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Well both those players are trash, there better be a pick(s) involved
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Tommy must really be on the horsefeathers list [tweet] [/tweet]
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New extra inning rule being tested
Cubswin11 replied to Cubfanintheknow's topic in General Baseball Talk
If a guy is at 20, 25, 30+ pitches for an inning I get why he'd need to take a step away off the mound after a pitch or in between batters and re-collect himself for 20-30 seconds, is all I'm saying. well then if you really need that breather take the automatic ball penalty. we're not talking about one 30 second break. There are guys who take ridiculous amounts of time between every pitch. That is bad. I don't disagree and there guys who take a ton of time but I don't think there's that many. Is there a list anywhere of average time between pitch for pitchers out there? Seems like this rule would only be enforced on a few and not really help speed anything up other than a few games here and there and the guys it could hurt are the guys I pointed out who maybe 3-5 appearances a year need to just take a breather during an inning. -
New extra inning rule being tested
Cubswin11 replied to Cubfanintheknow's topic in General Baseball Talk
if he needs that, screw him learn to pitch at a decent pace If a guy is at 20, 25, 30+ pitches for an inning I get why he'd need to take a step away off the mound after a pitch or in between batters and re-collect himself for 20-30 seconds, is all I'm saying. -
New extra inning rule being tested
Cubswin11 replied to Cubfanintheknow's topic in General Baseball Talk
I think a pitch clock is a relatively stupid idea, outside of a few pitchers who really drag things out it won't matter. Plus I believe it's part of a comfort thing that the pitchers have their routines in between pitches, I'd rather not screw with that and have their performance effected. If a guy needs to step off the mound for 25-30 seconds here and there between pitches to "catch his breath" I'm fine with it. -
http://nypost.com/2017/02/21/this-is-how-yankees-can-maximize-their-shortstop-studs/ This is also why projection systems are going to understate how incredibly good the Cubs' position players are. Outside of catcher and probably CF, the first 500 bench PAs due to rest/injury are going straight to Baez(a 3 win player), thanks to the flexibility of Baez, Zobrist, and Bryant. Montero is a super high quality backup C too. Compare to, say, the Dodgers, whose bench consists of 'well I guess if he has a good year he could be part of a platoon' guys, and whose starting 8 has more injury/performance concerns anyway. Also, in theory, you get a higher level/top line version of a player more often for 500 PAs vs 650 PAs if that player is "fresher."
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New extra inning rule being tested
Cubswin11 replied to Cubfanintheknow's topic in General Baseball Talk
Very little, but it also will have very little negative impact on the game. So basically pointless. It improves the optics a bit for when it does happen, just don't have guys essentially standing around while the pitcher and catcher play catch for 4 pitches. It will make the game flow and look "cleaner" on a TV broadcast, imo. -
I know Boogie has his baggage, but that seems like an awful trade for Sacramento
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Yeah, unless that USA Today article left out quotes I don't get how you see what he said as "anti-Trump." He just basically acknowledged that it affected his personal travel plans and that was unfortunate, essentially.
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Lester, Chapman, Arrieta That is correct. Lester won 3. Arrieta and Chapman won 2 Part 2: What 4 pitchers won the other 4 games? Hendricks, Lackey, Edwards and Monty?
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Top 108 Moments for the 2016 Cubs (Now complete!)
Cubswin11 replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
LOL Reds Pitching -
Chapman, Lester and CJ?
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And to what he's doing I'm pretty sure he blew out his arm or shoulder after a year or three in Cincy and flamed out of the league
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Apparently Scherzer is maybe going to miss Opening Day/start of the season because he has a fractured knuckle on one of his fingers on his pitching hand. No idea how or when this happened.
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This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
Cubswin11 replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I think Bryant and Harper being Mormons is pretty common knowledge https://www.instagram.com/p/BH707aNAPRb/ -
Nailed it
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Grain of salt, but good god if he gets Bosio'd. Does Bosio have some secret sauce or is he that much better/smarter than everyone else and/or are other teams/pitching coaches just that stupid? I'd lean towards the former where so many other teams/coaches have their ways set and one size fits all approach (i.e. Orioles and cutters/pretty much everything else pitching) even though there's no factual basis for what they are doing and when they get to Bosio it's just like "hey man you were good and thought of highly once, why don't you just go back to what got you there."
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Yeah, short of injury to Contreras there's no reason for Montero to ever catch Lester. I think it would be nearly as bad as you and us all could imagine. With his pitch framing and Kyle's pick off move/quickness to the plate I think Montero should essentially be Hendrick's personal catcher this year outside of some LHP matchups they'd run in to. Then just play matchups with Montero every other start outside of Lester starts.
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I put this in a Transaction thread but probably can fit here too.... [tweet] [/tweet]
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I guess this can go here [tweet] [/tweet]
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Some tweets coming in relevant to the current discussions here... [tweet] [/tweet][tweet] [/tweet][tweet] [/tweet][tweet] [/tweet]
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Were the Cardinals proponents of that procedure that Maness had or did he go off by himself and do it, since he was a FA and since has signed elsewhere? Just wondering since it's a guy the Cardinals control, I could see them making Reyes have the standard TJS since it's more of a known procedure and giving up this season for Reyes might be in their best interest instead of going with what's a experimental procedure to maybe get him back this year but hurt him longer-term? I know it was a St. Louis based surgeon, but I'm not sure if it's an actual Cardinals affiliation. It might depend on the nature of the ligament rupture, too. Got it and yeah it all depends on exactly what it is. If there's any team to poo-poo any sort of new age/experimental procedures or treatments you'd think the Cardinals would be on the top of that list, however.
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Love out for ~6 weeks with a knee procedure and Ibaka got traded to the Raptors. The 1 seed in the East is certainly in play and maybe the East in the playoffs if Love can't come back/isn't himself. I could see the Celtics finally emptying their war chest to go for it to try and jump the Cavs. Meaning Jimmy could be in play there.
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hmm i wonder if they would do TJ (if it is the UCL) or if they'd do the maness procedure. Were the Cardinals proponents of that procedure that Maness had or did he go off by himself and do it, since he was a FA and since has signed elsewhere? Just wondering since it's a guy the Cardinals control, I could see them making Reyes have the standard TJS since it's more of a known procedure and giving up this season for Reyes might be in their best interest instead of going with what's a experimental procedure to maybe get him back this year but hurt him longer-term?
