sneakypower
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Everything posted by sneakypower
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Same could be said for baseball too. It's not about the talent up there, it's that you don't have to worry about another team stealing the guy you want. no, it's about talent that's my point, though; i'm no NFL scout, but i don't see much if any difference between Ronnie Stanley (top-5) & Jack Conklin (20-25) / Nkemdiche (top-3) & DeForest Buckner (top-15) / Treadwell & Ramsey...
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Enhancement ideas for NSBB
sneakypower replied to Tim's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
ok now you gotta do a poop emoji for downvotes -
i'm betting that's the last we'll be seeing of Scobee in an NFL uniform
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this isn't a draft i care about picking atop all that much; i think similar talent shows up at 15-20 as does top-3
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you loved him! viewtopic.php?p=2947071#p2947071
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they should be able to, but they've never shown much of a skill at doing so, unless in possession of a coveted SP to offer up at the deadline
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ok i surely underestimated your desperate insistence to expel Wood, because selling off a cheap, 3-win player to do so never even entered my mind as a possibility
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i don't think it's that they're out of favor, it's that teams really covet good starting pitching at the deadline and are as a result willing to part with guys if that's the price of doing business like, i don't think Beane exactly gave up on Addison Russell
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And whadda ya know, we can add an actual top starter, because turns out spending 25M in starting pitching depth is unnecessary. do you pay attention to anything? i've advocated for Heyward about as much as anybody besides that annoying godzilla guy
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Strop, Rondon, Grimm, Ramirez, Cahill, Richard, Rodney You may complain that some weren't "bargain bin shopping", but they are: FA pickups, smaller trade pieces and Rule 5 picks. That's pretty much bargain bin defined. What they've been awful at is signing relievers during the offseason and developing relief pitchers from their own system. the first four of those guys are terrible examples those were the spoils of white flag sell-offs; who is the immediate contributor we're going to give up to get these smaller trade pieces? Castro, maybe? that'd go over well...
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At that price? meh. You've always liked Wood more than he deserves. You've always disliked Wood more than he deserves he's given us something like $25m in surplus value the last 3 years, and he's been worth $10m this year, just going by replacement value - a threshold that's mostly eluded us in RP bargain bin shopping (Soriano, Hunter, Medina, Coke, Russell) I appreciate what he's done this year. He's essentially been lefty Strop (in generally lower leverage situations). But I wouldn't be excited about paying Strop $6-7M, either. what's the alternative? more Coke/Soriano/Russell flyers? we're pretty awful at those in-house graduation? the cupboard is pretty bare there, too it may be worthwhile to recall that $4.5m on the FA market gets you a pitcher coming off arm injury and a 6.49 FIP / 4.58 xFIP / 4.68 ERA...
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At that price? meh. You've always liked Wood more than he deserves. You've always disliked Wood more than he deserves he's given us something like $25m in surplus value the last 3 years, and he's been worth $10m this year, just going by replacement value - a threshold that's mostly eluded us in RP bargain bin shopping (Soriano, Hunter, Medina, Coke, Russell)
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smh people talking about cutting Wood like they never noticed how godawful we are at finding RPs in FA...i'll keep the guy who's 2nd on the team in RP WAR thanks
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so just give Jhoulys Chacin 1y/4m or whatever, sign Bud Norris to a minor league deal and this stupid problem is fixed, cool
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(if Arian doesn't suit up) CJ Anderson vs. MIN or TJ Yeldon @ IND
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10/1 Cubs (Hammel) @ Reds (Lamb) 11:35, CSN;MLBN
sneakypower replied to OleMissCub's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
that was because he was the only name you recognized -
10/1 Cubs (Hammel) @ Reds (Lamb) 11:35, CSN;MLBN
sneakypower replied to OleMissCub's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
holy [expletive], Cueto & Kazmir... Kazmir: (1-6) 11GS, 58-2/3 IP, 5.22 ERA, 1.57 WHIP Cueto: (3-7) 11 GS, 70-1/3 IP, 4.99 ERA, 1.41 WHIP HAREN: (3-2) 10 GS, 52-1/3 IP, 4.30 ERA, 1.28 WHIP -
Prospects who were never Cubs
sneakypower replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
4.5 win 2nd half, good for 3rd in all of MLB AL ROY? -
also of note: Jason Heyward is 11th in hitter WAR (5.8), and Jorge Soler is sadly replacement level
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CLE's got one of the worst run Ds, and you really want to be starting your QBs right now whenever they play the Lions go Russell
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my biggest miss i can recall was preferring Gray to Bryant, but the 2014 Elbow Holocaust coupled with Arrieta's 2 FIP summer kind of snapped me out of that mindset entirely
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You're going to *love* me whenever we go out in the playoffs. yeah we know, you'll decide become a Cards/Jays/Dodgers fan again, yawn
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fair enough
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it is at this time that i realized Hackenberg is 107/121 in QBR... http://espn.go.com/ncf/qbr
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let's check in on SSR: http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1037020/head-explodes-o.gif
