Transmogrified Tiger
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I'm not really worried about them being unproductive, but it's not great making them the players who get the most PAs today when they're both have a decent risk of having multiple at bats over in 1-2 pitches where they're duped into rolling over or something. It's a nitpicky complaint, but the reason that Zobrist, Schwarber, and Bryant are great for the top of the order is not only their production, but that they're properly selective. Almora has shown glimpses of doing so this year but never in MiLB, and Baez has never been close. In other words, a lineup spearheaded by Baez and Almora isn't going to run Moore's pitch count to 100 in the 5th inning unless they're knocking the crap out of him. It's a small effect, but it does matter when there are alternatives that could give you a better shot at that opportunity without doing something silly like hitting Heyward 2nd against a LHP. -
Their plate discipline/approach is...questionable, even facing off handed pitchers. Personally I'd go Happ/Bryant/Rizzo/Baez/Heyward/Russell/Almora/Montero if you're not going to play Contreras, Zobrist, or Schwarber.
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I'd call this the 'on Wednesdays we play defense' lineup but it's got Montero so I'm still a little confused.
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I know Montero hasn't played since Friday, but you have a day game against a RHP tomorrow.
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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
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maybe he shouldn't have changed the signs so much so Kershaw didn't mistakenly think he called for the 2 base wild pitch
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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.
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that game took 2 hours, 5 minutes
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Rizzo needed that, he's overdue to go on a tear
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KYLE THAT BASEBALL HAD A FAMILY
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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.
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the new market efficiency is literally not caring who the last person in the bullpen is as long as they didn't pitch yesterday
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Johnny Law, of course, meaning the father/son cop duo of Heyward and Edwards, right?
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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.
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John, John, the baserunners John
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hey teeth for brains, we're done with the first inning runs stuff, get with it
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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.
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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.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
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.
