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i feel like i keep asking this but if the PBO can't even be held responsible for explicitly deciding to expel the currently best hitting C in baseball and replacing that production with intangibles guys, then.. who is -
worst record in the NL since April ended and you're totally undaunted, as usual impressive amounts of blind homerism on display here
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hell yeah juice up that trade value
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Klansby with the hapless K to end the rally, you can set your watch to it
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nah he realizes Swanson is lurking behind him so it'd be total waste anyway
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Steele shows first sign of Cubs fire in 2024
sneakypower replied to Javy Is Still A Cub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
it's certainly possible he was merely letting out all his pent-up rage/emotion from 2+ months of total team suckitude but also he needed to record like 6 outs that half-inning and that alone would fairly warrant any normal pitcher halfway losing his head like that -
the Brewers were perfectly willing to sell off the best closer in baseball without meaningfully affecting the near-term future, and in the process obtained the centerpiece for acquiring William Contreras & Joel Payamps a few months later; similarly again they also parlayed their ace into a lineup fixture and top-100 P prospect it's uninspired thinking to want to cling for dear life to your stable of 2-win whatever vets bc you're too afraid of whatever's behind door #2 not meeting that same standard, imo
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i made direct reference to his 2 oddly out of character years following 5 seasons of established mid, what are you even on about rhapsodic paeans for a .293 OBP & 8 HRs is certainly a choice
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his outsized statistical defensive value in '22-'23 was anomalously high and is already showing signs of dissipating, reverting to average performances in both major phases of the game that characterized his career prior
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ok ok it seems you've heavily invested in his baseball cards i'm sorry for dogging on a below-average hitter with horrid WPAs
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this is really funny when you see who was 6th during that span, should've just let the Braves pay him then as thanks for his services, getting served meatballs in the middle of a stacked lineup wasn't repeatable, i thought everybody kinda realized this
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per fg Dansby Swanson is pacing to be the 27th-best SS-capable player paying $177M with a finite budget for a decidedly average player starting his decline phase is inexcusable; Jed has always been afraid to shop in the superstar aisle and this is what we're left with, at the midway point 1/4 of the entire payroll put into just Bellinger & Dansby has produced lower combined WAR than Josh H. Smith some people will cheerlead anything i suppose
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Brewers (absent their all-world closer and beautiful mind uber-manager) are sitting 2nd in WPA and we're 28th, i mean what are we even talking about here there are teams that demonstrably know how to find and produce productive players and there are teams that really kinda don't, how is it so controversial to demand better than "they're trying"
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their hit rate is so low that it kinda more than negates the successes due to opportunity costs letting Jose Cuas, Richard Lovelady, Colten Brewer, Michael Rucker, Brandon Hughes lose you countless games doesn't make it worth when a couple of them like Julian Merryweather or Mark Leiter Jr. sticks; it's so trial & error and demonstrably unrepeatable like i'm happy to give them credit for their One Simple Trick fix of Bellinger but i'll also hold it against them for countless other players offensively backsliding under their purview
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i suppose if you accept that anything good that happens is because of superior processes and anything bad that happens is just unfortunate, unforeseeable bad luck, then i suppose there will never be any reason to complain about Jed's job performance in the rapturous fawning over that fleeting top-10 offense moment it's not touched on just how lucky it was for a guy coming off 900 PA of 66 OPS+ to randomly outburst 135 OPS+ performance
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it's obviously incumbent on the org to scout well enough to know what they're working with and extract good performance from a player at the risk of repeating myself, the Brewers have an elite bullpen comprised mostly of cast-offs and afterthoughts, why did we sign a guy like that we can't figure out how to improve
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aside from all that, build a better org.! Tampa had franchise player rape his way out of the league, lost a CY Young contender and a bunch of other future star P to injuries, both Lowes have missed the majority of the year, as well as suffering regression from some proven performers and they're still .500 and playing their best ball currently you can say all the same things about the Brewers who lost the reputed best coach in the sport, Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff, Devin Williams and whatever else and still doing perfectly fine
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who oversees the training/stretching/biometrics programs?
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Is it time to trade Bellinger?
sneakypower replied to Javy Is Still A Cub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
lol it's nice to know that however dismal the circumstances you can always be found tut-tutting people's inability to properly appreciate Jed Hoyer's Chicago Cubs -
"very nice, now let's see the BABIPs"
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José Hernández played nearly 1600 MLB games! and actually had plus SS power Andrés Blanco, Enrique Wilson, Sergio Alcántara cup of coffee types are probably the true best case scenario outcomes for him, which is hardly worth consideration in the grand scheme of things even if he gets a hundred sub-replacement MLB PA that's not a better pick to the org that selected him, than Ryan Harvey washouts
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Boston doesn't even have a hole at SS they need to address; David Hamilton has been decent with the glove and hitting 17% above league average with a 15 HR/60+ SB pace could see them giving him a platoon partner like Kevin Newman but you don't need to part with a top-5 system prospect for that
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nice to have every W be also nailbiter drama
