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  1. mul21
    Yeah, those were both bombs to deep CF today. Even in Iowa, that's not something a guy with no power is doing with regularity.
  2. mul21
    The bat speed being down makes me think something mechanical is going on or he's nursing some nagging injury like a sprained finger or something that's causing an issue but not necessarily bad enough to land him on the IL. I'd be shocked if a guy his age suddenly just lost it over an offseason.
  3. mul21
    I think in the particular case of Cabrera, I'm willing to cut them a little more slack since he's only been in the organization for ~6 months and they may still be in the figuring out what works best for his stuff/arm slot/etc. phase. Generally, I definitely agree with your point and it feels like they know their arms aren't great and that's probably a big part of why they've leaned into defense as much as they have.
  4. mul21
    That feels like oversimplifying it. Stuff+ is looking at a very specific aspect of what pitches do vs fWAR being an overall measure of how successful the pitching staff is. Seems like an apples to oranges situation. Like saying a team doesn't care about batting average vs WAR feels like a similar comparison to me.
  5. mul21
    In his defense, Billy was never the problem.
  6. mul21
    Doesn't Cabrera's FB grade out terribly in Stuff+ and the Cubs have him throwing it a lot more often? Feels like that's a likely explanation is those things are true.
  7. mul21
    Yeah, but you had a developing Loveland and Burden for the first half of the season and Odunze was hurt for most of the second half. A full complement of receivers in the 2nd half probably would have made for not enough balls to go around.
  8. mul21
    They're freshman so you never know how they're going to contribute, but adding someone else on top of Coleman and Morillo seems like overkill. I guess a real PG would be a nice thing to have but there just aren't any real holes in the roster right now
  9. mul21
    I definitely agree that there were no good options there, but I don't think it's as cut and dry as you're making it out to be. My only real argument is that these run expectancies are calculated with generic MLB player at the plate based on the millions of times these situations have happened over 100+ years and don't account for a guy who's been a top 10 MLB player for going on 3 years now being at the plate. Is he prime Albert Pujols? No, but he's the best hitter in the Cubs lineup right now and if I was the manager in the other dugout, I think I'm going another route to not let that guy beat me.
  10. mul21
    The people who gripe about Boog have clearly never spent any amount of time listening to other team's announcers that aren't the Dodgers, Mets, or Yankees. They're mostly just not good and some are downright unlistenable like whatever slop the Cardinals are throwing out there of late.
  11. mul21
    Nico really needs to stop hitting those damn fly balls.
  12. mul21
    Yeah, I don't think the system he runs needs a pure PG when everyone on the floor passes as well as most of these guys do.
  13. mul21
    Which is weird considering how we heard about him taking a more CF oriented approach in the spring.
  14. mul21
    Dansby? Or someone else?
  15. mul21
    Careful with his name and the exclamation point. I did a double take. 😂
  16. mul21
    Yeah, with the Horton injury and how he developed last year, then essentially ran out of innings at the end of the year, it wouldn't surprise me if we see him going like 2 innings at a crack for a month or two. Then, ramp him up in June, assuming he's a viable big league option at that point, so you have him as a rotation possibility for the playoffs and you're not worried about how many innings he's thrown this season. It's certainly possible it's an injury but that would be some odd phrasing if that's the case.
  17. mul21
    His career K rate is 26.5%. His best full season K rate is 22.1%. What you're citing here is a 22.2% K rate, which is pretty hilarious to cite as a concern when it would nearly equal his best season ever. People are just irrational about Happ and it cracks me up.
  18. mul21
    The under the hood/peripherals from last year say he was far from sucking. There's a reason a smart team like the Dodgers kept running him out there.
  19. mul21
    I think the shooting issues for both Michigan and Illinois were a function of the offense UConn runs. They're so much more active than most of the teams they play and don't run near as much of the high screen and roll that's so prevalent in college basketball right now. All that chasing on defense really takes a toll on your legs and impacts shooting on the other end, even the layups. I also think the amount of contact allowed in those 2 games was absolutely criminal. The championship game especially was just a rugby match and the refs didn't set the tone early in either game to reduce the amount of grabbing and pushing. Something I'd really like to see them do that UConn got away with constantly is the pushing off while driving with the off arm. It was really obvious pretty frequently and never once did it get called.
  20. mul21
    Lotta pop ups and warning track power so far. Frustrating, especially when the defense is letting them down too.
  21. mul21
    It was crazy how every shot that rimmed seemed to bounce out for Illinois and in for UConn. The shooting just wasn't good enough and they were absolutely getting good looks. My biggest issue with the game was that Illinois never figured out how to defend that double screen for the wing 3 and UConn hit 3 or 4 of those because they were wide open.
  22. mul21
    Maddon trying to redefine a dirty inning to justify when he brought Lester in is just comical.
  23. mul21
    Harvey got two playable ground balls. The defense wasn't up to snuff.
  24. mul21
    He's in the prime window of schizophrenia onset and based on how wild some of the stuff he's saying is, I wouldn't be surprised if it's that or something similar.
  25. mul21
    Man, what a screw up by the Angels being late to challenge. Hell of a slide by Miggy and I don't think that call gets reversed regardless of the call on the field. You just can't see where his hand is when the tag happens.
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