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  1. He's listed at 6 feet even on the Arkansas website, am I crazy or is that egregious even considering normal athlete inflation
  2. Ragans is on the IL with a shoulder injury and getting a 2nd opinion this week, so that is probably even less likely than it was when the Royals were hot.
  3. The Tigers have scored 40 runs in their last 12 games, 13 of those runs came in one game against the White Sox. The least generous stretch I can come up with for the Cubs recent form is scoring 52 runs in the last 15 games
  4. Happ was touching 3rd before the hop IKF had to field had even hit the ground Forcing them to pick, throw, pick, and tag in these conditions with 2 outs isn't a bad call for me.
  5. I do think you want to tune the dials a little bit, PCA doesn't need to have a 12% walk rate but I question how consistently good he can be if it's under 5 like it is now. Some of that will happen as pitchers get more afraid of him, but I do want to see him develop a touch more selectivity.
  6. A playoff starter also creates the potential for a leverage pen addition via Brown/Horton, whereas another Rea probably needs more of a hedge by keeping that person stretched out
  7. Just to put some specifics to it, Neely's last month: 9 G, 11.2 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 16/4 K/BB, 2 HR
  8. Even the good teams have bad benches. With the DH that's another spot to spend money on and even less opportunity to spread across the rest of the bench.
  9. There technically is(losing teams have to be down 8+ runs, winning teams 10+ and only in the 9th), it's just not equipped to punish teams for de facto forfeiting so early. My modest suggestion is every out you get with a position player you forfeit offensively, but I get that's potentially too disruptive so forcing losing teams to put real pitchers on the mound til the 8th feels like a good compromise.
  10. They also put a position player on the mound in the bottom of the 6th, which really bugs me more than it should. Not the first time they've forfeited while still requiring their opponent to use real major leaguers to get multiple innings of outs.
  11. It's a day game after a night game against a tough lefty starter. The individual games are not that crucial that it's worth hand wringing that PCA play through this stretch so he can be rested against a worse team(and worse SP)
  12. US loses two games by a combined 6-2 and the Fire win 7-1, this is the best week of Gregg Berhalter's life
  13. We already tried this with Nicky Lopez, who had the added benefit of hitting left handed. Don't see a whole lot of benefit in shuffling out Brujan in favor of another RHH who is 3rd, maybe 4th in the pecking order to play at 3B?
  14. Honestly bases loaded 0 outs is maybe better than 2nd/3rd 1 out in this situation
  15. We don't have to do this thing where we get anxious that the last 10 days are about to be the permanent norm, it is the most freeing thing about baseball season. Something really good happened? Enjoy it, it's unexpected and it probably won't last. Something bad? Easy come easy go, the next regression is around the corner. Btw, the 2 best teams in the NL against > .500 records last year were the Braves and Brewers, who proceeded to go 1-4 in the playoffs and play 0 games in the divisional/championship series.
  16. I dunno man I'm only gonna do so much leg work to debunk the absurd contortions people will do to create points of worry. Apparently games in April don't count unless they're in the last week of April because that's when the real teams really get going? Maybe it has to do with the phase of the moon or something
  17. The Dodgers are 12-11 against teams currently in playoff position, the Cubs are 9-13. If you think that's a meaningful distinction over that sample size, I don't know what to tell you.
  18. That's how it works, the other good teams aren't magically playing .700 ball against other good teams
  19. Yesterday he was on the dirt and in Shaw's direct path when he was trying to throw home
  20. Very curious if the Red Sox feel like they're about out of ideas to get Bello to another level, and if the newer Cubs pitching infrastructure feels they can unlock something in him.
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