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  1. Cubswin11
    Kimbrel is making his ST debut today, should be shortly. Fwiw
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    Weird. Sounds like he has the yips if he isn’t masking an injury.
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    Why do have this weird belief that this is the only relevant info? He came back in 2019 and dropped a 3.39 FIP and had a whole crazy body of work. We're not talking some pop up guy this is a pitcher who was legit in the convo for best in baseball most of the decade. It's not like they were ignoring his injury, hence 5 years, but you don't lose Chris Sale on ten random starts and one non-catastrophic probably fairly generic pitcher injury It’s not the only relevant info but should have carried significant weight and because that’s when they extended him. Even though he was good in 2019, he still got hurt again and perhaps hurt himself to a point where he’s going to miss 1+ years now (by all accounts this elbow injury happened last year). Just seems like it wasn’t worth the risk to extend him when they did for minimal savings with controlling him in 2019 still.
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    The guy threw up almost 7 WAR in 2018, his 6-7th monster season in a row before 30. All pitchers have their non-surgery arm nonsense or much worse, extremely few produce like a Sale. That deal to that level of talent couldn't be less of an issue to a team like Boston, even at 160 innings rather than 200 a season And he didn’t make a start after August 13th in 2018 and wasn’t nearly his normal self in the playoffs and couldn’t even start some games BECAUSE HE WAS HURT. His final 10 starts of 2018 he had an ERA over 5 and FIP over 4. The most recent info they had on him before the extension was he was slipping and hurt. What he did 2+ years priors should’ve had little influence on the extension, especially when they had him for another year before he hit FA. Then he got hurt again last year and now might be done for 1+ years. I’m not arguing Sale isn’t a remarkably talented pitcher and he likely can be effective to some degree even as he ages/stuff diminishes. I just don’t get the logic in giving him 5/145 off of 2018 with the question marks when you had him already for 2019. If you’re willing able to do 5/145 with all the red flags, you should be able to go 5-6/180-200+ if he got through 2019 as his normal self once he hit FA. Also it’s just horrible planning with them pulling back on spending because it played a major role in them moving Mookie.
  5. Cubswin11
    *Spring Training* But Souza 1-1 with 3BB and a 2B today. OPS over 1.000 for spring. Considering he’s working back from such a devastating injury and missed a whole year +/- he doesn’t look washed or physically beat or anything.
  6. Cubswin11
    How many guys with almost 40 WAR and 1400 innings in a 6-7 year span are signing just 5 years at 30? He was coming off a 7 rWAR season and a WS win. It was a discount But he was showing signs of injury (he missed time during 2018) and only threw 5 innings in the WS and couldn’t make a start in the final few games when needed. He got what his questionable health situation dictated, imo, probably why he also accepted a “discount.” It was also dumb to give him such a deal knowing he was hurt when they had him controlled for last year.
  7. Cubswin11
    In fairness, the Brewers were in a much better spot to negotiate with and get Yelich to agree to an extension. He was controlled the next 3 years at like $45 mil because he signed an extension early with the Marlins. He wasn’t going to be a FA until age 31/32. He had incentive to cash in now on an extension since free agency was further away, at an older age for him than it was for Bryant. Like Bryant is gonna make about as much the next two years as Yelich would these next 3 and he’d get to FA sooner and younger. Frustrating nonetheless, but there were different motivations and factors at work here. i'm strictly talking about their willingness to give out a mega contract to their star. i know kb has risks/issues, but i believe the cubs would be looking to trade him even if he didn't have his mini-decline and injury concerns. I don’t think we have any idea what the Cubs willingness is on an extension. If Bryant was willing to do an extension based on this Yelich deal I think the Cubs would absolutely do it. If he’s asking/expecting Arenado, Bryce and Machado money I get why the Cubs are doing a deal for him in that range.
  8. Cubswin11
    Would Bryant even accept that deal? He probably gets a little more because he’s owed more in arb than Yelich’s contract before FA but I think this is a better extension comp to work off of for KB than Arenado, Machado, Bryce and Rendon’s contracts are. I think 9/240 if an extension kicked in this year, 8/220 if next year or 7/200 as a FA for KB +/- $10-20 mil on those contracts would be a decent estimate on a KB deal using this Yelich deal as a benchmark.
  9. Cubswin11
    In fairness, the Brewers were in a much better spot to negotiate with and get Yelich to agree to an extension. He was controlled the next 3 years at like $45 mil because he signed an extension early with the Marlins. He wasn’t going to be a FA until age 31/32. He had incentive to cash in now on an extension since free agency was further away, at an older age for him than it was for Bryant. Like Bryant is gonna make about as much the next two years as Yelich would these next 3 and he’d get to FA sooner and younger. Frustrating nonetheless, but there were different motivations and factors at work here.
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    9/215, get KB and Boras on the phone you assholes
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    They controlled him 3 more years through his age 31/32 season, fwiw.
  13. Cubswin11
    A 5 year deal for someone at Sale's age, relative health, pedigree and crazy performance track record was a discount 5/145 starting in his age 31 year I don’t think is much of a discount when they knew his health was in question. The track record only matters so much when he hasn’t been able to stay healthy in the most recent years.
  14. Cubswin11
    Extending him still seemed extremely forced and unnecessary. Considering he was starting to get hurt in 2018 and by the WS couldn’t even start games. They had him controlled for 2019 anyways, it seemed unnecessary especially since they didn’t get him at a discount or anything. I know he was mostly good last year but now he might be dead. Extending him also likely cost them the ability to keep Mookie, so yeah.
  15. Cubswin11
    The first inning box score is a lot uglier than what actually happened with Q. Schwarbs flat out dropped a fly ball on the second batter of the game and the third batter hit a long fly ball that got Happ all turned around and he dropped. Should’ve been a 1, 2, 3 inning.
  16. Cubswin11
    So Sale had a PRP injection last August after a start he felt something. Now it seems like TJ is coming. That just doesn’t seem to work in healing a guy once he gets to a certain point, maybe it has use in rehab after surgery or even as a preventative thing taking one when healthy every year/few months/during offseason or whatever the regimen would be. But it seems like complete junk when it comes to repairing an already broken ligament or once it reaches a certain point of being too damaged.
  17. Cubswin11
    Giving him that extension made no horsefeathering sense
  18. Cubswin11
    Mills was solid tonight, 6IP 0H so far in spring. Adam and Sadler both looked good out of the pen. Hernan Perez got hit on the hand/wrist and had to leave the game (hopefully nothing major because I want him on the team over Descalso).
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    He’s lanky
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    He gave up some hits but I liked what I saw from Tyson Miller. That cutter (or just natural run on his FB) seems like it’s a solid pitch. If he can tunnel something off it (change, curve, sinker, slider at a lower speed than cutter) you can see a path to him being useful in some capacity at the MLB level.
  22. Cubswin11
    Yeah, no idea. Hendricks was only 87-88 today, Lester has been high 80s mostly too. So those seem in line with early spring velo for them.
  23. Cubswin11
    Apparently Jeffress hit 95 a few times today, if he’s back to that kinda velo on his FB I’m expecting him to be really solid this year out of the pen.
  24. Cubswin11
    Sounds like they’re optimistic the tweaks can make him less wild
  25. Cubswin11
    I hope the guys in charge aren’t falling for it and he’s still relegated to a bench role with just occasional starts. He hit .377/.389/.604 in spring last year and .318/.324/.636 in 2017.
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