Rex Buckingham
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Kyle should have never come out for the 7th. Game over? -
Pretty sure even struggling hitters don't want all grip enhancing substances banned. Too many balls flying arlund at 95+. They want pitchers knowing where they're going.
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9/16 Indians(Civale) @Cubs(Lester) 7:15 MSN
Rex Buckingham replied to Brian707's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Hate that both Baez and Heyward saw 2-0 pitches off the plate called strikes. Changes the whole AB. Robot umps. -
...that's not quite how I remember it. Playing fast with words like "among" and "top." Well, he did play with KB and Javy in the minors, right? So he was kinda top prospecr adjacent?
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8/26/20 Cubs (BDJ) @ Tigers (Fulmur) 6:10 CST
Rex Buckingham replied to weis21's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
With the late lineup change, it seems that Heyward is choosing to sit and the rest of the team is planning to play on? Makes the rest of the team look bad if thats what is happening. -
For what it's worth, his son Alan is on Twitter saying his mom is lying about the allegations.
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Voted for universal DH amd expanded rosters. I'm indifferent on 3 batter minimum. Could be persuaded on 7 inning doubleheaders. Hate the runner on 2nd in extras
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Remember how the White Sox traded Tatis Jr for James Shields? They give Cubs fans crap for trading Eloy to them for Q, but at least Q was pretty good in 17 and has been at least ok ever since (even if not living up to expectations). They gave up a guy who looks like an absolute superstar in the making for James Shields to put up this line: 2016: 22 starts, 6.77 ERA/6.93 FIP, -1.9 bWAR 2017: 21, 5.13/5.83, 0.3 2018: 33, 4.53/5.09, 1.6 all while paying $21 million/year
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I feel like they'll keep Phegley around because they like using Contreras to DH when he isn't catching, and Caratini sometimes too. I feel like we will see 2 of Underwood/Steele/Brothers sent down... i'd prefer Underwood and Brothers, at least to see what Steele can give at the big league level. Would love to see Almora go down, but that won't happen.
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Phegley will dong today
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Pretty sure if you face one to end an inning and then come out for the next inning, you have to face 2 more.
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i meant mlb in general, not mlb as in the owners vs the players. it's going to look bad for baseball if nba/nhl show that a bubble would have worked. Right, a bubble seems like the clear smartest thing to do to mitigate virus spread. But it never seemed like it was a realistic thing for MLB to do for whatever reason(s). I'm sure the sheer numbers of MLB teams/traveling parties was a big hindrance to a bubble. I mean, we're probably at 50 people per team at a bare minimum, right? 30 teams, you've got 1500 as probably a baseline amount of people. And then having limited facilities that are usable, given that the only places with a high concentration of parks are Arizona and Florida, which are basically COVID-central right now in addition to being pretty inhospitable for playing in July and August, doesn't seem like an MLB bubble was feasible on the scale needed.
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Pat was speculating last night that Kimbrel might have been having trouble with his grip on the knuckle curve because of the humid and hot conditions
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What a terrible strike 2 call from Bucknor.
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Ross just wanted to be on TV some more /MR
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Willson's younger brother into the game for Atlanta
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Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Rex Buckingham replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Anyone else want them to take Rizzo out so he doesn't tweak his back now that he's shown he's good to go? -
I feel like they need to trade down from 50 now, because they need a DB and an OL. Kmet may be a pretty good player, but you just gave Jimmy Graham a bunch of money and you have literally 9 TEs on the roster already.
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I've got about a dozen guys I'd be pumped about the Bears picking at 43/50, and that doesn't include any DL/Edge guys. Would like to see a DB with the first pick, then maybe a trade down with the second to try and pick up a couple extra mid round picks
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2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat
Rex Buckingham replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The article says they're considering trading Correa so that they can extend Springer... -
Astros stole signs electronically in 2017
Rex Buckingham replied to Banedon's topic in General Baseball Talk
Man, Yu has been as diplomatic as possible with this whole thing, and Yelich goes and pulls that. -
In a 'everyone gets 2 off weeks' year, we always seem to get one flat out stinker, and this is that, but there are still a couple of intriguing matchups. #Illinutgers
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Luhnow is just like Taubman except he’s just smart enough to not say the really bad things out loud. But you can tell he just doesn’t give a horsefeathers at all. Well, he was previously employed by the Cardinals.
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couple of questions... 1. Do you think the ball has really been "de-juiced" this postseason? 2. If yes, do you think that carries over into 2020? 3. How do you think that impacts the Cubs? My opinion on 3 is that it should theoretically help the Cubs, because our power hitters (KB, Rizzo, Javy, Willson, and Schwarber) don't seem to hit a lot of cheap HRs, but our pitching was hurt a lot by the HR ball - especially Yu, who gave up the 8th most in MLB this year. And it seemed like Kyle would get bit by the HR ball badly in his blow-up games.
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I know we have mostly written off any KB deal, but if you make one, I feel like it has to start with an all star caliber ML player AND a top 50ish prospect. Dude has won an MVP already, and while he has had injury issues, he has looked to be improving upon that MVP season before getting hurt each of the last two years.
