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Maybe I'm the only one, but I swear Rogers has gone from the worst beat guy I've ever seen, to where his stuff is mostly readable now. i agree
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jesse's math is a little off (it's 1/8 for non-wild card teams) but at least he's got the logic right
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Rizzo Schwarber Bryant Heyward Soler Zobrist Russell Montero Baez
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/StlCardsCards/status/700413037715582976[/tweet]
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yes that was a major injury the mets suffered fairly early on
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d'arnaud is no backup
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RIP Tony Phillips [tweet] [/tweet] I used to imitate his stance/swing playing wiffle ball
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somebody should call theo once we're done intelligently discussing this and let him know once we have a solution for this potential problem.
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with that one post, i've now spent way more time discussing this than this subject deserves. so like the opposite of your intent, i guess.
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the Steamer projections that have us at something like 94-95 wins have the following in mind for montero .244/.333/.379 good for 1.9 WAR zips has him good for .232/.325/.358 for 2.0 WAR safe to say the fate of our season doesn't rest in his hands if he gets hurt, someone else will play and if they do absolutely terribly, they might cost us a couple of games, while all the other really good players on the team handle things what exactly do you want for an answer?
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Yes. We should discuss this with each player on the team, I think. Right down to the 25th man. What are your contingency plans for each player? And David Ross could start 150 games for us and we would still probably win 90+ games.
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And if his production drastically drops, what will we do? What will we do if the least valuable positional starter underperforms? These are questions that need answers.
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I mean, I get the point. But, Miguel Montero/Mike Trout? haha, but that makes the post even weirder what will we do if our least valuable starter goes down for months?!
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Do you do anything but worry about stuff? Had to throw your favorite team in there at the end too, eh? Thank you for taking a legitimate question and giving a sarcastic non helpful answer in return. I'm trying to simply throw out a scenario which could occur to stir up some discussion, and you act like a total smug turd in return. People like you are way the quality of Internet discussion tends to be so bad. So feel free to continue to drive topics into the ground. I personally don't see the point though. Discussing every possible scenario that could go wrong doesn't seem like a great discussion to me. They are endless and they exist for every team. My extent of thinking about these things is that I'm fairly comfortable with the redundancy that the Cubs built into this roster to protect for when injuries inevitably happen. If we get lucky with them, that's great. If we get unlucky with them, that stinks but we're built to withstand a lot of things. I'm not really seeing how one made up injury scenario is worthy of much discussion, however likely or unlikely it may be. That being the case, I'd rather just make fun of it.
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i think almora's ceiling/upside is a player who is expected to hit something like .280/.325/.400 with plus defense in CF...maybe a 15 HR guy with a bunch of doubles. if my SLG is off for that description, my bad, i pulled it outta my ass mostly.
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too much pilates and kale to call that dude a redneck imo, texas background aside
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Reed Johnson? He of the .126 career IsoSLG? Comparisons between Harper and Almora shouldn't exist in any faborable way - Harper is a year older and already has 97 career ML HRs. you don't get jokes this is what reed johnson reported to ST looking like a few days ago
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hey sweet post that isn't an answer to my question and the notion that steroids are the only way to add significant strength and muscle for a 21 year old is [expletive] hilariously laughable What was your question then? What's the history of non-steroidal significant power being added after 21. Sure he'll eventually get old man strength which will help him when wrestling younger nieces and nephews who think he's old. But that's not the same as adding power to your profile as a hitter at 22 and beyond. my question was essentially whether it was unthinkable that a young player with great contact skills could hit for significantly more power as his approach and body mature. not whether it should be expected or projected, but whether it would or wouldn't be unheard of, because the conversation was about upside.
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I actually run with Caratini's roughly last ~400 PAS of the season where he put up a .750 OPS at the C position in the Cubs' toughest minor league park for hitters. Then there's his playoff run where he either went 7-11 or 4-11 with 3 XBHs. Other things that would separate them: - Position - Offensive expectations for a C prospect are not that of an OF prospect. - Caratini is on track to remain a switch hitter Even then, I'm not pushing for Caratini as a top 100 prospect today nor am I kicking Almora out of the Cubs' top 10 prospects. so it's the size of the arbitrary sample size you take issue with? fair enough, i suppose.
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and if he wants to do some of those sweet undetectable steroids that guys like bryce harper and reed johnson are doing, that'd be cool with me too
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right. it's not necessarily the evaluation of this one player. i don't terribly love almora (though i think calling his ceiling darwin barney is pretty absurd). it's the inconsistent way he applies his reasoning to the development of guys he likes vs guys he doesn't.
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which of those groups does jake go in
