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He really settled in the last 2 innings, still a low amount of swing and miss though.

Horton seems to be getting ahead of people, but he's not putting them away as much as I'd like to see.

Yeah it has been groundball after groundball so far. I don't remember this being an issue at all in the minors.

I've thought about this several times. The eye test for me is really weird. His bat feels a kind of slow, but he continually squares up the ball. I'd be interested to see his numbers against 95+MPH.

He's not untouchable, but the Cubs are pretty limited in their upside arms too and after Horton+Wiggins there isn't a lot of exciting.

Add Felix Bautista to that please. The problem is the O's will definitely want pitching back and the Cubs don't really have any to give unless you're going to give them Wiggins. There's no other pitcher the Cubs have who could headline a deal for those 2.

I feel bad for Chicago, but Reinsdorf did not deserve to be bailed out like that.

Really interesting that Ozzy Trapilo is working exclusively at left tackle so far.

Make that 6-31

Rockies are now 6-30. That's 27-135 pace. That's almost impossibly terrible.

Merryweather blows the game wide open without getting a single out. Well done.

Merryweather completely pissing down his leg.

Bullpen doing bullpen things

Laff, nice pitch Merryweather.

Shota not hitting his spots again.

Hey look, more strikes outside the zone. Ump you're half the reason no one can get on base today.

Then need to make this Peralta's last inning. They're clearly not going to get to him today.

Shota couldn't locate much in the first, but since then he's peppering the edges.

It was a terrible jump and an absolutely perfect throw.

What is with Contreras dropping so many balls?

Yup, ump blows

Shota missing his spots early on.

If Peralta is getting that strike zone then there's going to be about no offense today.

I think he can be very good too, I'm just not sure it's going to be in 2025.

This is more or less where I'm at. I think Loveland was a completely reasonable pick just like Warren or Jalen Walker would have been. At #39, though it wasn't a position of need, I think Burden was clearly their BPA and I'll never be angry for taking BPA, especially with Henderson gone. Trading #41 is where things started to go downhill. Their first trade was #41, #72 and #240 for #56, #62 and #109 This inherently was not an awful deal. At #56 Trapilo was kind of a meh pick. I don't hate it, but it was extremely bland he's more or less injury insurance. I legitimately liked Turner quite a bit at #62 I'm just about positive they thought they could land Skattebo at #109 and when he wasn't they traded back landing picks #132 and #169. Unfortunately for the Bears, there was then a run at RB that saw 4 more RB go off the board before the Bears would pick again at #132. Instead the Bears make the worst and most puzzling pick of their draft picking Hyppolite who, unless the Bears know something the rest of the league doesn't, was a massive reach. At #169 they take Frazier who a legitimately good value pick at the time with some upside. So it basically becomes do you like Trapilo, Turner, Hyppolite and Frazier more than you would have liked adding a duo at #41 and #72 like one of Ezeiraku/Tuimoloau/Ersery and one of Landon Jackson/Unmanmielen/Kaleb Johnson. It's even possible Turner was still there at #72 if the Bear were infatuated with him. Personally I'd have much rather had the latter of the two and that's ignoring that with #240 they still probably could have gotten Monongai who they eventually took at #232. They then traded down yet again giving up #148 for #195 and a 2024 4th with the Rams so we can probably safely assume it's going to be in the back half of the 4th roughly #130. It wasn't a homerun or anything but there wasn't anyone I was dying for them to have between #148 and #169 and they added a pick next year that's high enough that you might get a starter out of it At #195 they took Luke Newman who is most likely going to be your generic back up interior lineman. I feel like they only got 2 sure fire guys who are going to see lots of action and a bunch of other guys who are either rotational pieces or depth. I wouldn't not at all be surprised if Turner ends up being the 3rd guy who sees a lot of action.