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  1. Jason Ross
    It's the kind of argument I expect my middle school students to give me. "But you didn't warn me that I wasn't allowed to throw my food at him, so I shouldn't be in trouble". Well, no horsefeathers, kid. You don't need a warning for that.
  2. Jason Ross
    Well, Mikolas got suspended for 5 days. If only they had taken the time to write the rule "It's totally cool to throw at a guy if he accidentally hit a catcher with his backswing" into the rulebook! Damn those unwritten rules!
  3. Jason Ross
    My guess is the argument David Ross would give you is that More's defensively shaky at 3b, and has a 79 wRC+ against LHP on the season. I'd counter with Wisdom being DH level bad at 3b, and Trey Mancini being worthless, personally, so I don't agree, but that'd probably be my guess.
  4. Jason Ross
    Rucker to AAA, Wesneski called up. Will start.
  5. Jason Ross
    Man, there's nothing more than I hate about people whinging and moaning about fictitious rules that only exist in their brain. Example: here's Yan Gomes getting knocked out of a game with a backswing. No one threw at anyone.
  6. Jason Ross
    I can't read. You're right, AA Rocket City.
  7. Jason Ross
    The Angels just promoted 2023 1st round pick Nolan Schnauel to their AAA affiliate. They do things very differently. EDIT: I can't read.
  8. Jason Ross
    Great minds think alike. I said that his recent trade idea involving the Cubs and the Astros felt like something you'd read on an Astros blog. He's the worst.
  9. Jason Ross
    There's not better evidence for why Jim Bowden was a terrible GM than to read any article he writes.
  10. Jason Ross
    This is both infuriating (the Cubs should not be, in any way, concerned with going over the luxury tax) but also interesting (in that they'll still lose Stroman at seasons end) in that maybe they can use prospects to get a controllable arm.
  11. Jason Ross
    Bellinger is a Boras client. I think Cody Bellinger will sign the best contract, I dont think he really cares where he plays. Now, I think his best value is at CF and teams who think he's a CF'er for the next 2, 3 or 4 years are likely to offer more to him, so it may effect how much teams are willing to offer him. But I think that's a different discussion.
  12. Jason Ross
    Horton finished 4IP, 5K's, 0BB, 0H, 1 HBP. 50 pitches - 37 strikes. Cruised.
  13. Jason Ross
    Rojas has top-20/30 (or better) in baseball upside. We're a ways a way still, just 150 PA's into his career in the states, but there's something there.
  14. Jason Ross
    Yeah, just read about it. I'm not going vegan any time soon, but it's a little cracked to eat a live lizard on camera for the yuks.
  15. Jason Ross
    Same area scout who was on Horton. Who was following Horton since HS... Big Ty Nichols fan here!
  16. Jason Ross
    I mean, for horsefeathers's sake, thats the most clearcut version of "this dude should get kicked out" of game I've seen.
  17. Jason Ross
    Horton looks back tonight. Through 2: 28 pitches, 21 strikes, 3 K's, 0 anything else. Up to 98mph.
  18. Jason Ross
    Wait...what? Yeah, horsefeathers this guy.
  19. Jason Ross
    This is pretty poetic and exactly what you deserve plunking Happ like that. Throwing at players is stupid. You deserve this outcome.
  20. Jason Ross
    Happ swung, Contreras kind of lunged at it, and the backswing whacked Willy. Got him good, probably stitches. Mikolas, I guess, blamed Happ (for what, the horsefeathers knows) and then threw at him...twice. The last had to be an 80mph lob at his ass. Got tossed. What his argument for **not* being tossed is probably worth a study in a college law class, because I couldn't imagine there was anything there to argue, it was the most obvious reason ever for him to get rung.
  21. Jason Ross
    Oh horsefeathers Mikalas. What a jackals. Deserved the boot.
  22. Jason Ross
    Man, that sucks for Contreras. I bet that's stitches.
  23. Jason Ross
    The bold is where we likely differ. I'll trade slightly better baseball today every day, and twice on Sunday if it means a lot better baseball in the relative near future. But I'm not patient enough for that to be 2025, either if 2024 is another one of these mediocre, .500 type "maybe we can back into a playoff" type seasons. Regardless of this deadline the Chicago Cubs need to be committed to winning this offseason. Whether or not ownership and the front office has the stomach for that, is an entirely different conversion.
  24. Jason Ross
    That I will agree with. With that said, I'm not sure it will change it enough to meaningfully matter. For example, Swanson captured a higher AAV than other SS and he was QO attached, and Turner and Bogaerts each got extremely huge contracts. So while it may change a team or two who's interested, he will be a premium position player in a thin market for impact bats, and I doubt at the end of the day the contract Bellinger signs will be much/any different if he's QO attached or not.
  25. Jason Ross
    Damnit, lost my draft myself. Quick response: 1. I don't think the Cubs will find it impossible to add players who might help in 2024, but there just isn't enough time for the underperforming crowd to fix their issues and show improvement enough to make me want to pencil them into 2024 conifedently. The Cubs need to turn a corner from being the reclamation team to a confidently good roster. I don't mind them kind of doing that with the BP, because BP arms are just volatile in general, but I think that's where it needs to remain confined. 2. My last piece on Bellinger and the QO is this; the Cubs should never be afraid to drop a contract and sign a QO player. 2nd round picks are valuable, but not so valuable the Cubs should feel the need to keep Bellinger so they feel better about their draft budget. The Cubs also have a deep enough system currently, that losing a draft pick via FA shouldn't change their system much. Plus, we can view the prospects acquired for Bellinger as their 2nd round pick. I'm the biggest draft dork in the world but draft flexibility outside of the 1st round is more of a luxury (these picks just hit so infrequently). I'd prioritize winning.
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