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Good points by you and @muntjack. Moment of frustration at counsell seemingly escaping all the criticism for a team with a ton of blown leads late and sloppy base running and defense, which is noticeably different than how things went last year. Which is mostly just frustration in general. This is a bad run, man.

If this doesn’t spell the end of this whole neris as the closer no matter what thing…between that and tauchman being seemingly entrenched at the lead off spot, I’m not very impressed by counsell so far this year.

Thankfully Dexter was also a really good blood splatter analyst.

To me, it's really not the FA and trading markets that cause concern. Sure, Mancini/Hosmer/Barnhart are all memes by now, but obviously no one thinks that finding different versions of those moves was going to make some huge difference. You're talking like, 300 PAs total. In terms of mid-season work, he stuck with the old core, in my opinion, as long as he should have, and then sold them off for some pretty solid prospects and watched them all regress almost immediately. When the team become relatively competitive again last year, he went out and got the best hitter acquired on the market, who then was pretty mediocre. In terms of his big offseason signings, Dansby remains the SS with the most fWAR since the beginning of 2023 of that group that was available. Shota has essentially matched Yamamoto so far this year. Taillon has been worth 2.1 fWAR in 200 innings since we signed him....not great, hardly some disaster. Bellinger was a good signing before 2023, obviously, remains to be seen going forward. Suzuki is probably...on the fence right now, but a lot of that is injury based. For me, the concern to date isn't his performance in the market, it's that he's had to spread the money so thin to cover so many spots because the player development was frankly garbage for like 5 years there. It's starting to show results (Steele, Hoerner, Brown maybe?), but having to go out and pay market rates as often as we have keeps you from committing $40m/year on a true stud. The current crop is good, according to everyone. But...they haven't shown it yet.

Did you not see the other tweet

Yeah I get Robert has the extra year of control vs the Soto situation but he's also giving up over 100 points of OBP (and some slugging) and no amount of defensive metrics are going to overcome that. The price wouldn't be light, and would almost definitely include PCA, but that package seems heavy. Wanted to toss in an idea about getting Moncada back in this deal if you're going to go big, but it appears he's actually totally broken, so nevermind.

Eh. A year ago right now PCA had an .880 OPS in AAA. We still haven't had to 'clear a spot' for him. Caissie is at .866 right now, with much bigger defensive questions. Alcantara has a .305 OBP in AA. Under your theory we should have cleared a spot for Brennen Davis a few years back. I hope these kids force some tough decisions, don't get me wrong. But trying to salary dump Ian Happ who 1. isn't overpaid, 2. has a NTC, and 3. is already giving you above average production just because those guys are making lists seems pretty rash.

Ohtani got traded during the regular season last year?

The last three NL Champions have had 84, 87, and 88 wins. Would you not enjoy that because they didn't win 100 games?

Cheap = Not the Dodgers, come on, you guys know this by now

The last time Guerrero had a monthly wRC below 93 (excepting the 7 games he played in July of 2020) was his rookie year. The guy hits, a lot, pretty much all the time. Also, equivocating the Cubs and Blue Jays situation just because they have the same record/playoff probabilities right now seems like a real shortcut to a predetermined conclusion. And just saw the Bertz said most of what I wanted to say, better, so, yeah, just go with that.

Why

Well he would have. That is a sweep from this terrible garbage team.

Seiyas got this

Yeah I’m not convinced the external options (and costs associated with them) are that much likelier to be the solution vs internal options, but you’ve got little smyly and leiter as lefty specialists and that is at least one too many of those.

Little is basically still a guy you want to throw against lefties. Righties have like an 860 OPS against him. Wes has been significantly better, though I do think there’s some growing pains in this transition to high usage short reliever.

Update the log! (We’re still definitely going to win)

Think he was talking more about Happ/PCA/Suzuki/Belli/Busch (not to mention tauchman, though he’s kinda gone back to just being a good backup)

Mariners gave up 4 prospects, 3 of their top 5, which slotted into the Reds system as their #1, #6, and #15 after the trade. Noelvi Marte was #18 overall, the next guy was #93. Luzurdo gives you an extra year but probably a little less of the shine Castillo had, but you're still looking at like...Horton+Ballesteros+more?

Cubs offense the last 7 days: .240/.323/.435 .334 wOBA (10th) 119 wRC (9th) 1.3 fWAR (9th) (Nobody look at sample sizes bigger than that)

We gave up one run in over 4 innings and neris gave up one baserunner and then picked him off? If you’re expecting more than what our bullpen just did, you’re going to hate cheering for any baseball team.

4.2, 2 hits, 1 run tonight

lol get the horsefeathers out of here you weird Terrance gore wannabe loser

-The cubs message board favorite player has a brutal error that leads to an early deficit that the team makes up through fun hitting and good bullpen work -well this one doesn’t count

What part of his numbers are unacceptable to you