JudasIscariotTheBird
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https://www.sporcle.com/games/Tr4pD00r/did-the-cubs-win-the-world-series-that-year ...the average score is 98% somehow.
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I like getting pissed. And yeah, only got 60 names. The most games played that I didn't remember was Moreland (followed closely by Starlin! #-o ) and the player with the least games played that I did remember was Milton Bradley, (followed closely by Mike Bieleki).
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I'm just saying that the man pumps dongs. Never forget. -
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even he he was 0-5 with RISP That's because he can't hit a curveball.
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Season 5 was just weird. So it starts with Rita dead, and half of what humanized Dex up to that point was his relationship with Rita and her kids. But as soon as she got offed, they get shipped to the in laws and you never see them again and a new lady friend is immediately introduced. When stuff like that happens, its clear that the writers don't have a plan and they are just tossing stuff that they hope sticks, and that is when I run for the exits. I'm never going to let someone pull a LOST me on again.
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So you're picking on Javy here? The guy who led the NL in RBI? The guy who had a .860 OPS with runners in scoring position? Odd choice. Baez had a great year, but I'm not sure he's the perfect person to make contact and hit a sacrifice fly to drive in a run. Raking a double to drive in a run is much, much better than a sac fly for a run. You see, then not only do you not make an out, but you are in position to score if one of your teammates gets a hit later in that inning. If Baez can advance to third, then HE can score on a sac fly! Half of the trick getting sac fly RBIs is getting someone on third with less than two outs in the first place. Baez was able to do things like this often enough that he drove in more runs than anyone else in the National League. Why is this even a conversation? I thought this was the board that wanted Adam Dunn to field every position on the field because he hit dongs and drew walks? We won the World Series just two years ago by crushing dongs and drawing walks (and playing defense a little bit better than Adam Dunn.) What has happened here?! [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
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The idea that there are desirable good players and undesirable good players is a concept I refuse to entertain.
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I stopped after season 3. I asked friends to just give me the details on later seasons lol. I'm pretty sure I wasn't missing much. You missed crazy John Lithgow having Dexter over for Thanksgiving dinner.
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I stopped at season 5. All reports indicate I did the right thing. I stopped after season 3. I asked friends to just give me the details on later seasons lol. I'm pretty sure I wasn't missing much. Season 4 was prob the best season.
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Yes, take away 1/3rd of your data to suit your narrative and squint he is the same player. It is as if someone here has a conclusion they want to reach. Even including his good offensive year (.797 OPS in 2015 w/STL) it's still only 60 points off what he did this year.) If you want to pretend his 2016 season when he hit like neifi perez all year has any bearing, be my guest, but everyone involved agrees he was a wreck at the plate all year and starting in 2017 he basically ditched everything he had tried that year and started over. I'm not going to argue with you anymore. It's moronic. You just pointed out his apparently injury-riddled 2015 season was 60 OPS points higher than his best season with the Cubs as if that's an argument for how good he has been...
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I mean, if he IS the same player he always was, what exactly is the office to blame for? Great signing! Let's throw a parade!!!
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Yes, take away 1/3rd of your data to suit your narrative and squint he is the same player. It is as if someone here has a conclusion they want to reach.
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I didn't post OPS plus. I posted OPS. So yes, league-wide OPS whet up while Heyward's OPS WENT DOWN. Your hand waving jedi mind trick "mentally broken" quip as a way to dismiss his worst offensive season is ludicrous. It doesn't change the fact that he was a horrific hitter. His next two seasons were better, but still only on par or worse than his previous worst performance. He is clearly, without question, a worse hitter with the Cubs than he was previous. The other version of you that claims the Cubs broke him agrees with me.
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OPS 2010: 849 2011: 708 2012: 814 2013: 776 2014: 735 2015: 797 2016: 631 2017: 715 2018: 731 that doesnt say what you think it says It says EXACTLY what it says.
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Ah yes, all of the clear red flags and warning signs that the Cubs and all other teams willfully ignored that you and no one else noticed until he ended up being terrible, after the fact. I’d think it was a failure too if I believed that this FO and others saw serious, fatal flaws in a top FA and lined up to give him $180m+ with opt outs. I never said you can ignore all of the bad signings. Chatwood was a bad signing. Duensing was a bad signing. There are a lot of factors that go into evaluating a FO’s moves. Saying “wow that sucked and seems obvious now I can’t believe no one on Earth predicted that” or “lolz the Cubs signed him because he hit a big homer against us” is silly. dunno what to tell you man. the shoulder injury was well known and even in his cardinals season he didnt hit for any power. they obviously signed him because he was still young, had a pretty high floor given his defensive capabilities as long as he could be a slightly better than league average signing and they just went out and broke him. ...why are you simultaneously arguing the the Cubs broke him, but that he is the same hitter he always was?
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The idea that suddenly, all at once, the entire league discovered how to hit at the same time that Heyward signed with the Cubs, and that Heyward is hitting like he always has, is beyond lunacy. Stop it, please.
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Are you drunk today or something? RC+ 2010: 134 2011: 96 2012: 121 2013: 120 2014: 109 2015: 121 Signs with the Cubs 2016: 72 2017: 88 2018: 99 yes, the rest of the league adjusted, offense went up, and heyward stayed the same. OPS 2010: 849 2011: 708 2012: 814 2013: 776 2014: 735 2015: 797 2016: 631 2017: 715 2018: 731
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I would set the over under of baseball GMs that would have expected Heyward's offensive production to decline this much...or even at all, at 3, and they probably also suck as being baseball executives. The question was if Heyward's defense in the OF was worth the pricetag, not that his present hitting numbers were unsustainable. His offense hasn’t declined. Are you drunk today or something? RC+ 2010: 134 2011: 96 2012: 121 2013: 120 2014: 109 2015: 121 Signs with the Cubs 2016: 72 2017: 88 2018: 99
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The last few years of Dexter got so fun-bad. I stopped at season 5. All reports indicate I did the right thing.
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This is the process vs. results debate again. They weren't pulling a "smartest guys in the room" move -- they were aggressively pursuing a good free agent that other front offices (successful ones, by the way) also thought was a good free agent. This wasn't some market inefficiency/spin rate/4D chess thing: it just didn't work out and it sucks. the idea is that the cubs guys we expect to be smarter than people like me who were like hell yeah jason heyward! But they weren't, they were in fact dumber because they were the ones who actually gave money to the guy who can't slug more than 375 without a flukey high average. I would set the over under of baseball GMs that would have expected Heyward's offensive production to decline this much...or even at all, at 3, and they probably also suck as being baseball executives. The question was if Heyward's defense in the OF was worth the pricetag, not that his present hitting numbers were unsustainable.
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What in the world is that?!
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there is no way anyone on the cubs roster would interpret anything jon lester did after that performance as being uninterested in the outcome or whatever passan is alluding to. It's either someone else or passan is just making horsefeathers up. I'm confident Passan isn't making it up, and confident it's not Lester. I'm confident that I don't give a flying poo if the guy was checking out Billy Williams and his grandkids as Baez was tying the game. It does not matter.
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In this situation...
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Most of this makes sense apart from Bote in the OF. If he isn't playing 3B or 2B, his value is close to nil. Bote is the guy you want as the backup infield guy, though I don't know what he'd be like at SS. Prob not good.
