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  1. Tryptamine
    If the Cubs are going to grab a pen arm, and at this point it is a luxury and shouldn't be a priority, it needs to be a pen arm that misses a lot of bats. They have a lot of guys who are good to great this year, but they don't have that lockdown monster who can keep guys from putting the ball in play when they need to. The Cub pen is 2nd to last in baseball in K/9 at 7.52. Right now they have 1 pen arm who exceeds 9K/9 and that's Palencia. That's super unusual.
  2. Tryptamine
    We're starting to reach a sample size where it might not just be fluke hot streak and it might be the Cubs have figured something out.
  3. Tryptamine
    I haven't watched ESPN outside of NFL games in decades at this point. There was a time I'd record Sportscenter or Baseball tonight every night to see what was said about the Cubs. Now it's constant bickering and drama with the rare interesting article locked behind a paywall on their website. ESPN could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't effect my life in the slightest.
  4. Tryptamine
    Get a big win today and seal the series victory with a very good Peralta on the mound tomorrow.
  5. Tryptamine
    Guy has a 153 wRC+, 18/19 on SB, and has already been worth 3.1 fWAR. No, no I'm not worried.
  6. Tryptamine
    Kikuchi I would love. I wanted him in the offseason and he has exactly the kind of upside this rotation needs. The stuff is good and I'd love to see what the pitch lab could do with him. Soriano comes with far too much risk to warrant what is likely to be a pretty high asking price. As far as Jansen goes, yeah I think this speaks for itself. Hardest of passes.
  7. Tryptamine
    And this is why the company is failing
  8. Tryptamine
    If I had to put money down on who the Cubs take, this would be the guy.
  9. Tryptamine
    #1) is a given that they need, at very least, a solid pitcher who can eat innings with Horton, Brown, etc. on pitch limits and Steele out. #2) I'm gonna hot take and say they need a bat like maybe a 3B bat or at least a strong bench bat. Once Horton and/or Brown eventually go to the pen I think it's already going to be excellent even without an addition.
  10. Tryptamine
    Just based on the upside alone, I can't see a scenario he makes it to the Cubs anymore
  11. Tryptamine
    No hitter 18ks. So much money made on today's game.
  12. Tryptamine
    Not mad at that call, the guy did stick his elbow out, albeit just a little.
  13. Tryptamine
    Well he made himself a heck of a lot of money today.
  14. Tryptamine
    I still wouldn't hate the idea of just deciding to try and overwhelm with offense if they don't find a pitcher out there they love. Bring in Bregman and try to put up 7 runs a game.
  15. Tryptamine
    So many wasted lead off hits.
  16. Tryptamine
    They can't score without HR right now.
  17. Tryptamine
    a 41 wRC+ in high leverage situations for Dansby before today. For comparison sake, Jon Berti has a 55 wRC+ overall.
  18. Tryptamine
    Please keep hitting him 5th guy who makes millions of dollars to manage a baseball team.
  19. Tryptamine
    More RISP failure by Dansby
  20. Tryptamine
    No particular order but these are the ones for me 1. Caissie- He's been fairly good, but he's basically been the same guy he has been. There's not much improvement there especially for someone repeating a level even if he's still young for AAA. 2. Alcantara- More of the same as Caissie, but even worse. All of his plate discipline improvements have disappeared and actually gotten worse. No increase in power and a pretty minimal increase in walk rate. Alcantara might be going the Junior Lake route. Lots of tools but never puts it together to be more than a fringe MLBer. 3. Lovich- I know he's very young, but I thought he'd hit the ground running rather than being more or less a league average bat. That's not real promising for a guy who is basically going to live or die with his bat. 4. Cowles- I was hyped when they traded for him as his new found plate discipline made him a very real candidate to be an impactful utility player. All that plate discipline vanished and we're left with a guy who might not even be with the franchise after 2026. 5. Triantos- I'm hoping it's injury related, but he's just been straight up bad in his play time so far. Unless he fixes it, he's going to go from a guy who made some top 100 lists to a guy who might not even be in my top 15-20 in the offseason.
  21. Tryptamine
    I wouldn't either, but it sure as heck would take a lot of my enjoyment out of it and if I'm not enjoying then why watch?
  22. Tryptamine
    11 baserunners 1 run, completely unacceptable.
  23. Tryptamine
    LOL this offense.
  24. Tryptamine
    Another impressive AB
  25. Tryptamine
    Great AB Ian
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