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You don't think they're eyeing that extra year by keeping him down til May?He’s going to be 24 this year, his FA year is his age 30 year. His upside is maybe Kolten Wong. I don’t see how that’s good enough upside and you don’t gain any prime production years or anything by playing the service time game, plus this isn’t really a money savings thing either. I just think they fell in love with Sogard and Bote is a fine enough 2B. The service time thing is a bonus I guess but I really find it hard to believe making sure we potentially have Nico for his age 30 season is that big of a deal.
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This makes no horsefeathering sense. horsefeathers this team. Absolutely horsefeathering insane on multiple levels. Nico looked great in ST and he’s a great defender on a team with a contact SP staff. Sogard sucks on defense and will cost them games there. Nico also isn’t nearly at the age or has the ceiling that playing the service time game makes any horsefeathering sense. Sogard is the new Almora being a horsefeathers player tricking them in to over usage. Sogard should be in the Lastella role at best and they should be utilizing Nico’s defense as much as possible with this pitching staff.
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Get it done cowards
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Rex Brothers hasn’t been good since like 2013, is 35 or something and a lefty with the 3 batter rule. Rostering him is idiotic.
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Adbert is dealing
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Yeah I have no problem starting Adbert in the minors/alt site/leaving him in Arizona at the lab. He absolutely would’ve been on the roster if he didn’t get the option. But this is just smart roster/pitching management for the year pitching depth/innings is at a premium. Ease Adbert in and make sure he’s able to be pitching down the stretch and potentially in the playoffs if he’s truly good, don’t waste his bullets in April vs the Pirates and then he’s done by July. Let Mills, Miller, etc do that.
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I mean after the top 3 seeds it's wide open in the East. I'm an NBA idiot, but how is this team not at least playing playoff basketball? And it sounds like they'll have some cap space. Not necessarily max cap space, but that can always be engineered if the opportunity arises. You never know how pieces will mesh together. Bulls are starting the day 1.5 games out of a playoff spot and there are a couple other teams currently out of the playoff picture that I'd think will make a run to be in a position to make the playoffs (Indiana and Toronto now that they kept Lowry). Of course there are a couple of teams in the playoff picture that may slide out (Hornets, maybe Hawks?). The Bulls probably will make the playoffs, I just dont think its given. Getting Vucevic is more about next year and beyond, imo, anyways. It wasn’t necessarily about this year and making a playoff run, sure some experience for the guys would be nice but it’s really a move for the next few years. Lavine, Vucevic and Williams is a nice start for the offseason. Add a PG (Lonzo), and some depth/rotation pieces (maybe trade White and do a S&T with Lauri) and a top 3-5 seed in the East is possible.
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Think it’s worth giving him a dozen or so appearances to start the year and see if the delivery change sticks. Gonna need innings anyways. If he’s sucking come late April cut his ass.
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Guess what an idiot with an MiLB rulebook did this time?
Cubswin11 replied to NonProfitCow's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yeah I don’t really get making 2B/3rd bigger. I guess making 2B bigger, in theory, makes it a little safer on double play balls with the slide (also may be the beginning of making any sort of contact/take out slide illegal)? Making first base bigger makes a ton of sense to me. Idk why they just don’t have basically the double base there like in softball or little league (plays like the Lee-Furcal collision wouldn't or shouldn't happen as an example). The most dangerous thing to me is fixing the base so it’s not some weird rubber/plastic that has no give when sprinting and having to plant a metal spike that also gets slippery when wet/humid/damp. -
Yeah, between the arms and talent they have to choose from and just the general ability for this FO to build top ~10 bullpens every year. It’s definitely a strength. May take a few months this year to sort it all out but I’d bet by mid June or so they have a top bullpen.
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Would be cool if we found one of these older guys who breaks through late like the Dodgers have with Muncy and Taylor. Certainly would rather give Ortega a roster spot over Sogard if that’s a final decision.
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I don’t think there’s really a question, you should always get relief from a fairway divot. It makes no sense why you shouldn’t. Just get the standard club length that doesn’t put you closer to the hole/improve the lie (going from rough to fairway). Treat a divot like a sprinkler head if the ball is in it. But what constitutes a divot? When does an old divot become regular fairway? I mean guys clearly take liberties with drops off sprinklers and what not (look at Reed a few weeks ago with the plug in the rough and Bryson off the sprinkler in this exact tournament a few holes before this happened). This shouldn’t be that much of a debate and this is clearly a horsefeathering divot where Westwood’s ball landed. Just allow dropping the ball a club length sideways or backwards. I think it’s stupid you can be penalized for hitting a ball 300+ to the fairway. Especially on the tour where guys are landing balls within the same 30-50 yard area all week.
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The question is when should you get relief from a divot in the fairway? It’s not black and white. Up until you see any grass growing in the divot? What stinks is that a player rakes a sand trap, which is a hazard, so the next person in it gets a good lie, but you can get terrible lies in the fairway. The rub of the green they say. I don’t think there’s really a question, you should always get relief from a fairway divot. It makes no sense why you shouldn’t. Just get the standard club length that doesn’t put you closer to the hole/improve the lie (going from rough to fairway). Treat a divot like a sprinkler head if the ball is in it.
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The Worst Defensive Play of All Time?
Cubswin11 replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
He’s going to seriously hurt himself or another teammate at some point. His ineptness is honestly impressive. -
They came into today 25 in NET ratings (12th in KenPom though that doesn’t matter) and have 4 Q1 wins. Look at the resumes of some of those first 4 out teams and...yeah It always seems like KenPom has a blind spot for them but yeah, probably more an indictment on the bubble/first 4-12 out teams on not capitalizing on a clearly bad Wisconsin team. Plus obviously the whole COVID stuff keeping non-conference/pre-season tournaments down.
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Wins at Maryland, Rutgers, MSU and home vs Louisville and Loyola is plenty of good wins, and they have no bad losses. Nobody's making them a top 4 seed, but they're in the 7-8 category at least. Losses to Marquette and Penn State aren’t great and like I mentioned the Louisville win should be discounted, Louisville had guys out with either injuries or COVID (I remember the game was close to being canceled because Louisville maybe couldn’t have enough guys active the days leading up). And yeah I know they’ll be a 7-10 seed when they get in, just don’t think they’re particularly good and they should be closer to the bubble than they’re talked about/projected to be. Imo.
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I still don’t get why Wisconsin is considered a lock to get in. They really don’t have any good wins, they beat Loyola and a Louisville team that had a bunch of guys out and Rutgers that’s it. They didn’t beat any of Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, OSU or Purdue. They also are limping to the finish if there’s any decency considerations. I feel like they need to win a BIG tournament game or two and really should be closer to out than in right now and they’re just getting by on program name/conference reputation.
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I think this is legitimately the single dumbest rule in all of sports. There’s all sorts of scenarios you get free drops, sprinklers, drainage, cart paths, lift clean and place, obstructed shot/view, etc. yet you have to hit out of a man made divot in the fairway.
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He looked really bad today
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Can’t imagine this guy is more than a lottery ticket/minor league filler but at least we got something and good for Duane. He should get plenty of opportunities in Pitt.
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Sounds like he’s fine and it was more forearm than wrist at least.
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Plus let some of these spring ABs be real indicators, Nico
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You’re going to turn to dust when you look up the names on the depth chart for the rest of the team
