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Yup, Abraham Toro on fangraphs if anyone cares to look in to him.
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That guy is basically just Charles The Cat. No way that’s real, at least more effort than anything the cat has ever put in to a lie/dot connecting to write down names on loose leaf and lie about it like that.
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I would be pretty excited if he was pitching over Tyler chatwood or Alec mills. This offseason sucks. I guess. He might just be done too and is owed a lot of money as a 33/34 year old pitcher who just was hurt for most of a season. Mills actually had a lot of better numbers than him last year (K, BB, ERA, FIP, xFIP and both pitched 30-40 innings). I’m not losing sleep over missing out on this one. Of course I’d pick Kluber over those guys to start the year and bank on history, but he also was really recently not very good and worse than the guy we think he’d be a massive upgrade over.
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Eh, he put up worse ERA, FIP and xFIP than Q last year and has been pretty mediocre since June/July of 2018.
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2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat
Cubswin11 replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Hell yeah! What a comeback
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That’s fine, I do worry his addition keeps Happ from getting ABs. But there’s really no other options for CF in house. He should help make the roster deeper regardless by adding a quality player and again he’s the contact compliment guy they are looking for. If KB or Bote is traded more playing time for Happ opens up too. Especially in the hypothetical where we trade KB, but also in general, I’d much rather get comfortable with Heyward playing 40ish games in center and getting a reliable, platoon-y, on base heavy bat to play right. That could be KB if we pick up an infielder too. Basically, Schwarber/Happ/Heyward scares me enough offensively as is...I’d prefer to find a lefty killer to give us a boost. I’d like to take a flyer on Souza for that role.
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Our CF’ers hit .245/.316/.410 with a 87 wRC+ last year and also graded out poorly defensively. Throw in one of the worst players in the league over the last 2 years saw significant time there and Akiyama will take significant time from him, the bar ain’t exactly high to to give us more than we got last year. Plus he, presumably, brings the whole contact thing they want to add more of in the profile. We’re not comparing him to Almora as much as we’re comparing him to the other options out there, including the guy we have in house, Happ, who has considerably more promise and potential than ‘mid 30s Dollar store version of Zobrist without the versatility’ That’s fine, I do worry his addition keeps Happ from getting ABs. But there’s really no other options for CF in house. He should help make the roster deeper regardless by adding a quality player and again he’s the contact compliment guy they are looking for. If KB or Bote is traded more playing time for Happ opens up too.
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Yeah that very well may have cost them winning this thing
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Our CF’ers hit .245/.316/.410 with a 87 wRC+ last year and also graded out poorly defensively. Throw in one of the worst players in the league over the last 2 years saw significant time there and Akiyama will take significant time from him, the bar ain’t exactly high to to give us more than we got last year. Plus he, presumably, brings the whole contact thing they want to add more of in the profile.
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Yup, he’s a solid gold horsefeathers. I’d assume his caddy is one as well. Would think video of whatever happened will come out.
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Things are getting chippy
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Yup, as long as they’re willing to shuffle through stuff a little more aggressively when guys suck I think there’s a workable and good pen in there. Plus I’d assume we get a bullpen arm in one of these trades that sounds like will happen and/or bring back Strop for cheap or some cheap 1 year vet that’s hanging out there right before ST. I think the reason they weren't aggressive was because no one in the opening day pen besides Carl had minor league options. For that reason I don't want a cheap one year vet holding a roster spot hostage (I also don't want Mills and Chatwood to both make it to ST). Get one more setup type arm from one of the trades, and roll into 2020 with this: Kimbrel Wick Ryan New Guy Chatwood/Mills Megill/Underwood Iowa Shuttle x2 (likely Wieck/Winkler initially) Oh absolutely I think that’s a huge reason why the bullpen was so inflexible early on last year because it was bloated with low ceiling vets without options. So yeah I basically hope we do what’s been discussed here to have more flexibility on a spot or 3 and be aggressive with it and hopefully find another Wick this year.
