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Personally, I think we should make Baez the starting SS next year and explore trading Russell in the offseason for a strong "T. Turner + J. Ross" type package. If no strong trade proposals emerge then keep him and hope he improves his approach at the plate and remains healthier next year, along with fewer off-field distractions. A. Russell is still super valuable because of his defense and power so maybe the Cubs FO is still really high on him. He's also still our best SS and it would be stupid to trade him
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With Schwarber, Zobrist and Heyward all going through periods of suckage/injuries I think he would've found nearly as much playing time if Russell stayed healthy.
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Nice route on that one, Cutch -
That ball would have hit him square in the chest if he didn't hit it
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Maddux is in play for Monty with the DP
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Monty Monty Monty!
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What the horsefeathers
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That was a professional AB from KB
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Monty is the man
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Other than Votto I don't think there's a guy in MLB who bails out/contorts his body/tries to sell pitches or whatever you want to call it on pitches that are clear are clear strikes as much as Avila does.
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While I get the sentiment this is kinda a weird AB to call him out on. He check swung at a ball he was more getting out of the way of, had a horse horsefeathers 0-1 pitch called for a strike and then took a bad swing at a ball in the dirt to K. Rizzo swung at the same pitch to strike out the AB prior.
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Monty is using that change up really well tonight off of his curveball/cutter
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I don't know, but people seem to have selective amnesia with Monty and Quintana; they forget all of Monty's bad starts, and forget all of Quintana's good ones when has quintana been good for the Cubs? I mean it's not the greatest stat or whatever but Quintana has more quality starts as a Cub in 1 fewer start than Monty has all year. 5 for Q, 4 for Monty in 8 starts for Q and 9 for Monty (not including tonight). Q has also pitched into the 6th inning or later just as much as Monty (5 times) with that fewer start as already stated.
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He should get to 130+ including the playoffs this year would be my rough guess. Start tonight and let's say he gets 1 more (either for Lester next time thru the rotation or maybe he spots starts 1 more time towards the end of the year) that should put him around 115, then maybe 7-10 innings worth of relief appearances the rest of the year outside of the starts then another hopefully 10 or more in the playoffs if they use him in leverage spots and not just as the long guy. My ide;a role for Monty is roughly what he's been this year. Don't plan for him to be one of the 5 starters going in to the year but have him be first or 2nd man up when inevitable injuries/performance woes hit. I would like to see him be used as less of a long man at times and more in leverage 2-5+ out spots, ideally.
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Good start, Monty
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Win tonight you butt faced idiot jerks
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I think there's better options going off of metrics, on top of he's not going to log nearly as many innings at SS/2B as other guys. Really there should be a utility/multi-positional gold glove award and just name it after Javy.
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Didn't see it posted anywhere, but Lester pitched a simulated game today and Contreras took abs against him and Russell is playing with Iowa tonight/this week in Memphis. Would assume barring no setbacks Russell is back on Sept 1 and Contreras/Lester are back within the first week-10 days of September.
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Yeah the configuration to get him more abs would be Bryant in RF, Tommy at 2B and Baez at 3B once Russell gets back in a few days.
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Going 8-5 over a 13 game stretch, regardless of the competition, is perfectly fine by me. There's nothing disappointing about that. That's playing at around a 100 win pace. I realize many will disagree, but going 8-5 wasn't totally fine by me, although I'd admit it was adequate. I think 10-3 would have been perfectly fine. With the talent we have -- even minus Willson -- when we have a 13-game stretch against last place teams in August, I hope for them to perform at a better than around 100-win pace and more on the "we are going to fulfill Duke's 117 wins prediction pace." Anything can happen in a short series, so losing to the Phils is always possible. But it sucks to lose two of three when we didn't even have to face Nola. Oh, well. They still get a bunch of games against below average teams and hopefully take even bigger advantage of it. That's just not how baseball works so I can't get upset when a 10-3 stretch doesn't happen. Those are insanely ridiculous and unrealistic expectations. Look at it this way..... We have 33 games left wouldn't you be fine with going 20-13 the rest of the way? That would certainly get us the division and that's playing at the 8-5 pace/rate over 13 game chunks.
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Going 8-5 over a 13 game stretch, regardless of the competition, is perfectly fine by me. There's nothing disappointing about that. That's playing at around a 100 win pace.
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He had some big hits in Cincy this week, iirc
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.500 road trip, though not ideal is something I can live with. Mostly good baseball played and in all but one game.
