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Buck's call there is great. And I still watch so many highlights from last year, its not funny. And on a tangent of last years highlights, if I NEVER have to hear Pat Hughes shitty ass WS winning call again, I'll be just fine.

Clippers tanking...... And guess what? Boston owns their 2019 1st lol

I'll always have a soft spot for Miggy. He did a hell of a lot of good here. You could see this happening, lots of frustrations about this season.....They'd already had to talk to him after his WS comments. Theo wasn't going to be fucked with again. I like Caratini a bunch. I'm super interested to see how he looks. But, it doesn't seem like he's ready defensively and I think he's likely to be dealt to an AL team within the next month or so. Our guys value framing, they'll likely go find an old guy pretty soon, in my opinion.

12:23 Matt: How much has Cub SP pipeline improved in the last year or so? Any of those guys have front-end of rotation ceilings? Eric A Longenhagen: Maybe as an absolute perfect-world outcome, yes. But it isn’t likely Matt: If you’re Hoyer/Epstein, would you be more reluctant to move Happ or Eloy to land the controllable SP they’ll need? Eric A Longenhagen: I’d be more reluctant to part with Eloy but that’s who teams are going to want. R: Do you think Charcer Burks will ever be a guy? 22 y.o. center fielder raking in AA, but doesn’t get much prospect hype Eric A Longenhagen: Limited ceiling, probably a bench OF, but yes he’s on the radar as some sort of big leaguer at this point. BR: Have you gotten to watch Adbert Alzolay pitch? Could he emerge as a top of the rotation prospect? Eric A Longenhagen: Not top of rotation for me (I just don’t throw that phrase around very much and neither do people in baseball) but has three above average pitches. Delivery has some violence but he’s a dude. Ham Bone: Did you see Albertos last night? Eric A Longenhagen: No, saw him last Tuesday. 92-95, t96, plus curve, potential plus change, trouble throwing strikes. Been that each of the three times I’ve seen him. David: I’ve never heard a word from any scout on Mark Zagunis despite a really impressive approach and excellent numbers. Is he a regular, platoon, 4th OF, or AAAA? Eric A Longenhagen: Bench OF for me. Was #9 on the Cubs list. Body looked like it had gone backwards to me this spring. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/top-23-prospects-chicago-cubs/ 976: Isaac Paredes is 18 this whole season in A-ball and seems to be hitting well-enough for a shortstop. Does he have projection left and will he have to move to 3rd? Eric A Longenhagen: I’ve heard he’s improved his conditioning but still projects to 3B for me Lots of Cubs questions this week. Seems very high on Alzolay. Not a great opinion on Burks yet. Everything else you'd kind of expect out of him.

http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-cubs/back2backoneday-what-bryce-harper-trying-say-about-his-future-kris-bryant-and-cubs This might just add a bit to any speculation lol

Amaya now 4-4, as he adds a 2B.

I get the convenience, but he's being investigated for DV right now. We've got enough distractions from that. But, finding another guy wouldn't be hard.

Bring Ross in for a week or so and make sure they do lots of peepee thrusts.

Amaya with a HR, now 3-3. Assad finishes 5 6 1 0 0 9. Very nice night for the kids.

You just can't say horsefeathers like that to the press. Miggy knows that too. I agree, this could be the end for him.

Assad is 4 4 1 0 0 7 so far too.

Amaya is 2-2 and Ademan has a HR.

Even if he's partially right, he still couldn't throw anyone out anyway. I think this may be him talking himself off the roster. Finding a Fedorowicz won't be hard. Plus, I'm curious to see Caratini anyway. Even if he's going to be bad behind the plate.

Alzolay goes 5.2 3 2 2 0 7 on 81 pitches. 5/2 GB/FB.

