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  1. Rob
    His fastball has been sitting 93-94 out of the pen. Also throws a curve around 77-78. His cutter and changeup have been mostly show-me pitches this year.
  2. Rob
    Yeah, I could get on board with this trade. Vogelbach is forever blocked in our system, and Travis Wood's success this season has been mostly smoke and mirrors. Montgomery could be a nice reliever for now, and potentially be converted back to starter. Edit: And it has the added benefit of taking us out of the "Who's Going to Overpay for Chapman/Miller" sweepstakes -- which I was desperately hoping we'd avoid.
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    Boone Logan is on the Mariners? He will be after Theo gets his Backtobanks on.
  5. Rob
    I saw somebody suggesting it might be as little as Boone Logan that we're after.
  6. Rob
    If memory serves, didn't Concepcion get mono or something? Or was that Hayden Simpson?
  7. Rob
    I am shocked to be watching Concepcion pitching in an MLB game right now...
  8. Rob
    It sure was nice of Joe to wait until after Game of Thrones was over to put Contreras in the game.
  9. Rob
    I am officially excited about the new kid.
  10. Rob
    I'm not really sure there is such a thing as a conventional "backup" on a Joe Maddon team. Montero will probably get additional PA when he's playing 3B, or when Contreras is pitching or something equally wacky.
  11. Rob
    Among position players with 0 or more PA this season, Chris Coghlan has been the worst player in baseball with -1.7 fWAR. Granted, part of that is a nasty .170 BABIP. Still, he shouldn't have cost Mendy -- even despite his decreased prospect stature.
  12. Rob
    speed doesn't age well? he'll be 35 in august. That's the weird thing -- it does. Guys with well-rounded skillsets like Crawford in his prime have historically aged extraordinarily gracefully.
  13. Rob
    I could see the Cubs trying to convince the Brewers to take back Montero as a piece in a trade for Lucroy, helping with the whole "have to carry three catchers" thing. I'd think you'd need to work that into a three team deal though -- find a cheap team with a big need at C and let the Cubs foot the bill for Montero, with the other team contributing some portion of the prospects needed to get Lucroy. The Rays, Rockies, and Marlins have guys at C that Montero should be an upgrade over in the short term. Same for the Rangers, but they've got the bullets to just go out and get Lucroy. Montero is an upgrade for the Angels as well, but they don't have any prospects. The Rays are probably the best fit. They've gotten -0.6 fWAR from Casali and Conger combined to this point. And the front office even sans Friedman is still smart enough to recognize Montero gets some real value from pitch framing.
  14. Rob
    You got this, Wood. It's just Villar.
  15. Rob
    At one point, I really wanted Fredi to be the manager of the Cubs. The guy seemed like a slam dunk great manager. He was open to all the sabermetric stuff, and had spent years being mentored by Bobby Cox. Unfortunately, if you're a moron it doesn't matter who is teaching you, or what you're being taught. You're just gonna keep doing moron things. God speed, you glorious moron.
  16. Rob
    I am enjoying baseball.
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  18. Rob
    We just released Rex Brothers. Should save us about a million bucks to spend around the deadline.
  19. Rob
    Injured hand. Oh, that's anti-climactic.
  20. Rob
    Something's up in the Cardinal's camp. Peralta was apparently sighted leaving the camp in street clothes, and the GM is expected to make an announcement in the next half hour. Another PED bust?
  21. Rob
    It doesn't take much to imagine Victorino or Murton winning the 5th OF job over Szczur. That said, I'm guessing Victorino ends up getting released near the end of spring training to pursue other opportunities. He probably would have been fine with a 4th OF role, but I can't see him settling for 5th. He's probably just going to use spring training as a showcase for other teams to hopefully show them he's got something left in the tank.
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  23. Rob
    Here's how I would handle the lineups, with career wRC+ versus that type of pitcher in parenthesis. vs. R RF - Heyward (132 wRC+) 2B - Zobrist (114) 1B - Rizzo (133) 3B - Bryant (140) LF - Schwarber (161) CF - Fowler (101) C - Montero (110) P - Arrieta SS - Russell (104) vs. L 2B - Zobrist (128 wRC+) CF - Fowler (121) 1B - Rizzo (113) 3B - Bryant (120) RF - Heyward (85) LF - Soler (100) C - Montero (75) P - Arrieta SS - Russell (44) Schwarber has a 30 wRC+ against lefties, so I'm not exactly going to suggest we try to force him into the lineup against them. I'm also expecting his massive numbers against RHP to regress somewhat -- but if it doesn't, we may need to shuffle the top of the lineup a bit. Javy has a 97 wRC+ against lefties and La Stella actually has a 122, so I bet they see some playing time there. Maybe shift Zobrist to RF to give Heyward a breather against the real tough lefties, or Russell if he continues to struggle adjusting. Hell, even Rizzo and Bryant will need a few days off.
  24. Rob
    I bet Theo Epstein was reading Dave Cameron's grade for this offseason and was just so gutted by the criticism that he had to go out and sign Fowler.
  25. Rob
    Not that I really care, but not sure how this works. If Dexter is the one that opts out, does he still get the buy-out money? We will have to see how the contract is structured. There have definitely been cases where players got buyouts when not exercising their portion of a mutual option. But it's usually a smaller figure.
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