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With all the SLG % numbers that are above .500 against lefties for the DBacks, I don't feel confident in this.
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He's ridiculously fast. I can't imagine there's more than 1 or 2 guys in all of MLB that are faster, if any.
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Looks like he's tougher on lefties than righties for his career, which tells me he probably features a changeup. Edit: Well that was way off. Apparently he throws a 94 mph cutter and an average curve and has added a slider based on this article posted in the offseason.
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Amaya cost Cubs win in 12-11 loss to Arizona
mul21 replied to OSCAR ZOROASTER RICKETTS's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
How about Little not being able to throw a strike? I'll agree the second one was a lazy effort and said so at the time and there's no excuse for the pitch he just didn't catch later either. Rough night for him defensively, but as has been said, he's far from the only one with some culpability for that loss last night. -
This is what needs to be the focus. This pen has pitched waaaaaaay too many innings this early in the season. Avg. innings per start from the 5 guys who are currently starting: 4.25, 5.56, 5.03 (Shota obviously got hosed in the rain delay game), 4.07, 5.33. That's not going to work long term regardless of the quality of pen arms.
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Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-16-24
mul21 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
They're intentionally limiting his use early in the season so he's available at the end of the year assuming they make the playoffs. -
https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1780257327527964787 Jack Leiter getting called up and starting Thursday against the Tigers.
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Beat me to it. 🤣
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I missed Madrigal coming into the game on defense in the 8th but even that doesn't make much sense to me. I realize his spot in the order wasn't coming up soon but it was a tie game that you know you need to score more runs to win and the bottom of the order was due up in the 9th. I hate that move, especially when you have the hindsight of the GIDP in the 10th that killed that rally.
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This tells me Boras overplayed his hand and Montgomery would have taken less AAV to get a long term deal. Probably going to be even tougher for him next year with the loss of pick tied to signing him if he has a decent year.
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Do we end up in a situation where Manfred/the other owners force him to sell using the "best interests of baseball" power the commissioner is granted? At this point it seems like about the only thing that could really get the A's out of the mess Fisher has caused.
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If I told you Monday morning that the 6th and 7th starters for the Cubs would give them 9 2/3 shutout innings, especially after what we've seen the Cubs do to the Dodgers and Padres starters the last 5 games, would that alter your perception a bit? Injuries happen and they're honestly pretty well prepared for it, but when you lose 2 of your likely top 3 pitchers in the first month of the season and only get 4 inning out of a guy you'd have gotten at least 6, maybe 7 IP out of, there's just not much else you can do. If Cuas continues to struggle and they don't come up with a solution for that, then yeah, there's a legit complaint, but I just don't think you can gripe much right now about the depth when they're 7-4 and have largely gotten decent pitching from backups to the backups.
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That game went about like I expected it to and I said beforehand that I expected a UConn win by 15 or so. Clingan is a big enough body for Edey to deal with that you could tell he was on fumes the last 5-7 minutes of the first half and UConn was just too athletic everywhere else for the supporting cast to make enough shots. I will say that was an extremely poorly officiated game although I don't think either team really benefitted much. Hell of a season for Purdue after getting knocked out early last year.
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Did they intentionally mash together all the worst elements of the Marlins and DBacks uniforms?
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They ended the game after 8 innings. 80% of the money wagered was on the Braves and Vegas was able to cancel all those bets because the game didn't go the full 9 innings.
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I thought the gameplan was trash from the outset. It very much felt like Underwood was more interested in proving who was more macho than winning the game and that quote at halftime was very telling. Guerrier was absolutely awful and passed up wide open 3s repeatedly as the announcers pointed out. I agree there was no way they were winning that game but it wouldn't have been embarrassing with a little better game plan going in. Ty Rodgers just can't be on the floor when the other team has a big man that won't leave the lane to guard him.
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They were never going to win this game but the plan Underwood had was absolute garbage. It's the same dumb horsefeathers they did against Purdue the first time that got them down by 20. He's done a lot of things right and I hope he learns from this one but he got his ass beat tonight by Hurley.
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Feels like Underwood is getting outcoached, the refs are afraid to blow the whistle, and Guerrier needs to pull his head out of his ass.
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Not an ideal start for Illinois but I can't say I'm terribly surprised. I would have taken UConn and laid the points if I could bet on Illinois at all.
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100% agree on the screens. There were a lot of them where they were bumping a shoulder out and they never got called for it. There were a few at the top of the key that were especially egregious. I don't ever recall watching a B1G team play in a tournament game and having the thought that I wish they'd call this game a little tighter. ISU was incredibly physical all night but to your point, they were in very good defensive position and most of it was legal. I thought Illinois should have used some slip screens and back cuts to alleviate some of that on ball pressure and my god, the free throw shooting.
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Unrelated but fun note, Minnesota St. Mankato is playing in the D2 final four today and I played high school ball with the assistant head coach. Game starts at 3:30 on CBS Sports if anybody cares.
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Maybe they have some working theory on what's going to happen with the CBT and are basing their moves off it being non-existent or much higher in the next 5 years?
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It feels like he's just playing the political game right now to appease the city/fans and they'll end up in AH long term. He was overly gushy about Chicago in his presser at the meetings in Orlando and I think even he knows it was over the top.
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Cody is meh. Busch hits at a near All star level Imanaga is awesome Steele takes a step back Morel turns into an above average 3B
