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  1. Backtobanks
    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
  2. Backtobanks
    Yeah, there aren't many jobs out there that would pay the same bucks.
  3. Backtobanks
    It's certainly more interesting than the current plight of the Cubs.
  4. Backtobanks
    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.
  5. Backtobanks
    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.
  6. Backtobanks
    Ball might be an option down the road for DH.
  7. Backtobanks
    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.
  8. Backtobanks
    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.
  9. Backtobanks
    With Grandal out, does Chironos become trade bait?
  10. Backtobanks
    While we were in Cincy, Hoyer should have checked to see if Johnny Bench was willing and available.
  11. Backtobanks
    Yeah, maybe he can teach some of the veterans how to take a ML at bat.
  12. Backtobanks
    Gesundheit
  13. Backtobanks
    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.
  14. Backtobanks
    If only PTR could close his financial hole.
  15. Backtobanks
    But we saved $3 million.
  16. Backtobanks
    Some "cheap" players that should be readily available that would help the team now are Gray, Pineda, Grossman, and Asdrubal Cabrera.
  17. Backtobanks
    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.
  18. Backtobanks
    He is channeling his inner Patrick Wisdom.
  19. Backtobanks
    The pastor wrote a book: "What every man wishes his father had told him"
  20. Backtobanks
    Wishful thinking.
  21. Backtobanks
    Who needs Vic when we have Heyward, Sogard, and Lobaton?
  22. Backtobanks
    He will be great because he's an Untouchable.
  23. Backtobanks
    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.
  24. Backtobanks
    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.
  25. Backtobanks
    Castellanos was great for the whole time he was a Cub. Darvish was recovering in 2018, our 2nd best starter in 2019, and amazing in 2020. So except for Darvish recovering in 2018, I would say they were great the whole time. "the whole time he was a cub" They acquired him for part of a season to add to the offense and he not only delivered, but was outstanding. That's what Tom was talking about.
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