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Okay, next say he can't pitch a shutout Maddux style. 😂
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Yeah, it's cliché and super hokey but the old "I want winners" from Singletary has some merit. Even a guy like Morel who's been terrible of late hit the ball really hard and forced them to make a play. This team has some guys with huge cajones and Justin Steele is near the top of the list for me.
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He threw 29 last night would be my guess.
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Week 1 - Packers @ Bears - Soldier Field - September 10th 3:25PM
mul21 replied to David's topic in Other Sports
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More of those inning please Kyle.
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You saying things like this when there's clearly 2-3 guys better than him regardless of whatever made up criteria you're working off of is why people get annoyed with you.
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As a resident of the St. Louis are for the last 20 years, I can say with great confidence that this absolutely could have happened at Busch. The number of guns stolen out of cars from Jefferson County parked in the downtown St. Louis area is astronomical.
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The same player being the most common answer for the 3,000 hit club for the Dodgers and Angels is amusing.
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Wicks is not going to be giving them 6-7 IP per start. He's on a pitch count and an innings count, plus he strikes out a decent amount of guys and therefore isn't super efficient. They need to have a plan to cover the 6th and 7th in games he starts unless they get lucky and he's managing a low pitch count on a particular night.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-25-23
mul21 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I don't think those are situations you can really glean a philosophy from. KB was going to be a great player and they were delaying the service time clock to keep him for an extra year and with Morel he's an obvious unfinished/flawed product and very likely isn't going to be a superstar that you miss having an extra year of control on. I think comparing how maybe Happ and PCA are handled is probably a better 1:1 if you're looking for a barometer of each guy's philosophies. -
I can see taking a chance on Green based on his Iowa usage, but we've done the Kilian and Wesneski experiments already this season with poor results and I'm not sure there's any reason to expect that to be any different if they try them again. At least Wicks gives you some optimism for success and even if he's only giving you 4 IP every time out, if he's allowing 0-2 runs doing it, it's light years better than what they've been getting out of that spot.
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He got called up today I believe.
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I've asked this question/posed this hypothesis several times without any response, but I feel like he's significantly changed his 2 strike approach and is forfeiting some power for contact when he gets there. His ability to dump a ball into LF instead of hacking and striking out has been noticeable this year and when you combine what I've observed with his significant reduction in Ks overall, I think that's a plausible explanation for some of the EV drop.
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Do you think about turning him into a closer if he still wants to pitch? That's a pretty easy solution to still allow him to DH every day and maintain significant value as a pitcher and is probably a lot easier on the arm.
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JD did it again yesterday with the story about Dale Murphy hitting him in the "buttocks" with a line drive. "I was well equipped to handle getting hit there". The perfect amount of self deprecation.
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I don't have an issue leaving him in there. I do have an issue with him throwing a meatball to a power hitting lefty instead of walking him and living to fight another day against a righty.
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Equating Mervis at 1B for basically free at any age to Alonso there at $30MM annually is peak Tom intentionally misrepresenting everything anyone has ever said.
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About 3 more scoreless innings and 3-4 more runs would be a really nice way to finish this series and use the mop up guys like Rucker to finish this one off.
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This is a very odd take considering how absolutely terrible the vast majority of PBP guys are. Like the Cards had to go get Chip Caray because they couldn't find anyone decent to take the job and he's way worse than McLaughlin was before him. Cubs fans have been absolutely spoiled over the years between good Harry Caray, Stone when he gave a damn, Len and Bob or JD and now Boog with Pat and the Rons on the radio side. So many other broadcast teams are just painful to listen to.
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The JD story about getting hit in the ass is the reason he's so good at this.
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He thinks you're soft fella. 😂 He's a weirdo.
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Well, there are 4, 4, 5, and 6 possibilities for 4 of the answers and the White Sox choices are pretty non-White Sox related.
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Item 2 was what got me as well.
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I’m in the re-sign him camp. I’ve said this before, but I think part of the dip in the peripherals from his MVP season is a change in approach. He realizes he’s lost a little something, so his 2 strike approach has been to put the ball in play and that’s resulting in reduced EVs overall but also the ~12% drop in strikeout rate we’re seeing, more contact and a higher BA.
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