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now they're toying with the idea of playing Middlebrooks at short & Yonder Alonso at 3rd...
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#36 Yordano Ventura demoted to AAA
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seems like Master P should be his nickname
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David Price
sneakypower replied to Cubbie Swagger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
This is not at all related to Baez(or David Price), but I want to take this opportunity to say how excited I am for Alex Reyes to become the new Aaron Sanchez that everyone fawns over while ignoring he can't throw nearly enough strikes. This excitement is tempered by the worry that he'll get traded in a year or so for Carlos Correa or some such nonsense. i'd say more AJ Burnett, who gives a team like a year or two of #2 production at random before FA and the rest of the time was spent with his arm in a sling or frustrating with his maddening inconsistency -
David Price
sneakypower replied to Cubbie Swagger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
if Raul Mondesi is a top-25 prospect, Baez for sure is other BA top 25 prospects i probably wouldn't trade Baez for: Joey Gallo, Alex Reyes, Aaron Judge, Jose DeLeon, Brett Phillips, Hector Olivera and maybe Barreto -
Brett Taylor thinks he's been a top 30 pitcher in baseball
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the point of defensive independent stats is to have better (E)RA prediction, but that matters not one iota for purposes of a conversation purely focused on describing past events unless you're making some argument that there was highly anomalous defensive performance, i guess
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did you see this on a bumper sticker? it's irritatingly Pollyannaish (and typical Brett) to make the claim "Jon Lester's Been a Top-20 Pitcher This Year" willfully ignoring major components to the job of a pitcher, most of which he's been bad or terrible at FIP is ignorant of these facts: - Lester has been 32nd percentile amongst qualified starters in strand rate - Lester has been 37th percentile amongst qualified starters in babip (41st percentile in hard-hit rate / 29th percentile in LD%) - Lester has allowed the 2nd-most SB for pitchers by the same stupid theoretical logic, Raisel Iglesias has been really swell/ginchy, too
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The point is that unless they do a complete 180 on Alcantara(and he starts hitting at AAA) or Baez gets healthy, the only true alternative to playing Castro everyday is Herrera. Sure there's some probability that Herrera might be better over a short stretch, but it's a move with no upside that bottoms out Castro's trade value, all for the (some might say slim) chance that Herrera nets a couple run improvement over whatever Castro gives you ROS. There are no other real options to playing Castro. who'd have ever thought that the MI logjam would devolve into a place where advocating the .269 wOBA of Jon Herrera gain PT is a semi-defensible position -Castro emulating geriatric-state Omar Infante -Baez busting a finger -Alcantara stagnating/regressing -LaStella died pretty sad state of affairs
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99th in bWAR / 62nd in RA9-WAR
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barely top-100 if you care about actual runs given up
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if they lose 3 more pitchers to long-term injuries and a couple every day starters i guess it could sort of happen
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baseball in 2015 is so annoying
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Chris Johnson isn't a very good 1B
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and Markakis probably gets his hit back now
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how shallow must Maybin have been playing to reach that ball
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is Happ ineligible? and no Eloy is a slight surprise like, i'd sooner trade Almora with little hesitation
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his first HR came a pitch after ump called strike 3 a foul
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all i ask for in this series is that when we have Jose Abreu in a 2-strike count in the 9th inning, we don't give him an elevated fastball
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he's oft-injured and has a -1.2 RA9-WAR this year
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it really makes you think... http://www.canford.com/userfiles/images/the-thinker-statue-flickr-satyakam-khadikar-480.jpg
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on a related note, the Cardinals [expletive] team ERA is 2.63
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hitters watch his pitches because they know they can't hit him (.141! AVG), is the theory i'll go with
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Clayton Dick
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Howie Kendrick as an offseason target?
sneakypower replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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