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Rizzo had a couple of good hacks in his AB and he's been so locked in I'm surprised he was fooled by the high heat. -
He's still walking and hitting for some power which salvaged his OPS a little but he's hitting ~.196 since May
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Damn you might not get a ton of chances that good to put a crooked number up.
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I think the Mets guessed Jake wanted to come out and attack hitters thus all the early swings
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I've seen the Red Sox, White Sox and Giants droughts broken. I don't care about anyone else's freaking droughts, if anything it depresses me when other teams break their droughts.
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Find me a deadline deal where anyone near that caliber was traded at the deadline. It doesn't happen often. The market this year is different than last year and next year will be different than this one but in order to get both of those guys from New York it's going to take a ton. My feeling on this is that the Yankees would get a bigger return trading them individually than if they traded them in a single package. I'm not sure if there is any logic behind that, but maybe something to do with scarcity of elite reliever supply gets cut significantly when they deal the first piece, causing teams to up their offers for the second one.
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That's just way too much. I don't mind paying a premium price to fill a glaring weakness, but if that is the type of return that it takes to get Miller, I'd much rather acquire a couple of "B" names for LHP in the pen and hope one of them works out. Swap out Happ or Torres with Vogelbach and it's still an overpay but it's not disgusting. Or go get Boone Logan and Jake McGee. I still think that's too much. Vogelbach is fine, but giving up him plus a top 30 prospect (based on midseason prospect rankings) AND another top 100 guy (based on preseason rankings) is too much for a guy that has never pitched more than 63 innings in a season since becoming a full time reliever. He has value and fills a glaring need but you can take a risk in filling his 60 innings with internal options, lesser trades or scrap heap relievers.
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We swept the Mets in the regular season last year. Correct, and then the playoffs turned the tide as their starters shut us down. I'm not sure what 'turning the tide of the head to head' means and why that's at all important
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That's just way too much. I don't mind paying a premium price to fill a glaring weakness, but if that is the type of return that it takes to get Miller, I'd much rather acquire a couple of "B" names for LHP in the pen and hope one of them works out.
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Jake stat:
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Both have been out for over a month (Dex 6/16, Soler 6/6.) Wouldn't they normally start a bit lower? you don't know how rehab works, do you? You miss time, you have to go back to rookie ball to re-earn your roster spot right?
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New Benny, and Other changes (Bulls offseason)
UMFan83 replied to WrigleyField 22's topic in Other Sports
So, he was 3 for 10...yeah, 30% isn't great in the long run, but he makes one more of those 7 shots and it's fine...two more and it's a "good" shooting night. This kinda illustrates why a statement like that (especially when you purposely take out two makes) is completely meaningless and silly. It's not a big deal but just a pet peeve for me so rather than bite my tongue I decided to be a dick about it. Hah, thanks The only reason the number stood out to me was because when I turned it on he was 1-8 shooting and they were making a big deal about his poor shooting game. He just happened to make his last 2 shots which were of course both extremely clutch. So I guess you could say he salvaged a bad shooting game. -
I expect 8 dominating innings from Jake tonight. KB hits a HR off a great pitcher, Cubs win 3-0
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New Benny, and Other changes (Bulls offseason)
UMFan83 replied to WrigleyField 22's topic in Other Sports
Honestly, the last few minutes of this game and OT were fun to watch. It means absolutely nothing, but Valentine hit 2 bonkers shots, the first to send it to OT on maybe the best designed last second out of bounds play I've seen since the Bryce Drew shot for Valpo, and the 2nd that is above. Good times! Whats crazy is that he was (I believe) 1-8 shooting besides those 2 shots. Had a bad shooting game overall. I've watched a bit of the games. Team was ok, but outside of Portis, I don't think any of the individual players had amazing performances. Grant couldn't shoot, Valentine couldn't either for the most part but he did a lot of other stuff well, Dinwiddie ran the offense well and got looks but also struggled shooting, Felicio was the biggest disappointment in my book, was often outworked and abused down low. But maybe I'm just expecting too much from a bunch of rookie/2nd year players, the quality of play is poor for all the teams I saw, lots of bad turnovers, iso ball, etc. Obviously the team was good enough to go undefeated so I'm probably off in my evaluation. -
I've always thought the whole "one day contract to retire as a _______" is cheesy but if there was one player I'd be ok with doing that it's Peanut.
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Suck it Mets
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With how quickly wood and Edwards got up I wonder if Strop is losing his grip on the 8th inning
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Come on Strop
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Nothing worse than getting in your car to run an errand and realize you chose the Coomer inning to run the errand
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Knew he was out as soon as he turned for home. Cespedes is too good at that horsefeathers. Ps don't mind the send call or anything
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I miss the Voltron lineup
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And the one time they threw a no no it ended the pitchers career
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Damn wasted a lead off hit Willy cooling off since ASB?
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Hah he might have gone like 87-2 against the Bears in his career but we got the last laugh by ending his career and then beating him on his homecoming number retirement ceremony
