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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    did that just say the Cubs were last in MLB in AVG w/ RISP for a 15 year span?
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    Also, if Nico catches that Arraez ball(and really he ought to if he's a good defensive 2B), then Kilian gets out of this with 0 runs and < 20 pitches
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    Kilian going from elite command to reliever control is maybe the biggest developmental disappointment of the last 5 years.
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    It drives me batty when managers hold back relievers for hypothetical extra inning save situations.
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    Great hustle by Bellinger to create that triple, great aggression by Ross in PHing Hosmer, and good execution by Hosmer to reward that choice by putting it in play
  6. Transmogrified Tiger
    It would be extremely funny to finally come down from having 5 C + 1B on the roster and then go right back to 5 a couple days later.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    So we went to 3 catchers(and 2 1B/DH) just so Torrens could catch 6 innings and play 1 inning in LF, start a couple games at DH, and get 22 PA in 24 games worth of opportunity. Really one of the most confusing decisions from the front office in a very long time.
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    When you click to create a new topic, poll is one of the options:
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    if only there were some way to see the supposed tweet and video, alas
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    He was probably a 1st rounder but then this happened
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yeah he only has 10, not 19.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    Anthony Richardson was so bad at passing his team had to run a high school offense and they still couldn’t score points
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    Not as many K's today, but Birdsell keeps chugging along: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1/0 K/BB That's 15.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 13/6 K/BB for the season, High-A hitters can't hit him so far
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Padres are 23rd in wRC+, even considering Tatis only got back last week that is baffling.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    It's an unusual situation. The K rate is still too high and probably will be exploited, he learned that at the MLB level in the 2nd half last year. But if he's hitting like .335/.450/.800 despite the K rate then I'm not sure how much of a learning experience that is.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    He's a 1B/DH profile without much pedigree and is 23 so I think the right frame of mind is 'maybe if everything breaks right he's a platoony DH option', but I'm guessing he gets his shot at AA before too much longer. Tennessee has a combo of people getting that PT that aren't big prospects but aren't complete nobodies(Murray, Ball, Maldonado) so it's a little awkward of a fit, but Murray can fake it at 3B, Maldonado is 26 and already failed AAA, and Ball is playing his way out of the organization to start the year so they'll find room.
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    They're already 7 back of the division and the wild card though. Even if you think they can somehow win the division or get a WC berth with 85 wins, they'd have to play at a 92+ win pace the rest of the year to get there.
  18. Transmogrified Tiger
    He's what they got for McKinstry. Converted infielder, this is his first season in relief and it's off to a good start so far. Odds are probably against him making a 40 man roster though.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    They're hosed for a good while. They'll get a little relief from a few inefficient contracts after this year but they also lose Giolito, and they just have so many gaps to fill and one of the worst farm systems to lean on to build up the depth that has and will continue to kill them. I do feel a little bad because I don't have any animosity towards the franchise, and Hahn's roster construction always struck me as more logical than Ken Williams, whose teams I felt obliged to dislike as to not reward bad process. But selfishly there's a few players I think could be interesting fits if the Sox do want to hit the reset button, and there's fewer of those happening with the additional wild card and raft of pre-FA extensions, so if they collapse I'm happy to help pick up the pieces.
  20. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yeah that checks out I Split ▲ W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP SO9 SO/W Chicago Cubs 4 8 .333 6.50 20 18 2 0 0 0 98.1 110 74 71 21 46 2 95 3 0 0 441 1.586 8.7 2.07
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    This is a strong sign that not only are catching defensive metrics definitionally incomplete, but looking at them 3 weeks into the season is basically a random number generator.
  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    Entering tonight, there were 23 hitters with 50+ PA and a wRC+ of at least 170. The Rays have SEVEN of them.
  23. Transmogrified Tiger
    Bailey Horn is now up to 9 IP, 3 H, 19/5 K/BB. He's 25 and R5 eligible, might be seeing him bumped to Iowa sooner than later since he's got a 54% (!!) K%
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    Are there any known issues with the search functionality? I routinely can't get it to unearth posts that I know exist. An example, recently I was trying to find this post of mine about Brandon Birdsell: When I go to Search, no combination of Birdsell or the exact "Birdsell's" makes it show up in results, and the search options don't appear to be limiting anything: https://northsidebaseball.com/search/?&q=Birdsell's&search_and_or=or I've seen this in trying to track down posts of all ages and as you see in the above it's not that there's *no* results, it's just that they're incomplete. Am I missing something or is there maybe an indexing issue for the search?
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yeah the money is what I was getting at, you've got midtable EPL teams beating out Champions League contenders in Italy/France for players, and that's creating a floor that is too difficult to rotate against consistently. For some teams the Europa league might have that risk too, but I do think it's more of a Champions League phenomenon. For example, Man U's European group stage games this year were against Real Sociedad, Sheriff Tiraspol, and Omonia, they can and did rotate for most of those matches. Same thing with Arsenal being in a group with PSV, Bodø/Glimt, and Zurich. Meanwhile Liverpool had 6 midweek matches against Ajax, Napoli, and Rangers in the UCL in order to advance, and rotation isn't really feasible and therefore has to come at the expense of EPL matches.
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