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Why? He's not a guy who's likely to age well. Being done with him after the 2021 season seems like a pretty good time to part ways.
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That was such a good play by all 3 guys. The stop and flip by Javy, the bare hand grab and turn by Russell, and the pick out of the dirt by Rizzo.
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
mul21 replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There's a reply somewhere in the Cerami thread about how his walk and K rates are noticeably higher with RISP meaning pitchers are pitching around him almost every time he's in that situation. Probably a combination of him not getting nearly as many pitches to hit and him expanding the zone to get the job done. I don't really blame him for a slight change in approach in those situations, but when hot Javy is behind him, he definitely needs to lay off those pitches out of the zone better. -
I'd guarantee Maddon hates red assed Hurdle. One enjoys his glass of wine, the other is busy shotgunning Milwaukees Best This is hate speech. I am an avid wine drinker and also an imbiber of mass quantities of cheap beer. #LoveIsLove Seriously, you can do both. Why do you hate fun? But Hurdle is a red assed turd who needs to go away.
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Heyward is 4 for his last 11 with 3 walks, so I'm hoping he's coming out of his slump. He's hit into a few unlucky hard outs in that span too. He certainly doesn't look hopelessly lost like he has in the past.
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I get that you think he's a clueless old coot with nothing to offer, but the guy has proved over a long period he's good at the non-game part of his job, whether it be managing personalities or teaching the game, so this is a pretty bad take. And before you go on a Sofa rant, yeah, he's handled the Russell stuff really, really badly.
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The craziest part of this is the next closest guy had like 153 singles by the time he hit 100 HRs. Edit: Russell Branyan with 172 is the next closest. :lol:
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5/7 Cubs (Lester) vs Marlins (Smith) 7:05 NBCSCH
mul21 replied to Andy's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Yeah, that combined with healthy Zobrist, fixed JHey, and normal seasons from other guys is pretty exciting. I'm inclined to shoot Almora into the sun, but even he's shown signs in the last week of not being terrible. -
What in the seven hells are you on about now? It’s not that hard That's what she said.
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Longest tenured player on each team quiz
mul21 replied to soccer10k's topic in General Baseball Talk
19/30. Giants one is a little unfair. -
I realize this is the crap on Almora thread, but metrics say you're completely wrong about this. He had the 2nd biggest gap between expected catch % and actual catch % last time I looked and the only guy ahead of him was Kiermayer. Out of curiosity, because I can't find the exact metric you're referring to, are you talking about the 108 innings he's played this year or the 918 innings he played last year? https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/outs_above_average
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He doesn’t make a cool diving catch once every 2 weeks that is largely needed because he’s so slow, though I realize this is the crap on Almora thread, but metrics say you're completely wrong about this. He had the 2nd biggest gap between expected catch % and actual catch % last time I looked and the only guy ahead of him was Kiermayer.
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Keith Law trolling Bob Brenly is A. The best thing B. The greatest thing [tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1117547703548960768[/tweet]
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You saw the one that was a called strike right? And sure big leaguers don't swing at them. Right.
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he was a decent pitcher for the dodgers in the mid 90s but he kinda sucked by the time the cubs got him...and yeah, blisters. Ah, yes, that rings a bell now. I think I've voided all but Sammy, Kerry, and Brant Brown's dropped fly ball from that era of the Cubs out of my brain. Or I drank too much in college.
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Who the F is Ismael Valdez?
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I think he could've managed to make that in nine years. Me too, especially as that will be post-strike and with a new CBA. But it's undeniably a gamble - both on his own performance in the interim and the players' resolve holding. Harper would have been a FA at 30 - seems very probable to me he'd be able to get at least a $150 million deal then, and for less than 9 years too. I'm sure he hated this whole disgusting free agency process, with the sham the owners have turned it into, and you can't knock a guy for taking 330 million dollars. But this ended up being a very team-friendly deal. This is the thing that people who are bitching about this deal don’t seem to understand. The total dollars is a big number no doubt, but the guy literally has to average 3.2 WAR over the life of the deal to make it worth it. I’m baffled by fans freaking out over it.
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This is exactly perfect. And I eat it occasionally because of the monstrosity that is STL style pizza and the fact that there's a Casey's exactly 1.1 miles from my house that's on my route to and from work.
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Week 17: Bears @ Vikings Sunday, 3:25 on Fox
mul21 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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Any concern about Gase to MN as OC and immediately making them a lot better?
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Week 17: Bears @ Vikings Sunday, 3:25 on Fox
mul21 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Interesting that there are 2 just this season. -
i think it probably has to do with their presumably having more tradeable money than we do. Like we would have to work pretty hard to move enough money (heyward, chatwood etc) while they can surely find a taker for Puig without much trouble. They are also currently 9 million under cap and we are over by 14 million. Which doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things because if they don't move another $20+ million this will be their 3rd consecutive year over and the penalties start getting really ridiculous. EDIT: And they just blew most of that on Joe Kelly.
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Somewhat surprisingly, it likely isn't (according to FG). Yeah, that's like 6ish WAR over the life of the deal, so he'll probably even live up to it.
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How much of a kiss-ass to the rich do you have to be to believe that a $600 million real estate development investment was some kind of altruism. They didn't choose not to use public money. They begged for it and didn't get it, and instead they used their own money *because they knew they would turn a profit on the development*. So much this. They're nothing more than businessmen trying to make a buck and if they didn't think they could by making the investment, they wouldn't have. The y were just trying to further maximize profits by sucking some public money.
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