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  1. squally1313
    Lot of potential comps mentioned in the article but I haven't really found one I love yet. Lorenzo Cain - maxed out at 16 HRs and 30 SBs, there's a very real chance PCA eclipses both of those this year, but Cain was much better at putting the ball in play/getting on base Kiermeyer - PCA is a better hitter and faster JBJ - PCA is a better defender and much faster Ellsbury - Just a different hitter and probably faster than PCA. Only had double digit HRs twice (including 32 in a 9.5 fWAR year), but career 13.7% K rate Granderson - Has more power and less speed/defense than PCA, really more of a power hitter with some stolen bases early in his career Sizemore - Wanted this one really bad but he had pretty consistent double digit walk rates. Pretty insane how short his run was, just four years with over 4 fWAR Andruw Jones - Better defender, better hitter.
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    Wait wait wait, you’re saying it’s a good thing to not optimize every single playing time decision for every single game?
  3. squally1313
    Appreciate all that. And I think ultimately we're agreed. Right now, if we needed to win one game/series, he can take Ethan Roberts job. Ideally in a month-six weeks, at his current progression pace, he's a Colin Rea upgrade (or, let's be honest, he's a replacement for an injured starter). Bigger picture, not directed at you, the team is 16-10 (16-8 in America, but they all count) against a historically hard schedule and the conversation at times is dedicated to making changes to the major league roster. Let them keep cooking.
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    Out of curiosity, how does your dominating in zone/his low BABIP is justified line up with the xwOBA, average EV, and Barrel % all being middle of the pack for AAA pitchers?
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    'except for a bit of control issues' is a really nice way of saying he's walking almost 6 minor league hitters per 9 innings. And that's before the .200 BABIP and 96.4% LOB%. I hope he continues showing improvement and becomes a free upgrade to the major league team this summer, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that the current version of Horton is 'being stretched out' away from being a noticeable upgrade to the rotation.
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    I mean, they all suck. Thankfully the rest of the offense is amazing and we're getting just enough pitching to win games against tough teams. Try to find a hot hand while Shaw (hopefully) gets right, but just slot whoever plays 3B at the bottom of the order and live with it for the time being.
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    Can someone do the white Michael Vick video game face thing but with Griffey
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    I'm optimistically hoping that Shaw to AAA was more for Shaw's benefit than it was to maximize the output at the major league level. The team was (and is) doing just fine offensively through a very tough stretch, and no realistic metric would have told them that Berti/Workman/40 year old Turner at third was going to spark some huge improvement. There's a bunch of examples of guys getting a taste, getting sent back down, and coming back better for it. Now, do I wish Shaw wasn't 1/13 so far in Iowa so we can fast track this process? Sure, for my own personal benefit and enjoyment mostly. But he's walking and not striking out, so it seems like the approach is there. And the Cubs are still doing fine. Baseball is weird. The Cubs were 5-0 in games that Workman started. One guy just isn't going to matter much unless it's early April Carson Kelly or late April PCA or all the time Kyle Tucker.
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    I will trade the 170 wRC in high A for the 170 wRC in MLB every day, personally.
  10. squally1313
    Man this terrible roster that Jed put together is pretty good at beating elite teams.
  11. squally1313
    Counsell going to Hodge here, after he pitched last night, when Pressly hasn't pitched in two days, is certainly meaningful.
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    While you could see maybe some sort of piggyback situation in the two rotation spots for Rea/Brown/Horton, realistically if Horton keeps performing you're going to see him in a multi inning relief role and any starting pitching improvements are going to come externally.
  13. squally1313
    97 win pace with a strength of schedule of .635 (second highest is .544).
  14. squally1313
    The name I keep seeing is Matt Sauer, who isn't even listed on the ML roster per FG's roster resource. There's a couple random arms that they could send down for him, but the two guys listed with options (Casparius and Dreyer) were also two of the three bullpen pitchers who didn't pitch last night. If we can get to Sauer (or whoever it is) early, could see them punting on this one vs thinking about using Scott or Banda three in four days, Vesia again after 27 last night, etc. We've got Pressly, Merryweather, Thielbar, and Palencia all with at least two days rest and an off day tomorrow. Hodge can probably go again if needed. It's the Dodgers, so it's never going to be easy, but with Boyd throwing well and everything above it's about as easy as you're going to get.
  15. squally1313
    He’s a superstar?
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    (It’s Matt Shaw)
  17. squally1313
    Setting aside you taking one sentence from his deep, deep dive into Suzuki's improvements this year and the reasons behind it to do the Same Exact Thing You Always Do, it's ironically very funny that after years of at least generally thoughtful analysis and differentiation between players of different skill levels down to the lowest levels of the minor leagues, you now just default to "actually all these players are good and you're an horsefeathers who loves ownership for claiming otherwise."
  18. squally1313
    It's insane that Reinsdorf, Wirtz, Ricketts just all got comfortable going to a streaming model at the exact same time that the teams became (with the Cubs being a slight exception) completely uninspired and irrelevant at best, historically bad at worst. Like, yeah, is it a travesty that you just can't watch any Chicago team besides the Bears without having to pay extra for it? Of course. Are people just going to get used to not watching them? Also, very much yes.
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    Series win
  21. squally1313
    We basically won a game a few days ago because the padres didn’t run the contact play against a drawn in infield. having said that, it does feel like it doesn’t work more than it works having said that, that may just be because every time it doesn’t work like 11 people in here complain about it
  22. squally1313
    Screwed around on these leaderboards for a few seconds. Our boy Chris Morel has a .278 batting average and .739 OPS. Not bad, right? .500 BABIP. Christ.
  23. squally1313
    He last pitched on 4/13 and only threw to 9 batters, after 24 on 4/4 and 21 on 3/29 so he should be ready to go. I'm a little worried about Burnes being able to pitch in these conditions a lot better than Rea, but to be fair I'm still picturing the dominant Burnes from a couple years back, not the just-very-good pitcher he was in 2023-2024 (or the bad pitcher he's been so far this year). Basically, hoping that Wicks isn't just called up to be mop up duty in a blow out.
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    Wicks up, Little down
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    lol just realized when you get rid of the minimum PA requirements, both Tucker and PCA fall behind the mighty Carson Kelly, who is 8th in baseball (PCA 9th), despite having 40 PAs to PCA's 89. Insane.
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