Transmogrified Tiger
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I keep getting hints of Mike Tirico and it's been distracting me all series -
boy I hope not
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Love that fully half of the old big 12 is on this list
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Playoff Eve Thread (Cubs v Padres)
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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With that swing Nico passes Alejandro Kirk, Nolan Schanuel, Jackson Chourio, and Kyle Manzardo in wRC+
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Wiggins has barely pitched in recent weeks and hasn’t yet shown an ability to not walk the world at AAA, he’s not a serious option
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Listen, I respect that you're seeking out Cubs talk and may want to take in news/political talk in moderation, I have to do that a lot too to avoid consuming too much outrage in my life. But for one, talking about the situation as 'shooting off about a father,son,friend's death' is a laughable mischaracterization that normally means that you just don't want to hear negative talk about someone you have neutral/positive impressions of. And more importantly, the conversation is about Shaw missing a fairly important BASEBALL game(basically 2, because he was only PH the day of Kirk's death). There's no digging through the nooks and crannies of Shaw's life to find an association to cast judgment on, he stopped playing because of it! The idea that isn't worthy of conversation and potential judgment is beyond silly.
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I, for one, welcome our new robot umpires.
Transmogrified Tiger replied to bukie's topic in General Baseball Talk
Almost as positive a development as the challenge system itself -
The Chiefs get Worthy back next week and Rice a few weeks after that, so their lack of passing game dynamism is a temporary problem. Their bigger issue is their run game is incapable of getting chunk plays and struggles with consistency, which is a personnel shortcoming there isn't as much of a solution for.
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I'm not sure this is true, and it's the main thing about the Kittredge option decision to me. Can the 2026 payroll fit 2 relievers at Kittredge+ salaries, and even if so is Kittredge the guy you try to keep over Keller(even if Keller requires multiple years)?
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Is it really too much to ask for a team to have one (1) victory in order to be proactively ranked as one of the best teams in the country in Week 3
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Do you think all the other contenders with similar or worse records in that span are getting encouraging performance from their key players
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Week 1: Bears vs Vikings on MNF
Transmogrified Tiger replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Santos was 8 of 9 on 50+ yarders last year, the league as a whole was under 70%. -
It looks like ESPN is basically buying MLB.TV
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Andy's topic in General Baseball Talk
MLB.tv will still be a thing, but you will likely buy it and watch games through the ESPN app. Not a lot of details at the moment. -
Ozzie Albies you will share a cell with Eugenio Suarez in the Hague
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It appears to use FPI. I'm not sure I see a huge issue though, the only real outlier seems like the USC game. Other than that it seems to have them as pretty heavy favorites in home games, underdogs against good teams away and coinflips or better against poor away teams. Oh and naturally heavy underdogs to OSU.
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AFAIK it is still studio stuff, I saw him doing that when they were playing the Brewers within the last couple weeks.
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I imagine this is an issue that could be overcome, but Grace does have a job on DBacks broadcasts. AFAIK no one else in those photos is currently working through the season.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-7-25
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think he's been hanging out in Chicago if they pulled the trigger on the Tucker IL stint -
Cubs (N/A) vs Day Off: 9/4/25
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Maybe in 2025 we can be a little more curious than claiming an IP number is an injury harbinger like it's an ironclad rule of the universe. For example, Horton has pitched on 4 days rest in only 7 of his 20 starts. In only 2 of those 7 did he throw more than 80 pitches, and he has thrown more than 90 pitches just 4 times in total(0 times since the All-Star break). Injury risk increases with fatigue, that's why people use innings as a crude barometer and why pitch counts get highlighted. The Cubs are almost certainly looking at more detailed markers than that, but it's very clear even using those simplified markers that they're being very careful to avoid Horton hitting the point of fatigue in order to manage the injury risk. Also for a quick comparison: in 2003 Mark Prior made 17 of his 30 starts on 4 days rest, threw less than 95 pitches once, and threw more than 110 pitches 19 times(regular season only). -
Yeah I was looking at this yesterday, of the 6 playoff teams, the Brewers and Mets are a few games better than .500, the Cubs, Padres, and Phillies are within a game or so of .500, and the Dodgers IIRC were the worst but just barely. It's not particularly meaningful, especially when you consider how variable pitching matchups might be in those handful of games.
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xFIP is normalizing his HR rate, which is very low. Similarly, Skenes has the lowest HR/FB in the league and by extension his xFIP is 60 points higher than his FIP
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Horton struck out Albies, give him a lifetime contract
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okay one more https://web.archive.org/web/20110912235031/http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/dugout2-11-06.htm
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110911220045/http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/archiveexclusive12.htm