Gray AND Doolittle, with Eloy involved, would make sense in lots of ways. Even though they're aren't many deals with multiple major pieces involved, going to the buyer.....Billy was on the opposite side of a deal like this with us very recently. We took one elite prospect in return for two starting pitchers. There was McKinney and Straily too, that were lesser pieces, but still valuable. I'll try to compare the deals..... Sonny Gray has an extra year of control than Shark did. Injury-prone, but probably more upside than what Shark was still considered to have at that stage? I don't know. Cancelling out the injury issues, with the extra year though, I'd say those two were at least in the same general value range..... Jason Hammel was pitching well, but was a rental. Its hard to compare his value to Doolittle. Hell, its really hard to value Doolittle, by himself. He's got 3 and a half years of control left. 3/16.85 after this season, and 2 of those years are team options even. He was really, really horsefeathering good a few years ago. But 2015 saw him throw just a handful of innings. 2016 saw him throw 60% of a season or so. And now, he's started this season late, but in his handful of innings, he's been dominant..... So, how do you value him? He's worth more than Hammel. Probably by far, considering good relievers prices.....And he's pitching his ass off right now, so they're selling high on him. Plus, he's got 3 years of control. So, on that side of the trade, I'd say Gray and Doolittle have a solid amount of value more than Shark and Hammel did. But, with Doolittle, its really hard to gauge, because teams desperate for relief, like Washington, may blow everyone else out of the water, for a guy like him..... On the prospects side, the headliners would be Russell vs Eloy. Russell was probably a top 5 guy, while Eloy is probably a top 10 type, at this stage. Plus, Addy was a middle of the diamond guy, so even if you valued the difference from 5 to 10 as negligible, I'd say that positional value gives Addy at least a slight edge here in headliners..... So now, if you're going for equal type of packages.....We want MORE than what Oakland wanted from us a few years ago. And our lead piece is slightly less than what theirs was too. However, this CAN be made up. McKinney was Oakland's 2nd best prospect and we got him in the Shark deal. Is Cease considered a better prospect than him? I'd say so. Probably enough of a difference between them to make Eloy/Cease as valuable as Addy/McKinney.... Straily was a borderline throw in, but had potential. He had been struggling in the majors, I'd say he was probably valued about like Eddie Butler honestly, when we acquired him. I don't think we'd deal Butler right now, as we still need depth.(we could, but we'd still need to go get more). Alec Mills? Same value as Straily, at that point? Sure, why not? I'll assume his current injury is still not arm related. He came back from his ankle injury for one outing, then got DL'd again. So, in my mind, Eloy/Cease/Mills is even to Addy/McKinney/Straily..... The issue now though is quantifying Doolittle's value over Hammel's. Unfortunately, that's hard to do. But, I'll say its a pretty solid amount, because he's pitching his ass off right now and the team control attached..... Caratini, one of Candelario or Zagunis, and one of Hatch or Alzolay? Too much? I'd typically agree. Get rid of Mills, hes not needed now. But, I think Doolittle on his own is going to fetch quite a package, in this market. And to get the pair, its going to cost a bit extra..... Kind of goes back to TT asking about trying to find the middle ground on packages like this, getting 2 good players....The Nats could get nutty and offer Robles for Doolittle. It wouldn't shock me. If so, there's no reason for them to deal both to us. They can move Gray to Houston, with Martes or Tucker as the lead piece, unless we do Eloy in a deal for just Gray. And come out with Robles and one of them, which beats Eloy and Cease considerably, at the top end, for us to move grab the pair of those guys..... So, in my opinion, what it'd TAKE to get Gray and Doolittle in the same deal is Eloy, Cease, Caratini, one of Zagunis or Candelario, and one of Alzolay or Hatch. I'm not condoning it. Just saying this is what I'd expect them to cost. High price? Sure is. Risky? Sure is. And if the Nats or some other team is looking for pen help, its very likely they can offer up a guy who's clearly a top 50 guy and ruin any shot of getting both anyway. Because there's not enough difference between Eloy and a Kyle Tucker or Clint Frazier to where it'd make sense for them to trade both to us. Lots of rambling in this, trying to get to a conclusion.....Its going to really horsefeathering hurt to try to get them both, is the bottom line. And it'll be hard as hell to accomplish too, due to different teams needs.....

all souvenir hounding kids are dipshits anyway I can see the dad of the kid wondering if this was a Darryl Kile troll.

Its seems this is a relatively odd year for IFA's. There's more Venezuelan kids in that top 50, than there are kids from the DR. And even deeper than the top 50, as BA has more signings set as Venezuelan kids too. I guess importing kids from there to showcases in the DR is really working. Or its just a very down year for the DR. There's very few teams that still have academies in Venezuela, due to how dangerous it is there...... I WAS thinking we'd be pretty involved in Venezuela this year, but seeing so many signings there, I honestly doubt there's much left. Even in the 300,000 and under area. I'm sure we'll get a guy or two from there, but I was thinking that area would be a big mine for us THIS year, with Mexico. Its not even going to be easy USING all of our 4.5 mill. Especially when the most Serrano and Verdugo count against our cap is 600,000, even if we spend 2.4 mill on them. The article I read did mention "and others" from Mexico too.....It'd be very, very cool to see us hand out an extra few bonuses there in the 600,000-1.2M range. Because we can do THAT, then still technically be able to trade off 2-3 mill of our budget lol. I'm sure we'll sign a large class by the numbers, but its legitimately going to be hard to spend 4.5 mill against the budget, when our 2 main guys, who normally cost over half of it, will cost us so little. My hope is a few more kids from Mexico, plus a decent amount of 200-300k kids from everywhere else. With quantity lower signings too, then still have 1.5-2 mill left over to throw into mid season trades.....

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AJRose4/status/879512088502194176[/tweet] Perfect on so many levels.

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I basically just see Statcast things on Twitter and I can't find the percentages on Javy's two plays last night anywhere. Where do you get that at?

Does anyone have the %'s on Javy's 2 plays?

What is Maples' stuff like these days? Is he actually a "thing" again as a potentially useful MLB reliever? Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Yeah, he is. He's throwing a very heavy 94-95, with a very solid curve. He never did develop a third pitch, but he's got his 2 working very well. He's probably never going to have good command, but he's got set up type of stuff, when he's on. He's still got a ways to go, but my guess is he'll see Iowa this year, or at least the AFL, to see if he's worth protecting in the off season.

Albertos finishes 4 0 0 0 2 3.

WTF?