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  1. Cubswin11
    I was going to jokingly bump this thread last night with pitchers and catchers reporting to say time to get this baby revved back up and set the over/under 5 days before a pitcher gets added to the list. Looks like I should've taken the under. We should be within about 10 days of one of the Mets pitchers having a "setback."
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    He's got Batman's magical healing knee brace! Apparently he told reporters today that he'll wear the brace all season. I don't think that it's uncommon to have to wear a brace after his injury pretty much forever. I've had two friends who blew out their knees (1 multiple times) in HS basketball and college basketball and we play in a men's league 3-8 years later and they still wear a brace every time they play. Not apples to apples by any means but I don't think it's anything crazy or a red flag that Schwarber is going to wear a brace moving forward.
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    Pretty sure he's been in Arizona for a good chunk of the offseason for rehab/working out/training
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    I don't think that's an unfair trade and like you said it probably comes down to if the Celtics think Jimmy puts them over the top. Personally I don't think he would this year over a healthy Cleveland but I think he does soon when LBJ hits the downside there. Before the year the Lavine and Rubio and picks for Jimmy made some sense and seemed fairish. Even though I'm not a big Lavine fan and now he's hurt. If the Lakers get a top 3 pick I could see them using that or Russell to try and get Butler depending on who they like the most of Russell, Fultz, and Ball for long-term PG
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    Brandon Phillips to the Braves
  6. Cubswin11
    Pretty sure that's Darnell McDonald, our "Mental Skills Coordinator" [tweet] [/tweet] looks like jon baker is now mental skills coordinator. hmm. Weird, Cubs.com list McDonald in that position and nobody else. Maybe we are going to have multiple of them now?
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    Pretty sure that's Darnell McDonald, our "Mental Skills Coordinator"
  8. Cubswin11
    It's Charles Cushner that is trying to buy the Marlins, apparently. Given his background is in real-estate it's not overly surprising it's a heavy debt laden deal he's trying to get done to buy the team (and his net worth is "only" $1.8 billion, so he can't have anywhere close to the cash on hand to get this done under MLB's debt ratio standards) so it makes sense he's the anonymous guy Loria has with a deal structure that MLB typically doesn't allow. Not even getting into the PR angle of it of him being a convicted felon and his ties/relationship to Trump.
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    Even the players parents are sick of the pace of play they are stopping watching games!?!
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    Yeah, how the hell are the horsefeathering Miami Marlins worth $1,600,000,000 US dollars!?! I mean that's insane. The Chicago Cubs should be worth like $4-5 billion by that logic... If I had to guess with who we are dealing with here.... Loria went to MLB to say he wanted to sell, they probably have some sort of pre-approved/short list of indiduals/groups they know want to buy teams and are capable. Loria was probably told by those groups the rough price and he thought it was too low so he went off and found his own buyer who's paying more but has a not as clean of way to finance it and maybe is personally a little toxic for MLBs liking. Or Loria is full of horsefeathers and doesn't have an offer close to that number but is saying it just to say it
  11. Cubswin11
    How can you be a Jr and a III?
  12. Cubswin11
    That call didn't make any sense
  13. Cubswin11
    Jabari Parker blew out the same knee he blew out 2 years ago (or whenever that was), he's out for ~12 months
  14. Cubswin11
    Then just end the game in a tie. Or go super gimicky and end it with a HR derby. I'd be fine ending in a tie, who gives a horsefeathers about minor league W/L records
  15. Cubswin11
    Some rough and not exact off the top of the head numbers here.... Assuming health Schwarber should get 130-145 starts in LF depending how he handles LHP/how careful they are with rest with him (i.e. maybe they don't ever want him starting more than 6 games in a row or some number no matter what, or he'll always get a game off before/after a scheduled off day). That leaves ~15-30 games in LF for Bryant, Zobrist, and Jay. RF probably has ~15-25 games open without Heyward if we can assume health and he has a moderate bounce back/isn't abysmal vs LHP. Zobrist is going to get 140-145 starts with health, he'll probably only get half those open OF games I listed above so that's 15-25 starts for him in LF/RF which puts him at 115-125 starts at 2B to get to 140-145 total starts, which seems about right. Javy gets ~30-40 of those open starts at 2B and ~30-45 more starts at 3B/SS which puts him in the range of starting around 85 games and then coming in an additional ~50 games for pinch running/hitting and late inning defense bringing his total games to ~135 which also seems about right.
  16. Cubswin11
    I honestly don't mind the rule at the minor league level since teams monitor and have restrictions on their young pitching so much. Limiting the amount of innings the young prospects need to pitch or over extend themselves is probably a good thing since this rule should limit the marathon extra-inning games.
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    I really think focusing on length of the game is missing the point compared to just trying to improve pace of play. There is something genuinely more enjoyable about watching someone like Mark Buehrle (or Kyle Hendricks) pitch compared to that asshat from the Dodgers. The fact that hitters are told to prioritize OBP and lengthy at bats and pitchers are told to go after strikeouts isn't as aesthetically pleasing, but it's a genuine strategy so I don't think you can do anything to avoid that at this point. I can't personally say any of that matters to me or I've ever thought "oh, Buerhle is pitching this game I gotta watch because it's going to have such great flow!" And this whole time/pace of play thing is to get more viewers or retain viewers, nothing more, nothing less. Like I said if you like baseball you are going to watch a game pretty much regardless of the length of the game. I'd find it hard to believe people are watching less for the sole reason of games going 10-20 min longer or there's some magical time that they are trying to get it down to that if they hit it a lot more people are going to be jumping in to watch. That doesn't mean if there's egregious things making games run longer that can easily be changed they shouldn't do it, but trying to invent rules that have nominal effects just doesn't matter to me and at the end of the day isn't brining any new asses in the seats.
  18. Cubswin11
    You want to bring in more fans/viewers, stop caring about nominal things like time of game and allow PEDs (monitored usage), juice up the balls and bring in the NL DH. Make the 98' HR chase look like little league. Offense sells.
  19. Cubswin11
    Yeah the time thing is so stupid in terms of talking about reducing time to get more fans. If you like baseball and have 2 hours and 50 min to watch a game you have and will watch a game that goes 3 hours and 20 minutes and if you don't like it it doesn't matter the time you aren't changing viewing habits. Most of my friends are casual fans at best who pay some attention to MLB, if suddenly games are uniformly ~20 min shorter they aren't going to go all "OMG take my money, I'm buying MLB TV" and I feel like those friends would be a good representation of the type of fringe fans they are trying to pull in.
  20. Cubswin11
    No, just no
  21. Cubswin11
    Back to the important things, give the NL the god damn DH already
  22. Cubswin11
    I hope Javy doesn't get close to 100 starts at 2B, because it's far more likely it's because an injury happened to a better player than it is he figured out RHP
  23. Cubswin11
    I'm fine with the intentional walk rule but the extra inning thing is dumb. I think it would okay if the runner on 2nd started in like the 13th, 14th or 15th inning. But not right away.
  24. Cubswin11
    Basically traded a left-handed Szczur for a version of Cahill the past few years who has options, if both hit around their ceilings. Not bad
  25. Cubswin11
    Twitter says it's a shot at Carmelo
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