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I haven’t read either so idk. I do know run scoring is typically down a little from regular season to post season most years since there’s more elite and situational pitching (don’t know if that would mean HRs see a dip too). I feel like the 2017 playoffs was when we noticed the ball changed.
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Here’s a Fangraphs article on it (haven’t read it yet) but probably has similar info to the BP one and doesn’t require any sort of account.
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STL is winning anyway, them beating LA would've just made it more infuriating. But maybe Scherzer and Strasburg can Schilling/Johnson their way past somehow. I have faith in the Nats since, you know, they have a better offense and rotation.
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He’s probably happy he doesn’t need to wait 40 years to get his money
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Seriously, just suck it up for 1 year and sign him and go with a god mode offense. He’s your hedge against KB leaving in 2 years too and there’s plenty of money coming off after this coming year.
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What was wrong with his outing tonight? He should’ve been in to face Rendon when they were up 3-1 in the 8th.
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Holy horsefeathers, the tactician has had himself a game.
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I think he’s still under contract there for a bit, but yeah I think they use him really well. He gets some normal starts here and there but when they use him out of the pen (outside of tonight) they usually deploy him really well.
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Holy horsefeathers what horrible managing. You need 6 outs and have a full pen.
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Point 1, for sure. Doesn’t hurt to see what’s out there, but I think we’d be underwhelmed. Agree that it’s an either/or with Schwarbs and Nick and I’d just lean keeping Schwarbs over using up a significant amount of money available this offseason to bring back Nick. On the second point, I agree. Margot would be the ideal target there but Pillar could likely be had (who’s at least what we thought Almora could be). I also think Schwarbs isn’t close to the trade currency that even Willy is, obviously he isn’t in KB’s stratosphere. Willy is the guy to move that could be relatively easily replaced and also bring us back something(s) good, imo.
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If you believe in Schwarber's 2nd half. Castellanos has been a consistently good bat for multiple seasons, his numbers have been depressed by playing in an awful hitter's park, and he's still in his prime and generally speaking much more of a contact hitter than even good Schwarber. Defensively? Pick your poison. I don't honestly see much difference. Ultimately, what might drive the decision is that all Castellanos costs is money and Schwarber probably has decent trade value after his strong finish. If indeed you could get Merrifield for +/- Schwarber (which may or may not be true), you're not swapping Schwarber for Castellanos - you're swapping Schwarber and $$$ for Castellanos and Merrifield. And on paper at least, you couldn't draw up a guy more ideally suited to address our weaknesses on both sides of the ball than Merrifield. I don’t think Schwarber would be valued enough by the market to bring back Merrifield or a similar player. Schwarber probably ends up providing us more value being kept than whatever he brings back, imo.
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Cubs Manager Search (Ross to be hired - Kaplan)
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All day interview isn't that uncommon for a senior position in the business world. If you're speaking with a lot of people on the leadership team plus lunch it's not really absurd. Oh I know, I’m more just upset they essentially wasted a full day on Girardi. -
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Acuna stutter stepping rounding 3B on a Dong is all I can think of.
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His 2nd half pull% was 5% less than his career and his oppo% went up 5% as a trade off, throw in the K rate dropping and I think he definitely had some growth in the 2nd half.
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The BN article mentioned he has a 3/21 (or 23) offer on the table from his current team and there’s another team over there who may offer him something. So yeah I’m guessing it would take 4-5 years in the $30-40 mil range to get him over here. Who knows where the budget will be with so much Ricketts money tied up in the Trump re-election campaign, but in a vacuum something like 4/30 for Akiyama would be a great gambIe. If you want to focus on situational hitting and defense, sign Japanese players because it’s drilled into them from the time they’re tiny kids. Akiyama is a significant talent - I’d expect his power numbers to slide and his age is a concern, but he’s so good defensively in CF that even if he lost a step he’d still be above average. I’d put the over-under on his offensive numbers in MLB at something like .275/345/425. We should have ~$30 mil to play with even with Ricketts horsefeathers. But yeah that seems like a fair slash line to project. After I read up on him and saw some videos I basically thought a decent expectation would be what Heyward does vs RHP with plus defense and base running.
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Just reckless and negligent managing by Shildt here
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This is so dumb that Flaherty is taking this AB. I hope his arm falls off.
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I’m sure the Braves catching brain trust of McCann, Flowers And Cervelli will make sure cooler heads prevail
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The BN article mentioned he has a 3/21 (or 23) offer on the table from his current team and there’s another team over there who may offer him something. So yeah I’m guessing it would take 4-5 years in the $30-40 mil range to get him over here.
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I see some nice savings in non-tendering Almora and Russell.
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Cubs Manager Search (Ross to be hired - Kaplan)
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Excuse me I mean if custom ranks weren't broken I would've made yours "Mr. Almora" a long time ago, we get it, you love the guy http://nosebleedsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/blas.gif
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It's really unfortunate that Almora completely lost his one ability (hitting LHP), and Happ hasn't had it the last two years. Makes someone like Castellanos that much more valuable, but I still don't think you can justify spending limited resources there when you have a left handed version in Schwarber already on the roster. Without getting into the details, picking up a starter like Grey purely through prospects and the Happs/Botes of the world, and then using Contreras to find a legit starting RH outfielder would create a lot more flexibility out there. The other way to think about this is the option cubswin11 keeps pushing, which is just keeping Almora for that spot since he'll probably bounce back, and lefty mashing outfielder is possibly the easiest thing in the baseball world to find if not. Excuse me
