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hahaaaaa, ya got got -
After 15 seconds of looking at his Fangraphs page, I'll tell ya, he seems bad!
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If you consider Javy's biggest plate discipline problem to be picking up sliders, those adjustments seem pretty shrewd. Clearly he's able to pick up curveball spin and punish it, and jumping on pitches less likely to be chase pitches makes it easier to find pitches he can drive.
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Bears 2018 Offseason: Matt Nagy Hired as Head Coach
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
i had a college class with him, he’s maybe 5-10 -
David Bote is a Golden God and Deserves His Own Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The problem I have with Bote the launch angle enthusiast is that the narrative doesn't exactly track the results. They mention doing so last summer around the all-star break, but Bote was better earlier in the year. His Iowa performance is good(and he did improve his IsoP, although that's at least partly the PCL) but doesn't scream that he's a brand new player. -
David Bote is a Golden God and Deserves His Own Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I've been cowardly waiting for Bote to not kill the ball for a game to express a similar sentiment. He can have all the exit velocity he wants, I'm not going to feel one bit upset about any starts that Russell, Baez, Happ, or Zobrist get over him. They're better. Doesn't mean he's not potentially useful in a deluxe LaStella sorta way, but the league is going to adjust back and he's very likely to be the guy he's been in MiLB even post-swing adjustment, which is not a first division starter. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-8-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
my stout adult son wrecking shop in South Bend, brings a tear to my eye -
Thanks. I actually had a scan show complete remission a few weeks back. However, being a blood cancer they are using radiation to make sure they get it completely so I don’t have to do this again. Basically, my tumors were located in just the right spot that they felt radiation would not harm my vital organs longterm and they could greatly reduce the damaging affects of those last 4 chemo treatments by not doing them. I’m very happy. tim died so that you may live his body the crust, his blood the wine
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If you just told me a Cubs site did a 'Javy be good' video I would've bet a million dollars on BCB, way to stay on brand.
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I could be wrong, but I think live bp is Darvish throwing his full repertoire to hitters without any sense of game state, while a sim game is throwing your repertoire to hitters and using counts/outs, just without defense and baserunners. So ultimately very similar.
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I hope Wellemeyer bought two tickets, he needs two seats to fit his shoulders in
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FYI he’s 7th in fWAR, Scherzer, DeGrom, and Nola are also over 4.0
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-2-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The I-Cubs are so bad and I didn’t even get to see Mekkes since he went yesterday, everything is terrible -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-2-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I will be in attendance at the Iowa game, I look forward to giving in depth scouting reports of future major leaguers like [File not found] and [dial up internet noises] -
Agreed. Muncy spiraling back to earth weeeeeeeeee
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Kelley has given up 26 home runs in his last 90 major league innings. That's incredible.
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The Cubs are on pace to get as much value from Bryant, Rizzo, and Darvish combined as Bryant provided last year, and they have the best record in the national league.
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Villar: .304 wOBA this year, .313 career Schoop: .306 wOBA this year, .320 career Trading for Villar for Schoop and moving him to SS is an objective downgrade, not just inefficient. Moustakas can hit better than the Brewers 2B, but Shaw is also high risk for being worse than expected at 2B, they gave up a nontrivial trade asset to make that happen, and there's also not a huge difference in Moustakas's bat and what you'd expect from an amalgamation of existing 2B options(never mind other trade targets). This isn't reflexive hating of a rival here, I'm the guy who was high on the Gerrit Cole deal, for example. That also illustrates that I might be very wrong, it's happened many times. But to me, trading for not good players so you can make your team's one elite strength actively worse is just dumb.
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The Brewer rotation is Jhoulys Chacin, Junior Guerra, Chase Anderson, Freddy Peralta, and Zach Davies. Those 5 have beat their FIP by .45, .70, 1.31, -.18, and .07 respectively. The Brewer infield UZR this year: 1B: 2.1 - no deadline change 2B: -0.9 - going from Sogard/Villar/Perez to Shaw SS: 3.6 - going from Villar/Saladino to Schoop(a career -1 UZR 2B) 3B: 5.0 - going from Shaw to Moustakas They're making themselves actively worse defensively in the middle infield to get Schoop(.306 wOBA, .320 career) and Moustakas(.325 woBA, .316 career) into the lineup. If you want to call it wish-casting to be baffled that they're doing this when their rotation offers only hope for regression instead of improvement even before the defensive changes, that's okay. These are just objectively baffling moves though. Stearns has made some real bright moves, and his aggressiveness has helped stave off the regression that was coming from Santana, Thames, and Braun, but just like you literally said Theo has had a bad year of making moves and still probably think he's pretty good, Stearns squandered this trade deadline.
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The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.
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Neil Huntington is my favorite of all the hedge fund GMs. I don't like Archer much as a trade target anymore(certainly not with Happ involved), but getting him out of the AL East and into PNC National Forest will help, and I don't think he was gonna do much better for a couple toolboxes like Glasnow and Meadows who will start deteriorating in value every day they continue to fail in MLB.
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Justin Wilson has a 32% K rate and a 3.10 ERA, with an ERA under 2.5 since his crummy April. He's the 5th best reliever in the pen, with none of the 4 above him being flukish. Montgomery, Chavez, and Kintzler are all worthwhile relievers to have by any definition, and they would join the 5 in a postseason pen. The Cubs don't have a shortage of good pitchers. Would it have been better to get someone better than Kintzler? Sure, I would've loved Yates, but this is also the nadir of the trade value of the farm system until the college SP start reaching AA en masse so I can understand it not being worth it when you've got a pen deep enough to shorten the game that much.
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This trade deadline screams "in the playoffs we're fine with the guys already on the team who will get 99% of the innings, we just need to bridge all the 4th-7th innings until then". I'm good with that, I just hope they're right about the health of Edwards and Morrow in particular to make sure that's still true in October.
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"We weren't sure we could afford to sign Justin to such a long deal" Epstein told reporters, "but then we saw how some guy in jeans came to a bunch of games in a row in July and knew we had to keep the rock of our bullpen in Cubbie blue."
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Goony why
