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  1. sneakypower
    not sure if this was mentioned yet, but Haren leads baseball in lowest BABIP for the calendar year: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2015&month=10&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=12,a top-10 for WHIP, also - the best part of this stat, is that Jon Lester now ranks worst during that timeframe amongst our starters WHIP ranking: #6: Jake Arrieta (1.00) #9: Jason Hammel (1.03) #10: Dan Haren (1.04) #26: Kyle Hendricks (1.13) #27: Jon Lester (1.13)
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    #5 starter lol
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    Taking that into a tangent, how sure are we that we're seeing what we'd need to see from such an organization? We've hit on 2 of 3 top-10 picks, we've traded MLB assets for some good prospects, and we paid a lot of money for Soler. But is the grassroots organizational waves and waves thing really happening? The 2012 draft, for example, feels awfully meh in retrospect. my assumption's been that player development is probably lagging behind scouting compare to the Astros who aren't really making the correct decisions in the 1st round but still had a crazy deep system from guys picked after the first, whereas we're pretty relatively thin
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    people aren't insanely optimistic because we've got a .500 pythag i guess you can sort of point to the '06 Cardinals, but they had Mark Mulder's half-season of 7+ ERA and Marquis's full season of 6+ ERA they could happly ignore in the postseason and 3 HOF players in the prime of their careers (all with DL stints, i believe?) meanwhile our 2nd-best player/hitter is a guy who strikes out 30% of the time and is sub-.800 OPS
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    on a totally unrelated note, Joc Pederson is down to a .225 AVG on the season and is hitting .181 in his last 48 games with just 4 HR
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    we didn't get SSR-approved players? oh i think this qualifies as a http://pngimg.com/upload/tank_PNG1317.png
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    good night sweet prince :(
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    I wouldn't be shattered if the Cubs waited until the waiver period when they get additional leverage. That said, I have no qualms with a slight overpay for a legitimate asset. I'm going for the heroin if Clayton Richard starts one more game for the Cubs. i'd guess Wada/Wood would be more likely
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    i think we do (not that i think it's right) also, there's a huge gap between values of McKinney & Zagunis
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    I'm willing to pay the moon for Arrieta 2.0. but we'd also inherit his mistake of a contract
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    I don't understand how this keeps being said. The Cubs are already 2/3 of the way through a race for the playoffs and very much in contention. i don't think he realizes that being "equipped for a playoff run" means having a playoff berth. No I get it. I don't think we are going to make the playoffs and even if we do, I don't feel this team would be successful in the playoffs. -Royals fan July 31, 2014 what do you think the deadline deal was that put them over the top?
  12. sneakypower
    this is where Fred tells us he had to read smoke signals
  13. sneakypower
    His peripherals match his performance, and both are slightly down from peak Kimbrel. He still has a 2.75/2.49/2.46 ERA/FIP/xFIP He is also inexplicably suffering from his highest HR/FB this season. He's only given up 3 home runs, but it's good for 11.1%, highest in his career thus far. Also suffering from a .310 BABIP, which is the highest it's been since 2011 when it was .315. The previous 3 years it was .235, .263, and .250. I mentioned it in the Kennedy/Shields post I made in one of the other vague threads about their funky HR numbers despite peripherals being more or less similar to career norms, and Kimbrel is experiencing a similar situation, albeit to a lesser degree than the others. well they do have Matt Kemp trying to play defense and had Wil Myers experimenting with CF for a while, amongst other unfavorable defensive alignments
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    Phillips looks pretty good. The rest of the package isn't particularly inspiring though. my best approximation for what that might translate to for our system - McKinney - Alcantara / Olt? - Edwards Jr - something thoroughly worthless like Zastryzny i don't really like Fiers too much, but i'd still have been pretty happy with that deal (but i can also see a team scouting Phillips's tools much more favorably than McKinney's and preferring his upside)
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    Do other teams still look at Edwards as a top pitching prospect? That'd be pretty sweet if they do. Really interested to see the Cubs' lineup tonight.. Edwards is basically the most unhittable pitcher in baseball right now, so there's at least something there: http://www.fangraphs.com/minorleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=40&type=1&season=2015&team=0&players=0&sort=11,a
  16. sneakypower
    well that's not as fun
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    Canadian dollar is 77 cents now, so if he asks for $30M/per, they'll have to go $39M/per, won't they? (i'm probably in the minority when it comes to my lack of total utter desperation for adding a #1 SP, it's just kind of funny to consider) I'm confused. His contract will be in USD, so he'll have more buying power by being in Canada 81 days a year. why would his contract be in USD if he's employed by a Canadian company?
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    this is impossibly dense; the hypothetical with Price added would make it a virtual certainty, and even still, i'll eat a lemon if they miss the playoffs
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    Canadian dollar is 77 cents now, so if he asks for $30M/per, they'll have to go $39M/per, won't they? (i'm probably in the minority when it comes to my lack of total utter desperation for adding a #1 SP, it's just kind of funny to consider)
  20. sneakypower
    To Dodgers: Wood, Latos, Morse, Avilan, Johnson, Peraza, Arroyo To Braves: Olivera, Paco, Bird, pick To Marlins: Brigham, Guzman, Araujo (source: Jeff Passan) absolutely amazing how valuable salary "relief" from Morse/Arroyo/Johnson seemingly proved to be here; LAD floats about half of the Olivera contract and picks up the tab on a little more dead weight money elsewhere, effectively buying this guy ...at the trade deadline when the price of pitching is through the roof- just unbelievable
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    Tigers required pitching, of which we have none
  23. sneakypower
    At this point, Kennedy/Gallardo/Leake/Haren are probably the options. with the Hamels acquisition, i really expect TEX to attempt a YoGa extension Mike Leake is the dream now
  24. sneakypower
    *3 month rental August + September = TWO months. They haven't clinched anything and the Giants are .5 game back which could potentially leave them battling for the second Wild Card spot. they're currently 91% to make it, not factoring adding Alex Wood and Mat Latos and David Price to their rotation and subtracting [file not found]
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    and Peraza would have been on a 7/~40 deal every single baseball pitcher on Earth is a ticking time bomb from an injury perspective...
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