Transmogrified Tiger
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I just tried to think of an explanation for that bullpen move and gave myself an aneurysm -
very rarely do you see a guy smoke a pitch just foul and then put it in nearly the same spot fair
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Someone help me understand the motivation to trade Walker. Montgomery was a little surprising, but if you think of him as a reliever there's a finite ceiling. With someone like Paxton you could at least play the TINSTAAPP game. Walker seems like a perfectly cromulent starter now with a ton of upside, and the Mariners aren't exactly overstuffed with SP, why are they trading him?
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correct
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Well framed, Willson
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clever @cubs [tweet] [/tweet]
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Please, stop.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-28-16
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think there's some hope that away from Baltimore that you could do something to help him with off handed hitters. My biggest problem is that even if Matusz is fixed, he's a free agent after this season. Sure he wouldn't be cost prohibitive to bring back, but even if you're confident in him being fixed it's a risk to entrust him with anything more than Wood/Richard innings, and the upside isn't all that great if you're signing him to a Cahill deal or something. -
Peanut Tillman did the stretch. He also had a funny conversation with Pat where he said he really admired his voice.
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get serious with that 393 feet nonsense, we all saw it
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In fairness, Ventura picking relievers is a bit like playing russian roulette with bullets in every chamber
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Did it sound like he broke his bat to anyone else? A promising outcome if he didn't even get the barrel on the ball.
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Montero was, is, and remains better than Baez at hitting RHP. So if you're saying it's justified to have Montero hitting 5th on this team, then this team is nowhere near as good as you'd like to pretend. If La Stella or Coghlan isn't going to be in the lineup, then the Cubs have 4 guys who are great at hitting RHP, a handful that are okay, and whatever you want to call 2016 Heyward. This is less an indictment of team quality and more a reiteration that Montero serves a perfectly useful purpose even if he's not having a good year.
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Surely Baez must bat 8th, batting him 5th, nah. Montero was, is, and remains better than Baez at hitting RHP.
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The more you know: Hendricks and Sale have nearly identical ERAs since the beginning of 2015, 3.33 to 3.31.
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Russell. He has 5.1 fWAR in 900 MLB PA's, he's 22 and a half years old, and he still has plenty of room to grow with the bat.
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Schwarber killed the ball last year, including playoffs he had a 143 wRC+, and that is probably not a fair expectation of Schwarber's bat going forward. A 143 wRC+ would be Rizzo's worst mark since 2013. He also is under team control for the same duration as Schwarber.
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Minor League Musings
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Today's Ask BA is on the Yankees presumed choice of Torres over Eloy: http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/ask-ba-choose-gleyber-torres-eloy-jimenez/#SybqrOMjHocEY23B.97 -
This is a bit of a silver lining to Chapman's comments, I guess. Ole Hank White might not be much of an interpreter. This tweet summarizes his timeline if you want to click through and read in more detail: [tweet] [/tweet]
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That post is in reply to someone calling you homophobic when you called Daniel Murphy a fairy: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=439&p=32370#p32370
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I'm repeating myself from earlier, but characterizing Chapman as someone who has committed domestic violence, and is therefore a bad person, does not require more than widely agreed on facts. He put his hands around her neck in an argument, shot a gun in the garage in frustration, and hurt his hand punching a car window in anger. Domestic violence does not require a certain level of bruising to be damaging and despicable behavior.
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It's really all you can say. [tweet] [/tweet]
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Wonder why Strop was unavailable, his usage doesn't seem to dictate a dedicated day off.
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those are actually signs of little to nothing, as they are pretty close to .500, but having especially bad records in those situations would actually be a good "sign" typically. Also they added a literal 10 foot flame throwing goblin to the back of the pen today
