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Yes, please to YU

Throwing away the silly nonsense the Cubs shortened any sort of window with the Quintana trade.... The silliest thing the Brewer fans are thinking is there's a real chance they have any sort of competitive window on the horizon that's definitively better than us. They don't have a Bryant or Rizzo in their system or on the roster. Arcia (6-7 months younger than Russell) is nice but he's closer to a rich mans Alcides Escobar than a 5-6+ win player. They lack true impact player(s) anywhere and being in a small market they need to develop multiple Bryants/Rizzo's like they did with Braun/Fielder to capture any sort of multi year run. The flash in the pan seasons, or half seasons like this, may happen but there is nothing there that I see sustained success that we can't overcome even in 4-5 years. Yeah. Their future sucks. What they are building may have been worth a horsefeathers in a non-Theo-run-Cubs division. But that horsefeathers ain't flying now. No player on their current roster will ever finish above the Cubs in the standings. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. And their farm system blows. (Nearly every farm system blows. Always. It's incredibly rare for a team to build what we did.) And the Brewers have no top-end, real impact guys, like you say. They have a bunch of Arismendy Alcantaras hitting .235 in high-A. Some might pan out. Others won't. Most likely they'll just be cheap 2-3 win players. And that ain't competing with us. I think this is the thing that really gets overlooked on, "well the Cubs just tanked/traded away everything and got assets/high draft picks and boom World Series." What Theo did is so incredibly unlikely and improbable, it seems to just be a given now that if you just suck for a while and have "young guys" you can replicate what the Cubs did or what the Astros did/are doing (to a lesser degree, because they still are lacking). It's not that easy and it takes a lot of luck and literal geniuses pulling the levers. We hit on everything and have the best person(s) in the world at the helm while no other team currently has the ability our FO has and basically is going to have to rely on pure luck to replicate anything close to what Theo pulled off. Especially now that there's multiple teams trying to pull a similar move(s) off, while Theo has already pivoted off of it to make it even more sustainable.

They have one and he's the next Sale, or worst case scenario Andrew Miller....

Throwing away the silly nonsense the Cubs shortened any sort of window with the Quintana trade.... The silliest thing the Brewer fans are thinking is there's a real chance they have any sort of competitive window on the horizon that's definitively better than us. They don't have a Bryant or Rizzo in their system or on the roster. Arcia (6-7 months younger than Russell) is nice but he's closer to a rich mans Alcides Escobar than a 5-6+ win player. They lack true impact player(s) anywhere and being in a small market they need to develop multiple Bryants/Rizzo's like they did with Braun/Fielder to capture any sort of multi year run. The flash in the pan seasons, or half seasons like this, may happen but there is nothing there that I see sustained success that we can't overcome even in 4-5 years.

Outside of the Cubs and Brewers the NL Central has some of the worst broadcasters (both TV and Radio) in all of baseball.

Yeah, get to first place, first then figure stuff like that out

What was the number? 8?

Let's have ourselves a marathon game

I hope the Pirates win it now, if they don't make this thing a 17 inning game that fucks both pitching staffs for a while

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Well that dirty hippy, Jaso, just came about 2-3 feet from hitting a HR

Not saying it's happening tonight but Kenebel is due for a blown save

JD Martinez was hit in the hand in his 2nd AB and had to leave the game. That would suck for the D'backs if it's serious

Everyone's going to be like whaaaaaat when the best player from the Cubs' 2017 prospects turns out to be Isaac Paredes. And when he finds another Torres and Jimenez in IFA when he's able to overspend again in a year or two or whenever it is.

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He's a pretty solid target in my opinion if all it takes is minor leaguers like Jeimer and Alzolay

Looks like Gray had another good start today. 6.1IP 7H 2ER 2BB 6K.

Maybe it's an error (this is via MLB app) but if it's not why did Lester jump Quintana in the rotation and is starting Saturday and Quintana Sunday?

Well, Theo said our play out of the break will determine if other moves are made. Go make another horsefeathering move, dude.

Going in to that AB Zobrist had a .503 OPS and wRC+ of 25 vs LHP this year

Nice

The 2016 election broke every statistical model 538 has

He really does good things when he minimizes that leg kick/looks to go up the middle

Keep being good Javy

Sure it would be nice to have an upgrade over our 6th or 7th best relief pitcher but I mean Grimm is fine for what he is. He's shown flashes this year of being good, just have to try and manage the leverage/importance of situations he comes in on.