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Yeah but again, the argument is not that Yu Darvish is not valuable. It's not exact but way less nebulous than that: Yu Darvish is worse than last year, true pretty much across the board, with some not easy to ignore recent arm injury history, has alot of innings on an arm that will turn 37 in his final year under contract, that's probably not the greatest sign moving forward, and the Cubs probably got a really good prospect out of that deal in Preciado they wouldn't moving Darvish at a later date If we're still doing the thing where the Cubs totally lost the division in June/July then a diminished from 2020 Yu Darvish, and probably 2020 Darvish, was never going to move the needle enough to change that. So far the prospects traded for MLers have been role players or worse, so keeping Darvish just means losing the division maybe in the 2nd week of July instead of the 1st to this same dominant Brewers squad and getting a worse trade out of the situation. For sure no one in baseball would be hand waving away going from 96 MPH to 94 MPH with more walks, fewer Ks, more HRs, turning 35 next month, 7 yeas removed from TJ, so on so forth if he were available this July rather than last winter The Cubs did get what looks like a really good prospect in the deal, but he's facing pitchers barely out of high school. Who knows what we could get for Darvish right now at the deadline, but I'm sure we could have gotten something pretty good. Darvish would be owed about $8.8 m for the rest of this year. If we threw in the $5+ million that we have paid Davies, Darvish would look mighty attractive to pitching desperate contenders.

Yeah, there aren't many jobs out there that would pay the same bucks. He's back. From MLBTR: White Sox Announce Yermin Mercedes Active For Tonight’s Triple-A Game

Yeah, there aren't many jobs out there that would pay the same bucks.

It's certainly more interesting than the current plight of the Cubs.

Isn’t it fun how the sample sizes have to shrink dramatically for the Brewers to have a clearly better team? I’m just one of those carazies out there who needs more than minute info and partial results, sorry to the offended. I’m still not fully indoctrinated on the post-covid sports analysis, don’t see the same fire you do over something as leisurely as a 54 out sport played 162 times during the spring/summer/early fall Boy do I have some good news for you if you don’t want to worry about sample sizes! Because you could just look at the standings and tell the Brewers are better. 9.5 games better in the standings. 10.5 games better in pythag. They’ve scored more runs than the Cubs They’ve allowed fewer runs than the Cubs Projected to win 92 games to the Cubs 79 per Fangraphs Projected to win 92 games to the Cubs 81 per 538 Projected to win 93 games to the Cubs 82 per BP. You're just cherry picking.

So dumb question...why is it so public? I am sure MLB players get divorced all the time, why is this one so much more public than others They were both celebrities, they both went overboard about how "Christian" their lives were, the other guy is a minister, etc.

Ball might be an option down the road for DH.

He seems like he’ll settle into yet another .240 hitter with 25 HR and a crap ton of K’s He makes Bote trade bait.

With Grandal out, does Chironos become trade bait? Ya gotta wonder, that’s for sure The WS should be interested in a Joc and Chironos package to put a band-aide on some of their temporary injuries.

With Grandal out, does Chironos become trade bait?

While we were in Cincy, Hoyer should have checked to see if Johnny Bench was willing and available.

Yeah, maybe he can teach some of the veterans how to take a ML at bat.

Gesundheit

From MLBTR: Oakland designated right-hander Cam Bedrosian for assignment. If he elects FA, he might be worth taking a ml chance on him to see if he can regain what he used to have.

If only PTR could close his financial hole.

But we saved $3 million.

Some "cheap" players that should be readily available that would help the team now are Gray, Pineda, Grossman, and Asdrubal Cabrera.

Well, per FG, we have the lowest line drive rate, 5th highest FB rate, and 9th highest infield fly ball rate. We also, concerningly, have the highest HR/FB rate, which hurts BABIP as well. 13th in average exit velocity and 9th in barrel %, so that doesn't really support it, but everything else would lead you to conclude we should be near the bottom based on batted ball profile. Bottom by 40 points is obviously a little unlucky and will turn around. But with the highest K rate in the league by almost 2 points, we're going to have less balls in play and our results are more likely to be fluky in a small sample. What did we really expect when PTR and Hoyer conspired to add the likes of Sogard, Alcantra, Ortega, Wolters, Higgins, Lobaton, Vargas, Romine, etc. to a team with a serious hit-or-miss offense to start with.

He is channeling his inner Patrick Wisdom.

The pastor wrote a book: "What every man wishes his father had told him"

Wishful thinking.

Who needs Vic when we have Heyward, Sogard, and Lobaton?

He will be great because he's an Untouchable.

We are at a point in time where comments can be interpreted as racist, sexist, Anti-semitic, etc. depending on the circumstance and the listener.

We gave up our #1 and #7 prospects to get Quintana who was 28 years old with ERA+ of 115 and making $7 million. Means is 28 years old with an ERA+ of 132 and is making next to nothing with 4 years of control left. He won't come cheap.