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Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-23-24
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
A second HR for Triantos and a HR for Aliendo, have a day -
Amazing what happens when you unshackle yourself from Garrett Cooper and his reign of terror on the offense.
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Looking at the schedule, next week may be pretty telling in that regard. There's 2 day after night games this week, but Sunday through the off day is 11 straight with only one day after night.
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Matt Mervis, Hayden Wesneski, Luke Little Called Up
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Both. Being the 27th man should not count, but Little was previously only sent down on the 17th so he's still within that window that would require an injury now. -
Matt Mervis, Hayden Wesneski, Luke Little Called Up
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Little can't be recalled without an injury either AFAIK, hmmmm -
Matt Mervis, Hayden Wesneski, Luke Little Called Up
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Oh good point, I hadn't knocked my previous assumption that he would be the DH callup out of my head. So yeah someone is getting IL'd, and you'd have to assume Hendricks is the favorite. -
Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-23-24
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Rosario played what position now -
Convo here:
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Matt Mervis, Hayden Wesneski, Luke Little Called Up
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wesneski would be a pretty strong signal of Hendricks to the IL, right? Save for a previously undocumented injury I can't think of an obvious swap unless the only reason he hasn't been up for Brewer was they wanted someone like him or now Teheran stretched at Iowa. -
My point with the comparison was less to tear down Brown(I'm still a little skeptical but if he keeps throwing strikes like this...), and more to build up Wesneski. To that end, a lot has been made of Wesneski's struggles against LHH last year, but it's worth recognizing that he did not have struggles against them in AAA or MLB in 2022, and to start 2024 he hasn't struggled against them at either level. This is not to say that the 2023 issues were a fluke to write off, and the most recent sample sizes aren't much, but part of the concern when we talk about this is that Wesneski's current repertoire is *incompatible* with getting out LHH. That's a very difficult thing to resolve at the MLB level, but if in practice it may be that he had a mechanical/pitch mix issue that caused the LHH struggles, that's more likely to be solvable. And if he does so, then in terms of present utility I think he and Brown are very similar.
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White Sox Season in Jeopardy
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in General Baseball Talk
If the White Sox play at a 90 win pace for the rest of the season, they will finish below .500. -
I think this is a really useful framework for thinking about the pitching staff. If I were to nitpick it I almost think there's a separate category in between the high leverage arms and the extras, in which I'd put Almonte and Keegan. They seem clearly by performance and usage to be thought of higher than the extras, but they're never being used instead of the one inning leverage guys when they're available. That's also useful because I think basically all of the extras can flow upwards to that level based on form(e.g. Little, Cuas, or Palencia go a week without walking the world) but wouldn't immediately be part of the late inning circle of trust if they did. Otherwise, I'm consistently higher on Wesneski than most and I think he's got more in common with Brown than Smyly in terms of ability. But with Brown and Assad's success he hasn't gotten the opportunity so I can't say with certainty he's there in Counsell's eyes.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Setting aside if a retirement gift is the right spot for a sponsored giveaway(probably not!), that TV costs between 4-8000 dollars depending on the specific model. -
1) No 2) It was before Seiya and Happ got hurt and he started doing things like starting at DH against Edward Cabrera
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Garrett Cooper has a 122 wRC+ at the moment, if you are comparing him to Mancini/Hosmer or are generally worked up about his production you need to get a grip.
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I mean, Kyle giving up rockets and 460 HR is ominous and bad and going to be bad every time it happens. Kyle having an inning like last inning will be scoreless most of the time. From a process perspective he'd be a perfectly fine SP if every inning went like that one.
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Aside from Sanchez that was ground balls and bloops, and the least charitable interpretation is that 2 of 7 were squared up. If you want to nitpick you hope for more swing and miss but in a just world that is a 0 on the scoreboard and done like 3 hitters earlier.
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One truly well hit ball in 6 hitters and 3 runs across, yeesh
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Opposing teams have consistently had horrific outfield defense at Wrigley so far this year.
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Probably not super consequential but I'd have tagged up if I was Nico.
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Yeah I think there's a weird tension where Hendricks is not currently one of the 5(or 6) best available starters, but odds are that injury/availability and improvement from Hendricks make that not true later this season.
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Man U just got saved from losing in the 120th minute by Wright being offside by about 3 inches
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you want to think of it in terms of math, with Happ's injury and the burden of catching(plus not having a big bat C), you've basically got 2 bench spots per game. Game 1 it went to one of the every game starters(Bellinger) and a platoonable lefty(Busch). Game 2 it went to one of the every game starters(Swanson) and a platoonable righty(Wisdom). I wouldn't have minded Wisdom at 3B tonight given how well he swung it in Game 1, but I don't know what risks his body might have coming off injury(recognizing Morel may not be 100% either).
