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  1. Jason Ross
    Pagan is an extreme flyball pitcher. Suzuki, Kelly and Castro due up. Wind isn't blowing so bad it's impossible to get them out today.
  2. Jason Ross
    In a way, the Reds got a bit of a break with Lodolo going down with a blister. Don't get me wrong, great pitcher, but the Cubs lineup was geared to hit against a LHP not a barrage of RHP. It's just one of those nights where all of the little things have worked against the Cubs.
  3. Jason Ross
    Yeesh this game is all sorts of frustrating.
  4. Jason Ross
    No one is saying to hide him in the minors forever. But do you think two weeks when the Cubs offense is scuffling is that time to introduce a strikeout machine to the lineup? To answer my own question; now is not the time for it.
  5. Jason Ross
    Been a while. One steal since July 20th.
  6. Jason Ross
    Yes it would. Owen Caissie is likely going to have a really hard introduction to MLB pitching. I say this as a big fan of Owen Caissie, but I would expect a strikeout rate above 35% for the initial few hundred PAs. Think like...the same type of overall offense value as Matt Shaw during his struggles, but also adding no baserunning or defense. I would be very prepared for him to be a subreplacement level player for about half a season or so. I think he will settle in eventually. But these last two months are no where near enough time for him to settle. Ballesteros has much better hit tools and those translate much quicker.
  7. Jason Ross
    Yeah I noticed that too. My first thought was that he got beat by the ball. Little did I know it wasn't so simple...
  8. Jason Ross
    Strange that Kittredge and Rogers both immediately faced their former teams.
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  10. Jason Ross
    He's going to be out. horsefeathers.
  11. Jason Ross
    We can also get infield hits.
  12. Jason Ross
    The Cubs would bring up Ballesteros.
  13. Jason Ross
    Cubs cannot count on scoring two runs to a baseball game. That said, that inning was bad luck beat after bad luck beat. Braiser struck out Hayes on three pitches, a swinging bunt with a 38.6,mph ev set up Friedl who hit a well placed pitch. Offense needs to pick 'em up. Everyone will get at least one more shot at it.
  14. Jason Ross
    Yep. He had four strikes in the zone (CB called #1 a ball) and then Hayes swung and hit #6 at 38.6mph. Mind you, he watched #2 and #3, which were both worse pitches than #1. There is no justification for #1 to be a ball. #3 was lower than that pitch and it's in the middle, so it couldn't have missed anywhere but "down".
  15. Jason Ross
    Get the horsefeathers out of here with these swinging bunts. Jeeze. Braiser did everything right in that PA and Hayes did everything wrong.
  16. Jason Ross
    "Add ons" barely move the needle in better and bigger deals. These two prospects did not have much juice. We gotta stop pretending that other organizations are dying to get our 19 year old with a 91 wRC+ in the lowest level of professional baseball he could be in Stateside and be with an MLB organization.
  17. Jason Ross
    100% this. Two things can be true: what we gave up for Soroka was totally fine and the Cubs still didn't do enough. I would even take Soroka as the starter had the team went big on the pen! I thought it would be a bad deadline if the Cubs didn't trade for any player who required one of their six best prospects go back, and the Cubs top-10 is essentially untouched (depending on where you had Franklin).
  18. Jason Ross
    We gave up two prospects. Neither were particularly "good". One is a backup OF'er at the MLB level and the other is 19 and is a developmental prospects who is about to turn 19 and has a 91 wRC+ in the ACL. Franklin will have a good shot at a career and could be a nice guy to have on a roster, but shouldn't be hard to replace. And Cruz is a lottery ticket. I liked following Cruz, but he's probably going to flame out.
  19. Jason Ross
    The Cubs and the Marlins both didn't like the medicals on the Miami trade, so the Cubs do look at these things. Matt Trueblood wrote an article explaining how the velocity drop had a mechanical and a pitch shape change to go with it as well as using the fastball differently. That suggests intention. One thing I mentioned a few times; he raised his arm slot and raising an arm slot brings more load into the shoulder area. Mike Soroka has shoulder discomfort. We can believe a few things here. It's possible that the Cubs, the day before the trade deadline, basically ignored all of the velocity drop, didn't perform a decent physical and bought a pitcher who was clearly hurt. I'll be honest with you and say that I don't buy that. He may have gambled a little on the medicals, but I think with as much time as he had left on Thursday, feel like he probably felt good enough with everything. I know that the velo drop seems like it has to be tied to this, but I'm not as sure as others. Jed didn't just ignore it. I think it's very, very, very likely that if you and I can pull this up on a Savant page, Jed probably can too. We'll see what comes of this. We may never know exactly what happened and when. But Hoyer isn't so incompetent to have entirely ignored this.
  20. Jason Ross
    To visualize, the first shows' Brown's pitches tonight (red=fastball). The second image is where he throws it normally. Notice how few are in the middle third tonight compared to the season.
  21. Jason Ross
    Ben Brown's fastball placement is *so* much better tonight. So, so, so much better.
  22. Jason Ross
    Charlie Morton has been horrible since mid-June. I'm not sure we wanted him.
  23. Jason Ross
    Here's the positive outlook here: Everything that he did with the velo drop seemed to have intention. It'd have been one thing if we just saw a velo drop, but he made mechanical changes that were directly tied to what you'd expect would drop velo and increase shape. He also pitched in a very particular way that highlighted that shape change. One of the things he did was raise his arm slot. Raising the arm slot creates heavier load in the shoulder, where as dropping the arm slow moves the load more towards the elbow/forearm. With a change in armslot it could great extra soreness in the shoulder area that Michael is feeling a bit. If it's just that, it'd be a short stint and he'd be right back. The negative look is that he was feeling the shoulder issues and he changed his mechanics because he was feeling it. This caused him to leave his fastball up in the zone more. But I assume at that point, the Cubs would have had plenty of access to medicals and a physical would have revealed this.
  24. Jason Ross
    Right shoulder discomfort. Not great.
  25. Jason Ross
    Looked at the statcast on Soroka and then the video of him coming off. He looked to be favoring his right side a little and explaining something to do with his ability to throw the slurve (the way he was gesturing would be a curveball/slurve rotation). Then in the Statcast, he didn't throw another slurve after he hung that pitch bad to Stephenson. Also, fastball was down 2 mph on those pitches and he was suddenly leaving everything up to the arm side. Probably not a nail.
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