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If Theo and Jed didn’t go personally talk to Joe about the stupidity of that move and the trickle down effects they better of at least sent one of the FO nerds to go explain it to Joe and why it was dumb and bad. -
That’s a horsefeathers loss, oh well, win the next two and Go Reds
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Rowan Wick can stay and should be given a dozen or outings to see what he can be, especially over the Brach’s, Ryan’s, etc of the world
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Rizzo you dumb MF’er
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Right, Monty has a role as a MLB pitcher. What he’s good at isn’t a good fit for us right now and he’s being used poorly. Hopefully a team with a reliever we target values Monty as a starter.
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Monty horsefeathering sucks, quit using him as a lefty specialist/1 inning regular reliever.
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No. This is dumb OK. I'll shut up now. This having a young pitcher thing has got me very confused. MAYBE in the offseason it would an avenue to explore but unlikely. Q has a cheap option for next year and we need SP and augmenting the 5th spot next year with Adbert next year without spending on it can open up some money to build out the rest of the roster on offense or bullpen. I doubt Q can return anything right now that makes us better for the year and it's probably a toss up in the offseason too. There's ways to work Adbert in (regardless of Hendricks health) this year to maximize things.
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Yikes If the kid can take a spot next year is it really crazy to consider? At this point I would pay Hamels for a couple more years. We are stuck with Lester and Darvish and we extended Hendricks. Not saying they pull the trigger but do you at least see if you can get something? No. This is dumb
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If they really like 1 of Garland/Culver/White I could see #7, and top ~5 protected next year to move up to 4. I’m fairly confident next years draft isn’t that great. Get your future PG/Scoring wing in Culver and start moving forward. That trade tonight, a backup PG, 3 and D wing, C and PF FA to fill out the roster and that’s a 6-8 seed if things break right. Who cares if you lose out on the 15-19th pick next year then.
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We have 5 players with 15 Dongs or more, no other team has more than 3. That's kinda cool. Both and Heyward could make it 6 or 7 relatively soon if they get on a heater, Bote is at 9 and Heyward is at 10.
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I feel like I'm the only one actually looking at Eloy's performances in pro ball right now rather than going with some generalization of. He's been that! At 20-22 the guy put up something like .335/.385/.570 with a 16% K rate and 26 HRs in 551 PAs between AA and AAA. That is incredible hitting! I read this situation as some Cubs fans over correcting for overrating Schwarber as a prospect Schwarber had a 1.022 OPS across AA and AAA at age 22. He hit 16 HRs in 310 PAs, which is a pace of 28.5 for 551 PAs. Schwarber did have an unsustainable BABIP of around .390-.400 though. He then came up and put up a .842 OPS in the majors at 22. Jimenez has a .798 OPS so far this year in around 80 less PAs. K rates are basically the same in the majors at 28-29% and Schwarber nearly walked twice as often. People might be underrating Eloy but it seems like you might be underrating what Schwarber did in the minors and before he blew out his knee. And to be fair, we'll never know how much, if at all, that affected Schwarber's development. Agree with all this but on the bolded part we know it cost him the ability to catch ever again. He was never going to be great there, but even as a 30-50 start a year catcher that bat would have been incredibly valuable there and coming up as a prospect we didn't need him to hit like Eloy has to, to carry a good amount of value because of the position.
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:flythew: Back in first
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BuT hOw WiLl ThEy HiT gIoLiTo
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MAKE WAY FOR WILLY
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God damn it Willy, do something with those pitches
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And it’s not wrong to think that way, because it’s mostly true and probable
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Would be nice if they kept it up for the next couple weeks and the Cubs got hot. Yes it would, hopefully the Reds stay on their heater this weekend. Going 1-5 to the Giants and Padres is quite bad.
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Padres sweep the Brewers, 2-6 road trip for them vs the Astros, Giants and Padres. Apparently other teams can play bad and lose on the road too.
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Ha. I was in the "he's definitely a 2-3 WAR guy who might get to 4+ in a couple prime years" camp up until he kept tearing it up last year. .337/.384/.577 with a 15(!!!!)% K rate in AA/AAA from a guy with his size and pedigree at age 21 is the good stuff. Now I think that Juan Gonzalez-y kind of player might be more his floor than ceiling LO-the horsefeathers -L I mean for as crazy as that statement is, even if he is that. Juan Gonzalez only has 3 seasons of 4 WAR or more, he had 7 sub 2 WAR seasons.
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Oh, you're almost definitely under selling it and not by a small amount. No clue what it translate to in WAR but he looks like a guy who will hit for high average and top of the league kind of power without striking out crazy amounts once settled in. The only hole in his offensive game is his walk rates being low, and he's shown the potential to reach 10% in the minors. If there's ML ready MiL players with JD Martinez potential as a DH, Eloy should be on the [very] short list Yeah that’s fine and cool, it’s still a crazy bar he has to reach (given his limitations) to be overly valuable with not much margin for error. For example in 2017, Nelson Cruz hit .288/.379/.549 with 39 HRs, he was only worth 3.9 WAR, same year Corey Dickerson hit .282/.325/.490 with almost 30 HRs and was worth 2.6 WAR. You have to REALLY hit as a DH to be worth a lot and even if you do REALLY hit you still most likely aren’t worth that much.
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That is an interesting take on how Eloy's MiL numbers will translate. If you're basing this off of Schwarber's ML performance, Eloy doesn't have to deal with the L v L matchup (which btw reflected in Schwarber's MiL stats behind the glitz) that cripples many LHHs, never struck out much in the minors relative to the league averages, hit .312 throughout all levels, and all while always being young for the leagues. I think you're selling that bat short, probably by alot. I very well could be under selling it. But even if I am, how good a bat needs to be as a DH only/terrible defender to be crazy valuable (like even more than 2-3 wins valuable) is pretty damn high and few guys get there. That’s my over reaching point. I don’t think he can hit on the JD Martinez levels to be a superstar value player at the DH position/negative defender.
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I pointed it out yesterday and our offense sucks right now so it doesn’t matter, but there is some context with Giolito’s starts and the bump he’s seeing. He definitely seems to be taking a leap, regardless of competition, but 8 of his 13 starts have been vs the Royals, Indians and Jays (some of the worst offenses in baseball) and he also has 2 starts recently vs the broken and injured Yankees and Astros lineups. He’s probably going to shove us but I think his numbers have gotten a boost from poor competition.
