Agony and Ivy

The beauty of this roster is there are just so many choices.

I was a little confused about the decent K rate and comments about missing bats, but his swinging strike rate is abysmal. He's literally not missing the bats. This is more hypothetical than anything else, but given the absurdly low swinging strike rate compared to the slightly above average K rate, it would seem to me he's getting a lot of takes on pitches in the zone? I wonder how that compares in terms of predictive value vs swinging strikes. This has been studied there's an article on Fangraphs somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it. Basically it concludes that called strikes isn't really a skill and it doesn't correlate to K rate.

He has 5.4% swinging strike rate. I'm not even sure who he's an upgrade over.

TIL Karl Ravech is not only alive but pretending he has sources.

I'm so glad I didn't publicly document my KB doom boner like all you idiots in here.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/cubs-addison-russell-wrigley-field-2019/ I feel like saying these comments are stupid let's him off the hook. He's either a narcissist or a sociopath, and I am leaning sociopath. He needs to be gone immediately. Theo et al don't really care about this though, they banned the guy in the seats the other day, so they've done their good deed.

Albert Almora still being on this team is baffling.

10 balls at 6 outs and the pitcher up and he blows it. The under wins. It was a sweat but it wouldn't be gambling if it wasn't.

Yu is Japanese for horsefeathering train wreck.

Pounding the under. I'm guessing this cashes in the first inning.

His name is Whit Merrifield, the tweets that everyone should be concerned about are the ones they haven't found yet.

Nothing. Theo has always said nobody is untouchable and this is fake news. Someone should take Olney's Wrigley hard pass away.

ESPN has turned into that Sports Mockery site. 100% clickbait [expletive].

The Mets lineup is a war crime.

This is better than Titanic music.