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That was 2015, after the 2014 season. Mckinney was 7th on BA's Top 10 going into this season and fell out of the Top 100 after 2015. Sickels had him as high as 3rd in January. (Which is stupid I know especially considering who was 4th, but just showing the disparity on his ranking) http://www.minorleagueball.com/2016/1/20/10762082/chicago-cubs-top-20-prospects-for-2016 Well in the revised 2015 Top 10 on BA in February of 2015, McKinney was ranked 6th. He moved to 7th for the 2016 rankings, which is amazing when you consider that the people ahead of him on the 2015 rankings were Kris Bryant, Addison Russell, Kyle Schwarber, Jorge Soler, and Carl Edwards. 4 of those players graduated to the majors, and the other (Edwards), fell out of the Top 10 all together. That tells you a lot about how Billy McKinney has fared over the last year and a half, and also how much better everyone else got while he did not. In the end, I don't care about McKinney. Or Warren. Or that other guy I had never heard of. Torres was a nice player, but I just don't see him being a standout major leaguer. Obviously the big issue is we feel we should have gotten more for Torres than two months of Chapman. I get it, but the fact that we still have so many prospects in the system that we can still get almost whatever we want makes this deal fine with me. We needed a guy like Chapman, plain and simple. When the rest of your team is so well built that a reliever is the guy you give up your top prospect for, it's saying something about the quality of your team. P.S. It was difficult, but I left out a whole bunch of gun analogies in this post because I'm a classy guy.

Technically he was #4 going into the season (and a top 100 prospect in baseball), but yeah has fallen off quite a bit That was 2015, after the 2014 season. Mckinney was 7th on BA's Top 10 going into this season and fell out of the Top 100 after 2015.

Jesus. Torres AND Soler? We better get Severino in the package, too, if there's no extension..

Giving them Happ for Shelby Miller is almost like reversing the deal they made in the first place to acquire him after Miller has gone on to diminish any sort of elite trade value he had prior to this season. Miller was obvious smoke and mirrors last year and this year proved that. He's been garbage and just got sent to the minors, but we should give up the second best 2B prospect in all of baseball for him?

And when he does, this plays in his head

Looks like a hunk of brie, but it's probably something much more rube-ish... like cream cheese or something Also that pasta burger looks awful. It's one thing to do that with Ramen, they're egg noodles and some people, I don't know why, eat it uncooked like a giant cracker so if it's a little firm it's not necessarily a travesty, but burned/overcooked pasta is http://i.imgur.com/Ko6Cgvh.gif

Real talk: I recently had the Denver Omelette Burger at IHOP. It's exactly what it sounds like, and for a chain burger and a place not known for it's burgers, it was really damn good.

Echo the Davis sentiment, though he did just return from a right forearm strain, so buyer beware. But either him or Herrera would be an excellent addition, assuming health holds up, obviously.

I didn't realize there was another Clevinger besides Steve. That makes a little more sense.

It's called Dunkin Donuts after it's founder, Duncan D. Onut

I've got so much like to give it hurts.

THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF HAVING GOOD RELIEF PITCHERS

People who complain about the pace of game and longevity of baseball infuriate me, so rant incoming. Whenever my friends complain about baseball being too long or having too many games in a season, or being too difficult to keep up with, I tell them to go horsefeathers themselves for two reasons: 1) They loved it as a kid, but for whatever reason, they hate it now? Nothing in baseball has changed. It's been played the same way ever since it was created except for maybe the introduction of instant replay which was needed, the only thing that changed from the time they were a kid to now, is them. They changed. Instead of finding a scapegoat for not liking baseball, just admit it: you don't like baseball. Don't blame the sport, blame your own self interest and admit you just don't like it. It's not that difficult and no one will care if you don't like it, so stop giving [expletive] excuses for why baseball sucks and give the only one that matters: you don't like it anymore. 2) "Baseball is too long to follow" is a horse horsefeathers excuse. They don't watch baseball because it's too much to handle, and football is easier because it's only "one game a week"... but their 5 fantasy leagues take up a lot of time and forces them to watch ALL the football. They also watch college football when the NFL isn't on, so during football season there's like 4 or 5 days a week with football to watch. And when they don't watch that, they watch the NBA. Or PGA. Or NHL. Or MMA. Or soccer. Oh for fucks sake with the soccer. "Baseball is too hard to follow!" says the guys who keep up with every horsefeathering country's god damn soccer team and every league in the world all year round. "Baseball seasons are too long" says the guys frantically watching the NFL network in horsefeathering April to hear about their favorite teams draft strategy. Eat horsefeathers. They follow every other sport on the planet all year round, but "BASEBALL IS TOO LONG AND HARD TO FOLLOW".

If we're going hypothetical, I'd rather use all the names mentioned in this thread to target Jose Fernandez instead.

HOT AF I know San Diego has perfect weather all year around every year for eternity, but I showed up the one year it decided to say "horsefeathers you". They were repaving the roads near my cousins house and the heat wave, combined with the dry air and the heat from the asphalt caused the trees just off the curb to catch fire. PAVING THE ROADS CAUSED TREES TO CATCH FIRE IT WAS SO horsefeathering HOT

Summers in Seattle are the greatest stretch of weather anywhere on the planet. San Diego says hello I spent summer in San Diego two years ago and they had a heat wave and everything caught fire. Seattle 1, San Diego 0.

David Ortiz shared a pretty great story from his time in the minor leagues in an article he wrote about his time in Minnesota http://www.theplayerstribune.com/david-ortiz-farewell-to-minnesota/ He also goes on to share his story of his first experience in the majors which was against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. It's a fun read.

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While Kershaw being healthy is great for baseball and being out hurts the sport, I for one am schadenfreuding the hell out of the Dodgers pitching woes considering they went into the season with like 72 starting pitchers on their roster and their official depth chart currently has them sitting at a 4-man rotation.

doesn't really do the job with the giant red white and blue cubs logo Nevermind the reason that one would need a camouflaged baseball pennant for. Well, Yeti could probably find a use for one.

That ain't random twigs, it's camo ya yankee bastard. *fires six shooter in the air*

And despite his faults this season, he's still on pace for an fWAR in the 2.5-3.0 range, should he not improve his offense much. Now, is that worth the $15 million he's getting paid this season? I mean... yes. Yes it absolutely is.

Cool So how about all those "dongs" you dimwits thought Soler and Heyward were gonna hit? And instead of J-Hey Kid I prefer calling Heyward the 4-3 Kid. Just tons of weak contact to the second baseman. Go fly a kite, Gretchen.