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long answer: No
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Cubs roster has 6 players who are 5+ WAR in the last year and 4 more who are 3.6+ WAR
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still laughing at the Yarael Poof mention -
Nearly 6 now. higher than Corey Seager & Carlos Correa is this a good time to point out that there's a 40-run difference between the UZR/150s of Russell and the imminent best player / most valuable player in baseball?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-9-16
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
According to BP, Berg has an 82% GB% this year, after being at 83% in Eugene and 73% in Myrtle Beach last year. any relation to Justin Berg? -
you don't know that
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Vegas has us 2.5:1 for WS, so i say NO
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i'm guessing that Federowicz moop
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he's 100x better at 3B than he is at 2B playing him at 2nd is like taking a Ferrari through a school zone
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Cards being .500 with +40 RD is kind of a chucklefest
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i'd have to think Schwarber, Soler, Almora, Cease gets you in the door - Schwarber they can play at just 1B and be AL Silver Slugger...or catch, play LF, whatever - Almora is the exact player Scioscia would create had he the power to do so, and steps right in there to 'replace' Trout - Soler is handsome and still has immense offensive upside - Cease is the Thor starter pack maybe another team could top that, but who's to say if they would; Boston could ponder Moncada, Bradley, Devers, Espinosa but that's a combined million years away from contributing, whereas we can offer 3+ immediate impact players...LAD could entice, but hard to see Arte surrendering Trout to cross-town competitor unless he wants mass-emigration from fans still funny to think that we could make a serious offer for the best player in baseball without detracting at all from a record-pace-setting roster or parting with one of the reputed top 3 prospects edit: definitely worth noting that he's owed 3/102 starting '18 and there might not be a ton of teams equipped to accommodate that commitment
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so...Schwarber, Baez, Candelario, McKinney, Hudson for Trout?
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when Russell sorts it out offensively he's going to be a monster, and he's probably not far off from doing so
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lmao "Rural Scherzer"
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This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
now look at Javy and check it twice -
This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Something like those good Troy Glaus years that he's been comped at before hold pretty well still. He'll sneak a .300 season or three in. I actually thought I made a comment about how we're not talking enough about Bryant shaving almost 10%(!!!) off his rookie K rate. Guess not, but the guy is a legit monster. we're really not talking enough about the whole team basically shaving like 10% off their K rate; it's a scary prospect to consider -
it's drake fyi
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it looks like Ross hasn't given up a dong yet
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there are some good signs there: he's really improved his discipline from where it was last year (mostly disastrous) to acceptable levels and he seems to have added loft to his swing now and is hitting a lot more fly balls; he was never going to make it as an empty batting average guy so you can see the gains his fellow expatriate has made and it's not unforeseeable to imagine him as a similar type of power bat but you hope he will be less of a total black hole in the field, and this is perhaps sanguine...i don't close the book on it because we've seen coaching/instruction do immense amounts of good in helping player performance (Fowler, Bryant, Russell) greatly outpace their reputation and i still don't know how he ended up on 2nd after Bryant's ball hit off the wall the other day (eventually costing a run) Yeah, him seemingly adding some serious TOOTBLAN tendencies to his game kinda quells any hope I have for him to make up for his deficiencies via his bat. It's, like, "damn, dude, you already suck defensively, but now you gotta suck at THIS, too?" It feels like he's got to REALLY hit well to offset how stank he is at everything else. well, you never know...
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there are some good signs there: he's really improved his discipline from where it was last year (mostly disastrous) to acceptable levels and he seems to have added loft to his swing now and is hitting a lot more fly balls; he was never going to make it as an empty batting average guy so you can see the gains his fellow expatriate Yasmany Tomas has made and it's not unforeseeable to imagine him as a similar type of power bat but you hope he will be less of a complete liability in the field, and this is perhaps sanguine...i don't close the book on it because we've seen coaching/instruction do immense amounts of good in helping player performance (Fowler, Bryant, Russell) greatly outpace a player's reputation and i still don't know how he ended up on 2nd after Bryant's ball hit off the wall the other day (eventually costing a run)
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Len wants you to know the Cubs are good (a/k/a the Len thread)
sneakypower replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Len Kasper @LenKasper Lead majors in ERA, runs per game, advanced defense, advanced base-running, reigning Manager of the Year, best Broadcast Booth. It's pretty stunning. ftfy len -
i think he's been the best hitter in baseball so far; the players who've outperformed him so far have had crazy amounts of good fortune, which is of course normal for a monthly sample leaderboard Daniel Murphy (.471 wOBA): .110 above career BABIP Aledmys Diaz (.462): [self-explanatory] Manny Machado (.457): .070 above career BABIP, 10% over his career HR/FB rate Dexter Fowler (.452): .080 above career BABIP Ryan Braun (.441): .070 above career BABIP Jose Altuve (.439): 21%! over his career HR/FB rate and Rizzo (.434): .060 below career BABIP, 7% over his career HR/FB rate (still just 22nd-highest in MLB) also perhaps it's worth noting if Grichuk doesn't rob his HR, he's currently at .271/.412/.677 (.437 wOBA)
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he's gotta be aiming for some kind of "most bodies at 1B" record
