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Hosmer vs. a lefty, easy K -
If we don't reuse themes were going to be doing Major Dad themed game threads in early October
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What does that say about us then?
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Extension for Hosmer? 😁
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Sadly if there's an opportunity to do something shitty, the Cubs will shamelessly do it.
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Yay we tied it....was getting ready to post about not getting a runner home from 3rd with 0 outs.
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Surely just a stopgap until Mervis is deemed ready right? Not sure what service time looks like these days
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You can’t waste a rare catcher hit dammit!
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It’s early but Smyly is making a great case for being the person who is moved out of the rotation when Hendricks returns
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1 ALDS win, 1 AL WC win in 2020. Definitely the cautionary tale for gut rebuilds. The funny thing is that at least a small part of Hahn deciding to blow it up had to be the Cubs success with our gut rebuild that was peaking in 2016.
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Sorry, I see what your saying but I don't see how that guarantees another rebuild in a decade. If the player development system worked as he promised, there would be no need for another rebuild. That was his major focus and he failed in that regard but I don't think it was for lack of effort.
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How did you know this back in 2012? Theo had come from a 9 year run of sustained success in Boston with strong player development, so its not like it was history repeating itself. I don't think people realized there was a major development problem outside of 1st round picks until like 2017. I'm just not sure how you could be certain that there was going to be a second rebuild all the way back in 2012 when we just hired an elite GM and still had hopes that the ownership group would spend aggressively.
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Yeah I should have thought through the timing on the Succession thread. I thought with the episode airing that night it would work, and maybe we'd get a couple days out of it. Drew Smyly at 8:15 tonight:
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Understanding "star power" is not the same as production necessarily, Dansby's WAR last year would have been the 3rd best season in Ryno's career 😅. Both defensive MI with respectable amount of pop in the bat, The Sosa match will be a little tougher...if Bellinger randomly despite no signs of this being possible turned back into MVP form maybe
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Good news is Toronto has one more layup against Charlotte but their their last 3 games are @ Boston, @ Boston, vs Milwaukee. Both of those teams are fighting for the number 1 seed. Bulls have that critical game against Atlanta, then 2 tougher games @ Milwaukee and @ Dallas (who is really struggling but fighting to make the play-in) before finishing against Detroit who is trying to lock in top lottery odds. Would need something like a 3-1 Bulls finish combined with a 1-3 Raptors finish OR 2-2 and 1-3 with Atlanta also tying the Raptors and Bulls (assuming one of the Bulls wins is against Atlanta) Finally Atlanta has the Bulls game, then Washington and Philadelphia at home and finishing at Boston
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lol they were down 23 when I posted that. What a comeback!
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Incredible win, being down 23 and now leading by 21. if they beat the Hawks in their next game they have a really good shot of at least getting the 9 seed as it would clinch the tiebreaker against the Hawks, and clinch the 3 team tiebreaker between the Raptors and Hawks. standings right now 8. Raptors - - 9. Hawks 0.5 10. Bulls 1.0
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Not really. A bunch of FV 50 players means MLB regulars which is great. FV 65-70 players are future franchise cornerstones the exact players the Cubs desperately lack right now they had 3-4 of them during the last rebuild, 0 now at least that’s how I understand it, I’m not a prospect guru
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Gotta love the “we’re down 7 runs so the offense finally puts some hits together to make the overall numbers look more respectable
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Just pulling from FG but in 2014 the Cubs had the 4th, 6th, 8th, 22nd best prospects in baseball. In 2015 they had the 1st, 3rd, 13th, 21st best prospects. this year PCA is 14 and the next best is 73rd. KB was a 70 FV prospect, Russell 65. PCA is a 60 The Cubs had a staggering amount of elite level talent in 2014-2015. They just don’t now. Doesn’t mean there’s not plenty of good stuff going on down there and players to be excited about though.
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Well despite not scoring for the first 16 innings of the series the Brewers have outscored the Cubs 11-7 so far lol
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That’s why I’m certain the retool is ultimately going to take longer than the rebuild, if it even works at all. Cubs have some good things going for them for sure but they simply don’t have enough impact talent either in the majors or the farm
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Merryweather leaves his first appearance of the year with a 67.50 ERA for the season after allowing 5 ER in 0.2 IP