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Did he even throw off a mound at all in 2019? I don’t know if he ever got off flat ground/long toss. If so and even if he’s technically healthy right now you’d have to assume he has a lot of work to do to even get in shape to be throwing off a mound since he likely hasn’t since 2018.
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Fun fact, Morrow has put up more WAR than Almora over the last two years in only 30 innings of pitching.
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Yup, as long as they’re willing to shuffle through stuff a little more aggressively when guys suck I think there’s a workable and good pen in there. Plus I’d assume we get a bullpen arm in one of these trades that sounds like will happen and/or bring back Strop for cheap or some cheap 1 year vet that’s hanging out there right before ST.
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2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat
Cubswin11 replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
horsefeathers that horsefeathers, I hope his arm blows out or we are least pummel him when we face him. He’s such a little horsefeathers who clearly has some kind of inflated complex about himself. Lol at the “adapt or die” thing when he threw a horsefeathers fit over “being tinkered with.” Also implying he’s some sort of renaissance man when it comes to his pitching styles, get fucked dude. -
They better hit on some SP prospects in the next ~18 months if Yu is traded (think it’s pretty clear he isn’t going anywhere and it’s baseless speculation by writers) because it’s just Hendricks beyond this year.
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They got just under 14 fWAR (!) from Cole and Verlander. Cole is gone and Verlander is a strong bet to be good but less than 6 wins good. No one would say they're gonna suck but given the state of their pitching I wouldn't overstate how surefire their dominance is in 2020 and beyond. They also got just the 2nd season in 5-7 years out of Brantley where he played more than 90 games. It’s probably more likely he plays in closer to 100 games than 140 games again this year, Alvarez was awesome for like 70 games and he might not be THAT good over a full season, etc.
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I was thinking the same thing when I turned it off last night with the US having lost 1 and losing the other 4. I wake up this morning and find that they went 3-0-1 which puts them right back in. The International team always does best in the foresomes. The US should do really well in the individual matches. It seems to me they weathered the storm, they are getting used to the golf course and have adjusted to being on the other side of the world. Yeah, Tiger and JT and whoever the final US group was (Woodland and Fowler I think) bailed them out late to potentially salvage things. Tiger and JT definitely seem to have some mojo together, hopefully they’re paired together in the Ryder Cup. In the individual matchups the US should be pretty heavy favorites in the majority of them but we’ll see.
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2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat
Cubswin11 replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This "not a capped league" argument is a crock of shlt. The LT is a salary cap because the owners have colluded to treat it like one. And because they don't call it one - and because the union is a beaten dog and they have their stupid antitrust exemption - they got their salary cap without having to institute a salary floor. It's a win-win for the owners screwing the players and fans. Well teams have and continue to go over the LT, so it technically is not capped. But that's not the point. The point of the post quoted was to show that there's other leagues without hard FA signing deadlines that clearly have to have some "collusion" agreements to get deals done sooner that later with FA because it's best for business to not let FA sit out there and have a stagnant free agency period. I completely agree with a salary floor being in place if there's any sort of salary ceiling (even if it's artificial in the LT). Especially since a lot of the teams who spend well below where they should get the benefit of revenue sharing, national TV deals, comp picks, etc. -
2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat
Cubswin11 replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yep, and at this point I'm going to suggest that your satisfaction with their payday is a huge factor in the narrative changes you've made. It's convenient that the Astros org is separate from the owner in the case of Yu, whatever mechanics you want to blame it on the end result is the same - his price dropped and the Cubs pounced, which doesn't happen without the drop in price. There's no bump for Strasburg or Rendon so much as the owners taking advantage of diminished expectations after two really bad faith FA periods because they can Just gonna have to agree to disagree here man. There were clear market factors that affected Yu, Strasburg and Rendon with their postseason performances. The Cubs aren’t the bad guys because the market soured on Yu. I’m not satisfied by anything here and am not changing narratives other than pointing out the expectations for Bryce and Manny were largely based on media speculation and nothing we’d ever seen before in reality and they still ended up with record deals. You’re self admittedly being really conspiratorial here, which maybe you’re right. But I don’t buy it.
