Cubswin11

Make the playoffs and win the World Series this year and who cares, imo

Hey! We won. Maybe they aren’t good but also don’t suck. Winning another one between game 2 and tomorrow would be swell.

Hey a win

Second game in a row we got a grade A fake rally. Maybe they'll have a real rally this time and win the game. First game of a DH so remember it will be 7 innings.

Wonder how they horsefeathers up Cohen’s bid again

Just don’t get swept, idiots

Yeah I don’t get that. He can’t/doesn’t play CF anymore, doesn’t hit lefties, doesn’t do the contact thing, etc. I don’t see how he’s an upgrade over Almora or Hernan You forgot the part that he's cheap. #PTR Ervin, Holt and Pillar are all cheap too and I think better fits for what we need.

The Mets DFA’d Juan Lagarese, he most likely sucks but if we are looking at bringing Maybin in I’d rather just sign him or Ervin and just spend money vs giving up even a nothing prospect for Maybin. Just trade for Pillar though, idiots.

Yeah I don’t get that. He can’t/doesn’t play CF anymore, doesn’t hit lefties, doesn’t do the contact thing, etc. I don’t see how he’s an upgrade over Almora or Hernan

Reds DFA’d Phillip Ervin. 120 career wRC+ vs lefties. I’d take a chance on him.

Asdrubal and Pillar remain my top two targets that are realistic and cheap. I’d personally try and add both and want them more than any reliever.

As exciting as this would be, why would Strop drive from Cincinnati to Chicago to sign with the Cubs when the Cubs are in...Cincinnati? He just came off the IL/needs to sign. Don’t think he’d really be ready to pitch on the MLB team right now. He’d be a SB guy for a bit yet. He probably sucks and is toast so it would make sense to check him out down in SB or at Wrigley with the staff there before throwing him on the 28 man.

The Pirates have done the lords work for us in the last week 5-0 bs Brewers and Cardinals

Jesus Christ Mets

Cue the music?

Since the cap is tied to revenues it’s more than that with the virus shutdown and uncertainty going to next year. The cap is going to go down quite a bit the next year+. Silver basically said so over the shutdown/before the bubble start up. Something along the lines of “things are going to get tough and hard decisions and talks are coming.” In terms of where the LT is going to be in coming years.

bull horsefeathers Don’t disagree. But these guys are really close, especially with Ross. I trust they can talk honestly and know each other and make a decision as a group. I wouldn’t have played personally.

That’s a HOF fake rally

What a horsefeathers game

God damn it

Javy’s made really nice contact twice

Scouts are less necessary than they've ever been, but I think it's an extreme oversimplification to think that trackman and the like are replicating their work entirely. For one I'm not sure how universal coverage and data sharing is between various minor league parks and short season facilities. More importantly, scouts add value by understanding and articulating why an observable thing is happening so it's easy for teams to understand how repeatable/fixable it might be. Advanced data make the 'observable things' more specific and less noisy(e.g. exit velocity v. batting average), but there's still significant art in understanding what mechanics lead to those observable things, how they scale against better competition, and if there's opportunities for improvement/fixes. Where I think the biggest open question is, in a world with substantial video coverage of the minor leagues, how necessary is it for scouts to be in person to do that work? And if it's less necessary for scouts to be in person, are you able to get the same benefit with fewer scouts doing video analysis in a centralized manner. Yeah it seems like if the data infrastructure is there you could have less scouts without it overly affecting things. Player development probably should have more bodies than ever though with all the data and programs out there to be as hands on and digging in to numbers with guys directly to grow them as much as possible. It’s probably more a shifting of resources once we’re back to normal than cutting staff overall.