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  1. Tryptamine
    BA not having Alcantara is going to look pretty foolish in about 2 months.
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    My initial reaction to Horton was so incredibly wrong. Kudos to the front office on that.
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    Yeah, I was talking about Sanders who has a very straight hittable fastball. I have about 100 times more faith in them getting to add some movement to that fastball than I do for them to reign in the control of Wiggins.
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    I go with this as well. His biggest weakness is a strength for the Cub's pitch lab/development team. I fully expect him to become a guy in 2024. Wiggins, on the other hand, I get that he has the biggest upside of the pitchers that were drafted, but thus far his weakness is not one the Cubs have been very good at developing so I don't have particularly high hopes there.
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    Ah, Kinsler is one I hadn't heard that I rather like. I expect a bit more BB% and K%, but it's quite close to what I feel his upside may be.
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    If they're selling, and I'm still firmly in that camp, Mervis, Madrigal and Amaya need all the at bats they can get. Wisdom needs to be fired into the sun. Morel needs to be given reps at a few positions until he finds a defensive home. I'd also like to see Brown get a taste of the big leagues out of the pen. Thought not as important as the others, I wouldn't mind seeing Perlaza get some at bats
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    I honestly haven't come up with a good comp yet. Uggla had far more power than I expect from Shaw but also likely had a considerably worse hit tool. I thought about Pedroia but Pedroia is likely a significantly better defender and, though I expect Shaw to have a higher BB%, he'll also probably have near double Pedroia's K%. Michael Young had a better hit tool, but I expect Shaw to have more pop and be a bigger threat on the bases. I come back to a guy like Rickie Weeks, but with less swing and miss and better defense. A guy who could possibly give you 20/20 in his best years and you're maybe looking at .270/.280 batting average and .350 obp. A guy, like you said, in the 3-4 WAR range most years with peak years a bit higher if things go right.
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    Nationals a big market team, meanwhile in St. Louis they get a free annual pick and they have Goldschmidt, Arenado and Contreras under contract while they talk about bringing in a front of the rotation starter in the offseason. I truly hate competitive balance picks.
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    Wrigley is pretty much perfect for the homerun derby. The stadium would be full, the streets outside the bleachers would be littered with people, the rooftops would be full. It would be absolutely electric.
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    I mean I kind of get it before the renovation, but since the stadium and the entire neighborhood were renovated, there's no excuse left not to have an ASG at Wrigley.
  11. Tryptamine
    Did missing those 2 starts cost Steele an ASG start? His ERA is nearly half a run lower than Gallen.
  12. Tryptamine
    They're all in on chasing upside. I can't recall a Cub draft like this.
  13. Tryptamine
    Good god, look at the size of him
  14. Tryptamine
    Gasparino is still there for the taking, but I don't think they money is there anymore.
  15. Tryptamine
    I'm actually kind of liking this draft. They went pretty safe on the 1st round pick, but they've chased upside on the rest of them.
  16. Tryptamine
    I know absolutely nothing other than he was #318 on prospects live list.
  17. Tryptamine
    Through 4 rounds and while they don't have any major underslots, they don't really have any overslots either, I wonder where the money is going to go.
  18. Tryptamine
    This is the kind of guy I have confidence in the Cubs turning into something. Get him in the lab and get some tailing action on that fastball and he becomes a thing.
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    Supposedly from the same scout that identified both Wicks and Horton, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt early on.
  20. Tryptamine
    I'd love to land Travis Sykora today, but I'm not sure the slot savings are there for that.
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    Yeah I'm expecting full slot for Shaw, if they get any savings out of his slot I'll consider that a win.
  22. Tryptamine
    Sounds like the stuff is there, they just need to teach him how to get it near the plate.
  23. Tryptamine
    They are absolutely killing it so far.
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    Was the MVP
  25. Tryptamine
    "Shaw might be one of the better college hitters in the Draft class. He rarely strikes out and draws walks while making consistently hard contact. He can drive the ball to all fields and he showed off impressive opposite-field power last year for Maryland, with many of his homers going out to right and right-center field. He’s a plus runner who is a legitimate basestealing threat." From mlb.com
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