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  1. sneakypower
    ..why does this narrative continue to prevail? 4.28 ERA last 3 years, all 3 seasons are 4+
  2. sneakypower
    The Cardinals will find a way in the future with trading away some of their top prospects simply because they're the Cardinals. Somehow these two low-to-middle size payroll teams (Cards & Brewers) seem to stay competitive while we have to go into 3-4 year rebuilds after becoming competitive. the Cardinals draft & develop amazingly well
  3. sneakypower
    we also would've accepted "sampson gets me lifted" or "samson's horsefeathers is blessed"
  4. sneakypower
    big market team sits 40-57 in the standings fans: "they're smart to not overpay!"
  5. sneakypower
    clown horsefeathers
  6. sneakypower
    we could add Yan Gomes, Daniel Descalso, Wade Miley, Andrelton Simmons for that kind of money!
  7. sneakypower
    in his last 645 PA he's hit .233/.298/.345, this would be good mostly for ensuring a bottom-3 record
  8. sneakypower
    even if you're ready to give him outsized credit in their overall P dev, mostly all their guys, Bieber/Plesac/Clevinger/Civale/Karinchak etc. were mid-late round finds- that should further remove the desperate need to expend such a heavy investment in the position, where you're still making a big reach with a top-10 pick against the universal consensus this is likely to remain a bad offensive ballclub for a long while (like CLE), which i fundamentally hate, and that really puts all our eggs in the Craig Breslow basket to be strongly competitive
  9. sneakypower
    yeah this is mostly where i'm at, taking 16?/20 pitchers makes it even more annoying for me that they targeted Horton so hard at the expense of safe, impact position players left available at 7 i guess the way that this all pays off is if we go completely nuts in spending on a top FA hitter or two with the budgetary gains of having an entirely home grown bullpen and similarly cheap in-house rotation, or develop so many of them well enough that we can get several trade bounties, but that all seems pretty far fetched given the org's spotty history in player dev
  10. sneakypower
    f hitters i guess
  11. sneakypower
    hadn't noticed until now Keith Law had Horton ranked #93 lol
  12. sneakypower
    Do you have an updated link for bench players. I'm still being directed to last year's list i think this is fairly exhaustive
  13. sneakypower
    Always a good reminder that this board hated the Horner and Brennen Davis picks, as did a lot of Cubs Twitter. what about Little, Jensen, Howard..
  14. sneakypower
    barf
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    [attachment=0]howard-bling.JPG[/attachment]
  16. sneakypower
    that's literally what happened with Rizzo, Schwarber, Baez, Bryant; those spots went to Schwindel/Rivas, Ortega, Simmons, Wisdom are you surprised every time Lucy pulls back the football?
  17. sneakypower
    The one thing they’ve continually done well with this is building a good bullpen every offseason at least. this seems like survivor's bias a bit, the bullpen ERA currently stands at 4.40 and was 4.63 last year when you exclude Kimbrel we remember the guys who figured it out, but push Daniel Norris/Rex Brothers/Dan Winkler types out of our mind
  18. sneakypower
    I mean I think we can all internalize that there are no guarantees, and that goes both ways. We've seen that very clearly this year with how the now-departed FA's have performed in their new orgs. Plus in the case of Happ himself his career has been very up and down(needing an Iowa stint after 2 years in MLB, his constantly evolving defensive home, etc) so the degree of confidence we can have about him individually isn't greater than normal either. Rizzo & Schwarber are top 10 in HR, Contreras & Happ are top 20 in OBP, all were/are pretty obviously unwanted past their underpaid years more waiver claims & trade flyers, next year's versions of Rivas, Frazier, Schwindel are probably going to tank the offense again to where competition is inconceivable and we'll think to ourselves, again, "hey if we put better players in these black holes then we could have something"
  19. sneakypower
    we talk about how easy it is to replace reliable production on the FA market then Winter comes and that just ultimately turns into bargain garbage like Simmons, Sogard, Gomes etc or stuff we ruin like Stroman, Villar
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    Morel
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    yeah have to say he's acquitting himself pretty well, but i'd like to know more about the high H/9 which is in stark contrast to his more dominant teammate [attachment=0]mwl.JPG[/attachment] unfortunately there's really not much prospect firepower in the MWL to compare him to statistically though
  24. sneakypower
    Catcher Drop: Salvador Perez (200) Add: Daulton Varsho (25) Bench Drop: Spencer Torkelson Add: Bobby Witt Jr.
  25. sneakypower
    liking any post that suggests Contreras extension
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