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  1. mul21
    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.
  2. mul21
    What in the seven hells are you on about now? It’s not that hard That's what she said.
  3. mul21
    19/30. Giants one is a little unfair.
  4. mul21
    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
  5. mul21
    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.
  6. mul21
    Keith Law trolling Bob Brenly is A. The best thing B. The greatest thing [tweet]https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1117547703548960768[/tweet]
  7. mul21
    You saw the one that was a called strike right? And sure big leaguers don't swing at them. Right.
  8. mul21
    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.
  9. mul21
    Who the F is Ismael Valdez?
  10. mul21
    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.
  11. mul21
    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.
  12. mul21
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  13. mul21
    Any concern about Gase to MN as OC and immediately making them a lot better?
  14. mul21
    Interesting that there are 2 just this season.
  15. mul21
    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.
  16. mul21
    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.
  17. mul21
    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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  19. mul21
    Agreed, I'm sure there's some HIPPA stuff going on here and that's why it's as hush hush as it's been.
  20. mul21
    Any speculation as to what's going on? Hopefully nothing serious if it's health related like these things seem to be.
  21. mul21
    It’s amazing the difference having a QB who can throw the ball downfield makes in converting a 3rd and 8. A couple really big throws on 3rd down that made things much more comfortable at the end.
  22. mul21
    Okay, who are you? Winnebago Snow Lions
  23. mul21
    Same here. Starting in the morning with “If anyone needs me I’ll be under my desk in the fetal position”.
  24. mul21
    They've really struggled to get production from their OF and SS. If they miss (or don't play) on Machado/Harper, then they need to fill those holes with players who can stay there for at least a few years. I think their pitchers are undervalued somewhat as Philly literally had the worst defensive runs saved ever. Pivetta shouldn't be outrageously expensive after putting up era's of 6.02 and 4.77 in his first two years. But I think he's got a much better level of performance coming ahead, especially going from the worst defense in years to a pretty good one with the Cubs. Lineup: 2B) Zobrist 3B) Bryant RF) Harper SS) Baez 1B) Rizzo C) Contreras LF) Schwarber CF) Heyward Bench: Almora/Caratini/Cabrera/Happ/La Stella SP: Darvish/Lester/Hamels/Hendricks/Quintana/Pivetta Swing: Smyly/Monty RP: Morrow/Strop/Edwards/Cishek/Neris/Chavez/Morgan Didn't you just trade him to the Phillies?
  25. mul21
    Puig you magnificent bastard! I said to my gf after that 2nd pitch that he was either striking out or hitting it to the moon. Glad it was option 2.
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