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  1. Jason Ross
    Both have done significant work on their swings. Both have taken off since then. Credit to both players and the Cubs. The Cubs coaching deserves credit for identifying changes and those players deserve credit for being willing to listen and work through those changes.
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  3. Jason Ross
    Wehiwa Aloy is A-Okay with me! I like him a bunch.
  4. Jason Ross
    Morgan or Assad to the 60 feels like what's coming down the pipeline. But I agree. There's nothing in the profile I can find interesting despite the arm slot change. I really like the arm slot change for Colin Rea. I don't think there will be similar results for Flexen.
  5. Jason Ross
    Yeah, I want a few weeks of consistently good EV's. I think May 12th is my target day. If he's cruising at that point, it's when the schedule really eases up and the Cubs head home for a homestand.
  6. Jason Ross
    My guess is that he's going to take a 40-man spot that will be vacated by Assad to the 60-Day IL. Cosgrove, who pitched last night, feels like the guy who gets optioned (akin to Holliwell the other day). Plan for Flexen is probably something around being the piggyback fallback for Ben Brown. But I really don't think there's success to be found. Ignore the ERA in Triple-A, and everything else is not good. A good amount of hard contact and a lack of ground balls against worse-than-MLB pitching. The Cubs have altered the armslot but unlike Colin Rea, I don't think they're going to find the same level of success. In their defense, if Brown needs a piggyback, it's probably because he isn't pitching well, so Flexen will be the "designated loser" more than someone thrust into an important game situation. I think in the end it won't be a major deal, they won't actually lose anyone, but I don't think Flexen is someone I'd really worry about opting out or not, myself. Here is Cosgrove's Triple-A statcast:
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    Yeah, saw that. Flexen sucks. The Cubs shouldn't feel the need to add him, regardless of the slot.
  8. Jason Ross
    Per Jesse Rogers, the Cubs will select P Chris Flexen from Iowa today. This is not related to the Shota Imanaga cramp, and is related to his impending FA. Flexen is not on the 40-man, and the Cubs have a full 40-man so a corosponding move will have to happen
  9. Jason Ross
    Per Jesse Rogers, the Cubs will call up Chris Flexen today. This has nothing to do with Shota, but that they had to call him up now or lose him. Frankly, I'd lose him. This is his Triple-A statcast page.
  10. Jason Ross
    Two of the hits were weak, but two were over 100mph. I'm worried less about opposite field power and simply seeing the contact quality up. The reality of opposite field power (especially home runs) at the MLB level is that they're far more "myth" than they are "realistic". Very few hitters go the other way with authority because it's hard. In Shaw's last two games he has five PA's with EV's over 90mph, three over 100mph and a 97mph home run That's a really good sign that the mechanics are back. He wasn't doing that earlier in the week, even, as he got to Iowa.
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    He was pretty bad in a few Triple-A innings. And they're kind of on their own weird 40 man crunch because they're so top heavy. They have a lot of mediocre fodder rolling around their 40, and Cosgrove looked broken to them. I hope he's fixed. He'd be fun.
  12. Jason Ross
    Cramps. He'll stay in Iowa.
  13. Jason Ross
    \ Going to have to disagree with you, there. 2023 Cosgrove was a dude. He limits hard contact with a funky delivery. He has a 13 degree arm angle. Just four lefties come in shallower. His pitch shapes were loved by Stuff+ in 2023, with a 112 Stuff+ total. That was the fourteenth best left-handed-reliever in all of baseball. Good Cosgrove does this: If the Cubs get 2023 Cosgrove, he's a great reliever. *If* being the operative.
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    Being as kind to Chris Flexen as I can; he sucks. He had a 5+ xFIP last year with a 17.4 K% and a 9 BB%. There's no reason we need to dance with that devil. The reality on Horton is this: he's got maybe 120 IP this year. You can either spend those in Iowa, or you can spend them with the Cubs. If he was developing a third pitch, if he had mechanical issues, if there was a control question, or pitch shape issues...I'd say "let him work it in Iowa!" Here's the rub; he has none of that. He's grading out like a stuff+ monster, inducing a good amount of whiff, he's got a developing curveball he's more and more comfortable tossing and he lights up the strike zone. The only hurdle left is: can he go 5 IP? With the amount of strikes he throws, he doesn't need 100 pitches to get through five. He's looking less gassed as the day goes on and he's gone 76 the last three. I truly think he'd have gone over 80 today but he was so damn economical through six that the Cubs just pulled the plug on him going out in the seventh for a single hitter. Yeah, Cade is about ready. I'd say if Shota was down tomorrow on the IL, or any one was, Cade Horton would get the call. I also think he's that good. Since the first game he threw with Myrtle, there was a different kind of dude on the mound I hadn't seen come through the system in a hot minute.
  15. Jason Ross
    11.66 ERA, 5+ xFIP in limited time in 2024. Was very good in 2023, however.
  16. Jason Ross
    Cramps. So looks like we dodged a bullet. But yeah, Horton is probably next up.
  17. Jason Ross
    Entirely unrelated to Shota coming off the mound... Horton through 4IP, 5K, 0BB, 1ER and a whole load of whiffs.
  18. Jason Ross
    Don't forget the 1st to home run by Big Mo showing off the wheels.
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    There you go.
  20. Jason Ross
    Man, perfect pitch by Shota not rewarded.
  21. Jason Ross
    Meant to post this in here: Heaney changed his arm angle and has really done good against RHH this year. Been worse against lefties. But got busy recording our new pod episode (I did mention it there for proofs sake) Thought the lefties would have some success today. PCA making me look smart. But also he's just good, so I'll credit him.
  22. Jason Ross
    Cade looks solid tonight. His breaking stuff is *nasty*
  23. Jason Ross
    Leadoff 2b for Shaw. Hard hit other way. He is staring to look like Shaw again.
  24. Jason Ross
    Yeah, Turner not playing is notable. I don't think it means they're entirely done with him, but it's probably a sign that the team is cognizant of the data and that there is enough there to suggest it won't be a strict R-L platoon moving forward until Turner does something.
  25. Jason Ross
    I've used Hoyer's words this winter a lot, but I'll continue to point to them - he was very clear when speaking about Soto about how he viewed that type of a commitment and that it was something that was going to be a long term discussion. Then they acquired Tucker right after; a player who they would have a full year to negotiate with.
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