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Schwarber was on pace for 44 HR this year and basically plays for free -
he's in sweats if we keep this one within single digits, i'll consider that a success
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like Kevin Siegrist?
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you just love to see a team trading away their franchise player to appease a coach who'll wear out his welcome within a couple seasons
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http://i.imgur.com/zcnuGZU.gif
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and KU is even better than that
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pretty cool of Jim Caldwell to wait until mathematical elimination to start incorporating any type of offensive creativity in the playcalling and aggressive decision-making on 4th down...gutless choking dog
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he's done nothing his entire Michigan career. This is the most unexpected outburst by a Michigan basketball player since Spike in the NC game. well, big men do typically develop much slower...but while i'd love nothing more than for this to be a kind of breakout, it might be more likely that the Illini (Beileini?) have the same indifference toward post defense that we do
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160 or so at bats per year of poor offensive production is pretty significant when you're paying someone 20 million a year. From what I've heard Schwarber's minor league track record against lefties is rather good. If he can manage to put together an OPS of around 750 against lefties, while Heyward continues to struggle to the tune of around 660 or so, I'll be curious if there will be consideration of putting Baez in a Center Field platoon (atleast in smaller parks). i hate to tell you he's going to have like 400 or so plate appearances of poor offensive production
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So fast before Tampa can try and take the offer off of the table. My love of dong heavy offense disagrees with that, though I acknowledge Kiermaier's presence as the best defensive CF'er in baseball and how valuable that would be allowing Heyward to stay in RF where he is the best defensive RF in baseball. With how defensive metrics aren't particularly exact, I wonder how much of Kiermaiers WAR value is skewed from flawed metrics? He was a 7.3 rWAR and 5.5 fWAR player last year. And it was pretty much all defensive value. Is it worth having a light hitting ultra elite defensive outfielder over an average fielding and above average hitting outfielder? EDIT: He was 7.3 rWAR, not 7.7 he had crazy statcast readings; (going off memory) he led baseball in OF throws over 100 MPH and had something like the 3rd fastest average max speed, right up there with some absolute burners who you'd expect in such lists i don't mean to argue that i wholeheartedly agree he's worth 3 wins or whatever from catching baseballs, but between his incredible physical tools and reading a (great) piece like this that illustrates his dedication and talent you get the idea he's indisputably very valuable all that being said, he's probably a bad fit for Wrigley imo
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fwiw nobody with a strikeout rate above 25% hit .290 last year
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he out-rushed all 3 RBs on my roster, collectively
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Mike Leake
sneakypower replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
that's about a perfect fit; pretty nice deal on their part imo -
if they care about player safety (they don't) that's at least a 1-game ban
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25/44, 340 passing yards, 5 TD, 0 INT 8 rushes /100 rushing yards nbd
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Delanie Walker just scored one of the most impressive TDs i've seen all season and a hearty laugh goes out to commentators who think anybody besides Cam ought to be MVP
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i think i saw Joe say he wanted to go Zobrist-Heyward 1-2 but that might've been a lucid dream not my favorite permutation but that'd set it up probably like Zobrist 2B Heyward CF Rizzo 1B Bryant 3B Schwarber DH Soler RF Coghlan LF Montero C Russell SS
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The TOR (Top of Rotation) pitching options
sneakypower replied to spaincubsfan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
this is the nice thing about a 100+ win projection, you can kind of see through ceiling gambles like Jorcules & Baez; every Cubs fan knows they've been bad in the majors to this point, but with a theoretical 11 win divisional cushion we can give them a few AB to see what exactly we've got and not have to worry about them being these landmines that are going to single-handedly torpedo our season the upside is far greater than the downside, on this team -
...does Friedman consummate these deals with rohypnol? like, is the paperwork being submitted to league offices with squiggly-ass signatures?
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they won because Gary Kubiak hates touchdowns
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this was a no-brainer guy we'd lust after; only 5 qualified hitters expanded the zone less often than Des last year
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Trying to decide if I like these headphones or not
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
yeah those are pretty bad, but i guess it beats being seen in public with something like these http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2By3fxkl6L._SY450_.jpg -
Neil Walker to Mets
sneakypower replied to Post Count Padder's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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i think that's what a Hammel trade would look like; think of how much sense an Aaron Blair - Hammel swap would have made, assuming, you know, sanity had prevailed Was it you or someone else who called me crazy for suggesting such a trade a while back? I thought it was you telling me I had a warped sense of Hammel's value if I thought he could get back a MLB-ready pitcher. i want to say it might've been SSR? or maybe it was you expecting something like Jose DeLeon in return but it's hard to be sure; i'd been touting Mike Leake as a nice "breakout" option, assuming 4/60 or 5/75, i think...if he and/or Chen are due nine figures in this market then like i said above, that makes Hammel look a whole lot better as a trade chip
