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  1. Tryptamine
    Volquez to the DL with blisters and Nola is getting an MRI after his back stiffened up again during a rehab session.
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    This starting pitching absolutely sucks.
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    Pace just sealed his fate and wasted an entire draft.
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    That's a shame. He came back this year throwing 1.2mph harder than he's ever thrown and his peripherals were looking like 2013 Miller was back.
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    Being able to stay hitting, whether it's DH or position on non-pitching days apparently is a big deal to him. No team should be stupid enough to offer that, by almost all accounts I've read he's a non-prospect, essentially, as a hitter. He's producing at a pretty high level with the bat, and non-prospect as a hitter is much harsher than I recall, but given the swing and miss and risk to his health as a pitcher, I don't think you'd see him as a 2 way player. It might take him time to realize it, but he would be ideal for this iteration of the Cubs roster, where he can basically help lengthen the pen and shorten the bench by being an early pinch hitter that's better than the Arrietas or Travis Woods of the world. I thought I had read that he was like 25-30%K guy in Japan, if so, he has no business doing anything than hitting on his start days.
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    I enjoy that the article leads you to believe the Cardinals have their wave of prospects that's going to lead them to the promise land but forget to mention that the Cubs have another wave coming and they're all more highly regarded.
  7. Tryptamine
    It really would be great, because then you're going into 2018 looking like Lester,Hendricks,Mongomery,Butler and that open slot can be filled via FA. The Cubs would get to hang onto all of Eloy,Happ,Cease etc.
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    I wonder what it would take to get a few months of Masahiro Tanaka? He has the option to opt out of the remaining 3/64 he has on his contract and the Yankees have been very clear that they don't intend to resign him when the time comes. I think he could be a reasonable stop gap for this season while the hole in FA.
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    God I'd really love if Candelario could bring back Sean Reid-Foley. He should be not too far off come 2018, maybe ready to join the team after super 2 in mid July.
  10. Tryptamine
    the international pool bonus and the draft caps came in the same cba, implemented a few weeks after theo got hired. both came into play summer 2012 wasn't it a couple years after that they implimented the rule where you couldn't spend more than 300K on a player for 2 years if you went over budget by a certain amount? Anyways, you get my point.
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    Unless the White Sox come down drastically on their rumored asking price (Francis Marte,Kyle Tucker and one of Musgrove/Paulino/Fischer/F.Perez/Whitley) then it's never going to happen. I think they're better off just promoting Marte at some point.
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    I swear to god they make up these [expletive] rules to screw with Theo. He comes to the Cubs and suddenly the slotting system takes over making it so he can't grab throws wads of money at high ceiling prospects that other teams couldn't afford like he doing in Boston. So he decides he's going to go crazy on the international market instead. A year later all that international pool bonus nonsense starts. Now this stuff with Otani, where they just decide arbitrarily that players have to be 25 now instead of 23.
  13. Tryptamine
    Kind of surprised the ball getting stuck on Molina's chest protector from today's game isn't becoming a bigger story. One of two things is obviously happening; #1, the pitcher is adding something to the ball which is fine up to a point, but if he's adding so much that it's adhereing to a flat surface, then you're affecting the transfer of power from the bat to the ball. Option 2, Molina is putting sticky horsefeathers all over his chest protector to keep balls in front of him which should significantly tarnish his legacy as a so called defensive genius. I just find it strange that if a star player had a corked bat it would be all over the news, but with today's incident there's a few articles and mostly nothing besides.
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    #37000, after 5 or 6 years of waiting. I'm going to be lucky if Rizzo hasn't retired before I even get a shot at tickets.
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    Man, I really thought Skulina was a pretty safe bet to see time in the majors when he was drafted. Seemed like a guy who would move pretty quick.
  16. Tryptamine
    Apparently I'm the high one on Tyson Miller. I think there's a good amount of upside there.
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    Met starting pitcher Seth Lugo has a slight tear in his UCL, but will avoid surgery in lieu of the almost never successful platelet rich plasma injection followed by rest. So much for any rotation depth in New York this year.
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    The Cardinals are going to be paying a catcher over $18 million for his age 37 season. They are going to be paying Fowler and Molina $35 million. Come the historic FA class of 2018/2019 I suspect they're going to regret this massively.
  19. Tryptamine
    Now begins the Cardinal fan speculation that they'll be landing Quintana for Kelly,Bader and Adams and whatever else is blocked or invaluable to them.
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    3 years at 18M a year is a number that keeps getting thrown out there. If that's the case, then I'm going to be doing a lot of laughing.
  21. Tryptamine
    Looks like Cubs still have interest in Alex Cobb http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/alex-cobb-bracing-himself-for-possible-farewell-season-with-rays/2317075
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    I really can't believe Eloy, who hasn't even seen A+, is absolutely mashing the way he is in spring training. In my mind he's not far from being completely unavailable pending some kind of ridiculous overpayment.
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    I continue to appreciate Theo more and more.
  24. Tryptamine
    So Carter Capps has now added a second hop to his delivery because it wasn't bad enough he was getting away with one. http://www.barstoolsports.com/baseball/it-looks-like-carter-capps-has-added-a-second-hop-to-his-already-borderline-illegal-delivery/
  25. Tryptamine
    I have no real explanation for it, but I've just felt really good and really positive about this trade from the moment it happened. Almost like it's destined to be and we're just waiting for the epic moment to happen.
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