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  1. UMFan83
    twitter says that he has the 11th highest soft contact rate in baseball this year.
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    Call me crazy but I don't hate trading for Harvey if the cost is minimal. I like the idea of acquiring a crapload of pitchers and hoping 3-4 of them work out. Strangely at the same time, I would love it if Harvey was the Brewers deadline move because I don't fear him at all.
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    Sounds like the Diamondbacks are likely landing spot for Ziegler
  5. UMFan83
    We're not in on Ziegler apparently
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    I like the idea that the starter market is expensive, we already made a move and we hope that we can get at least 2-3 guys pitching well by the end of the season. So the next logical move is to stack the pen with guys and turn any playoff games into a bullpen fest. Just using Ziegler as a placeholder here but if we acquire that pitcher we'd have Morrow Strop Edwards Cishek Chavez Ziegler Montgomery Rosario Wilson Lester/Hendricks/Quintana/Darvish as starters (in an ideal world) That is a pen you can feel good about asking to pitch 4-5 innings a game. That pen is so stacked you have to debate dropping Rosario or Wilson in favor of Hamels if he is pitching well.
  7. UMFan83
    Sounds crazy but I have this feeling that Harper will be on a new team this time tomorrow.
  8. UMFan83
    yeah seriously. figure this horsefeathers out bears and get him on the field.
  9. UMFan83
    There was a recent BA article on how they scouted this years all stars when they were prospects. Altuve was never rated higher than the Astros #28 prospect and was highlighted for his defense only in the scouting report.
  10. UMFan83
    Are there any educated guesses about what Corey Crawford's injury is? So weird that he's not 100% yet and hasn't even skated. Didn't sound too convincing that he will be ready to start the season.
  11. UMFan83
    The media, sensing an opportunity to tear down a player, are jumping in
  12. UMFan83
    I must have missed it, what did ARod say about Darvish?
  13. UMFan83
    What the horsefeathers was Contreras doing?
  14. UMFan83
    Since Hendricks is presumably the first pitcher in baseball history to pitch 6 entire innings and give up only 2 runs, it’s only fair that if some starter were to somehow equal this feat, they will call it a Hendricks
  15. UMFan83
    horsefeathers you Hickey
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    I see what you did there
  18. UMFan83
    Happ has not looked good when I’ve watched him the last few games. Swinging at a lot of bad pitches which I know is unlike him
  19. UMFan83
    The bullpen is awesome, though, so don't we have to give him credit for that? ETA: Sorry. Didn't see that second graph. If Chatwood comes out of the pen and starts dominating we then know that we have to make everyone a relief pitcher
  20. UMFan83
    I for one am shocked Derwood didn’t read the last couple of posts before posting something I’m shocked that you do t understand that posts can be made while you are typing Sorry you lose the benefit of doubt when you tend to do this quite often
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    Seriously though give me a reason I can’t pin this on Hickey? I mean the pitchers have to pitch but how do you explain a bunch of starters with solid to great track records all the sudden collectively performing poorly, unable to go more than 5 innings even when they are getting decent results? I guess you could say that the bullpen is collectively pitching well (outside on Duensing) so maybe he’s having an effect there but overall a good starting rotation on paper is collectively pitching like the worst staff in the league.
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    Yeah when they don’t have a complete dumpster fire rotation
  23. UMFan83
    Good point. The Cubs needed him to grind out an extra inning because we couldn’t afford another 5-6 inning start and now it could be biting us on the other end. It’s a never ending cycle
  24. UMFan83
    I for one am shocked Derwood didn’t read the last couple of posts before posting something
  25. UMFan83
    I miss the performance of Chris Bosio pitching staffs not necessarily the old racist himself
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