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Sammy Sofa

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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Me too. I'm thinking 3 HR.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Cubs on the road home after Joe took the wheel:
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Just a hunch but I don’t think he’ll maintain a .159 BABIP all year. *Looks up Bryant's BABiP*
  4. Sammy Sofa
    We were all hurt then.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/JetsNihilist/status/1118966751528665089[/tweet]
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Jesus Christ; it's kind of amazing how terrible he was in April last season. What in the world.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    In just one more April game last year, he managed to put up a ghastly .149 .259 .189 .448 even worse than his hideous 2019 April line of .159 .312 .317 .629, sooooooooooooo...progress?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Citations needed.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Yes!
  10. Sammy Sofa
    And I would prefer for them to be even better. I am a fancy lad, and I demand fancy things. An OF of turds does not please me.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    When we're able to sadly boil it down in hindsight as that the Cubs were saddled with a bizarrely terrible Heyward for multiple years, and were limited to only replacing someone like Schwarber internally, yeah, it looks like they effectively had no choice. That is not, however, the ideal way we were expecting this org to be able to roll with these type of punches. One would think/hope that trading Schwarber after, say, last year, wouldn't actually be this potentially critical blow that they can't cover up or recover from. But, sadly...here we are.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    It seems wrong and criminal that there's all of these national commercials during the games featuring a bunch of MLB players, yet Baez is in none of them. I mean, there's no Cubs in them period because I guess they're mostly a bunch of Q-rating duds, but no Baez seems genuinely egregious.
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  14. Sammy Sofa
    Baez is a [expletive] monster. He has so many good ABs; I think my "Soriano with awesome defense" tag is pretty unfair.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Woof. Bryzzo makes me sad in my guts.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Well, I guess the whole "good Cubs baseball only happens when I go running" thing is back on.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    All I know is that despite Bryzzo actually being that black hole that was discovered last week, I'm feeling much better about the Cubs' dongs this year.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not looking at the team like that at all; the Cubs are 10th in dongs, and only 4 off from the #5 spot. It's just Zobrist especially who seems to be a guy who is hitting well while getting JUST short on some big shots.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Right, which is why I wanted them to trade for at least another good pitcher who could slot in right away. I only mentioned pitching prospects as a possibility they could have opted to go for if they had wanted to be REAL bold right after the WS, but that's not something I was rooting for them to do.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    It's the 21st law of power.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I feel like he's been the 2019 Cubs King of WTP so far. He's certainly not just getting by on a bunch of seeing eye dribblers.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, I would, too. I'm just not feeling too good about it right now. Dude looks so far beyond even "oh yeah, Rizzo always sucks in April" levels.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Well, yeah, that's what you have to do to get the best return with these sorts of assets. It's an automatic risk that can't be avoided. Sure, boiling it down to just their BA makes them sound both unappealing to the Cubs AND other teams, but we both know that wasn't the case because of the success/value they had displayed despite their BA, and because of their ages. Yeah, trading both would have been dumb, but possibly trading one could have worked. They didn't have their backs at the wall, especially since, again, they're supposed to be so good at continually drafting and developing talent, especially offensively. They, unfortunately, hit the wall in the regard, and in being willing/able to sign impact players, so that just highlights not trading any of the promoted players besides Soler as potentially a really bad move. You keep repeating how many games they won last year, and so much of that was due to the offense. And yeah, that's great, but the pitching was obviously an issue, and going to become a bigger issue, and the cupboard is so very bare. They seemingly decided to put almost all of their eggs in the homegrown hitting basket, and unfortunately that might turn out to have not given them much more of a window. Dude was, confusingly, a ranked prospect for 5 years. Go figure.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Who gave them about a .930 OPS in April and May and a .280 .384 .482 .867 line in the first half. Ok fine, we won 95 games with a Kris Bryant that gave us 2.3 fWAR for the year. Right now ZIPs has him giving us 4.3 total for this year. That would be a pretty significant disappointment given our expectations after 2016 (and even after 2017). And still a clear improvement over what he gave us last year, when, again, we won 95 games. ZIPs is being REAL generous right now. And go with the whole "they won 95 games" mantra all you want. That was then.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I don't know enough about this statistics to really speak to them, and they all come with SSS issues obviously...LD% is up (would be a career high), but hard hit percentage is down a good amount. BABIP is in line with last year. I think he'll be fine....he doesn't have to hit any XBH if he can keep the OBP. But I think it's fair to expect less power just from general aging. Yeah, I wasn't really expecting him to hit for much power to begin with given his age and recent injury history.
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