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Noon Steele start is a nice surprise

Nice little Butt-Shot matchup here

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.

🤷‍♂️ 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.

They are 7th in runs as a team and Saturday was the first time all year they got shut out. Whatever your definition of ‘often’ is, I’m very much a believer that it isn’t ’disproportionately often’ also, separately, Dansby has been pretty comfortably our best player since the day he signed. Think he deserves a little more leeway before we bench him for Nick madrigal alright, going to try and be done with me doing me things. Go cubs.

Yeah I can’t even remember the last time they were shut down by a Mets starter and then scored three runs late off their bullpen

lol, TT:

Really like TTs suggestion on the article integration if it's possible to do so without screwing up SEO goals. My experience has been that I wasn't able to replicate the 'Active Topics' approach from the old site, and therefore I've just gotten used to going to the same 4-5 forums (Cubs, Minors, General, Other Sports, Social), and if we pushed all the articles into their own subforum, I would be way less inclined to come across them, and I think it would be an additional barrier between attracting new readers and turning them into frequent NSBB visitors (which, to my understanding, is the point). There's some great work being done with these articles and I occasionally feel bad when they drop while the conversation is already going and there isn't any direct interaction because people just stay in the general threads. And I'm sure, logistically, that's a big driver in keeping the lights on here. So I'm fine where they are...I'm team Big Thread, but putting myself in Brock's shoes I would probably continue to encourage more threads as immediate reaction to news dropping and then trying to incorporate the long form articles into there. Won't say anything to Hunter's last point besides that I disagree and happy to elaborate on why but figure that might do more harm than good to your overall goals here.

Which was over 5 injury marred seasons ago

Both league average in Z swing (65.2% for Dansby, 65% for Happ, league average is 65.2%) and above average in O-swing (22.4% for Happ, 24.9% for Dansby, 27.7% league average)

I mean, he was terrible last year and hasn't been healthy in like 6 years. A different budget situation, maybe, but the track record just isn't there.

https://defector.com/the-therapeutic-value-of-remembering-some-guys This could probably go in a few different threads (or maybe none!), but what a solid, gut wrenching read about one of my favorite hobbies, Remembering Some Guys.

Not at all gospel, but the trade value site has Miller as more valuable than everyone in the Cubs organization besides: Steele, PCA, Horton, Shaw, and Morel. The implication is that Nico wouldn't be enough by himself. Given the Athletics general approach to everything, they'd want prospects (but seemingly be ok with giving up the most electric player on their team who is locked up for four more years after this?). It's probably something like Alcantara and then either Rojas or Triantos. This is for a guy who has been absurdly dominant in 12 innings this year but also kinda....average? in 33 innings last year. Also, yes, too early. I wouldn't mind seeing a little more Alzolay in the middle innings to get him right as I think he's clearly still the best option long term. It'd be nice if we could get some consistency in the rotation and then have one or two of the Brown/Wes/Smyly/etc just fully focus on becoming a 1-2 inning monster. But that might just not be in the cards this year.

Not even close to caring about what the standings look like, but saw this was a close/late game and turned it on to see Trevor Megill (who gave up about 3 HR/9 with us) easily throwing 100 in the top of the 9th and then Jason Adam coming into close and realizing he's given the Rays 130 innings of 2.14 ERA since leaving the Cubs. That's after last years whipping boy Leiter picks up the win, $100m man Edwin Diaz gets the loss, and Hector "we should cut him" Neris gets the save. Bullpens are hard man. Anyways, real interesting play/ump call here. 2nd/3rd with one out in the bottom of the 9th, swings through strike 3 in the dirt but it gets by the catcher, after the ball is past the catcher the hitters follow through gets the catcher in the back of the head. Doesn't really slow him down and the result is a run scoring and the hitter getting to first. Ump calls the play dead, batter out, runners return to their bases.

We…probably didn’t deserve that one

Well if it makes you feel any better, alzolay usually just skipped the walk and went directly to a home run

You just can not do that

Ooo baby

It’s the 5% K rate

Was shocked at how low the over/under was and hammered the over because I am an intelligent gambler. But guessing their lineup is having similar struggles. Either way, still looked great.

This is not really an ideal time for happ to have been pretty terrible for a couple weeks in a row now. or, said differently, this would be a really nice time to have Ian Happ go on one of those stretches where he carries the offense by himself

Apparently Chicago is just incapable of having two simultaneously good baseball teams

Our current best offensive weapon was our fourth outfielder to start the year and it's a road series. I will absolutely be happy with a split.

is there someone we can call to move up the all star break to the first week of may