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  1. sneakypower
    think i'm ok with Willie Harris just indiscriminately sending every runner
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    this point is especially amusing to me because the only ways we could try to objectively gauge this phenomenon (higher BB rate, lower in-zone rate) clearly favor Busch as the 'scarier' matchup this season
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    i remember 40+ yo Adam Wainwright being the worst P in the league and them having to add 3 starters in FA
  4. sneakypower
    remember when we let Willson Contreras walk but mystical catcher defense woo-woo was going to make us actually more productive overall at the position
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    PCA

    sneakypower replied to thawv's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    after Morel suffered a seemingly historically bad first couple weeks stretch defensively, he's appeared to find his footing i actually haven't really deemed him a liability since and he's even flashed some nice fielding upside with more reps admittedly i haven't watched every inning, so feel free to correct me if this is a misconception
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    i mean he's got a top-10 ISO for the past calendar year, the Brewers seemingly just don't believe so devotedly in the mythical woo-woo of catcher defense intangibles above all else which i'm pretty jealous of ngl
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    verdict: panic
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    Tennessee really working top-25 prospect Rhett Lowder, a 37-pitch first inning but stranded bases loaded with just 1 run out of it
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    Aliendo HBP in the wrist but staying in after some trainer attention edit: mistakenly thought it was Piñango
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    Horton hurt himself warming up for the 2nd inning and had to be removed
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    Cade gave up an oppo 3B to first Louisville batter (inches from HR) and a tape measure 439-footer 2 two batters later he's gotten a few ugly swings on slider but fastball is bad
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    PCA

    sneakypower replied to thawv's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    for one, the 5-win gold glove bonanza team would require bad pitching that surrenders constant dangerous contact all over the field for such huge defensive runs-added totals to be attained the key difference here in the hypotheticals is the great hitting team is likely more situation-proof, the ball doesn't always get hit to you but you do come to bat about 4-5 times every game this Cubs team (full-season pace below, pro-rated to playing time shares) really just hasn't been very good at much anything yet besides starting pitching; nobody currently pacing for 4 wins, and just 3 total playing above 2-win levels and presence of some black holes on the roster
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    Hoby Milner the slumpbuster feels just right
  14. sneakypower
    actually never seen a play like that before
  15. sneakypower
    no it's just to me the most relevant and easily digestible default snapshot of a player's performance is looking at the last year's worth of production choosing to go back 14 months to find some inspiring moments feels more like textbook cherry-picking tbh; this roster provided the lowest SLG in all baseball for May, i don't know what compels you to talk it up so much
  16. sneakypower
    in the last calendar year his OPS starts with a 6 and is 3rd-worst among qualified SS we're right back to the "he drives in runs with his glove" copium of the Hendry era
  17. sneakypower
    a guy coming off 44 & 81 wRC+ played at an MVP level, sometimes better to be lucky than good he represented 26 RAR vs. just 16 from the rest of the team combined – happily pointing to the halcyon days that were 12th overall in team wRC+, you might just be very easily satisfied
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    and i know that this might sound incendiary, but i really do maintain this point he's strongly disfavored offense at nearly every turn: Andrelton Simmons over Correa/anyone else; Yan Gomes over Willson; Madrigal over (fill in the blank); Swanson over 3 far superior bats; total apathy in the Harper, Seager, Soto offseason talks running to agents for Sogard, Hosmer, Barnhart, Descalso with his tongue hanging out; he's just not somebody that values good offense which i personally can't stand from a watchability angle
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    if i'm to be quite honest Jed Hoyer baseball is almost definitionally un-fun to watch – the clear preference for good starting pitching and strong defense; in contrast to that, a complete apathetic disinterest in running out a good lineup, and the excessively frugal piecemeal approach to bullpen construction that typically follows the same script: low scoring games with late inning blowups to decide the game there'll be a few bad starters that they'll string some hits together against, so that's about the best it gets for fireworks
  21. sneakypower
    Cade HortonOwen CaissieMatt ShawMoises BallesterosPete Crow-ArmstrongJefferson RojasPedro RamirezBen BrownJames TriantosFernando CruzKevin AlcantaraCristian HernandezLuis VazquezAlfonsin RosarioJaxon WigginsJuan BelloAlexander CanarioDerniche ValdezPablo AliendoDrew Gray
  22. sneakypower
    i mean, if we like PCA and Ballesteros as long-term answers then those two specifically are fairly replaceable or are names that can be altered to fit a different competitive package with such a deep farm, there should be various permutations to satisfy whatever value spread A's seek; we don't really seem to feature any MVP-upside potential in the system so a big splash like this is perhaps the best use of prospect currency i'd personally try a little harder to keep Caissie but that's purely just because i hate watching bad offensive teams so much
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    yeah, not a chance that's even remotely current data
  25. sneakypower
    the only reason to seriously pursue a pending FA like Bregman is adopting a win-now attitude toward this season, so immediately remove our best (only?) power hitter from consideration entirely he might be an intriguing option simply because our system is so deep and he'll likely garner pretty tepid interest, in that something to the effect of Hodge & Mervis or Arias and (either) Franklin gets you most of the way there i would suspect unless he has a sudden unlikely power surge soon, he should be gettable for pieces you won't ever lose sleep over, unless Dana Brown is too stuck on his "back of the baseball card" nostalgia in which case you just move on
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