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  1. I swear I watched this game last night
  2. Wow. In context that was one of the worst half innings I've seen in a long time.
  3. I know Arenado is a great defender. I know he still has a .799 career OPS away from Coors, which isn't terrible. For 32 mil AAV I just....ugh.
  4. Nah, I just wanted to defend my memory. Honestly, I remembered everything from "Kyle is not a major league player" to "get anything you can for him" "platoon him", etc. I couldn't find those but like I said, I don't usually make statements on here, at all, so I feel like it certainly took more than some troll (I've seen plenty of those here over the years) to do it.
  5. That was about Descalso. Like, why would I have been saying Schwarber is old? My fault. Sometimes you have unique takes on things.
  6. Dude, it was completely tongue-in-cheek, and in the sixteen years I've been on here, I've very rarely come out and made any kind of statement like that. I luckily posted it right before he went on a tear that lasted the rest of the season, and tried to make an affable post out of it. I certainly didn't think I'd get attacked for it, but do what you need to do.
  7. I'm probably going to quote myself here every time Kyle does even the slightest thing of note.... From Jun. 27th, when everyone was piling on him. *coughs loudly and pats self on back*
  8. Wil Meyers 2016: .341 wOBA 2017: .335 wOBA 2018: .328 wOBA 2019: .316 wOBA 2019 was also his best year against LHP (.368 wOBA) and he had a K rate of almost 40% against them. FWIW Castellanos' worst wOBA in those 4 years was .341 in '17 and against LHP in 2019 he put up a .370 wOBA To me, these #s indicate that Meyers is really in no way an approximation (even a B- approximation) of Castellanos offensively.
  9. Without a big splash, I'd just prefer Darvish Hendricks Q Lester Chatwood Pivetta just seems like a younger Chatwood with double the HR rate. I wouldn't mind him as insurance in AAA, I suppose.
  10. Ugh. Schwarber went from a neutral defender in 17 to a very good defender in 18 to a terrible defender in 19. But not really.
  11. I agree. I just think about Bryant on the 2002 Cubs, or the 2010 Cubs or the 2013 Cubs and laugh about how differently he would be perceived. We've become pretty spoiled.
  12. Call me crazy but I don't think Soler needs the juiced ball to hit home runs. He's 27 and plenty of players at that age are still improving. Everyone is hitting a juiced ball and yet he's leading the AL. I anticipate he'll improve his walk rate next season and hit near 40 again. The guy is a pretty good hitter.
  13. While I'm certain there are multiple, fixable issues that would help this team win more baseball games, variance is a horsefeathers. Five 1-run-losses in a row go the other way and the narrative becomes "a resilient team that was always more talented than the rest of the division, who is peaking at the right time!" Again, fire Maddon and all that but baseball is stupid.
  14. Yes
  15. He just seems like the kind of guy that is going to heavily (Dusty level) favor some players over others, and not necessarily based on talent. I base this solely on the ~100 or so words I've heard him speak.
  16. No thanks.
  17. Schwarber has a .775 OPS against LHP this season. He has only 353 career PAs against them. Sporadic PAs. He’s improved each year. The book is not written.
  18. Wrote this on June 27th. 136 wRC+ since then.
  19. I just sorted AL players by OPS (minimum 250 PA) 1. Yordan Alvarez 5. Alex Bregman 10. George Springer 11. Michael Brantley 16. Jose Altuve 17. Carlos Correa 21. Yuli Gurriel I mean.......come on. Chirinos is not on that list and he's been worth 3.4 BWAR.
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