised if Cincinnati doesn't file a protest for this game with the league office. That umpiring mistake in the 10th was a glaring omission. Everybody knows you can't walk across home plate. Dusty Baker always said so.
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I don't recall thinking it was ever a particularly great idea. Not because I was opposed to trading him, but rather because I didn't think we'd get anything remotely valuable for a guy who showed off a 40+% strike rate in his first cup of coffee. He was a lot like a lotto ticket in those days, even moreso than most prospects...
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I really want to see them try to trade Almora while his value is over-inflated due to this high BABIP. Don't get me wrong, Almora is an extremely useful piece. But over the long term I don't see him being any better than guys like Happ, Heyward, or Schwarber. So we might as well see if we can use him as the centerpiece for a more useful SP or something.
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Which was insane. Winn had finally figured it out and was damn good in his last season with the Devil Rays. It'd be roughly equivalent to trading Javy Baez after this season to acquire Matt Williams or something. Also, Piniella sucked.
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Don't look now, but Javy is leading the team in fWAR, with 2.8. If you had told me a couple seasons ago that Javy would be leading the team in fWAR at the halfway point while still sporting a walk rate below 4% and still striking out more than 25% of the time, I would not have been very rosy about the Cubs playoff odds. But fangraphs has us over 95% to make the playoffs right now.
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I'm bored. Here's the best Cubs season at each position since 2000, by fWAR. C - Geovany Soto (2008): 3.7 fWAR, .285/.364/.504 with 23 HR 1B - Derrek Lee (2005): 7.0 fWAR, .335/.418/.662 with 46 HR and 15 SB 2B - Mark DeRosa (2008): 4.2 fWAR, .285/.376/.481 with 21 HR 3B - Kris Bryant (2016): 7.8 fWAR, .292/.385/.554 with 39 HR SS - Addison Russell (2016): 3.3 fWAR, .238/.321/.417 with 21 HR and 10.3 UZR LF - Alfonso Soriano (2007): 6.7 fWAR .299/.337/.560 with 33 HR, 19 SB, and an incredible 32 UZR, which is the highest in MLB since 2000. CF - Corey Patterson (2004): 5.0 fWAR, .266/.320/.452 with 24 HR, 32 SB and 24.6 UZR RF - Sammy Sosa (2001): 9.9 fWAR, .328/.437/.737 with 64 HR 2B was oddly difficult to pin down. Most of the top seasons had guys splitting their time between multiple positions. DeRosa, Zobrist, Bellhorn, Fontenot, Baez this year... You could instead make an argument it was Eric Young's 2000 season with 3.6 fWAR. Likewise, Bryant spent a good chunk of 2016 in the OF. But his 2017 and 2015 seasons are the next two on the list. So feel free to use one of those instead.
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Hanley, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Hanley?
Rob replied to cl smooth's topic in General Baseball Talk
Rumor has it he was involved in a murder in the Dominican Republic. -
And the obligatory... http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/634/005/8d0.gif
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6/6 - Phillies (Nola) at Cubs (Quintana) 7:05 CDT NBCSC+
Rob replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Bobby Howry got the win watch your mouth this is a family message board Bob Howry was sorta great his first two seasons as a Cub. He averaged 1.6 fWAR as a reliever those two years. But then he started giving up dingers... -
Fun fact: Zobrist, drafted at 23, struck out 1 time in his 222 PAs at Dallas Baptist. 1 time!!! As a switch hitter playing SS! A 15/16 year old, chunky, and horrendous mustached me fell in prospect love with Zobrist really early. Yeah, I was in love with him when he was in the Astros system and wasn't being taken that seriously... it almost makes up for my Junior Lake mancrush.
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Is his plate discipline that good?
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Honestly, I'll consider this whole draft a win as long as we don't pick him.
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It's the last spot in the pen, so it doesn't matter much at all... but I'd have rather seen Grimm in the role than either of Butler or Bass. Grimm has at least displayed the ability to miss some bats, even if his control gets wonky at times. But no matter which of the three it was, the odds are high Theo and Jed would have replaced them with a waiver wire claim in a month or two anyways. So whatever.
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I'm honestly sympathetic to Pettitte's HoF case, provided the voters can get over the steroid thing for the better players. Pettitte accumulated a lot of very high-quality innings during an incredible offensive era that makes his numbers look more pedestrian than they really are. He's one of those guys who sits right on the fence, as far as I'm concerned. And those are the fun ones to debate, since you can be swayed by all sorts of ridiculous arguments. I think CC Sabathia will be in pretty much exactly the same spot when he retires.
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
Rob replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
I just realized former Brewer wunderkid Rickie Weeks is still playing MLB baseball. He's 35 years old now. He played 37 games for the Rays last season, racked up 112 PA, and struck out a whopping 49 times -- for a K% of 43.8%. I really hope the Brewers don't bring him back. That could put them over the top. -
Remember how MacPhail and Hendry actually had a policy that they liked to let guys hit FA before they would try to extend them?
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Oh horsefeathers, we played right into the Brewer's pursuit of Arrieta. They've got us now.
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$21M per year and some hard to reach incentives. I'll take it. I was expecting something like 5/$125 -- so an extra year for $1M + incentives sounds good to me.
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It turns out the real Yu Darvish was the friends we made in this thread
Rob replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
$21M per year for Yu plus incentives -- that definitely fits my criteria. Good job, Theo and Jed.
