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That's how the new rules are written, unfortunately.
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Yes. 2.5 fWAR, 116 wRC 0.5 fWAR, 89 wRC since May 28, so...no, probably not. Double digit walk rate and a .180 BABIP would suggest signs for a turnaround, but actual production wise, no. In 111 games he put up a 2.4 fWAR. Obviously we'll gloss over 2023, because it's just the most recent full years worth of data, how important could that be 'well' was 10th best hitter in baseball, 11th best overall player in baseball. Just decent, I guess. Above average hitter in June and July, terrible August.
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I don't really know what your definition of 'average' is, and when you say 'few' that's also confusing because in June and July he was an above average hitter (106 wRC and 102 wRC).
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Don't strawman this. This isn't the Isaac Paredes Appreciation thread. You wanted him benched for an injured guy and a second baseman with a combined 150 PAs above AA. Everyone disagreed with you and told you it was a bad idea. He's struggling. He's still our best option going forward.
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On one hand, yes. On the other hand, PCA is definitely doing a star turn.
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It's a tough spot. 8 guys in the pen and three of them pitched over 20 pitches yesterday. Of Hodge, Smyly, Lopez, Miller, Roberts, there's a collective 2 appearances of 2 innings this month, everything else has been shorter. So then you're asking 5 of them to get 8 (or 7 plus). I could see an argument for asking Smyly to empty the tank and hoping we could ride the offense in Washington until we get the extra pitcher up. But it was also 3-1 going into the second and he pitched semi-well enough to deserve getting out of the second 3-3.
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If I'm googling right, which is he was scratched on a Sunday game after going 0/11 and CBS is implying that was related to the shoulder injury, I've got him at a 126 wRC for the year before that point. That's pretty good, right? Or were you only wanting to talk about the 8 games he played for the Cubs.
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Deal! He's a good hitter who's clearly dealing with an injury. Our prior third baseman kinda just did this all year anyways, so I'm used to it.
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for fucks sake
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Can we get 7 innings out of Smyly/Lopez/Hodge/Miller/Roberts? Day off tomorrow, Shota Friday.
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Just a reminder that Isaac Paredes, comfortably above average hitter for the last three years and with three remaining years of team control, is four months older than Christopher 'well we just need to give him consistent ABs while he develops' Morel
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Just like they should have done a month ago for PCA and Amaya am I right
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He's grading out really well defensively on FG, which must be from 'stolen' strikes or if the blame for the running game is falling on the pitcher (as referenced on the broadcast). The offense is pretty much gone by this point but still runs into a home run every couple weeks.
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One run and twenty pitches. Well done.
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Cubs up 1-0 early as everyone expected
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Day game after a night game is pretty standard. Bethancourt has also been Unreal in his very small sample size here.
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Do you think it matters to someone like Juan Soto? Genuinely asking. There's some part of me that thinks a pitch of 'we can give you the DH spot once or twice a week and a day off when needed' would be appealing, and then the other side is that the Cubs planning to give 135ish games to Happ/PCA/Suzuki/Belli/Soto/Busch becomes an issue in terms of a Dansby-type mindset or if he's got certain records in mind he's trying to attack. Most likely it's just 'who is writing the biggest check' and I don't think someone like Soto would be concerned about 'winning a starting spot'. But I feel like it's somewhat analogous to a running back room situation and some players would bristle at the redundancy even when it's team-beneficial.
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I've also spent most of the season just assuming the Braves would figure out a playoff spot and spent most of August hoping for a Padres/DBacks swoon, neither of which happened. But...have you seen their lineup recently? Albies, Riley, and Acuna all out, Matt Olson struggling to stay about 100 wRC. It's basically Ozuna and some bizarre late career resurgences from Whit Merrifield and Travis D'Arnaud. They picked up Soler and are voluntarily playing him in right(!). Gio Urshela, released by the Tigers(!), is their starting 3B now that Riley is out. It's pretty dire. The pitching is good but it is so, so old. I don't really know how Chris Sale went from 2020: 0 innings 2021: 63 innings total 2022: 16 innings total 2023: 109 innings total 2024: 148 innings and somehow the Cy Young favorite? TLDR: This is not the 2023 Braves
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5th best pitcher in baseball since he was called up by fWAR. Chris Sale by a comfortable margin and then Skubal makes sense, Christopher Sanchez and Michael King are a bit of a shock. Best ERA since he was called up, just getting a little lucky on stranding runners thus far.
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Fall of the house of Busch-er
squally1313 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
What's the story behind why it was 'necessary' for the Cardinals to trade Carlson? -
Hey, if the Cubs can be historically unique outliers in blowing leads after the 8th inning or failing to get runners in from scoring position, why can't they go and make a run on a 3.3% playoff chance?
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WW. Go get Skenes tomorrow.
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Kinda want to see Cruz time up a fastball and shatter the exit velocity records
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Some loud contact what seems like good stuff.
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102 from palencia with some movement (admittedly after the pirates catcher turned around 101 at the knees and almost hit it out)
