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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Injuries? Probably, that's likely the tradeoff for having something resembling a fulfilling season given the circumstances Lesser performance? It would affect everyone equally so even if hitters are less sharp and pitchers lose some velo, I don't think most would really notice. It's not going to be like the difference between the NBA and high school or even college basketball if that does show up. More variance? Sounds awesome for what is already going to be an asterisk of a season anyway.
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    As a nominal Schalke fan I'd love to see Steffen there, especially since as a GK their inconsistent attack wouldn't stunt his development.
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    There are things to worry about with Kimbrel(someone on twitter made the point that he really needs elite velocity since his fastball is so straight), but we're still talking spring training. He had 5+ ST ERAs in both 2013 and 2017 and in those years he had a cumulative 1.30 ERA
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    If you told me the Cubs were talking about Limet and Campusano I would've said 'that's a little less than I'd hope to get for Contreras'. Would have been unimaginably dumb for Bryant.
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    it's okay, we all make bad posts sometimes
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    Heavy odds on Yelich getting traded before January 2022.
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    I haven't followed this too closely, but is it possible the Sloan park gun is just hot? Feels like an inordinate amount of cheery velocity readings for March 2nd. If not then yay, behold the power of the pitch lab
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    You would put "Kris Bryant loves Impractical Jokers" in a satire, he is so impossibly earnest
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    What's the best way to get that from the internet to my Roku/TV? Enough experience getting it on a computer to know how to find them on reddit. i'm honestly not sure i also heard some guy call the score this morning and he said something about installing kodi on roku. i know very little about it but i'm sure the info is readily available. If you're not familiar with Kodi, it's probably just as well to find a stream on a phone/tablet/laptop and learn the way to cast it to your TV. I don't do much of that but I think Rokus in particular have made some recent improvements so it's a less sketchy process. Chromecasts/Android TV are the gold standard here thanks to Google's clout.
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    For whatever it's worth, I'm finding that most of the shows I save to be DVR'd by YouTube TV are also available on normal Hulu since I got it with the ESPN/Disney+ bundle, so you might not lose as much as you think. Agree that YTTV is a better overall product though.
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    Sergio Ramos getting dunked on for a goal and then getting sent off is extremely my aesthetic
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    you hate to see it
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    So apparently the 'hope the Rockies get brain poisoning' plan for the offseason is still alive? https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2020/02/13/cubs-reportedly-are-absolutely-motivated-to-try-to-acquire-nolan-arenado/
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    Why is it that teams and players try to knock out extensions around this time? D'backs and Ahmed, and I think there was another one recently. Cubs and Bote happened around this time last year. It would've made the offseason a lot better if they got this Baez extension done sooner... Extensions almost always happen after the team has their roster for the year set, so they don’t cost themselves flexibility they would need if plans had to change.
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    Extremely, six anonymous '17 Astros talked for this one and it made it sound like several players were a little leery of this scheme and Beltran basically ignored them and eventually everyone else followed like sheep because he's a 'respected veteran' or whatever. I’m judging this based solely on your summary, but it sounds like players trying to cover their own asses by throwing Beltran under the bus. Yeah, I'm a wee bit skeptical of the narrative of 'oh yeah the guy who doesn't work here anymore was totally the ringleader, we didn't even wanna do it but he's the veteran so what could we do'
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    [tweet] [/tweet] 1) Good. 2) THEN WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL WINTER Just the dumbest possible timeline in every way.
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    I am predisposed to like Kipnis, which is good because I'm not sure how good a fit he is otherwise. He can't defend much, isn't enough of a LH bat to deserve any 1B or DH at bats over the alternatives, and even by 2B standards is a significant question mark. If there's a profile that might have a dead cat bounce in the right circumstances, it's his though. Similar to Edmonds in the high pedigree, control the zone type of bat, plus there's no reason for him ever to see a lefty with all the options available so he'll be put in the right spot to succeed.
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    I was ready to hate this, but with the right specifics I think there are some things to like. In particular, since all the wild card games are at the higher seed, you could do the 3 game series with a double header one day and a Game 3 the next day/day after. That'd help preserve some of the current wild card's stakes, and optimize scheduling. It also paves the way for an 8 division setup if they decide to expand to 32, and preserves the importance of division winners gunning for the best record they can. The issue with the DH header idea is that the only way anyone would agree to that would be if it fell on the weekend, and then you'd have an round of playoffs going up against football, and there's no way anyone would agree to that. I don't think it being on a weekend would be a hard requirement, there's plenty of day games in the divisional series. Doing it Friday would fairly effectively split the difference too. All that said, this is me making the best of what is out there, I don't know that I think it's the best way forward.
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    I was ready to hate this, but with the right specifics I think there are some things to like. In particular, since all the wild card games are at the higher seed, you could do the 3 game series with a double header one day and a Game 3 the next day/day after. That'd help preserve some of the current wild card's stakes, and optimize scheduling. It also paves the way for an 8 division setup if they decide to expand to 32, and preserves the importance of division winners gunning for the best record they can.
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    Is there a strong R/L correlation w/r/t lucky/unlucky? Off the top of my head, it would make sense to me for the lefties to lag , because even if they're fast, if they're hitting it hard they're hitting it to the pull side where there's a shorter throw.
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    Walker is a weird case. He was very highly regarded as a prospect, and was a slight disappointment in 'only' being an averageish starter who more often than not beat his FIP. Then he had TJS in 2018 and a shoulder injury during his 2019 recovery so he has 14 pro IP the last 2 years combined. He's only a few service days from free agency, and considering there's zero chance he can handle a starter's workload in 2020, the reasonable Cubs options are to give him the Dempster/Graveman get-right + option deal, or they're adding him to the bullpen pile. Can't say that either of those is particularly exciting to me, but I might be missing something.
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    The theory is they may have the availability to trade Chatwood's full contract if the right combination of circumstances strike during ST. The Bryant stuff has never made any coherent sense to begin with, everyone in the org should be ashamed at how this winter has transpired, regardless of what restrictions they have.
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    I think that's fair, but part of the assumption here is that teams are making a deal out of more desperation than the average FA, as they have a hole open up due to injury and few teams are willing to trade and the FA market is tapped out. I don't think even in that hypothetical you get "real value" for Chatwood, but someone sweetening a deal on top of taking his contract isn't completely impossible.
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    if you need me I’ll be in the angrydome
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