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  1. Rob
    I think the solution to the catcher situation is to grab a borderline starter/backup type, much like Yan Gomes was when we first acquired him. Jansen, Kelly, and Higashioka all fit the bill. I have no strong preferences as to whom. Start the season with Amaya/Veteran. Give Amaya a chance to prove some of the late season adjustments may lead to full-season success. If Amaya bombs, it's Ballasteros' time to get a shot. At worst, he should be able to adequately back up one of the veterans. I don't think trading a bunch of assets for a guy like Langeliers is a good bet.
  2. Rob
    And he's already at 51
  3. Rob
    Extend Jed or fire him. I don't particularly care which. The one thing I don't want is a lame duck GM who tries to save his job by signing doomed contracts and making bad trades that will help in the short-term, but sink the team in the long run.
  4. Rob
    I'm surprised Chapman didn't wait a month and negotiate with the rest of the league. I know how poorly that went last year, but his problem last year was that he was ice cold in the second half and people thought he'd fallen off a cliff. This year, his production was good in the first half and has been even better in the second half. So I doubt his market would have been so reserved.
  5. Rob
    Yes and no. He was worth 2.0 fWAR in the COVID-shortened 2020 season. He pulled that in just 57 games. So that was easily his best pace, though it's an open question whether he'd have kept that pace up.
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  7. Rob
    Cubs offense woke up earlier this month. Is this the start of the defense waking up too?
  8. Rob
    PCA with the nice throw.
  9. Rob
    Cubs now at 69 wins.
  10. Rob
    Yeah, if the problem is that all of them are healthy at once, that just means they actually get to rest once a week. Not the worst possible outcome.
  11. Rob
    I'm talking myself into trading Busch+ for a Mariners SP and throwing prospects at the Blue Jays for Vlad.
  12. Rob
    There's too much ground for him to cover to get there. But he could challenge Chourio and Wynn for 3rd place.
  13. Rob
    It's not over yet, but I love this chart.
  14. Rob
    Walking PCA to get to Bethancourt was probably the right call there. But it's hilarious that our #9 hitter has 7 RBI now.
  15. Rob
    I am always shocked to see that former Cub farmhand Billy McKinney is still in the league.
  16. Rob
    With Busch's hit, all the starters have hits tonight.
  17. Rob
    Strawman argument
  18. Rob
    Honestly, I wonder if the universal DH has something to do with that. Back in the day, if you had two good players at a position, it was time to cut bait on one. The Phillies had Jim Thome and Ryan Howard, and no way to play both of them. So it was time for Thome to go. Now you'd see them both splitting time in the field and at DH. The universal adoption of the DH and the popular method of rotating players at that spot rather than having a set DH may be a significant reason why we don't see so many of those trades anymore.
  19. Rob
    Up 4-1 now. Looking poised to end the skid.
  20. Rob
    It's not just his first complete game. It's the first time he's ever managed 8 IP.
  21. Rob
    I'll never forget Bryan LaHair's magical first half in 2012.
  22. Rob
    Some places just had him ranked really high because they were anticipating a breakout that's yet to arrive. Those that love Alcantara as a prospect generally do so because of the power he possesses. But the power he's showing in games is middling. For the prospect-mavens to continue to rank him highly, he's going to have to start converting that raw power into game power. The longer he waits, the more he's gonna slide down lists.
  23. Rob
    Mervis is gonna be mashing in Japan or Korea next year.
  24. Rob
    Well, that's certainly interesting. I don't suppose he failed to hustle on a play just prior to getting pulled?
  25. Rob
    Junior Caminero is more than just "a guy in AAA." Fangraphs has him as the #3 prospect in baseball, behind only James Wood and Jackson Holliday. He had a cup of coffee last year where he didn't look completely lost despite bypassing AAA entirely. In his first crack at AAA this year as a 20 year old, he's hit .271/.330/.500. His power potential is as high as just about anybody in baseball. He's gonna be a heck of a player.
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