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  1. Cubswin11
    I know it’s going against the KB sucks and is actually bad now thing people are jumping on, but I think he’s gonna be fine. Just having a rough ~4 games here, it happens. He was on Tallion there.
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    It’s sad that we’re at a point I’m finding comfort in a loss today that was mostly just a normal baseball game and loss and not a loss due to horsefeathers ups every other inning. They’ve really done a hell of a job lowering the bar of expectations from me.
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    It’s Sofa’s job to make sure there’s a GT everyday. No excuses.
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    A bullpen pitcher who throws strikes and 95+, I didn’t know we were allowed to have those
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    Hopefully Cedeno is back soon to get Randy out of here.
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    That was a fun BABIP inning. Doesn’t matter I guess because we never hit Davies so at 2-0 this was out of reach.
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    We’re winning 10 before we lose 10. Also, Heyward is left handed Trout. We finally got him.
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    Monty definitely looked off, idk if he’s actually hurt or the shoulder thing he had in spring didn’t let him get 100% ready for the start of the year. But he looked like he was either hurt or needed to work on some things and Carl, yeah. May never see him again.
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    We have an .893 team OPS, let’s see if we can get it to .900 before winning another game.
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    The Cubs are 7-1 all time in games I attend there, and the lone loss was KB's first MLB dong. So take me with you. I’ve seen two Heyrides in games I’ve gone to there. Which account for approximately 70% of his Dongs as a Cub. There’s some magic in me, we just gotta figure out how to properly use it. Well I don’t know how much more I can do. Heyward hit another HR with me in attendance in Milwaukee. That’s 3 HRs I’ve seen in person from Heyward in like 6-7 games I’ve been to in Milwaukee since he’s been a Cub. I did my part. Sucky bunch of sucks just suck too much.
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    horsefeathers it, try the opener. Let Cishek, Pedro or Monty start a game for 2-3 innings and then have Q, Hamels, Hendricks or Yu come in for ~4. Let Jon stay a normal starter. If for no other reason than to shake horsefeathers up.
  12. Cubswin11
    No way. I’m pretty he’s gonna leave in 3-5 years when his contract is up though.
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    Unless Darvish was on some sort of pitch count or hurt it makes no horsefeathering sense to pull him at 70 pitches if Carl and Chatwood are the next best options with runners on.
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    BuT hE cAnT pLaY lEfT fIeLd
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    Happ contributing to a good chunk of it as a 21/22 year old wasn’t not impressive.
  16. Cubswin11
    Chris Sale has thrown 49 fastballs this year, he hasn’t gotten a swing and a miss on one of them. He also set a career low for average fastball velo for a game in his last start.
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    BPs projection system says that, which seems like a ridiculous amount of weight to put on framing. I do think it’s important and Willy needs to get better (early indications are he is) and agree with the things you mentioned as things I’ve noticed too. Our staff of soft tossing MF’ers who can’t command probably doesn’t help either. You can only frame so well when you set up in one quadrant and your pitchers are missing in the complete opposite one.
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    *Small Sample* but good to see this early on, especially since we knew it was an issue and he made an effort to fix it this offseason. [tweet] [/tweet]
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    I mean do you really think Tyler horsefeathering Flowers is like the 3rd best player in MLB because of it? Or Montero projects to be a top 25 player in 2019 because of it? It matters, I don’t think it matters as much as they are attempting to value it as and it also varies year to year on guys and there’s a ton of moving pieces to it.
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    And to me, that highlights how much they got blindsided by just how much framing matters. There was some kind of disconnect or something, because they obviously weren't unaware of it, but I think they were behind the curve. If Miguel Montero can be as valuable as he was (and I know those Fangraph numbers have been revised), than there's no reason to hold onto an obviously seriously flawed catcher like Contreras just because he swings a decent bat at a position where guys are lucky to last long, and that's the kind of thing I would hope and expect this FO would beat most everyone else to. It's all hindsight now, but it's too bad they missed the window where you could get great inflated value for a guy like Contreras as a catcher. At this point I'd rather they try and make him a corner OF, or maybe 3B. Ugh; what a mess. I’m still skeptical framing matters as much as some sites value it.
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    Personally, I think it would have taken a couple of those guys and then some prospects, and I would have been than fine with the main duo being any combination of them. Now, I'm a baseball idiot, but I don't think any pair of those guys being replaced the Yelich puts the 2018 Cubs at the same or worse than they were in 2017. I think the most valuable pairing at the time would have been Baez and Contreras, and a FO supposedly as ahead of the curve as this one should have been really horsefeathering aware early on that between catchers typically having a pretty short shelf life AND Contreras needs to hit a ton to offset his framing that he was a prime sell high candidate. I think that’s a bit revisionist on Willy, remember the 2017 he was coming off of. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was pretty much untouchable last offseason. Also remember Yelich would’ve been Chili balled to death so we never would’ve seen this current player of him and also I wouldn’t Theo was probably still going about things thinking he had the budget room for Bryce so he didn’t go all in on a trade...... horsefeathers everything.
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    We also don’t know what the ask was, it’s entirely possible there just wasn’t really a fit or the ask was like Javy, Happ or Willy and other stuff (which I can understand not doing that). I absolutely wanted him too, I think I even started the thread on making him our main target last offseason before he was even known to be available. I would’ve been fine doing just about any trade to get him. Post 2017, any of those 3 guys should have been easily, EASILY (IMO) on the table for someone like Yelich. Again, even pre-God mode Yelich had already shown he was much more of a sure bet (again, IMO) than any of those guys. Hell, Yelich had already essentially had 2 of Baez's 2018 season without having to be some kind of bizarre baseball freak amalgamation. Plus I guess I don't understand the "focus on replacing the pitching staff part" via significant trade instead of trading for Yelich, since they didn't. Sure, if the ask was just Javy I would’ve done it. My guess was that it would taken multiple of Javy, Schwarbs, Willy, and Happ and I get why you don’t do that. I don’t necessarily agree with it but I get it. And yeah I don’t get the pitching thing because we just spent on that at that point on.
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    We also don’t know what the ask was, it’s entirely possible there just wasn’t really a fit or the ask was like Javy, Happ or Willy and other stuff (which I can understand not doing that). Yeah, and I also think Lewis Brinson was more highly regraded than the Happs of the world and would have taken more of the Javy types. Yeah, which is kinda crazy because Lewis Brinson sucks and I never got the hype of him being a top, top prospect. He’s actually older than Happ too and Happ had major league success too while Brinson was an unknown (which I know let’s team dream on potential).
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    It's a question of priorities, at the time did it make more sense to empty the org of its trade assets and some payroll flexibility to get Yelich when the team had plenty of offense even when you don't count on the outfielders(Bryant, Rizzo, Contreras, Baez, Zobrist)? Or did it make more sense to focus on replacing Arrieta, Lackey, and Davis from the pitching staff where the incumbents were much less strong? I get the idea around trading Yelich(again, I voted for it), but the idea that the alternative was inexcusable is revisionist history. We also don’t know what the ask was, it’s entirely possible there just wasn’t really a fit or the ask was like Javy, Happ or Willy and other stuff (which I can understand not doing that). I absolutely wanted him too, I think I even started the thread on making him our main target last offseason before he was even known to be available. I would’ve been fine doing just about any trade to get him.
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