sneakypower
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Everything posted by sneakypower
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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
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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
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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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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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Cade Horton leaves AAA game early - panic?
sneakypower replied to Rex Buckingham's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
verdict: panic -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-24
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Tennessee really working top-25 prospect Rhett Lowder, a 37-pitch first inning but stranded bases loaded with just 1 run out of it -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-24
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Aliendo HBP in the wrist but staying in after some trainer attention edit: mistakenly thought it was Piñango -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-24
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Horton hurt himself warming up for the 2nd inning and had to be removed -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-24
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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 -
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
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actually never seen a play like that before
