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  1. Sammy Sofa
    If you could save $4-7 million it makes sense to move him, especially if that money goes towards a 5th starter and Mills slots in the swing man role. I’d be fine keeping both I think and rolling the dice a bit on the 5th spot with them to start the year. Use the money on rounding out the roster elsewhere. Man, I'm figuring Lester is a problem that needs to be fixed next season, too.
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    50 career innings of mid 3s ERA and FIP baseball, idk if you’ve watched him at all lately but it’s hard not to like what you see when you watch and not at least think there’s a solid BOR starter/swing guy in there with maybe MOR upside. He’s only 27 and won’t cost any money, just gotta guarantee him a 25 man (or I suppose 26 next year) roster spot. Dude's minor league numbers are a snooze the last 3 seasons. Doubt this is little more than tiny sample size based on the book not being out on him.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Then why look to move Chatwood? The Cubs aren't exactly swimming with pitching depth.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Seems like a lot of work to hold on to a mediocre minor league pitcher because of, what, 3 starts?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Trade them Theo.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    One of you clods get it going, dammit.
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  8. Sammy Sofa
    The death row backlog is as follows: TMan92 (0-2) SouthSideRyan (4-3) Banedon (4-2)
  9. Sammy Sofa
    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.
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    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.
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    Bears - 20 Vikings - 94
  12. Sammy Sofa
    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?
  13. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I gotta say, it's weirdly pretty damn impressive to basically end the season just getting absolutely pantsed like this time and time again.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    On Crabmeat Ankle - The 2019 Cubs Thread
  18. Sammy Sofa
    But enough about the Cubs...
  19. Sammy Sofa
    THE DEATH SPIRAL CONTINUES. Cubswin11, it's all on you.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Sooooooooooooooo maybe the 2019 Cubs are killing the board, too?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    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!!!!"
  22. Sammy Sofa
    https://deadspin.com/tarik-cohen-unwittingly-exposes-a-nude-kyle-long-to-the-1838409753
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Whether or not jersey start's today's game thread is more exciting than the game itself.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/yu-darvishs-futile-heroics/
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, this is just them paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Collapse of '69.
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