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  1. Deeg
    Welly may need to get an extended showcase if Montero continue to be so terrible with the bat.
  2. Deeg
    That buys Theo another week...
  3. Deeg
    Geez, La Stella and Olt both being hurt in the first week is Theo's ultimate nightmare. I suspect they could two broken legs each and neither of them would have gone on the DL.
  4. Deeg
    Yes, but the Emperor would really have no clothes then.
  5. Deeg
    Hit in the wrist by a pitch. ugh After watching the replay (and Olt's reaction), I thought there was no way it wasn't broken, so the negative x-rays were a welcome surprise. i thought the same initially, but the way he's looking at his hand makes it seem like maybe it hit on the soft side of his hand, away from his thumb. that'd still hurt a lot (i assume) but not necessarily smash anything. No one is more relieved it's not broken than Theo and Jed. Olt going on the DL would have been hugely uncomfortable for them to say the least.
  6. Deeg
    Bust.
  7. Deeg
    Disappointing.
  8. Deeg
    How was Lester's velocity? Is his arm shot or does he just suck now?
  9. Deeg
    "Fu*k that N**ah" - seriously? Nice to see Kentucky take losing with the usual Calipari class.
  10. Deeg
    Eventually it's going to be Wada, and he'll be better than either Wood or Jackson.
  11. Deeg
    I'm pleasantly surprised Britton made it through waivers. He has a good arm.
  12. Deeg
    Really? I still have him coming up on April 20th given Theo's preference for debuting new players on the road. keeping him down for 9 games makes perfect sense keeping him down any longer just for arbitrary reasons of comfort or whatever, doesn't Meh. Another couple games wouldn't bother me. Theo's essentially done the same with Mendy, Soler and Baez in regards to the road debut. It would bother the [expletive] out of me. He should not be down there in the first place. In the sense that the CBA sucks, I agree. If you mean the Cubs should burn a year of control for two weeks of this season, I think you're nuts. I would be very surprised if the Cubs call Bryant up on the very day they gain that extra year, because hat would really be thumbing the union's eye and begging for controversy and criticism they don't need. They'll wait a couple extra days, but no more than a week.
  13. Deeg
    All this must just be doing wonders for Mike Olt's ego...
  14. Deeg
    They have the option of simply promoting Swihart. They aren't going to give up much. They don't want to rely on Swihart, don't think he's ready. Their system is still loaded - they can give up something quite good and barely notice it.
  15. Deeg
    Vazquez likely done for the year for Boston. That could get very interesting for the Castillo market.
  16. Deeg
    Olt... Sure is a lot to like about a guy who just has to find a way to hit 250 with a 25% K-rate to be an all-star.
  17. Deeg
    Is anyone still hanging on to the notion that Castro will move Russell off SS? Russell is way, way better with the glove. A wizard. If Baez can hit at all (and I certainly believe he will) this is the middle IF of the future. Terrific defensively.
  18. Deeg
    Aiken is now in play for the Cubs. A very, very interesting decision if indeed he's still on the board. Ask Washington if they're sorry they drafted Giolito at 16.
  19. Deeg
    There's talk he's going to be stretched out as a starter in Iowa, so he may be in minor league camp.
  20. Deeg
    Seriously? The guy's an outspoken Republican and former frat boy. He's certainly an original thinker but "hippie" could hardly seem less apt.
  21. Deeg
    The union shouldn't. Rosenthal should. He should know better. He's essentially arguing that the Cubs be held to one standard and every other club another. The rule is stupid - Ken is correct. It needs to be taken out in the next CBA. But the place to fight the battle is when that's negotiated, not by filing a nuisance grievance over Bryant. How would you propose that the rule be changed? Serious question. Make accruing a service year require much less than 172 days. Someone from Fangraphs suggested 100 as a round number that could do the trick, that'd eliminate the incentive to keep someone down for a short amount of time to gain a much longer amount of time of control. Sure there'd be instances where teams would wait out that 100 days depending on the situation(e.g. Polanco last year), but for the very obvious cases where team control is the primary factor, lowering the length of the service year would help a bunch. That sounds about right. The issue right now is that the threshold to delay FA is way too low - a trifle. There are very few teams that are going to delay a guy a full half-season strictly for service time reasons (though it could still happen, rarely). Turn this into a baseball decision, which is what it should be.
  22. Deeg
    Mirotic is so good right now I'm not sure even Thibs can neutralize him, though he's sure to try.
  23. Deeg
    The union shouldn't. Rosenthal should. He should know better. He's essentially arguing that the Cubs be held to one standard and every other club another. The rule is stupid - Ken is correct. It needs to be taken out in the next CBA. But the place to fight the battle is when that's negotiated, not by filing a nuisance grievance over Bryant.
  24. Deeg
    http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/chicago-cubs-kris-bryant-service-time-players-union-grievance-mark-grace-1988-032215 Rosenthal - who I'm normally fairly OK with - has a piece out arguing why the union should file a grievance if Bryant is sent down. This just irritates me to no end - why should the Cubs be held to a higher standard than every other club has been? I normally take the union's side against MLB owners because in a battle of greedy bastards, the owners are greedier and bastard-ier. But the union agreed to the CBA. It's the deal. It's stupid, but it is what it is. The Cubs would have to be crazy not to delay Bryant's clock for a year over a mere 12 days.
  25. Deeg
    Blame the rule, not the FO. No way you can start Bryant on the big league roster.
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