Jump to content
North Side Baseball

sneakypower

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13,587

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    22

 Content Type 

Profiles

North Side Baseball Article Archive, Part 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Trade & Free Agent Rumors

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospect Rankings

Chicago Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Chicago Cubs Fan Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by sneakypower

  1. sneakypower
    lol i remember doing big-time devil's advocacy for Junior Lake, nice to see a classic trope of unfounded optimism revived to help spring some much needed false hope here re Morel, he had the lowest zone contact rate in baseball last year, worst mark in 5+ years (though funny enough 2018 Ian Happ was 2nd-worst) which is probably a pretty bad sign
  2. sneakypower
    that's a game you talk about for the rest of your life
  3. sneakypower
    because of the career year Just from 20-21 he was 34th in WAR, still ahead of Trout and Devers, also ahead of Nolan Arenado, Sean Murphy, Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, Brandon Nimmo, Trevor Story, etc. yeah he had anomalously high value from baserunning & fielding efficiency, pretty reminiscent of a former Braves standout our offense is still very likely quite worse than an already pitiful offense from last year despite now spending pretty significant money from an artificially tight budget
  4. sneakypower
    Dansby Swanson is 13th in position player WAR the last three years ahead of players such as Carlos Correa, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Corey Seager, Fernando Tatis Jr, and Rafael Devers. because of the career year
  5. sneakypower
    Jed Hoyer try not to buy high on a career year challenge (impossible)
  6. sneakypower
    we're still in the process of backfilling like 6-8 holes we allowed to open up in the last couple years, this sounds so weirdly effusive
  7. sneakypower
    gross, nasty..if we were so horny for good defensive SS that struggles to OBP .300 the Tigers would have made it well worth our while to take Javy back at a fraction of this cost
  8. sneakypower
    The farm system is most definitely better than average, whatever average even is. I’m the low guy on the mainstream coverage too, but it’s as deep and talented as anyone’s To use Fangraphs' rankings for ease of use, the Cubs are 5th in overall value, 5th in number of 50 FV or greater prospects, and 9th in average value of ranked prospects. they're probably absurdly high on most of our farm, most notably they rate Cristian Hernandez/James Triantos/Owen Caissie top 100 prospects despite there being little to justify it i'd sincerely bet other respected evals that start to trickle in have us way more in the #12-18 range
  9. sneakypower
    the upshot here
  10. sneakypower
    because the stated goal of every professional sports franchise is to win games, but for this particular professional sports franchise, that's not exactly a priority
  11. sneakypower
  12. sneakypower
  13. sneakypower
    yeah i don't consider a 5 ERA college guy a prospect of much note either
  14. sneakypower
    hoping they said, "Wout, there it is"
  15. sneakypower
    ok maybe LVG is the way, what a great free kick design
  16. sneakypower
    Messi doing something brilliant on the pitch, ho-hum
  17. sneakypower
    imo it's a great move for this roster, that needs to hit on a few lottery tickets to compete in '23
  18. sneakypower
    probably not much of a surprise given his grade but Fields was PFF QB of the week: https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-week-13-pff-team-of-the-week-player-awards
  19. sneakypower
    that's indeed a scorching hot take, PFF had Corum rated best player in the country and one of their highest scores ever
  20. sneakypower
  21. sneakypower
    Pulisic's Rod Tidwell moment
  22. sneakypower
    i think i always properly realized that a bird in the hand is worth two Brady Hokes in the bush- so to speak, that i have no painfully regrettable takes on this topic
  23. sneakypower
    5 touchdowns of 45+, unreal, still can't believe what a stomping that was
  24. sneakypower
  25. sneakypower
×
×
  • Create New...