squally1313

lol my bad guys

2 out no one on is incredibly low leverage. Wouldn’t be surprised if there were some sort of guidance on a spectrum from ‘push your luck’ to ‘you better be 150% sure’

88.6 off the bat there. Looking scary with the tomahawk swing but that was harmless.

If you’re going to swing on 2-0 with the runner going you better at least tie the game.

Yeah I’m coming out of it thinking his control isn’t good at the moment, because rust and also a little bit because he has those patches, which contributed to throwing that nightmare pitch. But once that happened, you have to let him get back on the horse but I’m not going to judge the outputs too much because it’s clearly going to affect him.

Yeah giving up a double that bounced off the outside of 1st base on its 14th hop is just completely unacceptable.

Oh man

This isn’t directed at you but generally opinions shouldn’t change start to start. On the whole, they were good pitchers when we got them, they were good pitchers after they had bad starts, and they are good pitchers now.

https://www.mlb.com/news/cubs-nico-hoerner-remarkable-year-by-year-consistency

29 straight runs for the cubs. no idea that the record is, but know it's more than that since a quick google search reminded me of the single game in 2007 where the rangers scored 30 unanswered

that's as good as nico can hit a ball you'd think.

I’m sure you’re right on at least the generals of the rules, if not the specifics. But you keep implying that we’d be trying to do something nefarious here, and I think the general idea was more ‘hey man, you had a good year, maybe come pick Carson’s brain and sit in on planning sessions for a few days’ which I don’t see anyone having a real problem with. Like, there’s no one being harmed in this scenario.

Well no one was saying he’d be serving as some disallowed active player. There’s plenty of uniformed people in the dugout (and probably more in the clubhouse) who aren’t allowed to play, that’s why you have to submit an active roster every game. that and I distinctly remember non-active roster players in the dugout (szcur, the guy with the googles) during the World Series. it’s more idle curiosity on if there’s an explicit rule or not. Don’t think there’s a limit on number of coaches? Is there on, say, bullpen catchers?

Is that true though? Like is there a specific rule that someone like Ben Brown can be in the bullpen (saw him walking out, presumably while rehabbing, a couple weeks ago), but an undressed prospect can't? Don't they always bring out the first round draft picks for signing and batting practice and stuff?

Yeah I'd probably lean that way. There's part of me that still thinks if you find a team that puts 'Team Controlled Starting 2B/3B' type value on either one of them, you pull the trigger and get equivalent pitching or outfield value. Dansby/Nico/Bregman are all here through 2030, and are all still clearly superior players. While on one hand it's good to have a reasonably effective backup for an infield made up of over 30 guys, even with Dansby's injury this year there have been 168 infield PAs going to guys not named Busch/Nico/Dansby/Bregman, so if you can get swap one of them (or both, honestly), for an actual outfield bat or SP, you do that and live with Triantos/Murray/league minimum veteran util guy in limited duty.