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PLEASE STOP WITH THE KEMP STUFF I would like to acquire Matt Kemp. Why? Seriously give one good, logical reason why Kemp is a wise acquisition. Just one that makes sense. And "he could use a change of scenery" isn't a logical reason, that's an excuse. What in the hell do you see in Kemp that makes you think he would be a wise acquisition for the Chicago Cubs? There's the PetCo to Wrigley argument. Not just on offense, but he'd have less OF ground to cover, which could be helpful to his comically bad defensive numbers. Beyond that, all I've got is that he's too young to just fall off a cliff. These are the reasons you want to add close to $80 million in payroll for one guy? http://media.giphy.com/media/14yHKMkMlA9gL6/giphy.gif

PLEASE STOP WITH THE KEMP STUFF I would like to acquire Matt Kemp. Why? Seriously give one good, logical reason why Kemp is a wise acquisition. Just one that makes sense. And "he could use a change of scenery" isn't a logical reason, that's an excuse. What in the hell do you see in Kemp that makes you think he would be a wise acquisition for the Chicago Cubs?

Chicago Cubs Online, I believe http://chicagocubsonline.com/

Yeah, I don't think anyone overrates Ross.

If Javier Baez is a bag of diamonds, what's in Kris Bryant's bag? Unobtanium

If we get Ross and Kimbrel without giving up Baez and getting rid of Castro I'll be happy. Will probably take one of Torres/McKinney as well. I'm fine with that.

It's like 5 lottery tickets and a scratcher you found in the parking lot that already lost.

wtf? why? Because a guy who can average 80+ walks and hits 30+ dongs and a mid .800's OPS and play acceptable defense is a horrible low-ball comparison you monster.

holy [expletive] kennedy has a 20% HR/FB Shields has a 17.9% HR/FB. There's something screwy going on with Kennedy and Shields. They have the highest HR/FB rates of their careers right now, despite most of their other peripherals (GB%, LD%, FB%, etc.) all being relatively similar to previous seasons. Shields you might could pin on his control issues (highest BB% of his career) and drop in velocity (nearly a full mph on all his pitches), but for the most part all of his peripherals (as well as Kennedy's) are all in line with career norms. There's no huge shift in most of those numbers that should suggest a huge drop in performance, except in HR/FB, which is inexplicably high this year. And it's not some weird thing where they had some bad games outside of Petco. Kennedy has given up 14 HR's at home vs. 8 on the road. Shields has given up 10 at home vs 11 on the road. So it's not like they had some bad outings in Colorado and Arizona or anything, they're giving up dongs at Petco, too. It's odd. Their SIERRA's and xFIP's are still showing they're doing far better than their numbers indicate. Kennedy SIERRA: 3.73 xFIP: 3.84 FIP: 5.25 ERA: 4.58 Shields: SIERRA: 3.30 xFIP: 3.30 FIP: 4.11 ERA: 3.77 So yeah, Petco is having an odd effect on these guys this year. To a lesser degree Craig Kimbrel is experiencing the same thing.

I'm not satisfied with doing nothing, but I'm also not gonna act like I don't understand why they would choose to do nothing in this situation.

I hate how disappointed that makes me

In case folks missed it, his first home run was on a pitch way up in the zone that he'd probably whiff at 11 times out of 10 last year http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?sid=milb&content_id=306148483 Here's his 2nd: http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?sid=milb&content_id=306227283

Excellent and logical decision.

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Most likely nothing then. The timestamp on the tweet is a little misleading in that case.

AR posted this in the minor league forums...

Scandalous. He makes sense as a trading chip in a Tyson Ross or Cole Hamels deal.

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I had brought him up before but no one really talked about it... what about Jed Lowrie? He's just done 4 rehab games and is getting reevaluated, but he went 3-10 with a double and two REBI so he had nice showing coming back from the injury. He's probably due to come back within a week or so. They likely move him to 3B despite not playing there regularly since 2011, but outside of that they have nowhere to play him with Correa in beast mode and Altuve being Altuve. Would something like Underwood + Villanueva be enough to pry Lowrie away? He's signed through 2017 and he'd be a perfect fit for the Cubs. Would give the Cubs the incentive and flexibility to move Castro, too.

Welington had a dope ass bat flip on this home run: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/0/v302420683/arisea-castillo-goes-deep-in-the-2nd-inning

I kinda feel like this needs to be a thing. Ha! I originally wrote something else, then changed it to douche.

I feel really sorry they came all the way to Chicago looking for answers as to why their shitty manager quit a shitty job for a shitty team run by shitty people who would've fired him had he not quit his shitty job before they could.

I actually never noticed the date. Quick, delete this one and bump the other.

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