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  1. sneakypower
    Aug-Sept-Apr; 40 K & 5 XBH, yeah he's young so the breaking-him-down narrative can really thrive here
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    hey i don't even care if you want to excuse the plentiful Ks dating back to all last season, but maybe most striking is that Owen Caissie doesn't really seem to know what an XBH is, muscling up a .071 ISO in competitive action covering 3 months we're always expected to believe the coaches are somehow breaking these guys down to build them back up and that's why their in-game efforts look so pathetic, but a far more simple explanation seems likely..
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    starting to think Madigral's .289 expected wOBA was pretty reflective
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    hoping he can become Racine's #2 point of pride
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    kinda rules that there's more Seiya selections than Trout lol
  10. sneakypower
    hard to recall a more anticlimactic walkoff, pretty awesome finish still
  11. sneakypower
    well horsefeathers
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    hm that's strange, i thought he already owns the Dolphins..
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    MLB Savant data available for some Minor League Games: How to find it. no statcast data available for first 2 games though, but might be worth monitoring
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    C: Salvador Perez - $200 1B: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - $200 2B: Max Muncy - $150 SS: Bo Bichette - $75 3B: Austin Riley - $100 LF: Eloy Jimenez - $25 CF: George Springer - $75 RF: Juan Soto - $75 DH: Kyle Schwarber - $100 bench selections to come
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    who asked for clippy in the metaverse
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    *errors
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    Curbelo into transfer portal
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    ..nice clearance?
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    makes sense for a moment til you reason that instead of Schwarber Darvish Bryant doing nice things sometimes, you just have a couple new guys to provide a few compelling moments on a kinda dog horsefeathers team in actuality you get to May and you're sick to death watching Andrelton Simmons pop out so you steadily tune out for the remainder of it
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    the optimistic take being that we're unlikely to do better than 3rd place in a weak division, but(!) there's help on the horizon with some talented kids who mostly haven't even seen stateside competition yet, so come.. 2025? you can start to conceive of a manner we'll have some pieces in place to put up a fight kinda bleak if you ask me
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    I'll use Fangraphs grades/rankings since it goes very deep in a sortable way. In their updated 2022 rankings, there are 114 players with a FV of 50 or better and 5 are Cubs. Drop down to 45 grade(which includes 45 and their "45+" designation), and there are 213 players and 16 are Cubs, most of any org. It doesn't strike as particularly far-fetched that 3 of those top 5 play well(or hold steady and others fall off/graduate) and 2-3 of the subsequent 11 take a big leap, or some combination therein. ok only focusing on the one service that's anomalously higher than the rest and assuming positive outcomes throughout paints a bright picture in our rose colored daydreams last year at this time Amaya's and Marquez's and Franklin's arms stayed intact and Howard learned how to hit a baseball so who knows maybe the opposite is likely to happen this year with everybody's development, i just know i really wouldn't bet much on it
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    there is absolutely not a very real chance of that, come on probably are 5-6 guys that could have a chance to make the jump, sure, but very remote odds that they'll all explode on the scene in concert
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    i don't see that at all, like the one benefit of building the entire team out of nice bench players is you're not really too exposed to major injuries torpedoing your season, but except for Suzuki & maybe Madrigral/Happ, bullpen leverage, there's not really a whole lot of positive variance you can foresee either the team probably is what it is for the most part
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    some impressive cope to reason, it's ok that we're punting needlessly because we gotta wait 3 years for our #16 farm to come kick ass
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    I'mma stop you right there. It was way more than a couple years of tanking. They bought the team in 2009, the Cubs lost 89 games in 2014. There have been 5 (if you are being generous) non-tanking seasons in a 12-year span of their ownership and they are deliberately entering their 13th season of ownership with three hands tied behind their back. Payroll in the Ricketts era pre-Theo was 3rd, 4th, and 6th. Incompetence is not tanking. c'mon that was grandfathered in, their total spend in the 10-11 offseason was less than $28M
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