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Everything posted by mul21
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He called the exact same pitch a strike against Tauchmann in the previous inning. It's trash but it went both ways.
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If you're afraid of the home run ball (which he's been a victim to regularly this year) you end up nibbling and walking guys, which is what we've seen of late from him. Less risk to have a solo shot in a game you're up by 4 but it kills you up by one.
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It's not that, he's very obviously struggled in high leverage situations and been much better in low leverage.
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I can't recall the Cubs getting screwed on this many should have been ball 4 actually called a strike calls as they have this year.
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Belly bails out Happ. Swinging at fastballs at the letters is a bad plan.
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horsefeathers happens? He's still developing? I poked a hole in 2/3 of your evidence so whatever man.
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Nice cherry picking 2 guys who have had oblique injuries that experts have said likely are affecting their swing planes still.
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Because one has 25 HRs in 6.5 seasons on MiL baseball and the other has 54 in less than 2.5. This team is sorely lacking in power and Mervis has it in spades compared to any other currently viable option. This isn't hard math.
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In his defense, that's probably near the top of the list of his posts for succinctness and coherence.
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This was one of the easier ones for me. Immaculate and my lowest rarity score at 112.
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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
mul21 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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Two thoughts here: 1. I think we've seen about the worst negative variance we could have in terms of results from this team (looking at RD and the timing of when the pen has crapped the bed in particular plus the poor performance with RISP during cold stretches). 2. I think the goal is to have all those 3-4 WAR players home grown and affordable so they can go out and get the 5-8 WAR guy(s) in FA to put them over the top. As a team operating in Chicago with Wrigley as an asset, I don't think that's an unreasonable approach, it just hasn't come close to fruition at this point.
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The batting average conversation is way out in left field but I think the larger point of "The Cubs should try to buy roster cornerstones with their excess of prospects regardless of playoff hopes this year" is a salient point. The likelihood of that happening is near zero because they don't have any high end prospects they aren't counting on in the near term and other teams who are actually in contention will be willing to pay more. If Jed were to pull something like that off, tip of the cap, but I don't think he has the vision or creativity to make it happen.
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It's 100% because he's gotten a QO previously. Not related to the option.
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As much as I hate to agree with Tom, that's the answer. The cubs have hit 11 HRs in July with 5 coming from Bellinger. Power is the problem and this isn't anywhere near a viable solution.
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I guess I shouldn't be, but I was surprised how few 500 HR hitters for each team there are.
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Mid season 2023 State of the Farm Discussion
mul21 replied to CubinNY's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think we probably need to reserve judgement on some of the AA guys K rates until the second half is well under way to see if the extra tacked ball is really making a difference in those numbers (on both side of the ball). Caissie is the guy I'm intrigued by but also concerned about the high K rates. Shaw strikes me as Dan Uggla with good defense maybe based on all the things I've read. Overall I agree with you, probably a bunch of 3-4 WAR guys at their peak but none of those 6-7 WAR guys you really need to make things go. -
I think the NCAA should step in if Northwestern doesn't clean house and set up a plan to make sure this doesn't occur again in the future, but we all know this is an incestuous organization and nobody will really enforce anything and it'll just be window dressing to appease the public and rehab their image.
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They literally have the easiest schedule left in baseball so I'm not sure what the balanced schedule has to do with the conversation.
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Would they really even get that much for either of those guys? they're both older and in spite of essentially career years last year, they have to be on the downside of their careers. I guess I can see Arenado bringing back a decent return since he's got some control left.
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I was surprised that there were 14, 14, and 17 players for the teams listed that had done it.
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Same here. That shocked me.
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You're not good with numbers eh?
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Saying this with any level of certainty after looking at the Reds starting pitching is really, really dumb.
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
mul21 replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Why do you hate fun? I'm with OO on this one. Martinez sucks. Him losing his mind a couple weeks ago was awesome though.
