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  1. Jason Ross
    Alright Tuck, you haven't hit a bomb for a while. Now would be a nice time to break that streak.
  2. Jason Ross
    A few things: 1. The whiffs were kind of low, but I'm not entirely blaming him. I'll explain why in a moment. 2. Here are two of his strikeouts that were of the non-swinging-variety. The Cartaya PA obviously had two pretty wasteful pitches, and both had a pitch a bit too center cut (both were fouled). But the K pitches for both were watched and they were nasty and perfectly placed. So on one hand, each guy probably should have done more on those fastballs, on the back end, each strikeout was well earned. That's kind of the Cade Horton experience - he'll bully your ass with fastballs early and then get you looking later. I'd like to see more whiffs in general, but just on this start itself, I think it's probably a red herring more than anything. What impressed me most was that I thought he was done after 4. He left a slider center cut for a HR and a fastball over the heart for a long fly out to RF and thought "oh, he's gassed". Then he came back out and bullied the last three hitters. It was nice to see.
  3. Jason Ross
    I followed the game on stream and on Statcast Live. The walks seem like it's less about really bad command and more like he's just missing by an inch or two. Slider was great per his RPM's. I'm really encouraged. I don't think he's ready, yet but I don't think he's far off.
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  5. Jason Ross
    Sadly, part of AZ Phil's report was that Valdez was seen playing other positions than SS. Might just be for versatilities sake, though, so we'll see.
  6. Jason Ross
    BP wrote a pretty scathing article on the Pirates today. They sucked me in with some Canario stuff, but it was basically "The Pirates are going to Pirate, and it's likely they never do anything to put a real team around Skenes". Well written stuff.
  7. Jason Ross
    You could tell that there were times that the control wasn't there, always. Three walks usually isn't Shota-esque - it tied his MLB career high and he'd only done it twice prior. But the cool thing with him is that even when he's a little off, he's still a guy you can trust to get you out of big moments. He's just got it.
  8. Jason Ross
    I would assume a few things: 1. I would guess that there is a bias from Front Office towards perceived budgetary spending. The Marlins are likely viewed as hampered, where as the Cubs are viewed as flush (or should be flush). 2. The lack of Cubs success over Hoyer's tenure. He's been here long enough and without a playoff appearance, it'd be hard to say he's a top-10 guy. If the Cubs can finish around 90 wins, I think they'll start winning votes. But for the Cubs, they'll be more scrutinized for success than the Marlins, who could probably gain votes simply by getting to 82 wins many years.
  9. Jason Ross
    In my younger years, I was certainly a "night time" person. As I quickly exit my 30's and round third into my 40's, I'm no longer an "anything" person. I almost hope the Eagles are bad to avoid SNF and MNF games. Or hope they blow out their opponent. Tuesdays are rough haha
  10. Jason Ross
    Man I'm so over these west coasters haha. It's killing me on EST.
  11. Jason Ross
    Hes pretty terrible, yeah. Clearly we have played Yamamoto, Sasaki, Cease, Gallen and other studs so often that we believe beating up on this guy is beneath us and will thus wait until the Padres challenge our offense properly.
  12. Jason Ross
    I am more and more convinced Rick Sutcliffe is just a big 13-year-old. If he also believes axe-body-spray is a substitute for not taking a shower for three days, then they'll be one-in-the-same.
  13. Jason Ross
    Oh I'm sure he does. He's just a bit much for me. It makes me appreciate JD and Ron Coomer. Both seem to have a better sense of when to talk and when to not. Sut comes off on air as feeling the need to fill every moment with noise. In baseball world, Shota really struggled that inning and still went through the teeth of the Padres with the bases loaded. I love him.
  14. Jason Ross
    Working with Sut has to be the closest thing I deal with on a daily basis with my middle schoolers. I love them dearly, but the amount of nonsensical stories that I'm told, and the amount of times I just want to say "Can you just shut the horsefeathers up now so we can all get to work?" Has to mirror what Boog goes through.
  15. Jason Ross
    Sutcliffe's MLB Announcer Statcast page has him in the 99% of words used, while being in the bottom 5% for relevant words used. It's astounding.
  16. Jason Ross
    To be fair to both, this what the MLB officially lists both as: Bregman - 5"11, 190lbs Shaw - 5"10, 185lbs With that said, if your 9 year old can hit, I say put him at 3b. I'm an equal opportunist. With that said, even if he can't, I'm still more interested in that than watching Vidal Brujan hit, so...batter up.
  17. Jason Ross
    Exactly on the last point. Jackson Chourio was bad for 3 months, Wyatt Langford for 5. Its really hard right now for rookies. Patience is needed. I hope this is a quick confidence/work on a smaller thing turn around, but I'm a fan of productive struggle when you can afford it, and offensively the Cubs can *probably* afford it currently, so I'd probably have kept him up.
  18. Jason Ross
    Yeah, I agree. The 18 games feels unfair. Two of those games came on another continent and without a good chunk of ST, and of the other 16 games, he saw Arizona, LAD, SD (4 games), Texas and both of the As best starters. The home games he had were brutally cold as well. He does look defeated and bewildered at the plate right now but Id let him fight through it, myself.
  19. Jason Ross
    Just looking at the data, he looks like someone who doesn't know when to swing right now. He's watching inside pitches ahead of the count too often, almost like he wants to take a walk. Passive. He's usually fairly aggressive. MLB comes at you fast.
  20. Jason Ross
    Yeah, the Shaw thing feels unfair, though I do wonder if this is a quick "up and down" to restore confidence. Hes been rough and hes in his head at this stage. The Cubs face a lot of good arms and teams between now and May 12th. Perhaps he goes to Iowa, smacks it around for a few weeks and then comes back when the opponents get lighter.
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  22. Jason Ross
    I'm super rooting for Mervis myself because his story is pretty cool. Covid-year-undrafted two way player who rockets through the system one year, struggles and then finds his footing is not the normal route. With that said, this has a lot of hallmarks of when Nelson Velazquez showed up, hit a bunch for a hot minute, and then fell into irrelevancy. The hope is that the K rate and the contact rate will increase as he settles in and while the HR's wont stack up on the current bonanza rate, that he'll even out. But that might not happen, and if it doesn't, then it's probably a Nelson Velazquez type ending for him.
  23. Jason Ross
    Already an interesting list. Seeing players like Hernandez, Mathis and Sanders (who Lance had as a guy to watch on live TV) means that the top-20 will be an interesting list.
  24. Jason Ross
    Yeah, he's had some interesting developments. At age 31, he fits into the same category as Keegan in that I have a hard time deciding if his outcomes in Iowa are due to age/experience or due to development. He's throwing more strikes than he has in the past and the Stuff+ numbers seem to notice a jump. I'm willing to chalk some things up just to being around Zombro, though.
  25. Jason Ross
    I kind of went the lefty route to ease off of Thielbar a bit. I think there's a good chance he's a decent option, but right now, I'm not sure you can trust him in a spot. His control hasn't been great on the curve, but the Stuff+ and xERA suggest he'll be alright. All of the lefties could be a shorter-term fix as well...maybe two weeks. Let Wicks get one or two more outings in Iowa under his belt that look more like Sunday and less like his first one, and then let him come up to be length (I think Keller can take that for now). It would allow you to ease Thielbar back into being the only lefty one-inning guy when Wicks came up. Just kind of trying to think of ways to keep Caleb around, but lessen the load until he gets his sea legs back.
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