squally1313
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I'm not triggered, I'm just not going to get 'concerned' about a 27 year old who (likely, not doing research all the way back) never cracked a bad system's top 10 and has pitched badly since being called up 100 innings ago. If he's good, good for them I guess. Teams make a bunch of these trades every year and find success occasionally. Our $2m backup outfielder has an 820 OPS, Ryan Rolison has given us 35 innings of pretty decent bullpen work. Normally they don't because bad players will continue to be bad. Andrew Vaughn was the #3 overall pick. Kyle Harrison was the top prospect for the Red Sox 2 years ago. Colton Gordon has given up 27 home runs in 95 career MLB innings and hasn't had a minor league ERA under 3 since he pitched in high A as a 23 year old 4 years ago. These are not the same things.
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So they can just turn whoever into an above average (or "stud") pitcher? They traded for a reliever with a 4.21 ERA from the Athletics last month and since then he's put up a 6.52 and -0.6 fWAR in 10 innings for them. Why didn't they make him good?
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McCullers is owed $7m the rest of the deal, which is essentially nothing Are we really going to be worried about a 27 year old who was the 16th best prospect in a bad system before putting up -0.4 fWAR in 95 innings becoming a 'stud pitcher they can control for years'?
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Now that the All Star Game is over and no one is playing any baseball for a couple days, can we get a couple pitchers and/or a Mike Trout
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Going through the offensive starters is a little discouraging on an individual basis. Without getting too under the hood, Happ, Suzuki, Busch, Bregman, Dansby are all down pretty significantly in xwOBA compared to last year. Nico is obviously struggling but his expected metrics seem fine, so not super worried there unless he tries to force his way out of it and makes it worse. Obviously the overall results are very good, and while we're outperforming our overall xwOBA by a little bit (5 points), we're still good. 4th in wOBA, 9th in xwOBA. While some of that is just The PCA Show (and there's even more of that when you talk overall fWAR)....I think what also helps is just how there's not really a weak spot anywhere right now. Last year on July 13 you had 232 PAs of Matt Shaw, 131 Justin Turner PAs, and 103 Berti PAs where they were all negative players. This year, Ballesteros is sitting at 0.0 through 175 PAs, but everyone else with a meaningful amount of PAs has contributed at least half a win, and 8 guys are over 1. Outside of Nico no one is really getting unlucky, so it's not just a matter of waiting for the bounces, but there's a reasonable hope for at least some of those guys listed above to just start hitting like they used to so that we can absorb injuries or the inevitable PCA dip. Anyways, get pitching.
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I mean, the stat was wrong because the record is 19 more Ks than Happ had as of today. He’s fifth in Ks this year. It’s absolutely a concern, he doesn’t have the other skills to maintain a 30%+ K rate successfully. It’s reasonable at this point in his career to expect a gradual decline and we’re not locked in for a long term deal and he’s still productive in his present form, but it’s a big jump that you’d like to see go down in the second half.
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Are we sure that’s accurate? Schwarber has 19 more Ks this year.
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91+ win pace at the break. Plus the brewers pitching situation is suddenly looking pretty precarious. buy buy buy
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Probably missing the actual conversation but Kyle Harrison to the IL with forearm tightness.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-10-26
squally1313 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Woah. Sounds like a great day for me to go to my first Iowa cubs game. -
He walked off gingerly, was a pretty easy double so it wasn't like some awkward slide. Seemed ready to go back out to the field (was on the top step) when they stopped and conferred and then threw Dean in there instead. Hoping it was just a bunch of caution given the 3-2 lead with 6 outs to go.
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Good series win
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He blocked the back foot again. I guess you can just do that.
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They’re going to get out of it but what thoroughly unimpressive defense this inning
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I’m not going to pretend to know this rule but his foot definitely ‘blocked’ Nico’s foot from making contact with the base
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Damnit
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Ok ok
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lol that's why baseball is the best/worst. he squares up that ball just a smidge more and PCA is out by 15 feet at home, everyone is trashing berry, suzuki, probably still bregman, counsell for the concept.
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lol Pete either barrels his pull fly balls over the fence or hits them so poorly they land in front of the RF. in my litany of his rankings across baseball, i made sure to omit his .487(!!!!) BABIP since June 1.
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'Thielbar getting loose' Did we find another Thielbar?
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Yeah it wasn't a perfect analogy. The USMNT can't go out and buy actual elite players. Pulisic had a bad game but the idea that he'd be, even in form, the best player on a semi final, much less a championship team, is laughable.
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Yeah I went down a rabbit hole like a month ago and the people that follow the Angels closely (which, why) will say he's 100% not going anywhere. Would be a fascinating trade though. His contract was super underwater going into this year with all the injuries, but he's stayed healthy and been incredible. He's, I believe, got Bregman's exact contract the rest of the way, which is a big load to carry especially when Nico and PCA kick in. You'd almost consider throwing more prospect value than necessary towards the Angels to get them to pick up some of the contract. But it solves a corner outfield spot and basically locks up the offense for the next few years (as being really, really good), so whatever resources are left would just be 100% pitching.
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Dumb analogy coming in from a soccer idiot: Pulisic on the world stage is like Ian Happ. Perfectly fine player, will go down as one of the better ones in the team's history, but if he's your best guy (like Happ was for a couple years in the early 2020s), you're never actually going to win horsefeathers. Figure out a way to let him bat 6th.
