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  1. muntjack
    Strumpf just might be one of those guys who doesn't really come into his own until he's 26. Love the 1:1 K/BB over his last 95 PAs. Made I'm really optimistic about. One of just a few 18 year olds in A ball, so anything at all positive goes a long way. He's outperforming Ed Howard and he's almost a full year younger. Speaking of 18-year olds in A ball, Evan Carter (Rangers) is currently at 28:34 K/BB. That blows my mind. No greater predictor of success than that, as far as I'm concerned.
  2. muntjack
    I think there are trajectories that, while they might be sub-optimal for maximizing team control through a player's peak years, still result in a solid major league baseball player. Deichmann was the 43rd overall pick in 2017. He was in high A in 2018, AA in 2019 and AAA this year, improving at every level. I think we've become so obsessed with phenoms like Acuna and Tatis that we undervalue the potential for guys like this to keep improving if given PAs.
  3. muntjack
    Excited about the potential for some conference semifinal action. Just curious. Where would the Bulls rank in the East if you replaced Demar Derozan with Jimmy Butler?
  4. muntjack
    Yeah, watching that was gross.
  5. muntjack
    How does a guy like Johneshwy Fargas make it to the major leagues? He's a LF with no pedigree that can't hit, has no power and rarely walks. If you squint really hard, he had an okayish? showing at high A in 2018 but I really don't understand why he's taking PAs from literally anyone right now.
  6. muntjack
    Very nice. I was wondering if he might go tonight.
  7. muntjack
    I'm in the minority here but Caleb Kilian is probably the one I'm most excited about. As a pro - 100.2IP 67H 11BB 113K Back end starter is the dream? Nah.
  8. muntjack
    What? He's a pedigreed, 24-year-old middle infielder with excellent defense and a .388 OBP this year. That is most definitely worth something
  9. muntjack
    It's been bumpy for Herz but his last 2 starts- 9.1 IP 4H 2R 3BB 16K His last 7 - 29.1 18H 9 ER 16BB 45K Still a good WHIP even with that walk rate
  10. muntjack
    There is no way they're flipping Madrigal into something else. They've gone on for too long about needing more contact, and they added the most contact-oriented hitter in the game. It's so frustrating to me because a contact guy like Castellanos, who, again, wanted to continue playing for the Cubs and who had the ability to actually hit the ball hard, was shown the door. Every issue this team had this season was easily addressed by simply keeping players that were already here. Hoerner got hurt, but his profile + Castellanos would have gone a long way toward mitigating those issues. Darvish, of course. Schwarber instead of Pederson. The front office created this mess, and now we're back to 2011.
  11. muntjack
    It's fine by me for anyone to feel this way, but the way I look at it, the Cubs won the WS and I'm mostly cool with whatever so long as A) I like the players I'm rooting for and B) that's it. Of course, winning makes me like players, but Javy had a lifetime pass no matter how many Ls the Cubs racked up, or swinging Ks he committed. I was pissed when we traded Yu, but now I'm just unteathered. This exactly.
  12. muntjack
    I'm just pissed off.
  13. muntjack
    yes, because baez/bryant/rizzo are all comparable to perhaps the best relief pitcher of all time We literally just traded the best closer of all time today.
  14. muntjack
    He was an 8th round pick who had thrown 16 innings prior to this year. Ridiculous numbers but no track record. I think he was the target here.
  15. muntjack
    I find it fascinating to see all of the "we were never going to get much for 2 months of (insert cub here). I remember very clearly what we gave up for Chapman.
  16. muntjack
    For the giants #13 prospect (fangraphs) and an SP in AA who is not on their top 30 (admittedly, this is the first year of real innings for him, and he's been outstanding)
  17. muntjack
    Yeah, my all-time favorite baseball player. My son's as well. Baez should have been here his entire career. Don't care about his flaws. At all.
  18. muntjack
    Mad, don't care
  19. muntjack
    Not a fan. Guess they're really serious about contact > power.
  20. muntjack
    Underwhelming, certainly
  21. muntjack
    I hate that my day got better because of this but, well, there it is.
  22. muntjack
    It's been ugly for sure but he was fantastic last year and very good in 2019.
  23. muntjack
    On Brennan Davis: "often citing the odd hours he kept taking care of a goat" New favorite organizational player. Goat-herders perhaps the new market inefficiency.
  24. muntjack
    Cubs did essentially the same thing with Castellanos. A shame they just let him walk, when by all accounts he wanted to stay.
  25. muntjack
    This seemed predictable
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