Transmogrified Tiger
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I was a Verlander proponent at the deadline, but with what's happened in the month since(seizing the Central, Hendricks and Arrieta look great), I'm not sure if there's a ton of benefit to adding him now. He's in good form, but you already have 90+% odds of the division, and in the playoffs you're bumping who, Hendricks? Quintana? As an Arrieta replacement in the offseason it makes more sense, and it's more likely the Tigers find an agreeable deal on their end.
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Random In-season Musings and Rumors
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Nicasio was going to be on my list for 2018 Koji replacements, so sign me up for adding him now. -
Random In-season Musings and Rumors
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Leake's contract wasn't going to sink the team, but his value was always as a strikethrower and not someone with dynamite stuff, so he has more risk than most in his decline years as well as in a HR happy hitting environment. It sounds like the Cardinals are eating ~12 million of the 3/53 he's owed after this year. EDIT: Rosenthal says they're paying 17 million, which sounds a lot like they paid Leake down to 3/36 for the Mariners and are covering his 2021 buyout. -
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14 hits in this game and at least 10 of them have been texas leaguers
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3rd time thru the order gonna getcha
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-29-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Carasiti and Hancock would require 40 man spots. Technically you could find room for them by DFA'ing a Rosario or a Frankoff, but it's an extra barrier to getting called up for what amounts to the 11th spot in the pen.
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Iowa's season ends 9/4, after that there's no reason not to see Butler, Frankoff, Leathersich, Grimm, and Zastryzny on the pitching side, and Caratini, Zagunis, and Hanneman on the hitting side. I imagine Grimm, Caratini, and maybe one/both of Butler/Zastryzny will be up right on 9/1.
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today's 7th inning chant is: Emanski
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I wonder how many pitchers this year have hit for themselves in the bottom of the 6th with a 1-2 run lead, probably not too many
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bad read Tommy
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They already threw away the chance to make him a 200 IP guy next year by messing around with Butler, so as many as he can get is the best answer.
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Baez looks like an underdog to get to 80 games at any position, and he has a -10 UZR at SS and +4 at 2B. He's not going to come close to winning hardware, and frankly that's not really incorrect(unlike last year). He's given away a lot of outs and extra bases and until recently hadn't been making too many spectacular plays(also unlike last year).
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if you also assume they play at that 8-5 rate against the Brewers(which rounds down to 4-3), then the Brewers would need to go 18-6 in their remaining non-Cubs games to get to the 89 wins the Cubs would have. EDIT: The Brewers do not appear to have won 18 of 24 at any point this season
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As the most tenured member of the La Stella bandwagon, I'm not entirely sure he can make the throw to 1B from a shift in short RF.
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It is not okay to use game threads/NSB as your personal dumping ground for all the irrational anxieties you can conjure up when things inevitably don't always go perfectly over the course of 162 games. Especially when that makes up most/all of the posts you make.
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show us on the doll where the brewers hurt you
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Rivera is a really, really good framer
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if that call had gone against a Cubs player I probably would have burst a blood vessel in my brain
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Just to be consistent, La Stella probably didn't deserve a HR for that either, although at least he was hitting a center cut fastball. The side angle showed that he didn't even perfectly square it up and it went 400+ feet to CF/RCF. Dumb.
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that pitch has zero business being hit 400 feet with that swing, the juiced ball is basically making a mockery of the league, it's basically home run roulette to see who wins if you need me I'll be in the angrydome
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