Tim

Glad I stuck with this game.

I'd actually like to see this stat Shouldn't take too long to look up.

Dead ball as soon as the ump gives him a new ball.

Can we put Javy at #8 again? He started very well there and was taking pitches ahead of the pitcher.

This is my favorite part. uh, what holes? We have exactly one player with expiring control after this season - Justin Wilson.

I may have underestimated him coming into this year. Okay, fine. I definitely underestimated him coming into this year.

This is on you.

When you remember to start the damn thing.

Hit the first batter? What are these guys butthurt about now?

Are we sure he doesn't pitch for the Mets?

gotcha

And Javy promptly flew into a double play? What the?

Schwarber sac bunted Contreras to second with nobody out?!? Against a righty? With Javy coming up next?

https://www.mlb.com/news/jordan-montgomery-to-have-tommy-john-surgery/c-279904758 The Yankees' rotation took a hit Tuesday, when the club announced left-hander Jordan Montgomery will need to undergo Tommy John surgery. Montgomery will have the surgery performed by team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad on Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The 25-year-old Montgomery has been sidelined since the beginning of May with a flexor strain in his left elbow. The southpaw began the year with a 2-0 record and a 3.62 ERA over his first six starts this season, one year after placing sixth in American League Rookie of the Year Award voting when he recorded a 3.88 ERA over 29 starts.

Nice

I forget, what is the penalty for blowing past your allotment? Is it two first rounders taken away? Or is there more?

If this was in response to a third round pick, I’m confused. He seems safe with a successful wood bat pedigree. No, I'm reacting to the draft up to this point. Based on reading player evaluations done by people who know more than I ever will. Well, they've gone "safe" with three of the five picks so far.

There's a matter of degrees here. None of these are the Tyler Colvin pick, and the Cubs have a bunch of picks outside the hardened consensus and in the squishy 20-100 area where there's like 250 guys who can make a case for being worth it, plus the added dimension of signability/pools. They took two toolsy HS OF who had their stock depressed a bit by non-worrisome injuries and who have ceilings worthy of the ~50-75 range that they were drafted, Miami and UCLA aren't exactly recruiting idiots either. If you want to criticize the Richan pick I can at least understand that, given the lack of top line results or premium stuff and the anecdotal likelihood he's not underslot. But the woe is me act because they popped a couple guys who are among the most likely to have large swings on rankings(HS OF who missed a chunk of their senior year) on top of a college bat in the 1st round doesn't resonate. Criticize the drafting outcomes all you want, but the reflexive anger that they didn't draft as if they just averaged out MLB/BA/PG's draft rankings and went down the list is silly. Are you talking about me or someone else with the "reflexive anger"? Because I'm certainly not angry. Like I say, I think there's room to disagree with the picks without being "angry".

I love the job Theo + crew have done as much as anyone. However, I feel like they are getting more praise than they deserve for the drafting job they've done with the Cubs. I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on the first round college hitter. But what else have they done in the draft with the Cubs that gives anyone confidence that they can identify which toolsy HS OF they should pick? Is it DJ Wilson or someone else I'm missing? Why should I have any more confidence in Richan than the litany of similar pitchers they've taken? This is their seventh draft with the Cubs. We've got a pretty long track record for this front office. I think there is room to question their draft strategy without being outrageous when they go so far away from industry consensus. Obviously, none of us know how this will all pan out. The Cubs have far more resources than we do to evaluate these guys. The industry guys absolutely suffer from some level of groupthink when it comes to the rankings, which leaves room for individual teams to have a much better read on true talent level for certain prospects. All that said, I still find this draft...puzzling so far. The comments leading up to the draft were that they "had to nail" this time because they probably won't have this many high picks again for a while. These picks (past the first round) look pretty risky from the outside. I'll just hope they've been able to see things that others haven't, I guess.

I'm confused about the strategy here.

hmmm

Soon we get to find out which they will ruin

Once again...lol

lol

I have no problem saying that Jordan and Lebron are head and shoulders above everyone else. Between them is a pick your poison kind of thing for me.