Transmogrified Tiger
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Are the celebrations not part of the sport? Yes and no? I mean they clearly are a thing that happens while playing, but it's not like something like Olympic ice skating where that expression is the point. Maybe I'm sensitive to it because while I enjoy Javy finger wagging a runner every now and then it's not close to why I care or watch baseball, but I think folks are preconditioned to all the genuinely bad celebration takes that anything that isn't full-throated enthusiasm of celebrations dialed up to 11 puts you into "old man yells at cloud" territory.
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At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.
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Nick Ahmed he is Javy Baez and you are Nick Ahmed, he is better at that than you -
who else involuntarily said "don't you do it" to the screen when it looked like Bryant might try to slide into first
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I’m counting it as a double in the gap When Bryant finishes with a .401 SLG% this year I'll remember that double. not every thought has to be as joyless as possible
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Javy woulda caught it
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-11-19
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He also ended last year with 28.1 IP, 24 H, 34/7 K/BB, 3 HR in his last 5 starts. -
The options make this a pretty bad deal for Albies, but I don't think the 35 million bit is all that bad. Maybe a bit low, but reasonable considering the caliber of player he is and how far he is from bigger money in arbitration, never mind free agency.
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The rumor is that the team/league would help retire a big chunk of the debt and the stadium would become a concert venue. Said rumors also mentioned the city was pretty happy with the proposed outcome, for whatever that's worth.
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oh man it really brained him, that is terrifying
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I have him(and Taillon) on my fantasy team so I'm okay with that walk eat at arbys
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under no circumstances should anyone watch this game
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Quintana, Darvish, and Chatwood combining for 1.5 fWAR is definitely a tough contingency to plan for.
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This is mostly because they decided not to spend high picks on pitchers. As an example, 32 SP provided 2.5+ fWAR last year. One of them was Hendricks, another was a Theo draftee(Godley) that he traded away. Of the other 30, 17 were drafted in the Top 45 picks, and most of those 17 were in the Top 10. Since the draft spending rules were tweaked a few years back I'd expect that correlation to increase in future years. Under this regime, they've made all of 3 picks in the Top 45 that were pitchers, Pierce Johnson(0 for 1), plus Lange and Little who both were only drafted in 2017. Call it 30% poor development, 70% intentionally choosing not to draft pitchers instead of Almora, Bryant, Schwarber, Happ. More concerning would be their inability to turn out decent relievers, necessitating the Duensing, Brach, Wilson, Davis, Cishek, Kintzler, and Morrow moves, to speak nothing of the NRIs/Minor League FAs to get substantial run(Rosario, Coke, Richard, etc). As an aside, the other interesting thing is how few of those starters were international signees. Only Severino, Marquez, and Carrasco. If you drop the threshold to 2 fWAR that only adds 3 more(Reynaldo Lopez, Jhoulys Chacin, Luis Castillo) out of 44 total.
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good news, all your Cubs gear is now soccer gear too [tweet] [/tweet]
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It's a question of priorities, at the time did it make more sense to empty the org of its trade assets and some payroll flexibility to get Yelich when the team had plenty of offense even when you don't count on the outfielders(Bryant, Rizzo, Contreras, Baez, Zobrist)? Or did it make more sense to focus on replacing Arrieta, Lackey, and Davis from the pitching staff where the incumbents were much less strong? I get the idea around trading Yelich(again, I voted for it), but the idea that the alternative was inexcusable is revisionist history.
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With Schwarber they had 3 outfielders playing at a 3ish win level plus Heyward and Bryant/Zobrist(since Russell hadn't cratered both on and off the field). I'm always down for adding really good hitters(you can find a dozen or so posts from me that offseason suggesting to trade for Yelich), but idea that there was a gaping need for an outfielder post-2017 isn't true either.
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Ozuna is not good and is actively broken, and Yelich was traded after Happ and Almora had just combined for 3 WAR in just over a full season's worth of PA. I was a fan of trading for Yelich, but IIRC the types of prospects Miami wanted didn't match up perfectly and I get not going whole hog for him with the offense in the excellent shape it was in at the time. Ozuna/Yelich is not high at all on the list of mistakes/missed opportunities that led to the current moment.
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31 walks in the last 31+ innings, if this happened in a video game you’d throw it in the river for lack of realism
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I wonder if Bote had conversations with Descalso that nudged him this way. Descalso didn't make an early splash in his career like Bote did, but they have similar profiles and came up at similar ages. Descalso will have made less than 15M at the end of his age 33 season, Bote just got that guaranteed through age 31 with options to potentially double it if he's Descalso quality by that age.
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2019 Other Games Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Technically, they also will have Alex Wood at some point. At least for the 10 starts he's healthy. Good call, another great example of this phenomenon. 21 GS/121 IP per year for 3 years. -
2019 Other Games Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The Reds are a great example of how much national media hype(using that word loosely) amounts to 'I've heard of that guy, he must be good'. I know the Reds were working with a crappy starting point, but the enthusiasm over adding Gray, Roark, and the ghost of Zach Duke to a historically bad pitching staff feels a wee bit premature. -
If I can be a blind homer for a second it is absolute garbage that the league is so concerned about Edwards' delivery because all it takes to be legal is a barely perceptible bit of movement at the pause, whether it's his arms or whatever. And it's with the bases empty too.
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Maddon's on-field moves have been fine to me, there's stuff that I would do different but by and large the logic is sound and I can't in good conscience think there's a big difference in Awesome Mystery Manager X than Maddon in that department. I have Maddon fatigue in listening to him talk because he's a good and comfortable public speaker and so he ends up saying nonsensical things or saying too much that annoys me. That's ultimately more aesthetic than a strategic flaw, unless you've reached the point where the Maddon-led clubhouse also has fatigue, in which case I'm picking the players over him. The coaching carousel around him is a small indicator in that regard, as well as the underperformance/regression of the core as a whole.
