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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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  5. Sammy Sofa
    Because run differential is a sham stat, dammit.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    HEY CUBS:
  7. 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.
  10. 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.
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    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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
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    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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    It probably means nothing, but here's his monthly OPS from June of 2018 onwards: .707 .787 .787 .775 1.162 .877 .928 .769 June and July of this year were on the backs of high BAbip's even for him, but then August was a shitty BAbip, so, whatever. I just don't know what this guy is anymore. Give him a robot shoulder or something.
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    So...you're saying he missed games last year, then 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, so I was lucky I could parse anything numbers-related.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Best part is how he keeps going for first like horsefeathers wasn't about to go down.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    With the games he missed, if Bryant plays out the string he ends up at 153 games this season. If Lindor does the same, he ends up at 141 games. So there's not really much to a line of thought that Bryant missed significant time, too, since that's the most games he's played in since 2017. But sure, let's flip my concern that Bryant's shoulder woes could be extrapolated to now I should be wary of Lindor for similar injury fears since he missed a bunch of time due to injury this year. Except that Lindor has gotten better as the season has gone on: First half: .296 .356 .511 .866 (.308 BAbip) Second half: .308 .348 .574 .922 (.316 BAbip) Now how about Bryant? First half: .297 .403 .552 .955 (.318 BAbip) Second half: .255 .333 .460 .793 (.302 BAbip) This is now two years running where Bryant has slowed down/dropped off significantly in the second half. Perhaps just coincidentally, the Cubs' offense has done the same, too. The shoulder stuff scares the bejeebers out of me. I wouldn't be surprised if 2019 Bryant is best case scenario Bryant going forward, which certainly isn't a bad thing at all, but also not nearly the player they were banking on.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    The way he's playing, 19 games for Lindor is damn near 1 fWAR. Now is this point where we jump to, "oh, well Bryant doesn't get to to hit #1, but if he did..."?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Good point. *Checks game logs* Oh, so he actually missed 19 games to start the year instead of a dozen. Whoopsy-doodles.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    So, in other words, Lindor missed about a dozen games.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Translated that for everyone else.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Didn't Lindor miss a ton of time at the beginning of the year?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Again, my own hunch is that Bryant's nebulous shoulder issues are going to make him a significantly less valuable player in relatively short order, be it via diminished power/bat speed or missed playing time or all of the above. Whether it's Lindor or Bryant, the FO's fucked up lineup is going to to have to be fixed no matter what, and I'd rather they try and do it with Lindor than Bryant. Of course, that's assuming they'll be able to use money to do most of the fixing, so that's probably even more of a pipe dream than wanting Lindor. They're not going to want move what few prospect assets they have to get, say, a serviceable everyday outfielder, so, yeah...I think they're just going to mostly come back with the same team and any changes made will be on the VERY cheap, so, honestly, who gives a horsefeathers if it's Bryant or Lindor. Odds are nothing's really getting fixed either way. I'll bet good, good money that the only major change they make is acting like a new manager fixes everything. CF is going to be split between Almora and Happ, and Bote will be manning 2B. New cheap MI and OF backups, and voila...there's your 2020 Cubs offense. Just wait.
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