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I think he’s a good, not elite hitter. Agreed he’s been very unlucky. But he simply can not play defense. He’s tried, it doesn’t work.
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The amount of bending over backwards people do for Chris Morel, who has played in 308 Major League Baseball games and accumulated less than 3 wins total in his career, is truly outrageous. Maybe by the time he gets to 1500 PAs he can finally do what Happ, Swanson, Hoerner do annually.
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The continued calls to trade our best outfielder that is signed for 2 more years after this are so insane. He’s good!
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Why trade the dude who has been productive his entire career to clear a spot for Shaw when you can just trade the atrocious fielder who is ‘just about to put it all together’ but has been worth like 2 wins in a season and a half.
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What’s the plan to replace the guy with a 2.99 ERA in 80 innings that we control for the next two years? I’m fine with trades, but don’t think anyone wants a full scale rebuild so making sure we still have a rotation next year that is playoff worthy.
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Gross
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Trading Ian Happ will make us better next year
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Yes, agreed. Devils advocate, because why not, after this year: Dansby: 5/125m turner: 9/245m
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You act like trading away the valuable pieces of the team doesn’t hurt the long term prospects of team success.
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Things definitely do need to change. Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner are 2nd and 3rd on the team in offensive fWAR. We have a third baseman who leads the team in PAs and has given us 0.2 fWAR. Cody Bellinger has given us 1.0 fWAR and is outpacing his xwOBA by 28 points. Our catchers are an abomination. PCA has a 48 wRC. The bullpen is an obvious disaster. I would focus on those things. Happ has been a weird whipping boy for a while now, I guess it's Nico's turn now too? But they aren't the problem.
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Do you think you could get players better than what Happ and Hoerner are projected to give you the next two years? Ian is on pace for about 3 WAR, Hoerner about 3.5.
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Do you guys have a preferred Hawks blogger/writer that actually analyzes all these moves? Used to read/subscribe to the Committed Indian pretty religiously back in the good years but those guys have all filtered away and now that they're finally trying again would like to get back into it, but feel like you guys do a better job breaking this stuff down than anywhere else I've found.
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They looked pretty dangerous the first 15 minutes or so or have been pretty uninspired since. Obviously losing balogun doesn’t help. But open it up a little bit here.
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I think you still have the roster crunch everyone wanted them to take care of in the offseason. While I assume people were hoping that the major league roster would perform better and it would be a logical conclusion to trade from the farm and bolster the major league roster....you could still do that in the next month or so if you're picking up talent with multiple years of control. Dumping major league talent (almost all of it with multiple years) means you're either making the logjam at AAA worse or you're back to getting a bunch of teenagers and relying on guys like PCA, Caissie, Shaw, etc who realistically aren't going to be any better in 2025-2026 than the guys you already have.
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Choosing to omit his most recent two years of (good) performance but focusing on the (less good) stuff that happened before then and earlier this year is certainly a choice.
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Steele shows first sign of Cubs fire in 2024
squally1313 replied to Javy Is Still A Cub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I have no problem with Steele doing what he did. Wanting Craig Counsell, the dorkiest baseball player of all time and someone who was ejected 3 times a year in Milwaukee, to channel Lou Piniella or whatever and thinking that will somehow magically help is dumb. Jokes about trauma and therapy and jock straps are especially dumb. -
But you're still wrong. Heyward had a .668 OPS in a much friendlier offensive environment in his first two years (79 wRC) while playing a corner outfield position (to his credit, at a mostly elite level defensively). Dansby has a .717 OPS with the Cubs, which is a 99 wRC, playing the most important position in baseball besides catcher (I think?). Sure, a 99 wRC is basically the definition of league average (or 'MID', I guess), but stripping out everything else he brings to the table (he's added the third most defensive value in baseball since the beginning of last year, 29th most in baserunning) is a really lazy and bad way of trying to judge a baseball player given the information available. And again, he's been a much better hitter than Heyward was.
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Yeah the 2022 Braves and their....7th in baseball wRC was the key to Dansby being a good hitter. That explains how terrible and unproductive he was last year.
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No one is denying that Dansby is having a very subpar year by his standards but when you include 'decidedly average player' in reference to a guy who was 8th in offensive fWAR the year before he hit free agency, 14th in fWAR over the 3 years prior to free agency, and 21st the year after he signed his contract, you're losing a little credibility in your analysis. Like, he has the 31st highest AAV contract in baseball and has been something like the 45th best player in baseball (hitters and pitchers) since he signed. This is not the disaster that everyone is making it out to be.
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It's been 3 months, and in June he bested his career OPS by 25 points. Maybe we can pump the brakes just a little bit on the Downfall of Dansby Swanson
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Dansby has a 120 wRC in June. It was bad before that, but weird time to pile on him.
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Ian Happ sucks so much
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103.6 mph off the bat from Dansby, 560 xBA hey, PCA, good to see you
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Turned the game on, nice walk from Happ, line drive single from morel, Dansby misses a hanger and then squares up probably the most perfect 6-4-3 DP I’ve ever seen.
