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  1. Tryptamine
    I was really big on Eflin as a target at the trade deadline, but he's allowed 7HR in his last 2 starts now. Either he's really rusty coming back from injury or there's something wrong there.
  2. Tryptamine
    The Cubs need to consolidate some of that AAA talent into a young pitcher with control. I'm really hoping Washington falls out of it because Mackenzie Gore would be ideal. Take Caissie+Triantos+Wicks+another sizable piece, I don't care.
  3. Tryptamine
    Ricketts had better not cheap out on this trade deadline. This team is one front line starter and one very good pen arm from being as likely as anyone else to win it this year. If you're not going to splurge now, then when?
  4. Tryptamine
    Above average defense with a below average bat. I'd rather let Shaw sink or swim then give up assets for that.
  5. Tryptamine
    I find Tomoyuki Sugano fascinating. Even by outlier standards he appears to be an extreme outlier. He's currently sporting a 3.07 ERA through 10 starts(58.2IP) despite an almost impossibly low 4.91 K/9. His peripherals are still saying he has overperformed but they're becoming far more reasonable then they were even a few weeks ago. He's sporting a 4.82 FIP, 4.46 xFIP, and 4.36 xERA. According to baseball savant he's doing a very good job of limiting hard contact, his off speed offerings are elite and induce a lot of chases. We've seen pitchers be fip beaters like our own Kyle Hendricks, but Sugano seems, at least so far, to be in a world of his own in that regard.
  6. Tryptamine
    2.93 BB/9 so far this year, granted it has come at the cost of K/9 and he sports an absurdly high lob% and impossibly low babip of .094.
  7. Tryptamine
    A blown save away from a 6 game winning streak and 8 out of 9.
  8. Tryptamine
    He's 2 years older, has less years of team control and has a career 74 wRC+ in 767 PAs. I'm not letting a month of good at bats distract me from that.
  9. Tryptamine
    Well this is certainly a take. I know Vargas has had a good month, but damn.....
  10. Tryptamine
    Hayden Wesneski is having TJS.
  11. Tryptamine
    It wasn't just injuries. That pitching staff was clearly not good going into the season and the GM all but admitted that saying he had hoped the young bats would progress and make up for it. Honestly it should have been the GM to get fired and not the coach, but that almost never happens.
  12. Tryptamine
    Finish a sweep for once Cubs. Series wins are nice, but you need sweeps here and there to balance out the inevitable rough patches.
  13. Tryptamine
    Do the math. Last year you needed 86 wins to get into the AL playoffs. Currently the Orioles have 15, so they need 71 more wins. They have 118 games left to play. So just to get to 86 wins they're going to have to go 71-47 the rest of the way. That's .602 ball or 98 win pace the rest of the year. Is it impossible? Absolutely not, but they're one more bad week from making it all but a certainty.
  14. Tryptamine
    Most likely something headlined by pitching, but if we're taking simply value based. You're probably talking a fairly big piece like Caissie as a headliner or like 2 guys in the 8-12 range.
  15. Tryptamine
    Shaw has got to be up in the next few days. By wRC+ the Cubs have gotten a 50 out of 3B which is 2nd last in the league beyond a seemingly impossible 18 from the Brewers.
  16. Tryptamine
    Colorado now on pace to go 26-136(.159)
  17. Tryptamine
    Baltimore fires their coach in, what has been, one of the most disappointing seasons I can recall.
  18. Tryptamine
    Hot take, I'd rather deal Caissie. Right now of the Iowa guys that could actually headline deals I'd put them in this order for people I'd part with. 1. Triantos 2. Caissie 3. Long 4. Alcantara 5. Shaw
  19. Tryptamine
    Yeah, it would be really unlikely for him to get through the 6th anyway.
  20. Tryptamine
    He really settled in the last 2 innings, still a low amount of swing and miss though.
  21. Tryptamine
    Horton seems to be getting ahead of people, but he's not putting them away as much as I'd like to see.
  22. Tryptamine
    Yeah it has been groundball after groundball so far. I don't remember this being an issue at all in the minors.
  23. Tryptamine
    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.
  24. Tryptamine
    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.
  25. Tryptamine
    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.
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