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[tweet] [/tweet] Yeah, that's Lonzo's younger brother.

maybe wade really believes in himself, but if i was him i would be so terrified of falling off a cliff in 2018 that i would take the best multi-year offer and roll with it Yeah, a pitcher would be silly to not go with a multiyear contract as long as it's remotely close to the AAV of the 1-year offer.

Sup davell:

Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series. Not really... Looking at ALCS and NLCS teams the last few years. If a Cy Young finalist played for the team in question, I went down 1 spot in the voting. 2017 Dodgers: 0 out of 15 games (although we don't know who is 4th in NL Cy Young voting, so not sure who to replace Kershaw with. If its Greinke, then 1 out of 15 games) 2017 Cubs: 5 out of 10 games (Strasburg x2, Scherzer, Kershaw x2) 2017 Astros: 5 out of 18 games (Sale, Severino x2, Kershaw x2) 2017 Yankees: 2 out of 12 games (Kluber x2 - Same as Dodgers, don't know who finished 4th) 2016 Dodgers: 5 out of 11 games (Scherzer x2, Lester x2, Hendricks) 2016 Cubs: 6 out of 17 games (Bumgarner, Kershaw x2, Kluber x3) 2016 Blue Jays: 2 out of 9 games (Kluber x2 - Kluber is the only pitcher in the Top 10 of voting that the Jays faced that year) 2016 Indians: 5 out of 15 games (Porcello, Lester x2, Hendricks x2) 2015 Mets: 5 out of 14 games (Kershaw x2, Greinke x2, Arrieta) 2015 Cubs: 1 out of 9 games (Cole) 2015 Royals: 3 out of 16 games (Kuechel, Price x2) 2015 Jays: 0 out of 11 games 2014 Giants: 2 out of 16 games (Wainwright x2) 2014 Cardinals: 4 out of 9 games (Kershaw x2, Bumgarner x2) 2014 Royals: 0 out of 15 games 2014 Orioles: 0 out of 7 games So on average, a team faced a starter who is a Cy Young finalist 45 times in 204 games (22% of the time). The highest percentages in a run were the 2017 Cubs (50%), 2016 Dodgers (45%), 2014 Cardinals (44%), 2015 Mets (36%) and 2016 Cubs (35%). Of course its kind of limiting to draw the line at Top 3 Cy Young finishers as there are plenty of extremely good pitchers who didn't finish top 3 for whatever reason. BTW, in the games the Cubs didn't face Kershaw, Strasburg and Scherzer, they faced Alex Wood (2.72 ERA), Gio Gonzalez (2.96 ERA) x2, Rich Hill (3.32 ERA), Yu Darvish (3.44 ERA). And a CYA finalist (Scherzer) pitched out of the bullpen in one of their other 5 playoff games.

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Alex Cobb got a QO.

You probably don't like Homerpalooza as much because you wouldn't miss a Cubs playoff game for any of the bands in that episode.

He's entitled to his opinion the same as the guys that are kneeling are entitled to theirs. He's certainly entitled to his opinion, and we're entitled to call out his [expletive]. Vin often talks about how meaningful his friendship with Jackie Robinson is, yet he says something like that?

Heyman is saying the Reds are expected to not offer Cosart the QO. Crazy.

Alzolay piece in BA:

Everyone apologize to TT since he's right about Vin Scully. [tweet] [/tweet] Bastard always talks about his friendship with Jackie Robinson.

Last I heard, Stinnett was throwing 90-91. Any reports on his stuff tonight? Gameday has him 93-94 with the fastball, including striking out Acuna on 3 pitches. That's what the TV had too.

Jake Stinnett now in.

Adbert Alzolay is pitching in the AFL All-Star Game on MLB Network. 5-3 groundout. Long HR to LF. BB Flyout to RF. BB K swinging. Topped out at 97 for the K with plenty of 96s. Command was not great. Couldn't locate the curve. 1 change that did not look good. [tweet] [/tweet]

That's been photoshopped.

I mean there is a tear in his elbow/arm, right? He’s just pitching through it/getting that injection? Partially torn UCL. He's pitched through it for a few seasons now, which I thought woukd allay some of the fears surrounding his elbow.

I wonder how bad his elbow is. Seemed like a no-brainer financially to opt out.

Carrie Muskat on Adbert Alzolay: http://m.cubs.mlb.com/news/article/260655768/cubs-adbert-alzolay-has-no-1-potential/?tcid=tw_share

Cleveland picked up Michael Brantley's option.

[tweet] [/tweet] 23-year old lefty reliever who throws in the low- to mid-90s.

11/2: Mesa won 8-6 Box Score RF C. Burks 0/5, R, 2 K 1B I. Rice 0/4, K RP P. Araujo 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-2 GO-FO, 20-17 pitches-strikes

11/1: Mesa won 8-5 Box Score 1B J. Vosler 2/3, 2 R, 2B (4), HR (2), 2 RBI, 2 BB 2B D. Bote 2/5, R, RBI, K, E (4, throw) RP J. Stinnett 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 1-0 GO-FO

Pass on 6/$160M for Yu when Tanaka and Arrieta are getting $100M for fewer years. I'd definitely take Cobb at that price tag. The reliever years/dollars seem interesting. I like Reed but pass on 4 years for him, especially when someone like Shaw only gets 3 years.