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  1. 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.
  2. 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..."?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Good point. *Checks game logs* Oh, so he actually missed 19 games to start the year instead of a dozen. Whoopsy-doodles.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    So, in other words, Lindor missed about a dozen games.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Translated that for everyone else.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Didn't Lindor miss a ton of time at the beginning of the year?
  7. 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.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, that is indeed a laundry list of reasons and excuses sort of hovering around why they continue to slide. Akin to your invitation to meatball, if you want to go with the "everything is fine; minimal changes in their approach to team building and player development need to be made," then have at it. I'll be mildly stunned if it results in a season better than this one. I think going forward someone like Lindor is both more valuable than Bryant, and is more likely be be signed by the Cubs (and to be able to be signed by the Cubs in the first place). It's obviously a pipe dream, make a wish type of scenario, but it's certainly not suggestion just trying to "shake up the team," or to blow it up.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Most of the rankings seem to still have the Cubs' system in the bottom 10 or even the bottom 5.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, that is certainly one way to describe a thing. Returning with the same shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic approach that just leads to diminishing returns with a team clearly not build to hold up over the course of an season on top of a cruddy farm system is another. I don't see how they could skip getting creative and not just expect to see yet another steadily declining variation of what we've gotten for 3 years running now (he says, fully anticipating yet another "BUT THEY MADE THE PLAYOFFS" response that completely glosses over how increasingly bad they look in the second half yet again, where the all too likely best case scenario is that they, also yet again, technically stagger across the finish line before another quick exit).
  11. Sammy Sofa
    What a stupid game.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    horsefeathering miracle.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    #thatssocob
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Mmmm, look at that tasty offense.
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  16. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, sweet; we get to see Joe go complete HAM on the bullpen like he always does because these horsefeathering dumb dildos couldn't hold a 10-1 blowout. The window is technically only still open if someone hurls a brick through it.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Took them 1 game last road trip and 1.5 this road trip but #roadcubs always shows up eventually They had to play catch up after getting hammered at home for once. Flying hungover is a beast.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    ROAD COBS ENGAGED.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Nope Gameday went back and changed the first one to a challenged double or something? Oh well; run still scored on the real dong that happened next.
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  21. Sammy Sofa
    Well, that seems to have been an impressive meltdown.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Did Hendricks seriously just give up 3 dongs in a row?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    It doesn't have to be Bryant, but I agree with the sentiment that the FO are going to have to move someone key, because simply coming back with basically the same team that's been delivering diminishing results on the back of a decidedly unpalatable combination of expecting raw talent to overcome dumb baseball is....not good. Guys like Russell, Happy, Bote, Caratini, Heyward and Almora are going to get you a whole lot of jack and horsefeathers. This FO is supposed to be some kind of brain trust, and they've backed themselves into the position where they need to get creative and actually finally live up to that rep again.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    lol, wut? Unless I missed someone, anyone talking about Bryant and the Indians have been talking about moving the return from trading Bryant elsewhere to the Indians.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody was suggesting trading Bryant to the Indians. And the Indians have all but flat out said they're not going to pay big money to extend their current core.
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