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  1. Seems like a lot of work to hold on to a mediocre minor league pitcher because of, what, 3 starts?
  2. Trade them Theo.
  3. One of you clods get it going, dammit.
  4. The death row backlog is as follows: TMan92 (0-2) SouthSideRyan (4-3) Banedon (4-2)
  5. Well, horsefeathers; that's it then. I mean, you look at his numbers over the last 3 seasons, the main thing that jumps out is how his HR% jumped up. Yeah I think the ball is a big part. And not to go all woe is us, excuse maker. But looking at the pitching and offensive profile of the team I think the Cubs have been adversely affected by the juiced ball. The pitching was largely contact dependent since 2016, the offense was based on OBP and power (doesn’t seem like any guy got a real power boost with the ball, they all maintained their talent which would’ve been above average with the old ball). Yeah, I'm still baffled how the dong surge seemingly didn't hit the Cubs in any obvious way outside of Heyward, maybe Castellanos, and Almora for, like, a month.
  6. Fangraphs has him worth over $26 million this year. Honestly, the main outlier for him has been the dongs. The concerning part is that that issue first showed up in 2017, and isn't considered that this league-wide power surge didn't happen until last season? The juiced balls came in sometime during 2017, idk if it was league wide but they were in the system at some point during the year and fully in for the playoffs and World Series (the pitchers were all complaining about the ball). Well, horsefeathers; that's it then. I mean, you look at his numbers over the last 3 seasons, the main thing that jumps out is how his HR% jumped up.
  7. Bears - 20 Vikings - 94
  8. How many $ is a win worth these days? I’d say yes he should definitely be picked up, he’s probably more of a 4.00ish era pitcher than a 5. His ERA was below 4 before he inexplicably fell apart these last 5 starts. Fangraphs has him worth over $26 million this year. Honestly, the main outlier for him has been the dongs. The concerning part is that that issue first showed up in 2017, and isn't considered that this league-wide power surge didn't happen until last season?
  9. There isn't another pitcher out there for $10.5 million that can give innings and actually has some upside? If you include the bolded part? Probably not, no. Quintana is a nerd, but he's going to be just shy of a 3.5 fWAR starting pitcher this season, and outside of last year has been even better than that for 4 straight seasons. If they actually do get rid of the juiced balls, he suddenly looks a LOT better.
  10. I gotta say, it's weirdly pretty damn impressive to basically end the season just getting absolutely pantsed like this time and time again.
  11. Man, he is, again, lame as horsefeathers, but not picking up his option makes zero sense. It's only $10 million, right? The rotation is even more fucked without him, and that's just yet another spot that needs to be filled.
  12. He’s getting paid $10m to be a top 50 pitcher in baseball while the dude we traded for him struggles to hit a .300 OBP. I was hoping for better, but we’ve done far, far worse. It doesnt matter what eloy is doing. his value when he was traded was immense and we got a complete bum for it. Yeah, the whole, "oh yeah?!? Eloy SUCKS!!!" thing is so old; I don't think there's anyone here actually pining for Eloy to still be with the Cubs. The frustration is that a very, very valuable trade asset was traded for one of the lamest technically good pitchers you could possibly find. Being lamely technically good seems to be the Theo Cubs specialty, like, 75% of the time.
  13. On Crabmeat Ankle - The 2019 Cubs Thread
  14. THE DEATH SPIRAL CONTINUES. Cubswin11, it's all on you.
  15. Sooooooooooooooo maybe the 2019 Cubs are killing the board, too?
  16. Not shockingly at all, the baseless speculation in a Reddit thread about who banged Ben Zobrist's wife comes smothered with a heaping helping of not so subtle racism sauce. "I heard it was this one brown guy that did it! No, I heard it was that OTHER brown guy!!!! No, the OTHER OTHER brown guy!!!!"
  17. https://deadspin.com/tarik-cohen-unwittingly-exposes-a-nude-kyle-long-to-the-1838409753
  18. Whether or not jersey start's today's game thread is more exciting than the game itself.
  19. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/yu-darvishs-futile-heroics/
  20. Hey, this is just them paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Collapse of '69.
  21. Oh, horsefeathers; completely forgot about that debacle. TRADE AWAY.
  22. jersey, it's technically your go. Enjoy the pain.
  23. What is this, the baseball version of the Obama tan coat "scandal?!?"
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