Transmogrified Tiger
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Kinda, the way that 'Ricketts is cheap' scuttles the deal is less by direct intervention, and more by having spending levels so low that Jed/future Cubs POBO can't handle the risk of that much of their payroll being tied up in a single player. -
I think the argument you could make for that is that there could be some really significant changes to the business of baseball over the life of Tucker's deal. The RSN model is fragile, and owners might succeed in a harder cap. Tucker being the choice for whatever portion of Approved Spending Number X is not really a Ricketts decision, I agree. Tucker representing a risk(whether that risk is 10% or 80%) that the roster is unviable because he makes up an untenable amount of a post-RSN hard cap is something that's more at the ownership level. But the thing that I am struck by is that there is a very different tone on the Cubs landing a player with a contract of this magnitude than there has been. Part of that is they haven't had him on the roster already, but it seems pretty clear that they are approaching this differently than past pursuits.
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whatever gets rid of the pinstripes
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Minor League Musings
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
That's the worry for me, in the 'all prospects fail' sense I think the middle of the road outcome is something closer to next-gen James Loney. Far from a failure, but also not terribly exciting. Or maybe for a more modern example, Willians Astudillo wasn't able to maintain this profile in a viable way(though Moises is way ahead on age relative to level). Adding slug, being viable behind the plate, or both would be the things that tick up the excitement. -
2025 NFL Draft Thread & Discussion
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
They drafted Dillon Gabriel in the 3rd round too. -
PomPomPom, Pom Pomeranz
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I don't think this has to be very complicated. Berti has played at a league averageish level for basically his entire career and has handled 3B fine. Brujan gives a LHH look for rest/particular matchups, and if Shaw's swing gets realigned then he can have another every day go.
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Swanson's O-Swing is where it always has been, a couple ticks better than league average. There's no material change to any of his plate discipline metrics really(Swing%, Zone %, SwStr%, etc). He is also 3 for 8 with a triple and a walk since this was posted.
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2-6
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Time to update this nugget Cubs opponents when playing the Cubs: 10-15 (65 win pace) Cubs opponents when playing anyone else: 57-30 (106 win pace)
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guy brought his own baseball butler, he can pay full freight
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There are tweets from the folks who stalk player arrivals showing Pomeranz is at Wrigley, so I assume Hollowell is only up for today unless there's an injury or a particularly extreme usage outcome tonight.
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I'm gonna be one of those guys who says that Seiya has basically been this guy since roughly the all-star break of his first season, he just took some time to get fully operational after the oblique injury last year.
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Counsell got so mad at the LHRP options that he told Jed that he was taking the day off and when he gets back to work he better have a new one.
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Also worth noting that they’ve faced the number 3 and 4 offenses in MLB (by wRC+) for 50% of the schedule so far. Plus the A’s are 7th and that doesn’t include the Dodgers games either. Pen results should improve directly and indirectly(via better SP/less long relief) when they can come up for air after the April gauntlet.
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My main complaint with the modern NBA is that I can't tell what makes it such a higher level than it ever has been. Not that I don't believe that, I 1000% believe it's the best basketball being played ever. But since I don't immerse myself in it for dozens of hours a week I can't really pick up the nuances(especially since the spacing is so tight compared to football or soccer) so it ends up feeling like an RNG jumpshot game.
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Tim Tawa is a backup catcher name, it's unnatural that he is a middle infielder
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very good baserunning by Busch
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what exactly was Carroll doing there, he overran it by 5 feet even before the wall stuff
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how will you tell your grandchildren about Carson Kelly
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11 hits on the season, 5 of them home runs against the Cubs
