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Jason Ross
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It's just going to be too late to build him up and the Cubs probably won't jeopardize building him up poorly. He just started throwing again and won't be off a mound until after the ASB. He probably isn't with an affiliate before August. 6 weeks would be a traditional Spring Training (2nd week of February to April) and the Cubs cannot count on him coming back to pitch in a rotation with two-weeks to go as that would probably put him on pace to come back in the rotation come the second or third week in September. Instead, it's likely he gets 3-4 weeks and returns as a multi-inning guy as rosters expand. But if he does that, there's not going to be time to get him from 2-3 innings to 4-5 innings, which they'll want to take slowly considering the injury. In the playoffs, you need bulk innings guys. And he can do that. There's a role for him. He can be a "super-opener" or an elite piggyback.
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Just posted that Saver was reporting that in the MLB draft thread! He's a long time friend of mine. He's the best at this.
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Not surprising but a few updates I've got from my guy Savermetrics. - Blomker will sign - Meyers will sign - Emmanuel Hernandez has changed all social medias over to Cubs stuff and belief is he will sign (If it's on socials, Savermetrics finds it. Yags is a savant).
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This draft is clearly a Tyler Zombro draft. And I'm here for that.
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Another thing: while Happ has certainly struck out a lot, I believe we are playing a handful more games before the break than ever before. The league has pushed up OD by a magnitude of a few weeks the last couple of years, That has to play a role too.
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With Brown it isn't that he wouldn't be capable. It's "is there enough time"? He's not throwing. We don't have a timeline. Whether or not he can build back up and get into a rotation is going to be hard. We don't even know if he's coming back this year. As it pertains to Maton, he's shown nothing in his stuff to suggest the arm is cooked. Maybe the knee is. But he was an excellent reliever last year, has been good multiple years in his career...I get he's been bad so far, but he's got potential to be very useful if he's 100% healthy.
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Re: Titsworth:
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I had brought it up elsewhere, earlier, but the way I see it is that the Cubs have a lot of names who *could* comeback, but how they'll be back, and where they'll be back is up for debate. Between Cabrera, Brown, Steele, you probably hope one is in the rotation, one is in the pen in September, and if you get all three in any capacity, it's a major win. Between Palencia and Maton, you hope one of them gets back to being a mainstay at the end of a bullpen. Both have different questions as to whether or not they do. Between Peterson, Rea, Assad, and Taillon you probably need one to eat innings in the rotation, and one to be a long-man. Wiggins is a wildcard. Could end up anywhere. Rollison, Webb, and Ferguson look like bullpen keepers. You hope or or two of the Thielbar, Thornton, Pomeranz, Hollowell cast of arms can stabilize and force you to keep them. In the end, you're probably left needing: 1 playoff starter 1 reliever you put in the 7/8/9 mix immediately and keep him there. 1 reliever in the 6th inning mix that you buy fairly cheaply and if he ends up off a playoff roster, so be it.
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There's a handful of Philly Bros who are just waiting with abated breath for this guy to get called up. And a shirsey with the name "Titsworth" that will be $20 and hanging at some sort of sketchy near-stadium vendor ready for those bros to buy.
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His swing has been tilting upwards for a while. I do think he is getting back to a good place.
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Rumors of Bregman's demise may have been overstated.
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Meyers is probably my favorite pick. Not because he's the best, but I just love this kind of pick. Kid gets tossed off WVU for hard-to-understand circumstances (a program who has a history of doing this recently), but offers big stuff out of the bullpen. Cheap cost of entry in the 9th and has leverage upside.
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Chase Meyer is interesting. I don't have the full story but it appears as though he was removed from the WVU program this spring.
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See a report or two where he can run it to 98mph.
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Looks like Williams sits mid 90's with a low-slot release. Was supposed to be a starter, got moved to the pen where he pitched much better. Definitely a reliever, but you can see a pathway to a middle innings guy.
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Should have gone 1.1, of course.
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Tryba is a cool little find. He's not going to close ever, but he's got a funky slot, good spin, decent enough velo for a lefty. You can see a reliver here.
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Vandy commits are about the hardest to buy out of. So yeah, that's my guess.
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Yes. They did this a few years ago too where they just picked almost exclusively pitchers. This is a draft that was expected to be pitcher heavy. As well, you may notice a slight different type of pitcher...Zombro has more influence in the draft room than he did before, so I'd expect to see that reflected too.
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I like all of the arms the Cubs are grabbing. All of them you can squint and see where there's upside. There's velocity that you don't have to dream on outside of the kid who weighs 100lbs and is 6'5", and each one feels like you can envision roles on MLB teams with a bit of cleanup but without full rebuilds.
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The perfect Cubs' pitcher doesn't exis- "Cubs draft low slot pitcher with cut-ride on his fastball. Also he's on the IL".
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Greg has him on the high end of that. So I'd say "yeah, that's the end of the savings"
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Blomker looks, physically, like Jameson Taillon.
