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  1. mul21
    Again, you're making judgements without all the information. How many chances have they had vs the others on this list? I bet it's more, and in some cases, a lot more.
  2. mul21
    In this same vein, a friend of mine was bitching about Happ, Bregman, Suzuki and Busch all being top 10 in LOB but that also means the Cubs are getting a ton of guys on base and eventually there's going to be regression to the mean and the offense will start scoring runs in bunches again.
  3. mul21
    Yeah, as much heat as Jed has taken for building middling teams, the pitching infrastructure he's put together to both find arms and develop JAGs into useful pitchers has been really impressive
  4. mul21
    As Jason pointed out, that's not enough information. If they were all singles and he didn't walk at all, sure, maybe I agree with you. If he hit 10 HRs, 5 doubles and 5 singles along with 20 walks, suddenly you have a guy who has a .333 OBP and is slugging .550 for an .883 OPS, which is a stat you just said you like.
  5. mul21
    You should have just said you only judge players based on batting average to start the conversation and we could have cut out all this debate and just collectively laughed at you for being stuck in 1998.
  6. mul21
    Elton Brand is what comes to mind. Tons of skill but just not enough athleticism to ever be THE guy.
  7. mul21
    I would hate it. As much as we joke about Hawk and his TWTW, I think there is a facet of a player's makeup you really do have to look at. A good friend of mine is a basketball junky and a Kansas fan and Peterson absolutely drove him crazy with the I'm playing today/no I'm not stuff. I want no part of that dude and while he's probably not as talented and I'm biased as an Illini fan, I'd take Wagler 10 times out of 10 over Peterson based on the information we have on both of them right now.
  8. mul21
    Yeah, I went to a game there a couple summers ago and was unimpressed. It's nice inside and I get why you have to have indoor baseball in Texas but both that park and Houston were meh at best.
  9. mul21
    Ideally, that's a fantastic solution to the problem, but he'll be 32 in August and may want a longer term deal than the Cubs are willing to offer. If they can get him for 2 more years, that would be perfect but I'd be surprised if he takes that deal/someone doesn't offer him 3-4 years.
  10. mul21
    If you think this, you clearly haven't been paying attention to the skills the Cubs FO seems to prefer in players, the most obvious being the ability to minimize swing and miss. I'm not saying Shaw is ticketed for the starting job in RF/LF next season, but to think that Alcantara has the upper hand when one guy is already playing in MLB regularly and the other guy hasn't been up for more than a cup of coffee while on the 40 man roster the last 3 years seems silly.
  11. mul21
    More like amirite?
  12. mul21
    Who's this guy?
  13. mul21
    Yep. Tying run is on deck.
  14. mul21
    Sure would be nice to have a challenge left to end the game right there.
  15. mul21
    You did. It's right there. And it's especially funny that you said it in reference to Wiggins who signed for $300K above slot. Like I said, objectively stupid.
  16. mul21
    Right, but that's unrelated to how many times he's thrown this week, which is what was implied in the post I was replying to.
  17. mul21
    Calling the Cubs cheap in the draft is objectively stupid.
  18. mul21
    He threw 25 pitches on Monday. Unless they have him on a pitch count of like 75-80 (which is entirely possible given how he's been used), I don't think there will be any restrictions on how deep he can go.
  19. mul21
    I would almost bet that this is where they go just based on him not being used last night against the Reds. I think sending him out there with Assad ready to go a couple innings if his pitch count gets too high early would be my preferred route, but I suppose we'll find out Friday.
  20. mul21
    Well, there's 2 different procedures they do on guys depending on what they want the outcome to be. One of them is a quicker recovery but leads to more issues down the road and the other is a more involved procedure that takes longer to heal but has a better long term prognosis.
  21. mul21
    The 3 true outcomes on Murakami are wild. I looked up Adam Dunn and his highest % in any year was 56.7% of his PAs ending in a K, BB, or HR. Murakami is at almost 60% right now. I'm not sure that's sustainable. He also has 14 HRs on 17 barrels and I learned yesterday that the expectation is about 50% of barrels become HRs, so that seems like it may regress to the mean as well.
  22. mul21
    Is the deadline December 31st?
  23. mul21
    His elbow is currently intact at least.
  24. mul21
    Is there a concern about how real this power is based on what's being said about Pedro Ramirez and his AAA power surge? There's no doubt about some of the EVs KA is putting up but it seems like a lot of these are going to CF and may not jump out of an MLB park the way they have been in AAA. And man, that K rate is something.
  25. mul21
    Kid has some swag. Between the bat flip on that HR and the flair on the slide into home on the BJ Murray double you can tell he has fun playing the game.
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