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true the Angels do suck at developing their pitching prospects but the Cubs, on the other ha- -
What I Didn't Like
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guess it's time to start looking forward to 2030: USMNT’s 30 for 2030: The holdover stars and new players in frame for the next World Cup [Gift Article]
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way easier said than done.. everybody is arguing about how to achieve this and nobody really seems to have any answers how can youth development thrive when everything has gotten so prohibitively pay-to-play? think of what gets lost along the way; the de facto appointed ambassador for us soccer thinks this is fine, actually
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glad to see this backs up my snap reaction everytime i see Akanji/Tah types booting their attempts into the stratosphere
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probably to some degree related to this recent phenomenon and i'm sure the unseasonably hot summer is having an effect as well
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just the goat doing goat things
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well that's probably curtains
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LFG
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Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
sneakypower replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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really funny to me that he's driving the bus back and forth all over Infantino
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so there is some justice in the world 😃
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Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
sneakypower replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
found somebody on reddit who had scanned back all the way to 1974 and this was the full list of 3+ WAR months they could find including the last couple days of May, Pete's at 3.7 fWAR his last 29 GP.. i've only been able to find one 30 GP stretch that beats this: in fall 1992, from 8/25-9/26, Barry Bonds reached 3.8 fWAR in a 30 GP stretch (sporting a .600 wOBA) HM: in summer 2024, from 5/15-6/16, Aaron Judge reached 3.4 fWAR in a 30 GP stretch (.393/.504/.972) put another way, i'd argue that this is the closest to the "build the perfect player" exercise that we've ever seen aside from Shohei, perhaps; leading MLB in AVG, OBP, SLG, Def, .. 3rd in SB, t-5th in BsR the heat map demonstrates this fairly well, too
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in a starter's capacity yes but he's still reportedly on track to be able to do some bullpen duty at some point
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Tillman you beautiful bastard
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oh effff right off
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Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
sneakypower replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i actually looked that one up too and June '98 Sosa had 1.173 OPS, he sold out for power so much that month and had a below-average OBP (.331) that month and a surprisingly unremarkable 1.6 WAR -
Pete Outdoing His Best Devin Hester Impression
sneakypower replied to We Got The Whole 9's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i touched on this in one of the game threads but his June basically broke through the barriers of what is possible for hitter value he finished with 3.1 fWAR, a total that's only been reached this century by Sept. '00 Richard Hidalgo: 3.2 fWAR May '08 Lance Berkman: 3.1 that's it, that's the end of the list.. the only others to even top 2.8 are Aug. '02 Barry Bonds: 3.0 Aug. '23 Mookie Betts: 2.9 Sept. '05 Randy Winn: 2.9 so just to recap he surpassed the highs of what Barry Bonds could even reach in his most head-swollen days -
bc if you don't get the GK to bite you look like a world class jackass
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currently sitting at 2.9 fWAR in June.. the only other position player to match that in any month over the last 10 years was Mookie Betts's August 2019– also 2.9 fWAR, but no player (Shohei double-counting aside) has exceeded that during that span
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still in that last month, PCA has 18.2 offensive runs value, the rest of the team totaled -1.5
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if we're being honest, pessimism was pretty well warranted a month ago given the sheer state of the pitching staff, but something happened since that was so far outside of the range of reasonable expectations, which is awesome but like i said
