Transmogrified Tiger
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I'm not sure the ball ever touched him, but you can't prove it -
Vazquez being younger doesn't give him extra credit at the MLB level, there's still a long track record of Vazquez not being better than Mastrobuoni(or Madrigal for that matter). And Vazquez isn't even playing well! He has a .484 *OPS* in Iowa in May. There's no reason to expect him to be better than what we'd expect the incumbents to do going forward, and plenty of reason to expect him to be worse.
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Spencer Strider spent less than 1 year in the minor leagues and struck out 40% of the hitters he faced. Again, we can be annoyed that things don't go well or that bench players don't play well, that doesn't make 'well maybe something good will happen if we just change stuff' a good idea as a reaction.
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A scouting report from Fangraphs this week describes him as a 'fair shortstop defender', and this is basically irrelevant because we're a couple days from either of them being 3rd on the depth chart at the position, plus Mastrobuoni hasn't been a problem defensively. Offensively, Mastrobuoni's career AAA OPS is 100 points higher than Vazquez. We don't have to have shiny new toy syndrome every time a bench caliber player plays like a bench caliber player and start pining for guys who might be bench caliber players if things work out well.
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We can want Vazquez to be good and excited if he does well, but that doesn't make him what he isn't. Mastrobuoni has consistently outperformed him at the same levels.
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With Mastrobuoni looking somewhat functional and Morel basically being locked in at 3B for better or worse, the sun might be getting real low for Madrigal if he can't even square up Falter
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Jon Heyman Connects Cubs To Verlander
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Does Verlander make the rotation in a playoff series with his performance so far this year? Maybe if Steele is truly busted or there's further injuries, but he's definitely not starting multiple playoff games and you can make the argument he's somewhere between 3rd and 6th in the current pecking order. Don't see much point unless his performance picks up or the status quo of the rotation changes fairly significantly, and that's before getting to the opportunity cost with his big salary number(even paid down by the Mets & Astros). -
I believe that's the upload/embed issue Brock mentioned. I can create links but anything that auto-expands(tweets, gifs, etc) gives me that error.
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I think they're dealing with an imprecise science, there were permutations where Hoerner was good to play Thursday or yesterday, so the duration he's out is not written in stone. Also, the guy they would roster instead of Hoerner would not start over Mastrobuoni except for maybe against LHP, so the opportunity of having Hoerner back 2-5 days earlier than an IL stint is greater than the cost of having a short bench where Vazquez maybe gets a couple of platoon ABs but doesn't play otherwise.
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Possibly related, but embeds appear to be broken? Gif, gifv, and youtube from different sources all lead to a 403 Forbidden when you try to post.
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Me imagining a world where we don't freak out about Ian Happ's performance and/or contract twice a week
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12th highest entering today: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0&team=0%2Cts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sortcol=11&sortdir=desc&pagenum=1 However they're 26th highest in LD%, so the gap between those two probably speaks to your/our real experience.
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Get a couple baserunners the 2nd time through the order and even if you don't score you probably limit Skenes to 5. The entire back end went for the Pirates last night so you just aim for Kyle to hold serve the next 2 innings and win the bullpen battle by 2+ runs.
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I'd have to consult my last 48 hour power rankings to be sure, but No.
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Brewer is the 14th non-60 Day IL trip so far this year if Roster Resource is correct. A bunch of teams have had 10-11, but none have had more.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-16-24
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
We should probably be talking more about what goofiness is happening with the Southern League run environment. Shaw 2023: .292/.329/.523, 120 wRC+ Shaw 2024: .217/.352/.348, 119 wRC+ Same league, 150 points worse in OPS, but same total output once adjusted for this year's context. Makes what Ballesteros is doing all the more impressive, and maybe is helpful in understanding Horton's transition to Iowa. -
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Let's put it this way, Seiya had 3 chances at that runner, a very good throw gets him at 2nd(his was poor), a good throw gets him at 3rd(his was off line), and a good throw gets him at the plate(he whiffed). An above average RF probably should not let that run score in the aggregate.
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Tyson Miller is the Cuas that was promised
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Mastrobuoni is at SS
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He's made over 110 million as a player and took 2.5 million to play for the Pirates! At 35 and as a catcher, and after he was supposedly one of the primary guys who just gave up on the White Sox locker room.
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Every time I watch Grandal play he does a different thing that makes me think he's completely cooked. Why did he even keep playing
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the people at Marquee are gonna have a fixer come visit that stretch singer for costing them a commercial break
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20% of the Cubs' games have been against starters in the top 15 of qualified K%, that is...insane for being 45 games into the season? EDIT: I keep missing guys on the list, 20%!
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Boy really no range from Joe there Or said another way, if it hadn't been for Conner Joe, they'd been out of that inning a long time ago
