Tryptamine
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This has been a really dismal offensive showing
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Big pitch
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Definitely sending Tucker if I'm manager here.
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There we go, finally.
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Well the wind kept that from a HR.
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Well this has been a very underwhelming offensive start.
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Mackenzie Gore Freddy Peralta Nick Lodolo Shane Smith Would all be guys I'd have varying interest in and think they could actually be available, unfortunately 2 of the 4 are in division. In a perfect world, somehow Michael King became available.
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Losing 1, not really. Losing a series to Colorado would just be a complete wtf moment.
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It's pretty rare that you feel like taking 2 of 3 is a disappointment.
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Can't believe David Robertson never signed with anyone. Jed needs to be all over that. A very good setup man, who can fill in at closer, and costs nothing but money. Save the prospect assets for a pitcher.
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I think we can stop with the Alcantara stuff. He has been awful this year. His BB% has literally doubled and his savant page is entirely blue outside of velocity and gb%. Even his velocity is down a bit this year.
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Cubs (Rea) vs Reds (Abbott): 5/24/25, 3:10pm
Tryptamine replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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. -
Cubs (Rea) vs Reds (Abbott): 5/24/25, 3:10pm
Tryptamine replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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. -
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?
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Above average defense with a below average bat. I'd rather let Shaw sink or swim then give up assets for that.
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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.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-21-25
Tryptamine replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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. -
A blown save away from a 6 game winning streak and 8 out of 9.
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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.
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Well this is certainly a take. I know Vargas has had a good month, but damn.....
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Hayden Wesneski is having TJS.
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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.
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Finish a sweep for once Cubs. Series wins are nice, but you need sweeps here and there to balance out the inevitable rough patches.
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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.
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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.
