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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. -
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
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They showed video of him playing catch (in the rain!) for a few minutes and A-Rod tried to claim it was distracting the team from the mission of winning games. It was billymadisonnopointsgodhavemercyonyoursoul.gif worthy A-Rod is a dolt. I didn’t say it was a good narrative but the guy has the label. We can whine about it all we want. People having said negative things about Darvish before doesn’t make nonsensical rantings about Darvish distracting the team a foregone conclusion.
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It is bad but it is the narrative the guy has to deal with. They showed video of him playing catch (in the rain!) for a few minutes and A-Rod tried to claim it was distracting the team from the mission of winning games. It was billymadisonnopointsgodhavemercyonyoursoul.gif worthy
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I just turned the game on and i have to mute the tv, that was an aggressive amount of ignorance packed into only a few minutes
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Whenever you get the chance to make a super risky defensive shift to fit a guy with Jason Heyward’s bat into the lineup, you definitely gotta give quality trade assets to make that happen.
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Both of their games have been ridiculous too, LAFC collapsed on itself and was lucky to even get a point after being up 2-0 at home 80 minutes in.
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bye Eddie [tweet] [/tweet]
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Tweets are too big on mobile
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Derwood's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
I’m guessing it is something from Twitter’s end, unless there was a board software update that screwed things up Chrome doesn't appear to have the problem, so the change is likely either Twitter or Safari, but it does seem localized to Safari. -
Tweets are too big on mobile
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Derwood's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
it appears to only be iPhone, and only in portrait. Landscape on iPhone works, and both portrait and landscape work on iPad. So something about how Safari handles page width, I'd guess. -
He has a team option after this year right? Not that they will pick it up or anything even if he turns into an ace down the stretch and wins the world series. I think the idea is the 5 million is inclusive of Hamels' 2018 salary plus his buyout. Or put another way, the Cubs would be absolutely crazy to go into the luxury tax for Cole Hamels given the effort they've taken to avoid that outcome so far.
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1) he can 2) Darvish still exists 3) once september hits you can limit his workload since the entire iowa shuttle is in the pen
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I've seen the science on the Texas pitchers and I'm willing to gamble on long man innings out of our 6th best RP with Chavez, but I'm not willing to trust a rotation spot to it.
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what if, instead of trading for Cole Hamels, we did not do that
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
you'll rip my baseball champions league proposal from my cold dead hands I don't see much need for loans and no one would do it with SP, but for relievers or especially position players it's a fun exercise to think what the player return would be. Loans for cash would be dumb. -
Dave Cameron still can't believe the Rays managed to fleece the Cubs out of 60 replacement level PAs from Robinson Chirinos before they [squints] sold him to Texas for nothing.
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This is a funny way of saying he was traded for Olt, Edwards, Grimm, and Neil Ramirez.
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He was the guy who broke WAR in previous years, so probably not surprising that he had a big swing.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-24-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Looks like they're having hosting issues. [tweet]https://twitter.com/thecubreporter/status/1021016389316902915[/tweet] -
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