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  1. Sammy Sofa
    This is underselling his approach. He's cut his Ks again, walks a ton, and is hitting with more power...Without looking at anything else those are breakout ingredients Yeah, dude is hitting for the whole package right now. Not to harp on Heyward (well, no; let's harp on him), but THERE'S the guy clearly benefiting from the juiced ball and absolutely nothing else.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Like, why would anyone look at the Cubs OF and think that signing a guy like Castellanos should lead to them getting rid of Schwarber instead of getting rid of Heyward by any means necessary?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    My point is that while he's great at what he does (mash HRs against RH pitching), he has many flaws - lefties, defense, etc. "Besides him being good at hitting the prevelant type of pitcher in the game, he's simply not that good, you guys." And Castellanos is HUGELY worse defensively. And, since you brought up the PH nonsense, as a PH he has a .250 .294 .313 .607 line.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    You post this like those are good numbers. They're way better than Schwarber's. THEY'RE STILL BAD NUMBERS. And they're against the type of pitcher players see a lot more of, so how are you possibly seeing this as an argument in favor of keeping Castellanos and getting rid of Schwarber? Schwarber in his career against righties: .239 .344 .515 .859 (1435 PA) Castellanos, again, in his career against righties: .268 .315 .450 .765 (2718 PA) Unless you're buying in to some kind of Hendry-like idea that you need to try and make the team better at hitting lefties, what the hell are you even talking about.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Even Edith Cox would be embarrassed by worrying about PH numbers, B2B. What the hell.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    That all arguably applies to Castellanos, too, except against righties. I'd argue that there's a lot of unknown with Castellanos just with him not playing half his games in the cavernous Detroit park, especially with his penchant for doubles and fly balls that could turn into HRs. His away numbers in 1795 PA: .263 .311 .457 .768 He's cool and it's awesome what he's doing with the Cubs, and maybe he/they have figured something out, but signing him as an everyday player is taking a reasonably large risk, especially given the already shaky at the VERY best setup of the Cubs' OF.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    That all arguably applies to Castellanos, too, except against righties. Schwarber against lefties - .195/.306/.351/.657 Castellanos against righties - .268/.315/.450/.765 You post this like those are good numbers.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    That all arguably applies to Castellanos, too, except against righties.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I appreciate Sofa's level of fandom where he knows enough about the Cubs to conclude that they all suck, but just assumes there are infinite create a players in the MLB universe of every conceivable skill set ready (and available) to come in and fix all our problems. Me on baseball:
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Move Contreras to 1B, trade Rizzo for baller CF, thank me tomorrow.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    You mean Robel batting 5th isn't the Super Cubs? I haven't put a Cubs game on my TV for weeks. Thank you for affirming the wisdom of that decision. Jesus horsefeathering hell, Joe/Theo.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I get what you’re saying but doubt anyone in the clubhouse would react that way. They already were talking back mid-week how he likely wasn’t going to start yesterday or today vs LHP (they seem to prefer him hitting left handed from their comments). Maybe he isn’t fully ready yet, a little sore or dinged up and/or they/he feels he needs to work on a few things yet. I bet he starts vs King Felix tomorrow. Of course he’ll start against Felix. Joe has a hard on for throwing guys right into the fire coming off the IL or rehab stints. A pinch hit at bat or two against Major League guys would have been nice Unless he's turned it around recently, King Felix has been pretty lousy this year.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    All they're gonna do is bring in a new manager. Theo and co. have backed themselves into a corner financially and the farm system is just starting to climb out of the cellar; I'd bet good money he just plays out the string the last couple years of his contract, assuming/hoping that this team's raw talent/stupid baseball hodgepodge nonsense has a dead cat bounce before he takes off.
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  15. Sammy Sofa
    Because run differential is a sham stat, dammit.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    HEY CUBS:
  17. Sammy Sofa
    weis21, do you have what it takes to start another win streak? http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvnzf3AbXM1qdnpuwo1_250.gif
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    I wonder if it was a case of him wanting Oxy, and then ending up with some laced/cut with fentanyl. Seems like that's what ends up killing so many people who seek out non prescription Oxy, especially when alcohol is involved.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I think the best part was when he bunted to first solely to crush the guy that pitched behind him. Right, but then he doesn't just keep wailing on him as you'd expect; he's seemingly all, "surely everyone will see I was justified in my skilled bunting and subsequent clobbering of the pitcher, and I will now be able to reach 1B without incident." Cracked me up.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    [spoil][/spoil]
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, let's be fair; remember how when the Nats came to town with little downtime and put out that foreit lineup for the first ga-OH RIGHT, THEY DIDN'T.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Are you saying that you value Lindor over Bryant because he averages more PAs per game with a straight face, or is this part of your "the Cubs suck and I hope they lose forever" schtick? I value Lindor more because he's younger, is much better defensively at a much more important position, and, most critically (IMO), is not showing signs that he's going to be a much more inconsistent or diminished player because of a chronic injury/pan/discomfort issue. I just figured since people are trying to parse the tiniest possible differences between the two in an effort to make anyone who would prefer Lindor over Bryant to be a dolt (see your gigantic reach of a response), I'd head that off that at the pass since Bryant's spent most the year batting 2nd, so whatever. All of the Fangraphs' projects for the rest of the season have Lindor being worth another 1 fWAR, so, again, Lindor missing 19 games arguably shorted him "damn near 1 fWAR." Also, yes, the Cubs do suck, but I only hope they lose most of the time. I'm feeling magnanimous today since it's the Brewers.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    It's early, but I think you're missing a month here somewhere. Is the 1.162 supposed to be April? No, I should have put the months: the .775 is April of this season; the first 3 are June, July and then September/October. Nothing for that August since he he was out.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Do me a solid and edit that bad boy to 102. It was early, and I had just run a lot to offset the Thai food buffet I am going to demolish this afternoon. I think his point was that when people do the "since (year)"...they usually are trying to show some extended run of time, not a whole one year of being hurt. The dude played in about every game when he got called up, and missed all of 17 games the next two years. ZIPs has him on track to miss 9 this year. If you really think that one slide permanently broke him, fine...sell before anyone else figures it out. But I'd wager he'll be our best hitter this September (because that's the safest bet pretty much every month). Fair enough; that was a poor choice of words on my part, since my concern isn't that he's necessarily going to miss a bunch of time, and more that he's perpetually diminished by the shoulder issues, especially in the sense that he can't really hold up production-wise over the course of a full season. I would hope that one line won't have people ignoring the rest of the post.
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