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  1. ConstableRabbit
    I mean, yeah, it sucks when you spend a shitton of money to sign a 26 year old gold glove defender who'd averaged over 4 WAR per season for 6 years prior and he turns into Billy Hamilton at the plate. Despite him ranging from unimpressive to outright terrible the Cubs still played close to .600 baseball over his first 3 years and won a WS. But I guess they could have somehow rolled with this type of punch better and won more?
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    Winning games without those two is good though for the long term outlook as you can reasonably assume both will be better (perhaps much, much better). I'm not sure it's reasonable to assume that in either case, but Bryant especially. Given his injury history I think it's no sure thing he gets back to his old self anytime soon. Rizzo seems a sure bet to at least be better, but his numbers were down last year and while he's probably not on the downhill yet, there are a fair number of miles on the tires. As for the Q, he was never the TORP some tried to pimp him as at the time of the trade. But he was better than what we've gotten from him so far - a solid #3, maybe a borderline #2. He's overperforming in his last 2 starts but maybe this is just an overall reversion to the mean - he was certainly due to. With all due respect, what the horsefeathers are you talking about? Quintana MLB ranks, fWAR (Lester): 2014: 12th (7th) 2015: 16th (12th) 2016: 7th (13th) 2017: 14th (26th) Last year was the exception.
  3. ConstableRabbit
    I have to agree with this. That we continue to have to take encouraging signs from Yu starts, and pointing out how he's improving and getting better, is disappointing when you sign a guy to a $126 million contract. I mean, I just want a couple 7 innings, 0 runs, 1 walk, 8 K pitching lines. That said, I do like seeing that he's sort of improving with each start. You'll get some of these, but if you're expecting Darvish to be a low walk guy, you're going to be disappointed. His career rates, to 7IP (rounded): 9Ks / 3 BBs / 1 HR allowed / 3 earned runs
  4. ConstableRabbit
    Just finished watching the game and popped through the game thread. Man, you guys are some poopy, poopy diapers.
  5. ConstableRabbit
    I was only listening to the radio. Did Kyle go on the third strike?
  6. ConstableRabbit
    Even weirder -- look what's right next to the golf club: https://goo.gl/maps/Yqp2Qv3goLR2
  7. ConstableRabbit
    Brought to you by the agency that thought it was a good idea for Kimbrel to hold out for $100m...
  8. ConstableRabbit
    Jason Heyward 2017: .259/.326/.389/.715 Kris Bryant 2019: .239/.327/.391/.718 Counterpoint: Kris Bryant 2017: .295/.409/.537/.946 Jason Heyward 2019: .371/.452/.714/1.167
  9. ConstableRabbit
    Petition to add this to the masthead instead of "Easily the least terrible faction of Cubs fans on the internet"
  10. ConstableRabbit
    Here is someone who grabbed a picture That looks bigger than a phone. 2 hands on a phone would be awkward, at least to me. He’s leaning forward. One hand is way more awkward from that angle. It’s a phone or a tablet.
  11. ConstableRabbit
    shaQ
  12. ConstableRabbit
    Joe didn't say that Yu had to leave because it had to be on a high note. Joe said that Joe wanted to do that.
  13. ConstableRabbit
    Personally, I think it would have taken a couple of those guys and then some prospects, and I would have been than fine with the main duo being any combination of them. Now, I'm a baseball idiot, but I don't think any pair of those guys being replaced the Yelich puts the 2018 Cubs at the same or worse than they were in 2017. I think the most valuable pairing at the time would have been Baez and Contreras, and a FO supposedly as ahead of the curve as this one should have been really horsefeathering aware early on that between catchers typically having a pretty short shelf life AND Contreras needs to hit a ton to offset his framing that he was a prime sell high candidate. Instead we just have him and horsefeathers AND the current horsefeathering OF, which feels insane to type. How have they horsefeathering botched so many aspects of this team SO spectacularly in such a short frame of time? You wanted to trade Javy and Contreras for Yelich coming out of 2017?
  14. ConstableRabbit
    Remember when the Mariners had Griffey, ARod, and Edgar on the same team and won like 75 games?
  15. ConstableRabbit
    And New England's doesn't have the New England flag for some reason
  16. ConstableRabbit
    Why does it take two days for someone to bring him his passport?
  17. ConstableRabbit
    Is anyone saying his ceiling is even that high?
  18. ConstableRabbit
    executive compensation performance metrics are ridiculously easy to achieve for even the most mediocre exec. Are... are you Bob Iger?
  19. ConstableRabbit
    Man, everyone's entitled to their own opinion but Law's #hottakes crack me up. Disney has gained over $100 BILLION in market cap over Iger's tenure as CEO, largely driven by a series of deals he was responsible for. The other guys have similar stories. Also no one has a $66m salary -- his salary is $2.9m. The vast majority of the guy's pay is due to performance accelerators not unlike in MLB. /rant
  20. ConstableRabbit
    I saw this. It's kind of one of those, "the impact is so low, why does anyone care?" vs. "the impact is so low, why even push for this change in the first place?" things.
  21. ConstableRabbit
    Lol. I never said the math was hard... I just wanted to show it because people might not realize how much total surface area you'd be adding if they made this change. Again, I think it's a good thing. Yeah, said differently, the surface area of the base would increase by over 40%. That would take some getting used to.
  22. ConstableRabbit
    Seeing the exterior upper deck concourse coming together makes me so happy.
  23. ConstableRabbit
    I recently learned that this year, bullpens won't be able to watch games live on TV. Instead, they'll get feeds with an 8 second delay. Really sucks for the Cubs.
  24. ConstableRabbit
    This is an interesting deal. On one hand, part of the allure of being able to sign a good player in his prime is that you can do a long-term contract and not have to pay for shitty years. Going to 13 with full NTC doesn't really get there. On the other hand, the AAV gives the Phillies a lot of flexibility in the prime years. At least he's not a Dodger and at least it spreads out the talent in the NL East.
  25. ConstableRabbit
    or both were out for personal reasons and we should let them be. personal reasons aka house shopping in san fran This guy thinks Heyward can afford a single family home in SF.
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