Transmogrified Tiger
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how do you say surrender cobra in japanese, asking for October
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Okay I lied, my new favorite thing about the Brewer attitude is the idea that 3 years from now everyone on the Cubs will be old and/or expensive and they'll have no farm system to replenish with. They say this immediately after the Cubs traded Eloy, Cease, Candelario, and Paredes. The only one of those guys who had played a professional game 3 years ago is Candelario, and he was en route to a .667 OPS between A- and A+. -
Maybe my favorite part of this attitude is the implicit assumption that the Brewers farm system is going to pay huge dividends for them. They have Brinson, who should be useful at the least and has star potential. After that it's a slew of solid pitching prospects but none with super high ceilings, and a bunch of position players with ceiling that can't hit. They had 4 guys in BA's midseason Top 100. They are basically bragging on a farm system that's the equivalent of what the Cubs had right before Happ's promotion.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
It's a unicode mixup of his name, which has an accent mark. https://i.imgur.com/R0wuDmz.png A very important accent mark, as his name is technically a racial slur without it. -
My favorite These things give me life. Let's apply that lens to the current Brewers roster: - Manny Pina will be 33 and Jett Bandy 30. This assumes their pop-up success isn't a mirage. - Thames will be 33 - Shaw will be 30 - Braun will be 36 - Keon Broxton will be 30, assuming he's actually played his way back on to the MLB roster - Domingo Santana will be only 27 though, so they have that going for them And the pitching: - Nelson will be 31 - Chase Anderson will be 32, assuming his arm doesn't fall off again or he doesn't go back to being terrible - Brent Suter will be 30 - Knebel will be 28 and Hader 26 so that's cool - There aren't any other good pitchers on their roster So all those prospects you're banking on? You need to hit at a pretty high rate to hold serve. And holding serve means you're not close to the Cubs talent level. But hey, have fun planning for timelines that are absurd to project to. I'm sure the Cubs won't be waiting, still 10+ games better than you with a younger roster and more money to spend and a system that has proven its player development bona fides in multiple cities.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-30-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Carasiti will be a nice option to have for the Iowa shuttle next year, in fact he should have at least 2018 and 2019 as option years. With Grimm being more of a longshot for 2018 since he's not going to break into the back end of the pen and will be out of options, going to need someone(s) who you aren't counting on for big things but is good enough to earn MLB time. Maples would be in the same boat if he can actually throw the ball in the right direction a little more consistently. -
I'm guessing a mysteriously timed injury. For the 40 man, it'd have to be a mysterious injury that puts someone on the 60 day DL.
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CSN is experimenting with a Spanish language broadcast, Z and Ozzie Guillen are the color guys for the Cubs and Sox respectively. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/ct-ozzie-guillen-carlos-zambrano-spanish-csn-20170727-story.html
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Echoing you, but Grimm to Iowa or someone conjuring a DL stint seems like the best bet. This also highlights that it's real unlikely that they get a future starter that requires an MLB roster spot tomorrow(e.g. Gausman). If that person is optionable like Butler was then sure, but that narrows the field for that type of addition.
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Extremely okay with sending Candelario and Paredes for Wilson and Avila.
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[tweet] /status/891858392733687809[/tweet] "actually, Avila's .371 wOBA as a catcher is bad" is some kinda take
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Looks like they're playing the hot hand Happ hitting 200 with 2 XBH since break Almora 300 with 3 XBH in half the PA, also 2 doubles off RHP Happ has had a bad 30 PA or so, yes. Almora can play against LHP all he wants, but him doing well in like 7 PA against RHP isn't very compelling. Especially on a day you're sitting Rizzo I think you have to keep Almora out of there.
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Because we didn't let Caratini catch and Contreras play 1B even though Contreras caught a night game last night.
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I know his bullpen is not good and has been used a lot, but Counsell trying to steal a 7th inning from Davies doesn't make much sense. Especially since they're gonna lose Davies to the LLWS in a week or so.
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Almora starting this game over both Happ and Schwarber is puzzling.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-28-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Burks has had a brutal July, OPS under .450, yeesh. -
it feels like half the outs tonight have come on expanding the zone after a bad strike call
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FINALLY, A MOMENT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE UMPIRE
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I disagree with Len, if Baez holds on with his arm strength I think they're getting Arcia at first. Bryant was playing up and released the ball quickly.
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Baez has had way too many of those types of plays this year
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that was a reeeal casual recovery of that ball Albert
