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He's also a fifth outfielder in a world where Happ, Seiya, Cody, and PCA all exist. He's fine.
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Palehose open to offers for Robert & Crochet?
squally1313 replied to spaincubsfan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This is a weird vendetta. Can you guys just bets on 2025 fWAR, PCA v Robert and call it a day? -
I think outfield represents the most obvious avenue for getting an elite bat, and I think if we go that route Bellinger pretty quickly becomes the odd man out. Now, not a terrible position to be in, a very overpriced back-up-ish outfielder. But definitely hurts your long term earning potential for a guy who's going to be a free agent at 30 at the latest. And I'm fine with the 10 guys for 9 spots thing, he still provides value. But we would need to pay a Vlad or a Tucker or a Skubal and so I'd prefer to free up that cash.
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Dreaming about: Bellinger opting out Signing Chapman to 4/100 or whatever Paredes for Tucker Whatever prospects it takes for Skubal
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You can't argue both of these things. Launch angle matters, his is worse this year, and all of his actual and expected statistics are down pretty considerably because of it. Setting that aside, his defense rates out as worse, after being on track to spend more time in the outfield than last year, and his baserunning is worse. An actual 4.4 fWAR player (his results last year) cost you more than what we got him for, but it's totally fair to be disappointed that he's got to outperform the rest of his year to get to 2 fWAR this year. He seems like a good dude, he earned the contract and his right to make the decision. But from a team building perspective, I would like to free up his $27m and use it elsewhere.
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in the last two weeks. If you look at the whole month PCA has been the 9th best offensive player in baseball.
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lol PCA has the 8th highest SB total for a Cub this century. Juan Pierre, Eric Young x2, Hoerner last year, Patterson, Campana, Theriot.
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Yep, and from someone who probably adds more value outside of his slash line than any other offensive player in baseball.
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In one of those 'you can't predict baseball' things, the Cubs 41 runs in a 3 game stretch is the most in baseball this year. Taking the lead from a similar offensive juggernaut, the Oakland As.
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Yeah it might be. In the situation where we're still 'going for it' in 5 days, I don't think you let him take the ball. Kilian and Wicks are starters, you're doing them a disservice taking them out of their routine and making them go through a truncated warm up to enter into a dirty inning. If we're out of it....at this point I'd still probably vote for bringing them both up, cutting Hendricks, and going 6 man rotation the rest of the year. We've done right by Hendricks in getting him to his 10 years (and he had that one solid stretch mid-season). He's not going to get to 100 wins this year. Free up the roster spot and keep the lines of communication open going into the offseason. Spring training try out, some sort of coaching role, etc.
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Giving a hat tip to your 'the season is effectively over' post from earlier today for jinxing this one into existence.
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Obviously a lot can happen between now and Tuesday or whatever, but when the earlier discussion about whether this was his last season was going on, I was thinking about something like winning the next 4 games before his next turn, and whether this was his last game. By then you'll have Kilian and Wicks as options and the extra September spots. You could bring up one and put Hendricks back in mop up mode. Or you could get real aggressive and bring up both and cut Kyle.
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lol tauchman against a lefty why not
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thank you
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Happ please remember you're in Pittsburgh and take a little edge off here.
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this has to be the most RBIs we've gotten out of our 9 hitter ever right?
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holy shiiit
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Oh there's the low strike that wasn't called for Hendricks like 5 times in the first
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Watching on my phone and obviously the default is to not make an out on the base paths if your run doesn't matter, but given the success we've had stealing bases Belli getting to third with a PR ready to go might have been nice.
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Not the goat
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We're long past the point of moral victories meaning anything, but good for these guys.
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Bethancourt has produced 0.5 fWAR in 444 PAs dating back to last year. It's not a black hole, but I'd also be fine with him down in Iowa mentoring Ballesteros if we find a better option.
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I believe he's gotten at least one hit in every start except one for the Cubs, which, given what we're used to, is certainly a pleasant/positive surprise. Also 4 for 5(!!) in throwing runners out. He's probably still Bad (the anti-Paredes, if I may), but definitely fun so far.
