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Would be a wonderful time for Tim Federowicz's first dong. (And hopefully only, given if we're lucky we won't need him ever again)
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*rubs eyes* Jorge Soler did something good??
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Poor Spencer Patton now has an Undefined ERA and an Infinite WHIP
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Really not cool, Jason
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I have a suggestion: throw fewer balls
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Get out of the inning and be happy with what you get out of a clearly not on Hammel I guess
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I don't know what a "Jose Lobaton" is but I can tell you there is no excuse for walking him twice in one game
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McCutcheon comes up down 1 run in the 9th with no outs and runners on first and second and strikes out, wow. I dunno who I'm really rooting for in this one but we can gain at least one game on both of them if there's a non-sweep at least (I'm assuming all wins for Cubs)
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I think KB was pissed Zobrist passed him for OPS
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Yeah, that the thing. I was "meh" when they first re-signed him. But, after the Schwarber thing and with the way he's been hitting... it just seems super clutch. I was pretty pumped about it. I didn't especially like the idea of Heyward playing center (he can handle it, but he's a plus plus right fielder, especially if you get someone decent in center) Almora or anyone else isn't ready for it, and the second half of his year in 2015 was awesome. And to get him at such a discount was a bonus.
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Now the possibility exists that neither the Pirates nor the Cardinals will even win a Wild Card. Fangraphs has both of them at 85 wins, which very likely wont be enough. This is a delicious possibility. Before the season I thought, sure, we'll win the division, and the other Central teams can fight over the wildcard scraps...but them both being locked out would be soooo beautiful.
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Fangraphs for the first time all year has us projected to win over 100, its 100.7 to be exact. Nate Silver's 538 has us projected to win 106 games on average, which is silly
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Tommy LaStella: Small, white, AND good at baseball?
BigSlick replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Maybe the real curse to break was getting an annoying, gritty, tryhard white player to succeed like the Cardinals churn out, and that was the final piece to the puzzle. All we needed was to get an Eckstein, a David Freese, a Skip Schumacher, a Nick Punto, an Aaron Miles (but not when he was on our team), the list goes on and on. Someone that was never a highly touted prospect but who at age 28 miraculously squeezes an .850 OPS out of their gritty body, and who proceeds to beguile some other team to sign them and suck mightily when he changes uniform. Maybe Tommy LaStella can finally be that man for us. -
I've been saying for multiple years now that it makes sense for the White Sox to trade Chris Sale and get a huge haul for him, but that's a pitcher (always inherently much riskier) who has a motion that people have been worried about forever, and I never thought that they could put enough talent around him for them to put a good team together, leaving them in some sort of baseball version of Basketball Hell. (The past 4 or so years have been proof of that, in a pretty mediocre division). So far in 2016 they're proving me wrong, but I also think they're due for an ugly regression. But for Mike Trout? You can't say you wont trade any player because there's always a price, but damn it would take an absurd haul.
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"Throw a change up, that's a dongin' Throw a curveball, that's a dongin' Throw a slider, that's a dongin' Throw a fastball, ooooh you better believe that's a dongin'"
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Well that had no drama, thankfully. Thanks Hector, we don't need you often, but its nice for you to show up when you are needed.
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Alright. Fine. A save situation. Just don't walk anyone and go right at poeple. You can give up one (1) donger, but only 1.
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Who's gonna pinch hit here? I hope its Soler so he can get a nice wind aided homer
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God I can't believe how quickly they scored 4 runs. I'm mad.
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Grimm would frustrate me so much as a manager. Dude can look totally unhittable and then have outings like this. I guess thats true of all relief pitchers but something about Grimm really makes him seem polarizing good or bad.
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Um. Grimm, dude.
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Maybe I spoke too soon. Are we giving the fountain of youth to Werth right now
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It's nice we can let Daniel Murphy get a bunch of dinky hits and let him feel real good about himself and it doesn't bother me at all
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The words "You come at the King, you best not miss" keep ringing in my ears whenever a team gets a lead on us
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Its weird which dudes last forever and stick around doing "something" its never who you'd expect