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  1. I know Montero hasn't played since Friday, but you have a day game against a RHP tomorrow.
  2. Strength of Schedule thus far: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/baseballs-toughest-and-easiest-schedules-so-far/ Cubs are 4th in the NL(13th in MLB), behind Pittsburgh, San Fran, and San Diego. Other NL teams of note: Washington - 11th in NL/27th in MLB St. Louis - 8th/23rd Milwaukee - 7th/22nd Colorado - 6th/19th Los Angeles - 14th/29th Arizona - 15th/30th
  3. maybe he shouldn't have changed the signs so much so Kershaw didn't mistakenly think he called for the 2 base wild pitch
  4. http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/umyb.gif
  5. If Arrieta doesn't look much better in the next month, then I think they're going to be pretty motivated to add a starter of significance. It's a lot easier to play the efficiency game and only poke around the market when you have 3 starters having good to great seasons. Right now half their playoff games would be started by big question marks so the marginal benefit of adding a very good starter is even greater, and that's before we get into the fact that they're going to need 3 starters for next year anyway so they might as well snag one of them if they're buying at the deadline.
  6. It looks like he went on a mass delete binge, because I know he's tweeted more than 86 times. Also this is just so sad and emblematic of him: Bayless is similar, although weirdly Twitter doesn't show his following count. Try and find a tweet where Bayless replies to someone though. His entire feed is just 32 thousand tweets of him shouting into the void.
  7. the new market efficiency is literally not caring who the last person in the bullpen is as long as they didn't pitch yesterday
  8. Johnny Law, of course, meaning the father/son cop duo of Heyward and Edwards, right?
  9. I still choose to believe that Baez's home run found a wormhole and that's why it ended up in the basket and not on a rooftop across the street.
  10. hey teeth for brains, we're done with the first inning runs stuff, get with it
  11. As far as the main thrust of the thread goes, the biggest thing for me is that the absolute rule is prospects fail. I find it much easier to frame understanding of a prospect's chances when you understand that the default is not how successful the player will be, but if he will ever even spend a day on a MLB roster. With that in mind, I think of performance/stats as the engine that powers a player to whether or not they can reach a potential that scouting information puts on them. People like to point to the exceptions to show why you shouldn't scout a stat line, but I've never seen compelling info that there's more of those than the reverse, where scouting undersells a guy's potential(Donaldson, Matt Carpenter, Hendricks, etc). Or in other words, there's more all-stars that never made a Top 100 list than there are all-stars that couldn't hit(or strike people out) in AA.
  12. I think there is partial installation of Trackman equipment in minor league parks, but the big thing is that the teams own that information as opposed to MLB as a whole for big league stadiums. So the data is getting partially collected, but it's not making its way to the public sphere.
  13. Looks like a typo/bug, even Farnsworth had his power at 55/60 before last year, and Longenhagen has his game power at 55/70 as of March.
  14. Zobrist in 2016 Bases empty: .288 AVG, .396 OBP Men on: .253 AVG, .375 OBP Schwarber 2015 bases empty: .223 AVG, .347 OBP 2015 men on: .270 AVG, .364 OBP 2017 bases empty: .165 AVG, .270 OBP 2017 men on: .222 AVG, .373 OBP Schwarber has some progression coming his way regardless, but shifts aren't just a button you press with the bases empty that affect everyone equally. Even without looking up the numbers it's clear that Zobrist uses the whole field more than Schwarber(on top of being a switch hitter) and should be less susceptible to shifts.
  15. If you made a movie about the world series and made Theo's kid annoy him with win probability updates I'd roll my eyes at how on the nose it was. Truth is stranger than fiction, etc
  16. Good for Latin Jeff Cirillo, he's had a good month of hitting for power
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