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Hot take: Archer is not a very attractive trade target. He hasn’t had a sub-4 ERA since 2015, he turns 30 in September, and the Rays are naturally going to try to get value like they’re trading away an ace. You can get a 3ish win pitcher in much more attractive packages than Archer.
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At least they made DeGrom throw more than 20 pitches, just need to not give that back with Almora/Russell/Monty next inning.
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No, not really, the ball dropped like 3 feet from Nimmo so Zobrist would’ve needed an insane read to be going the whole time and beat it.
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Ugh, holding Zobrist is probably the right call, really need to cash this in
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-1-18
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Get after it, stout adult son -
I’m starting to think that Smoltz is saying obviously wrong things on a dare. “Heyward has been fine on fastballs but can’t hit offspeed stuff” sure is an interesting interpretation of reality
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Fox Sports Go has the game, unless you were relying on rabbit ears.
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New Yorkers after a long weekend with Happ in town
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Since the season is one third through and makes for easy and clean math, let's have some fun with fWAR extrapolations Yay Bryant: 7.2 Schwarber: 5.1 Almora: 5.1 Zobrist: 5.1 Contreras: 4.5 Russell: 3.9 Baez: 3.9 Happ: 3.3 Morrow: 1.8 Edwards: 1.8 Cishek: 1.5 Yuck Rizzo: 1.8 Heyward: 1.2 Lester: 1.5 Hendricks: 1.5 Quintana: 1.2 Darvish: 0.6 Chatwood: 0.4 (this is actually 0.3 but Chatwood loves things that come in fours so we'll humor him) Duensing: -0.3
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Season is 1/3 over, and the Cubs have played at a 93 win pace.
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No Schwarber or Contreras against a righty makes the lineup top heavy pretty quickly.
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This could be another thread entirely, but im confused by the rhetoric that the bullpen is getting overworked. If you look at the appearance and IP leaderboards, the only Cub showing up in like the top 50 is Cishek, and he’s 1) not all that high 2) a lower risk given the way he gets hitters out(arm slot + repertoire). I know the starters haven’t been iron men, but there isn’t much indication the pen is headed for a cliff as a result. Plus this feels like something we always worry about early and then doesn’t end up being a huge deal and/or bullpen arms aren’t super expensive deadline adds.
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Seth Lugo is also making his first start of the season today, so I'm not terribly interested in the changes in his splits to LH over the course of 30 freaking innings when he's been asked to go max effort when he isn't doing that tonight.
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I swear, every Kris Bryant story replaces the one that came before it as the Most Kris Bryant thing: https://theathletic.com/374291/2018/05/31/he-was-supposed-to-be-the-savior-how-kris-bryant-made-living-up-to-the-hype-look-so-easy/
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MJ FANS DON'T READ THIS . . . . . . . . MJ haters, hello [tweet]https://twitter.com/Sp0rtsTalkJo3/status/979078903498145792[/tweet] (be sure to read the whole thread)
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I am torn between "Chicago media are aggressively dumb dolts" and "Yu it's been 2 months and you barely speak conversational English and you can even tell yourself they're chanting 'Yuuuu', how are you at the point you earnestly think the city hates you"
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Albert Almora: Somehow a slow Grady Sizemore?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The one thing I'll stand up for with Almora's BABIP is that he's been much better about going to right field on pitches to the outside, and even though those mostly aren't frozen ropes they're often singles because of the approach. Much rather him letting the ball travel and looping it to right than rolling over and pounding groundballs to SS. -
Of all the things that I thought might sink the Cardinals this year, I didn't think they'd wind up with a bunch of black holes in the lineup and bullpen.
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Albert Almora: Somehow a slow Grady Sizemore?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The walk rate is better than I would've guessed, and improving. If he's taking his walks that's gonna mean real good things. I'm still a skeptic of pretty much any hitter with his offensive profile, but there's definitely a 'good enough' point where he doesn't need a 12% BB% to be useful given his defense. -
CEJ to the DL with Shoulder Inflammation
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Also, it's telling how many people have gotten at least a token shot at bullpen innings before Maples this year. He's made it blindingly obvious he's not ready, but still a precipitous fall. -
CEJ to the DL with Shoulder Inflammation
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
take my shoulder carl, you might have to trim it down to size but you'll make much better use of it than me -
On the other hand, Heyward has always been better in the second half/as the season goes on.
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I started reading Big Data Baseball a long time ago, and every time I think to come back to it I remember that it's trying to make Hurdle into a protagonist that is full of pragmatic and progressive ideas, and it kills my desire to continue reading.
