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  1. Tryptamine
    Except they completely suck at drafting too. The FO needs to be wiped, the roster needs to be wiped and ownership needs to be wiped before they become relevant again.
  2. Tryptamine
    There is just nothing exciting worth watching on this team
  3. Tryptamine
    Unless they're bringing in as big, or a bigger bat, what's the point?
  4. Tryptamine
    I get it, but at the same time what has Jed done to make you give him the benefit of the doubt?
  5. Tryptamine
    The part I bolded
  6. Tryptamine
    Not sure I agree with that at all.
  7. Tryptamine
    The point is, neither is an acceptable backup for the amount of PAs they're likely to get. If Thaiss is indeed the backup he's going to see probably 200-250 PAs, A player of that caliber has no business seeing that many PAs on a team that is trying to be competitive.
  8. Tryptamine
    Bethancourt's 2024 would have been the second best of Thaiss's career and his 2023 and 2022 would have been the best year of his career. He's a terrible player.
  9. Tryptamine
    If this is the Amaya back up plan, this is laughably terrible. If he's the third catcher sitting in AAA just in case, then fine whatever.
  10. Tryptamine
    I'm going to delude myself into believing he's not going to even make the roster. He's been a negative fWAR guy every year of his career besides 2023 where he apexes at .4. Unfortunately he probably ends up seeing something stupid like 150 PAs.
  11. Tryptamine
    Ah yes, this is how you know the offseason has truly begun. People overhyping the living hell out of a solid prospect to justify a trade
  12. Tryptamine
    Yeah, this is a solid pick up for the pen, but Morgan cannot be the best arm they add. There needs to be one high leverage or closer type brought in as well. If they went out and snagged Robertson tomorrow, I'd be 100% cool with riding that bullpen into spring training.
  13. Tryptamine
    It hurts a little, but Morgan is a solid middle inning guy under control for a while so it should. CLE got some significant offensive upside if Rosario can limit the Ks. Edit: I was a bit concerned it was going to end up being Wiggins or Hernandez.
  14. Tryptamine
    He also represents a guy who, in the past has gotten more swing and miss on this fast ball, so there's upside there. He's also a guy who will throw strikes in a bullpen filled with guys who have BB issues.
  15. Tryptamine
    My guess would be 3/55
  16. Tryptamine
    This is actually a defense that Caleb should do very well against. They blitz almost constantly and Caleb has been solid against the blitz.
  17. Tryptamine
    At this point I have Kikuchi as the odds on favorite to be the FA signing.
  18. Tryptamine
    I'm seeing very little in the way of the Cubs being linked to Crochet which fits with Jed's MO of being afraid of his shadow. A lot of mentions of the Red Sox and Phillies, some with Baltimore but no one expects Baltimore to stop prospect hugging enough to get a deal done.
  19. Tryptamine
    We're in that part of the season where it's all about Caleb and I don't particularly care about winning or not.
  20. Tryptamine
    I mentioned that in the game thread. It was at least holding if not PI.
  21. Tryptamine
    Double post on the usual bug.
  22. Tryptamine
    Seeing as how I'm not going to spend $25 to make trades on the website, we've gone over many trades over the last year on this website using BTV values before it became pay walled and a lot of them made no sense whatsoever. It's a nice tool, but needs to be taken with a giant grain of sand and some common sense.
  23. Tryptamine
    What we can all take away from this is that BTV is a horrible site and should never be used in discussing actual trades. In no world should Bryce Miller cost you Nico+Shaw+plus another roughly 8-10 million in value so a guy in the Cub top 15. With that mini rant out of the way, the only way I'm willing to move Nico is if #1, it allows you to bring in a pitching upgrade through the trade and #2 the cost savings, along with lots of already free money, allow you to add a significant offensive upgrade at 2B. Outside of that, I'm not sure how it makes sense.
  24. Tryptamine
    This is more or less where I am. I have a cell phone I bought in December of 2018 and a Facebook account I've posted on maybe once in the last 5 years, that's it. I've never had a Twitter account, or Snapchat or Instagram or anything like that. I get enough misery porn every time I turn on TV/Radio I don't need additional sources to add extra anxiety.
  25. Tryptamine
    I'm not even that upset about yesterday's game. I'm definitely far less upset than after the hail Mary and that abomination of a New England game. Caleb's numbers weren't eye popping, but given who they played, I thought Caleb was very well and that's the biggest take away for me. When they're not trying to force downfield plays with a back up Oline, Caleb gets the job done. Hopefully after next draft he'll have the Oline to go hunting for those bigger plays on a more consistent basis.
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