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    Bryant is definitely getting thrown at now by one of the hillbillies on the Cardinals staff this year.
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    Get out of here with your facts, nerd
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    Ozuna apparently isn’t even throwing or swinging yet after his offseason arm/shoulder surgery and it sounds like Reyes also is a little behind after his surgery.
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    It wouldn’t surprise me if this is true. He’s probably spent incredible amounts of time trying to move contracts/run through scenarios and figure out every which way he can to pitch to the Ricketts to let him spend more.
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    I guess this is a good thing to hear to give us optimism he can be 75-80% of the pitcher he was post trade for a full year.
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    Didn’t someone say we weren’t even on the board earlier this week? Not that they’re great odds but at least we’re back on
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    The Twins are a really good guess. I saw on Twitter that they're currently in line for their lowest payroll since I believe '02. If not one of them than at the very least Keuchel. Yeah and I saw they have like $300k on the books in guaranteed money in 2020. They could front load the horsefeathers out of a deal to him as a way to sway him and let him opt out after 2-3 years.
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    It's also the most comprehensive discussion of Russell we've gotten to date. He really ought to have been an adult and said all of that before they tendered Russell a contract, rather than the chicken-horsefeathers "release a written statement at 4pm on a Friday" way they initially announced it. Yeah I thought that was a really good response and overview on Russell and really interesting to hear that Melissa and experts were consulted with and were for the decision they made.
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    I’ll guess Twins, Rangers, Angels, Padres and Braves as mystery teams for him. Assuming the mystery team is a spot he doesn’t love outside of $$.
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    This is a pretty damn good interview. Yes he keeps talking about the changes being internal and from within but I really thought he did a good job laying just about everything out. https://twitter.com/adamaabdalla/status/1086411913377054720?s=21
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    They’ll beat the Brewers in the WC game then get swept by the eventual world champion Cardinals This may be the most optimistic thing you’ve ever posted here.
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    He also added him and Bryce don’t talk about free agency. So how would he know?
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    Sounds like he got Gryzlo’d
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    Now we are cooking with gas
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    The Cubs for the most part already have that guy you’re talking about in Morrow, who has been better when healthy the past two season and was doing just fine in that role (closing without being the team’s actual best reliever at the time, Edwards was crushing it then plus Strop and Cishek were holding up). Chasing another one of those shaky non-elites, one whose periphs have been going backwards for years now, is not all that appealing and honestly is settling the franchise into this role of mingling among very good teams without ever separating to become truly great during a still cracked open window. . Morrow is absolutely our best relief pitcher when healthy. I'd rather have him available for leverage spots vs traditional closing spots if he could handle the role from a physical stand point (which how they've talked he probably just needs to be a regular closer during the year and be used whenever he warms up and be on a strict schedule until the postseason). As for the latter part, we've been over our thoughts on building out the bullpen and I don't want to rehash that.
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    I think the HR numbers can partially be explained by him being a SP in 2017 and also pitching in Texas for a good chunk of the year last year. He probably is HR prone with his approach of pounding and being around the zone regardless, but being a starter and pitching in Texas probably brings out some extremes. There needs to be some context there.
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    By what? Being a recognizable-ish name? It isn’t the stats since he’s giving up way too many HRs, K’ing fewer guys, and walking more batters I do believe a little in a guy having "closer experience" being a thing. So that plays a role. As I've maintained all year, my main interest in him was in this scenario where he could just be had for really cheap. He wasn't a guy I had to have at any cost. I think he's still plenty fine for the traditional closer role, it's the "easiest" job to do in theory so he doesn't even need to be the best relief pitcher just show he has had success in that role to me. Let the actually good relief pitchers handle the leverage situations during the year and look at upgrades/shifting roles as the year goes on. I'm fine missing on him, but think for a 1 year deal he would've been a perfectly fine addition.
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    Right. But I’m assuming we would at least have the little it takes for him on a 1 year deal and for any in season deals needed for the pen. He’d make the pen stronger on paper to start the year and at least let us re-evaluate around June or whenever Morrow is back what needs to be added or who shifted to what roles. It sucks to be this poor I guess. why wouldnt they have just re-signed chavez At this point of the offseason, yeah. I'd obviously love to have him back. I wonder if they didn't want to get in to another Duensing situation and give a guy a 2+ year deal who was older, with a spotty history and only based off of a month or two of work, or they didn't think Ricketts was serious about the spending limits being so strict and they thought they could aim higher eventually getting some money to work with (he did sign really early in the offseason), or maybe spending real is that reigned in right now. Everything sucks.
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    Worse guys are “closers.” He’s likely mostly fine there in the regular season and let the better guys handle the leverage spots. Especially on a 1 year deal, there’s no risk. as tight as things are, there will be much better uses of that money in-season. the risk is that you use already limited resources on a worthless position and then fill it with a bad player Right. But I’m assuming we would at least have the little it takes for him on a 1 year deal and for any in season deals needed for the pen. He’d make the pen stronger on paper to start the year and at least let us re-evaluate around June or whenever Morrow is back what needs to be added or who shifted to what roles. It sucks to be this poor I guess.
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    Worse guys are “closers.” He’s likely mostly fine there in the regular season and let the better guys handle the leverage spots. Especially on a 1 year deal, there’s no risk.
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    For fucks sake, a 1 year deal and we have “closing opportunities.” [tweet] [/tweet]
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