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  1. mul21
    🚨🚨🚨both sides alert, I repeat, both sides alert 🚨🚨🚨
  2. mul21
    I'd definitely take Boozer over Peterson. I think, especially in basketball where one guy can have so much impact on results, that players who are "winners" have a leg up on other guys. Jalen Brunson and the whole UConn crew on the Knicks is a good example. Wagler won in high school and look what happened at Illinois last year. It's not the end all be all, but I definitely think it's a not insignificant factor in what kind of results you see in terms of winning.
  3. mul21
    Sure, let's lose out on a couple years of guys like Griffey, Kerry Wood, and Bryce Harper in the name of saving a few million dollars. I hate baseball owners so much.
  4. mul21
    In Boog's defense, Girardi thinks and says a lot of really dumb horsefeathers so it's hard to blame him for that.
  5. mul21
    It broke the previous season record of .311, so it absolutely was ridiculous.
  6. mul21
    And sometimes it just doesn't matter. The 2012 Cardinals set an MLB record by hitting .330 with RISP, were 2nd in the NL in scoring, and 6th in ERA and still only finished with 88 wins because sometimes baseball just baseballs.
  7. mul21
    They're clearly screwed. Nobody has scored on this pitcher all year.
  8. mul21
    Look at you leaving out important context (as usual)! Now, Bregman has been absolute ass with RISP, but you can't just go using a raw number like that and not also include the fact that those guys have had literally the most opportunities with RISP so naturally they're going to have the most left on base. Nico is 10th, Dansby 30th, and Seiya is tied with 5 others at 45th on this list.
  9. mul21
    You have no idea what you're talking about.
  10. mul21
    Between the BABIP that's been mentioned and the brain damage that hopefully clears up soon, I don't think there's any real concern there.
  11. mul21
    @PeanutPunch33 don't take all this as some unflappable endorsement of Jed, but let's use some actual logic and reason to make the criticisms. The facts are the pitching hasn't been good enough and the pitching draft/development in the minors hasn't given them enough ammo to use at the MLB level. Nobody is going to deny that, but complaining about FA contracts that have produced good value vs dollars spent and not understanding how tanking works now are just paths you can't go down without a whole bunch of evidence to support your argument. I think the fact that the Brewers have been so good (and let's be honest, had a horseshoe up their ass for 6 weeks last season) and are somehow churning out talent left and right with a much lower payroll affects how we all perceive what's happening, but nobody else besides them and the Rays seem to be able to do these things consistently and can't figure out what the secret sauce is.
  12. mul21
    Please show all of the contracts that have provided less value than dollars spent.
  13. mul21
    You realize that the rules are completely different now than they were when Theo did that and it's a much more difficult gambit at this point right? Also, this is the Sox record since 2013. Hard pass.
  14. mul21
    The fact that he probably should have gotten an additional couple of starts at Iowa before even being considered for the MLB roster has to be taken into account too. Unfortunately, injury timing didn't allow that to happen. I'm not done with him, but the likelihood of him even being a viable back end of the rotation guy is dwindling quickly.
  15. mul21
    Okay, but who? You can't just say they should have grabbed a 2B and move on with the criticism without a viable solution.
  16. mul21
    Which of the other 3 FA SS from that offseason did you prefer and how much better has Swanson been than that guy thus far? The Cubs needed a SS, he checked a bunch of boxes, and he's been better and cheaper than all those guys since they signed their deals. And if the defense here is they could have just had Nico that at SS, then what 2B has been better in that time frame they could have signed that offseason?
  17. mul21
    How's that working out for them? I only say that because I think people get hung up on great and there's a lot of room between where the Cubs have been the last 3-4 years and where the Pirates are perpetually stuck or where the Giants seem to be right now.
  18. mul21
    I was thinking about his K/9, but man, going back and looking at his game logs he wasn't much better at the end of the season than when he came up. He just felt like a very different pitcher at the end of the season than when he came up but I suppose getting Ks in big moments will have that effect on the brain.
  19. mul21
    Holding the 2020 draft against any GM is just silly. The whole first round was a dumpster fire and like 12 of the 37 first/competitive balance round picks have even gotten to MLB, one of them being PCA.
  20. mul21
    I'm all for seeing a lot more of him and Pedro in the lineup. Someone needs to diagnose Dansby with Mike Olt disease and IL him for a month.
  21. mul21
    I was mostly thinking about his evolution once he got to MLB and how he started out with very little whiff in his game and by the end of last season he was bordering elite in that category. Clearly some things changed from call up to the end of the season and I think you have to give a lot of credit to both him and the staff for the adjustments. Overall though, I'm not sure why they can't figure out the pitching end of things in spite of what seems to be investing in the right things (tech, coaching, the science behind pitching, etc.) but it sure is infuriating to see every other team send 2-3 guys out every night throwing 98 out of the pen and we trot out Maton and Roberts at 93. I'm 100% in agreement with you on the offense. It's such a weird phenomenon to have happen multiple seasons in a row with guys who have pretty solid histories of success. Happ has always been streaky, but to have the same thing happen to the entire lineup at the same time is just something you can't really account for.
  22. mul21
    How many of the people pissing and moaning about Jed in this thread were upset in the offseason about: 1. Signing Bregman 2. Bringing back Thielbar 3. Signing Milner 4. Signing Harvey 5. Signing Maton 6. Trading for Cabrera As a whole, this was looked at as a pretty successful offseason and knowing that they'd be getting Steele back at some point on top of having a rotation of Horton, Boyd, Cabrera, Imanaga, and Taillon with Assad, Wicks, and Brown seemed like almost too much depth, but here we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for starting pitchers because injuries happen. If you predicted the offense, Bregman included, would completely tank for an entire month then you should probably buy a lottery ticket or move to Vegas because you're obviously psychic. The season so far has been disappointing and maybe you can gripe about the way certain things have been handled, but is making a change going to lead to winning more games? At the end of the day, the players have to play well and I think it's pretty obvious based on how some guys have developed (PCA and Horton in particular) that the coaching staff knows what they're doing and are giving guys the right tools to succeed and if they aren't it's on them and maybe it's time for different players.
  23. mul21
    It's gone now. What did it say?
  24. mul21
    I'm not sure how the guy throws another pitch after the arm shake. Something was obviously wrong after that pitch.
  25. mul21
    Catches: Burden - I think he catches a ton of those little hitches they threw to DJ all the time but he's elusive enough that they'll actually work Yards: Rome - some big plays downfield and consistent health results in a lot of yards TDs: Loveland - just too big, too fast, and too much of a matchup problem at the goal line for teams to shut him down effectively
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