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  1. David
    [tweet] [/tweet] The sportsbook in Reno that was way low on the Cubs over/under last year (89 - I almost wanted to fly to Reno because I'm pretty sure no other casino was this low) has them at 95.5 this year.
  2. David
    Bonus: I think that's the game after which Cueto said we'd see who really had the coconuts in October.
  3. David
    Hoyer actually defended this idea yesterday on the radio (FWIW, he said he was playing devil's advocate - but the way he made his case seemed as if he might have actually believed it) saying that long extra inning games screw the pitching staff up for a long time and it's one of the things they dislike most as executives.
  4. David
    couldn't decide what was more weird...that or that she still hasn't seen the grand slam
  5. David
    That one guy finally gets his answer plus a little more Also, holy horsefeathering crap
  6. David
    Well, this seems like a silly position. The things they're doing to try to do that, though, are all kinds of wrong. People who think baseball is boring aren't going to suddenly not think baseball is boring because of any (within reason) rule change MLB could make. As a friend of mine put it, if you can't watch soccer for 20 minutes without wanting them to be able to use their hands and tackle each other, then you won't watch soccer. That doesn't mean it has to change. (An extreme example, I know.) You said there's nothing baseball can do to make it appealing to people who don't like it. I think there are things baseball can do to win over some of these people. As I alluded to, gimmicky rule changes that make the sport worse are not among those things, though.
  7. David
    Seriously. I can't horsefeathering stand when sports go out of their way to appease the people that don't like their product to begin with. There is nothing baseball can do to make baseball appealing to people who don't like baseball. Well, this seems like a silly position. The things they're doing to try to do that, though, are all kinds of wrong.
  8. David
    this horsefeathering commissioner is "progressive" in all the wrong places and traditional in all the wrong places all these horsefeathering stupid laughable rule changes are being considered in the name of speeding up the game, but unifying the rules in both leagues (and eliminating the travesty that is having to watch a pitcher hit) is seemingly a non-starter
  9. David
    I will take the under on 100 Baez starts at 2B
  10. David
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/TBrownYahoo/status/829460544880943104[/tweet] Brian Wilson is attempting a comeback as a clean shaven knuckleballer
  11. David
    how fatal of a flaw is it for a team that won 91 games and got to within 2 wins of the world series? I just mean their biggest weakness which seemed to be very glaring when the parade of lefties kept marching to the plate and looking helpless against Lester. lots of teams looked helpless against lester yeah, they were really bad hitting lefties and they should probably address it since it would seem an easy enough hole to fill (find some lefty mashing righties to platoon for their worst offenders) but either way, they are a very good team that has as good a chance as any at winning a WS next year.
  12. David
    how fatal of a flaw is it for a team that won 91 games and got to within 2 wins of the world series?
  13. David
    btw, mods, i feel like the projection stuff should be moved to the projection thread so davell's thread can keep going the way it was supposed to (with posters making predictions) viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1152
  14. David
    Meh...he was a mid .700s guy in the minors. Maybe he figures things out a bit and does better, but doesn't seem unreasonable.
  15. David
    We started talking about Schwarber last night after seeing those pictures of him looking like the effing hulk, and I went to find some highlights of his dongs, which sadly brought me back to 2015. I realized while watching that it was almost a completely different experience watching highlights of the 2015 team. Still incredibly fun, but just doesn't come with the happiness of knowing where 2016 ends up. That's why it's so horsefeathering great that he got to play in the WS. In like no time he became an indelible and real part of the 2016 team. He's never gonna feel like he was just along for the ride.
  16. David
    These seem like reasonable totals at first glance. Maybe a touch high with all the mixing and matching Joe will do. There is no way that a guy that hits from the same side as Heyward and Schwarber and isn't an especially good defender gets that many ABs in the OF. Barring injuries, 0 chance. He would need to be starting in CF nearly every game against righties this season. Do you think that is reasonable? EDIT: Did not realize Jay was a switch hitter. I still think its way high, but I no longer think its insane. REEDIT: He isn't a switch hitter. But has reversish splits. Yes I expect Jay to get most starts in CF against righties. I doubt Almora will play his way into too many starts vs. same handed pitching.
  17. David
    Schwarber is fine in the OF. The expectation is for him to be averageish or a bit below, which is about how he's graded out in 300ish MLB innings (granted, before the injury). It takes a special terrible kind of athlete to be the type of detriment that Adam Dunn (and lol Soler) was out there. And if Russell already is what he is, well that's about a 4 win player so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I'm on board with the rest of those downside ones, though...maybe put the win total at like 94. I think the win total is light if all those upsides play out (they won't, tho)...that team would win like 110-115 games or some horsefeathers lmao.
  18. David
    These seem like reasonable totals at first glance. Maybe a touch high with all the mixing and matching Joe will do.
  19. David
    what
  20. David
    I don't really think there's anything wrong with a low 90's projection, as that's pretty high for a projection. What I don't understand is the Dodgers coming in at 98 by those same standards.
  21. David
    waiting for TT to remind me that PECOTA sucks (seriously, though, dodgers with 98 wins on that projection system? wtf?) [tweet] [/tweet] yeah, they seem to love the dodgers excessively and *slightly* under-love the cubs (or they wayyyyy over love the dodgers, depending on how conservative you expect it to be)
  22. David
    ha
  23. David
    What are you calling mid-season? If he kills it again, I don't think they'll hesitate to push him to AA, but I don't think that'd be before mid July or something.
  24. David
    waiting for TT to remind me that PECOTA sucks (seriously, though, dodgers with 98 wins on that projection system? wtf?)
  25. David
    http://www.cubsinsider.com/2017/02/06/addison-russells-improved-contact-rate-signals-offensive-breakout/
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