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Everything posted by squally1313

  1. squally1313
    The worst player in baseball history comes through
  2. squally1313
    Maybe Palencia is a thing? And by thing I mean someone we can ride for a few weeks before he loses all sense of the strike zone.
  3. squally1313
    Why are we sending him down to AAA
  4. squally1313
    I want PCA to be good for obvious reasons. I also want him to be good because a fully realized, cocky as hell PCA would be so, so much fun.
  5. squally1313
    PCA, RBI Merchant
  6. squally1313
    Are we talking about the guy with a 3.32 FIP so far this year who just gave up all of 2 ERs in 4.2 innings?
  7. squally1313
    Dansby gets the day off, Madrigal slides into the lineup at second. Bit of a double edged sword there.
  8. squally1313
    I also agree that the quality of this board correlates heavily to the amount of runs the Cubs score
  9. squally1313
    Would they still have the best record if you gave all the other teams wins in games where the bullpen blew a lead
  10. squally1313
    lol and we guarantee a road series split with this injury decimated roster. Maybe we’re going to be ok
  11. squally1313
    Very good Craig/yency
  12. squally1313
    Unfortunately, given that the Mets have scored the same amount of runs this series as the cubs, that means their offense is also historic garbage and everyone should be cut or benched or both, and so you can’t even really enjoy this shota start because they’re so bad. (am I doing this right)
  13. squally1313
    Correlation =/= causation
  14. squally1313
    What if morel is actually bad at third
  15. squally1313
    Anyone else having marquee issues? Or just me
  16. squally1313
    Bored, he only has 39 PAs this year, how hard can this be. At the plate with runners in scoring position, less than two outs: 4/2, guy on third, 1 out: single 4/2, guys on first and second, 1 out: 2 RBI double 4/2, loaded, 1 out: FC, out at home 4/2, guy on second, 0 out: groundout to third (worth noting he obviously starter here and this a blowout) 4/3, 1st/3rd, 1 out: GB to third, thrown out at home 4/5: 1st/2nd, 1 out: RBI single 4/15: 1st/3rd, 1 out: GIDP 4/19: loaded, 1 out: FC 5-4, runner scores 4/25: 2nd, 0 outs: single to second(?), guy gets to third 4/29: 1st/3rd, 1 out: FC 5-4, runner scores 4/30: 1st/3rd, 1 out: walk 4/30: 2nd, 0 out: 6-3, runner advances to third Key takeaway for me: no strike outs.
  17. squally1313
    Yeah at the risk of trying to emulate Reddit, which is probably never a good idea, maybe you consider a weekly 'general offseason' thread?
  18. squally1313
    Welp, per gameday he threw one pitch in the fourth (a fly out) and then got pulled. Which is a little weird.
  19. squally1313
    Steele pretty mediocre through 3 (6 hits - 5 singles and a double, 3 earned runs, a wild pitch, but also 4 Ks and a walk), but probably most importantly he's thrown 62 pitches and is back out there for the 4th inning.
  20. squally1313
    I think in modern baseball there's a lot of value in having a guy on the bench with a single digit K rate. We complain all the time about putting runners in scoring position with less than two outs and not converting, the single most important aspect of converting to me is just....not striking out. You can't trust Canario for that, you definitely can't trust Wisdom, Bote has dropped below a 20% rate in AAA but ran a 35% rate the last time he was with the Cubs in 2022. Mastro is over 20% at any level the last couple years. It's been an ugly 35 ABs for Madrigal, but he was plenty valuable last year and he's not going to rock a .206 BABIP because no one does.
  21. squally1313
    To push back on this a little though, in my head all three of those discussions overlap. We clearly had room for one of the Boras guys, so debating the relative merits of Bellinger vs Chapman makes sense to me. And a wrinkle in that discussion is whether you thought Morel could play a reasonable third base (or the difference between a mediocre defensive third baseman and an elite one (Morel v Chapman)). I totally understand the desired intentions of splitting up topics in terms of attracting new visitors. And I would guess most of the mega thread frustration from the guys at the top was based around the offseason. But for me the offseason discussion centers around roster construction and putting together a puzzle based on guys we have, guys we want, money available, etc. Having a separate thread about each puzzle piece without a spot to debate the differences in them seems like a step back.
  22. squally1313
    Noon Steele start is a nice surprise
  23. squally1313
    Nice little Butt-Shot matchup here
  24. squally1313
    Alternatively, he was the 6th most valuable offensive player in baseball from 2022-2023, and is 10th if you include this year. I'd consider maybe deferring to his approach because it seems to have been incredibly successful.
  25. squally1313
    🤷‍♂️ it’s fWAR. Slightly above average hitter (you can call him league average, 102 wRC), good not great baserunning, what has been overall elite defense at the most important defensive position. I think you certainly want to complement that skill set with guys who .300 or 40 dongs, but it’s still plenty valuable.
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