Transmogrified Tiger
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The Cubs are playing the worst team in baseball, at home, and they're facing a 31 year old AAAA SP. I don't understand sports fans. -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Bad year for the wave of Cuban hitters that came through the last few years. Cespedes is killing the ball but no one else. Cespedes - .396 wOBA Tomas - .319 Abreu - .315 Soler - .308 Puig - .306 Castillo - .291 at AAA, put on waivers -
5 games entering today, since today was a close loss it's probably still 5.
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In that 17-17 stretch they have a +21 run differential and are 2 games under their pythagorean for that stretch alone too.
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Saturday
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Yeah, he's still walking too many guys, but he's kept the ball in the park, been hard to hit, and gotten K's. Good post. Timely.
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Yeah, he's still walking too many guys, but he's kept the ball in the park, been hard to hit, and gotten K's.
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DatDudeE4
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A for Effort, C+ for execution
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good to see TLS back in the lineup hitting rockets
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Man, that hung in the air a long time for Heyward to need a dive that didn't even catch the ball.
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No, but there are rumors that Twitter is going to stop counting links against character count in the future. Also, this post summarizes the @reply thing pretty well: https://blog.bufferapp.com/twitter-mistake
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Let's get every Cub into the ASG!
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Rodney has been great this year. I mentally discounted him because I somehow thought he was in the AL until his trade last week, but no he was with the Padres. -
Chris Coghlan to Cubs for Mendy; LaStella to DL
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Concepcion is eligible to come back either Thursday or Friday, and Richard looks close enough to healthy to be recalled, so healthy arms probably isn't a huge concern even if they bring La Stella back for a RP tomorrow. -
Let's get every Cub into the ASG!
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He may very well have inside info, but "Cubs get exact all stars that you'd have guessed, please credit me for this scoop" is pretty funny. Maybe I'm biased because Barstool is a cesspool. -
Yeah, I take 2nd half Hammel seriously. I also think guarding against injury is a good idea. well, hammel is probably coming back next season since he's on a $10m club option next year, which looks to be a bargain. if he comes back then they've already got 5 starters signed for 2017, plus guys like warren, cahill and wood can easily be stretched out to throw a few innings as spot starters and long relievers. i don't see how starter is remotely as urgent a need as a strong 7th/8th inning (preferably LH) reliever. I think Warren joining the rotation and the talk about a 6 man rotation after the break is a way to give them the chance to take a preventative measure against injury(specifically Arrieta/Lester) or a downturn in productivity(like second half Hammel). Relievers are probably the more immediate need, but the Cubs probably don't have to choose, and dealing for a starter is likely going to be more difficult to finagle than shoring up the pen.
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An uncapped league in a sport where the top few players carry as much influence as the NBA would be one of the few outcomes worse for competition than the current NBA.
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I am not an NBA capologist, but I imagine that FA allotments as you're describing them are probably a non-starter. The model my mind has gone back to a couple times is what MLS does with Designated Players. You have a couple spots(and they are tradeable) for DPs on the roster, maybe only 1 or 2 in the NBA. Those DPs count a set amount towards the cap, but you can technically pay them whatever you want. So in the salary cap sense you have something similar to a max deal, which everyone seems to be okay with, but now teams can actually differentiate on money. This won't make a huge difference to the elite of the elite, the LeBrons and Durants aren't going to be swayed to Sacramento by a few million bucks per year. But it could help add parity and curb the superteams a bit for the guys who would otherwise take the same money to go to better situations.
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Let's get every Cub into the ASG!
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I agree he deserves to. I thought he might be a good final vote candidate as well but I think there are a lot of potential position player snubs in the NL so not sure if he makes it. Looking at the NL rosters from the last 5 years, the fewest number of relievers on a team was 4(last year) and in most years 5-6. With that backdrop I think Hector has a pretty good shot. -
Let's get every Cub into the ASG!
Transmogrified Tiger replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Rondon probably deserves to at least be on that list, although his biggest competition is probably token selections to satisfy the one per team requirement, so tough to know what his odds are. -
I don't mind him, but he is hammered and babbling nonsense Guess I'd have to hear it to see how bad it is. I mean it's a blowout so I'm not sure why it's bothering anyone that much to have that going on for a couple innings. It would have to be him just rambling out racist offensive crap for it to really bother me. He started with a Pat Hughes Impression that was basically him just yelling the words Pat Hughes and then making a Seattle Sutton reference. He then did that same thing at least 5 other times while in the booth. It didn't get better from there.
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lolllllll Rizzo "You suck, you horsefeathering suck"
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All I want is someday to do something half as funny as Jeff Garlin thinks his Pat Hughes impression is.
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please get the last out so I don't hear Garlin anymore
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Why not just spend the summer punching yourself in the face until October gets here then? It sounds like it would cause you less aggravation because you'd at least see it coming. You're getting an old timey roll eyes smiley for this: :roll:
