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  1. Named After Maddux
    I prefer the EX-Rays
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    I interpreted it as “has performed the best” this season, which I suppose you could make a case since Miller has been really great all season. I’m a fan of Miller, but I’d take Alzolay over him easily. If they actually mean Miller has surpassed Alzolay, I’d have a very difficult time understanding that especially with how he’s looked recently.
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    Tom will be pumped with the latest Fangraphs mock. Very interesting that now it’s been a couple draft pundits connect them with HS arms. Wonder if the new Pitch lab has changed the way they view pitching development structure of HS arms.
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    BA too. Would like to get that type of power in the system With the track record of this front office on college hitters, I’d be very excited if they felt like they should draft Hoese. It’ll be very interesting next weekend when the mocks firm up a bit and guys like Callis and Kiley can give a better idea of who is connected to whom.
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    Also Zobrist was scratched late yesterday for "personal reasons". He was also late to ST for "personal reasons", right before Harper signed with the Phillies. It could just be an actual personal reason or IL-stint, but a trade of WS hero and seemingly (hopefully) good-guy Ben Zobrist to make room for domestic abuser Addison Russell would be some kind of juxtaposition.
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    Pace doesn't really think like that. He'll probably try to get into the 1st or something. I think Brian was saying that it would be amazing if the Bears first rounder they gave up was something like pick #32 and the pick they receive from OAK was #37 or so. It wouldn’t be that we gave up two first round picks for Mack, just a first and move back a couple spots.
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    Marquez might be behind schedule, but did make the SB roster. Roederer also made the squad.https://twitter.com/sbcubs/status/1112124248766717952?s=21
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    MLB.com had 6 Cubs in the top 100 (top 72, really) and 4 in the top 50 at the end of '14. 3rd Bryant 5th Russell 36th Almora 48th Soler 53rd Edwards 72nd Schwarber At BA it was still six to start 2015, but even more impressive. The Cubs had four in the top 20 overall prospects. 1st Bryant 3rd Russell 12th Soler 19th Schwarber 38th Edwards 83rd Billy McKinney
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    Yeah the front office really pulled off the opposite of the “paper clip into a millionaire” with that series of moves. Yikes. At least the current trade from last night is much better. I mean several years of Taj, Noah, and a couple from Omer is certainly more valuable than Eddy Curry. There are just multiple stops along the way that would have been much better places to stop. Great point. I actually had no idea this whole set of transactions started with Curry. I was thinking this started with Nurkic/Harris draft.
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    Yeah the front office really pulled off the opposite of the “paper clip into a millionaire” with that series of moves. Yikes. At least the current trade from last night is much better.
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    I believe he had TJS in July so this is like a Smyly situation. It’s probably a two year deal. Have to keep him on the 40 man till season starts and then move him over to the 60-day DL.
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    I’ve always been very skeptical of Loxas, but I think this is likely true. I mean it’s almost negligence for a team in contention to not check in with any reliever on the market. Granted I know he just seems to throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks. This could be that. I will say maybe he is somewhat connected. Loxas actually posted about the Cubs being interested in Realmuto possibly at the expense of Contreras and then Craig Mish reported the same thing a day or two later. I’m still surprised.
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    American Jack Hughes appears to be the consensus top pick.http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/23864766/nhl-meet-jack-hughes-record-breaking-no-1-ranked-2019-nhl-draft-prospect Although the top three players look to be high ceiling talents already http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nhl/news/2019-nhl-entry-draft-top-31-prospects-jack-hughes-first-overall-pick-nhl/1j5blnm704ev1sv6e865wc7m8 I know you always need a bit of luck with the lottery, but the Hawks are certainly doing their part.
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    I think there’s a lot of value in bringing in Jon Gray if you can this offseason. Every team is going to need extra SP and his team control/stuff is a good combination. It was posted earlier, but if Eric L from Fangraphs is right that Happ is too much for Jon Gray, maybe David Bote actually makes sense for both teams. COL is likely losing LeMahieu and launch angle will certainly play in Denver. It’s not too cost prohibitive for the Cubs’ side provided that they do bring in someone who can play 2b/SS Completely separate, but I’ve been hoping Happ to PIT for Vazquez will be an option.
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    The only comfort I had last night was that if the Cubs are tied with MIL, they play the tiebreaker in Chicago and the Cubs can deploy their only weapon against the Brewers, Quintana. No guarantee the offense would score a single run, but we got that going for us, which is nice.
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    Annnnnd Gyorko has now left 8 men on base.
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    They were two out away from it being an official game and now it’s in a rain delay. Supposed to thunderstorm for several hours. The delay call was very preemptive. It didn’t look like it was raining much there. This lead may get washed away.
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    Chatwood - definitely Darvish - probably just because so much of the perceived value is tied to the first couple seasons Morrow - eh, maybe. It’s not too unexpected though and he’s excellent when out there Cishek - sign 5 of him
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    I'd rather keep Happ unless Chatwood is going back too and they're picking up his contact, which would never happen. I hope the Minor Leaguers are fringy types... It's a fake Rosenthal so no trade for Archer.
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    Apparently Orioles are close to a deal with Victor Victor Mesa. They chose this year of all years to care. Oh well at least he’s not going to the Dodgers.
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    Hurts specifically in the knee area
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    And he struck out 2 more this inning. Looked like a solid change and curve.
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    Richan strikes out three in the first. Allowed a bloop single. FB mostly 92. Didn’t get a good look at any secondaries.
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