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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Oh good catch, I was looking at the Tennessee half of the inning for some reason.
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    Also, Duncan Robinson is off to an interesting if Bloomquistian start at South Bend: 33.2 IP, 25 H, 5 ER, 23/6 K/BB, 2 HR
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    Did Burks get hurt? He was defensively replaced in the 4th, there were two balls to the OF the previous inning but he didn't field either. Hope it's nothing, he's up to .304/.414/.459/.873 with a 14.8% BB% and 18.5% K%
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    no more cubans ever
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    IMO that understates how comically bad Anderson was at his job. Even with the same cast of characters they were bound to be much better with an actual D1 head coach, and Porter Jr, Tilmon, Robertson(grad transfer), Harris & Roberts is a pretty significant talent infusion.
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    Mizzou being really good is predicated on Porter Jr. being Durant/Melo good as a freshman instead of just normal #1 recruit in the country good. I've seen people imply he could be on that level, but it's a lot to predict/assume for anyone. More likely they'll be a middle of the road tourney team that maybe makes a run depending on how quickly Tilmon can become a defense/rebounding stalwart(since Martin's teams rely on interior defense first). Porter's brother reclassifying to 2017 sure wouldn't hurt either.
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    I'm extremely skeptical of how true 2017 velocity loss is for pitchers who are pitching just as well(better, in Greinke's case) as they were before the Statcast/Trackman migration. Greinke specifically has been a guy whose velocity has ticked up with warmer weather in previous seasons too. Here's a crappy home-made illustration of Greinke's first 8 starts the last 3 years:
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    Even at 4/100 there probably aren't a ton of teams that are going to be super excited to bid on paying Greinke 100 million for his age 34-47 seasons. Given how the season has progressed thus far, I'd say the Cubs and Yankees are the two frontrunners, and there's good reason for there to be very few other teams interested/willing to get him. Greinke also has a 15 team no-trade and given his quirkiness I could see some big city names on that list. It's also worth noting that Greinke's deal has significant deferrals, from Cot's: - 6 years/$206.5M (2016-21) - $18M signing bonus (paid in $3M installments each 5/31, 2016-21) 16:$31M, 17:$31M, 18:$31M, 19:$31.5M, 20:$32M, 21:$32M - total of $62.5M in salary is deferred ($10M each in 2016-18, $10.5M in 2019, $11M each in 2020-21), to be paid in five installments of $12.5M each 11/1, 2022-26 - under MLB calculation, deferrals reduce the present-day value of the contract to $193,849,298 - assignment bonus: $2M if traded - limited no-trade protection: may block trades to 15 clubs So it could be a matter of just telling Arizona to worry about the deferred stuff and having his new team take on the money to be paid out on time.
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    averaging 100 wins over the last 2 season was obviously incredible, but the downside of that kind of dominance is how awful it feels when you return to normal levels of competitiveness. i'm reading this whole post and all i can think is that it's 6 weeks of stuff just to get to 6 games over .500 He's also not projecting them to really get hot either(nor would you want to guess sweeps and such). Right now the Cubs are about 3 games off a 95 win pace, it'll take a two week hot streak to get them back on that pace. My guess is that happens in June, when the schedule breaks a bit and some of the injuries and performance issues start to sort themselves out.
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    Injuries are going to happen, but I don't think you fear trading someone because he's the contingency for if 4 of the 10 best position players are hurt/unavailable. I forgot to add that Russell also was unavailable until yesterday, so it's more like 5. Baez is a good defender, but he's also been relatively unimpressive defensively thus far this season, both numerically and to the eye test. If he's not going to be a +15 defender then he's not someone you try to make time for. Especially since Almora is doing well enough that you can still prioritize OF defense by keeping him in the lineup and Zobrist(who is going to be fine, his peripherals are the same just with some unlucky BABIP) on the IF.
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    The current situation is because Bryant is sick plus Heyward is on the DL and Zobrist and Jay are hurt. Happ is not needed and will be going back down soon. Baez is the only backup SS, but getting one of those on the roster isn't a huge obstacle. Both are absolutely available to use in a trade, although you won't sprint to give either away for next-gen Scott Feldman either.
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    Since the start of 2016 he has like a .270 BABIP so I'll say no
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    La Stella just hits just is a carefully chosen word because it describes the effortless ability and the fact that he can't really do anything else
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    Addison that was ball 4
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    Congrats Raisin and Raisinette!
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    30 year old outfielder reaches .700 OPS at Low-A
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    those videos of Mekkes are great, even from an arm side angle the ball just appears out of nowhere and not with a normal release point also high school pitchers are poison
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    dumb game, Baez/Contreras costs them a run, Lester's bomb just doesn't clear the fence, questionable application of the slide rule costs a run, buncha near misses
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    what's wrong with him? the stomach bug? probably lupus
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    Contreras didn't really throw that ball all that hard, Rizzo absolutely has to catch it
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    Siegrist could give up home runs to Rizzo in 17 consecutive plate appearances and Matheny would still line him up to face Anthony in the late innings
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    no, that would be if the silhouette was of someone giving a high five
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    In other fun reliever news, Craig Brooks at Myrtle Beach: 18.1 IP, 9 H, 1 R, 28/6 K/BB, 1 HR
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