Tryptamine
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-19-23
Tryptamine replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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a 145 wRC+ isn't dominant? Does he need to go all 2019 Ty France putting up a historic season with a 197 wRC+ before it's considered dominating? In AAA in 2022 his GB% was 38.7, in 2023 it's 38.2. In MLB terms, 38.2 GB% would put him 48th in baseball ahead or tied with Luis Roberts, Pete Alonso, Adley Rutschman, Paul Goldschmidt, Rafael Devers, etc.
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Why? What else is there for him to learn in AAA? He dominated it in 2022, he's dominating it again in 2023. It's time for him to sink or swim so they know if he's going to be a guy going forward.
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I give up on predicting with them. If I remember right they rank very high on number of 10+ run games this year and then for the next few games they'll do basically nothing until you're convinced the offense is dead and another 10+ run game happens.
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Yes, if you're going to imply he failed based on 99 PAs then I can also use a small sample size to say he was adjusting. The point being, there's zero reason he shouldn't be given another chance and he never should have been sent down to begin with.
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Post Draft Signings
Tryptamine replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Wow I didn't know that. I guess message boards are just fading away now. The Rotoworld forums were just shut down a week or so ago as well. -
They had 12 hits with 2 strikes. I think that's the crazier stat.
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This is being intentionally obtuse. Firstly, as was previously mentioned, it was 99 PAs. Trying to draw long term conclusions from that just doesn't work. Even with that, He was showing significant batted ball improvement. From May 5th to June 1st 27.5 SOFT% 30 MED% 42.5 HARD% 17.5 LD%, 52.5 GB%, 30 FB% 90.6 EV From June 1st until he was sent down 22.2 SOFT% 33.3 MED% 44.4 HARD% 22.2 LD% 33.3 GB% 44.4 FB% 92.1 EV Though the results weren't there yet, he was clearly starting to figure things out(thanks .118 babip). He was putting more balls in the air and the quality of contact was spiking.
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Way to speak it into existence
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Seiya really needed a big night like this. Hopefully he feeds off of it.
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If they manage to lose today and tomorrow, the Cubs are responsible for 15% of the Nats wins this year.
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I went to feed my dog in a commercial with the Cubs about to come up and I come back and it's in commercial again. Did I miss like a 90 second half inning?
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By all means, please keep giving Mancini as many at bats as possible.
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I'm getting real close to saying just burn it down entirely. Deal Steele, Stroman, Bellinger, etc. Clean the FO and start things fresh.
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It begins
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It's going to take a miracle for this to be a competitive team in 2024
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4k through 2 innings for Corbin. This team absolutely sucks.
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Well this was over nice and quick. Taillon needs to hit the 60 day IL and try to come back in 2024 being slightly less terrible.
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Pitcher with one of the worst K rates in baseball strikes out 2 in the first
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Taillon managed to get through 1 whole batter before putting the Cubs behind
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I'm going to set the over/under at 3 runs scored by the Cubs tonight
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While Swanson has been the best of the big 4 this year, he was definitely viewed as the worst of them in free agency. So the point remains, they haven't gone after the top guys at their respective positions. Grabbing Taillon instead of Kodai Senga was a huge difference maker this season. If Senga is on this team, the Cubs likely aren't selling right now.
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Adding one of those pitchers and Bellinger/Candelario/Capman just gets us right back to where we are now and likely worse because it's unlikely any of those 4 pitchers match what Stroman has done so far. I'm not even going to consider Ohtani an option as Jed has shown that he isn't willing to swim in the deep end of the FA pool. He's more content going after the guys in the 2nd tier.
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It's not that they're mediocre, I myself had them ad a a 77-78 win squad before the season so, it's that it's very hard to see this team as considerably better in the future. They're going to lose both Bellinger and Stroman, so 2 of their 3 most valuable players, and will have to fill 2 rotation spots assuming they don't pick up Hendrick's option. 3B is a black hole, 1B is a black hole, the DH is a black hole, the corner OF spots are average at best. How can they possibly address all of this next offseason? Realistically at this time you're going into 2024 with this roster C- Amaya/Barnhart 1b- Mervis/Mancini 2b- Nico/Morel SS- Dansby/Nico 3B- Wisdom/Morel/Madrigal LF- Happ CF- Tauchmann RF- Seiya DH- Wisdom/Mancini/Morel SP: Steele/Smyly/Taillon and maybe Hendricks How do you fix this?
