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  1. squally1313
    Who did you want to play centerfield next year? A good baseball player Well Bellinger last year, at 1.7 fWAR, would have been 18th in baseball in team production for centerfield. Certainly not great, certainly better than the 0.3 we put up as a team. Looking around the rest of the roster, I don't see a lot of better options for 2023. Looking around free agency, unless you wanted Nimmo (and the ramifications of a $100+m deal), don't see much there either. If he sucks, too bad for PTR, and we can still explore all these trades people have tossed around without any concern of long term contract issues. But maybe he's good? Just wrote that last sentence so you can snip the rest out and respond with something like 'but he won't be'.
  2. squally1313
    Who did you want to play centerfield next year?
  3. squally1313
    Kinda shocked at the amount of dislike here. It's a one year deal for a dude who plays a really good defensive centerfield and first base. Am I missing a better center field option that only costs money? I don't think anyone wanted to throw 9 figures at already 30 years old Brandon Nimmo to be our CF for 5 years. If he sucks, which to be clear, him sucking is putting up a 92 wRC against righties, oh well. Can still make all those weird trades Tom's been talking about all offseason.
  4. squally1313
    This is good right? Just don’t get smoked today and hope englands second team is still good enough to grab 3 points against wales and we just need to beat Iran.
  5. squally1313
    Almost seems like they're feeling themselves a little too much. Can't give KDB too many of these counters.
  6. squally1313
    I think I'm more in the middle, where you let the ref come up with an extra time number, and then do more of a hard/'American' clock from there.
  7. squally1313
    So basically don't get blown out by England and then hope to pour it on Iran?
  8. squally1313
    Guys there's a whole thread for fantasy football and also a whole gambling thread.
  9. squally1313
    Good
  10. squally1313
    I wonder if we're looking at a situation where Lavine and DDR don't miss extended time but we only see them on the court together for like...35-40 games.
  11. squally1313
    If you're open to a superior hitter for a shorter, cheaper contract, a worse hitter for longer and more money should have tons of appeal. Am I doing this right? In what reality is a soon to be 36 YO RHH 1B/DH coming off a 15 HR season in nearly 700 PAs a superior option to Conteras? You can’t be serious and/or surely no one call fall for cheap tricks. There’s no meaningful gap btw his .361 wOBA / 137 wRC+ to Contreras’ .357 / 132 given the massive gaps in defensive value, this should be obvious to anyone willing to do more than just recite or seem momentarily clever Ugh. Fine. We started with GB rates, of which Contreras carries a higher one, both in 2022 and his career. We can talk about xSLG, where Contreras is in the 85th percentile and Abreu is in the 92nd. Average exit velocity is 76% to 93%. There's a significant K rate gap, again in Abreu's favor. Abreu's career 133 wRC+ is better than any single season Contreras has. Contreras is, the last time I checked, also a RHH, so not sure why that keeps getting mentioned. Contreras vs Abreu for 2 years? Sure, good debate, probably lean Contreras. Tack on having to pay $60m for the three years after that? Pass.
  12. squally1313
    If you're open to a superior hitter for a shorter, cheaper contract, a worse hitter for longer and more money should have tons of appeal. Am I doing this right?
  13. squally1313
    The four teams playing for the World Series are good, and the 2022 Cubs are not good. Got it.
  14. squally1313
    Yeah, now that I know I'll get to root for either Yu or Schwarber, give me Astros/Yanks and hopefully one loses in excruciating fashion in the ALCS and then the other one does in the WS.
  15. squally1313
    Would agree, but Schwarber not singlehandedly donging the Cards out of the playoffs and Pujols/Molina somehow ending their careers with base hits are too far out of line with my preferred outcomes.
  16. squally1313
    Guys I love baseball
  17. squally1313
    Speaking of Quintana, he's starting game 1 for them today, which WTF? 17th best pitcher in baseball this year per fWAR. Classic Quintana 6-7 record. I guess the thinking is trying to slow down Schwarber and Harper, though from what I can tell the Phillies are actually better against lefties than righties, so who knows.
  18. squally1313
    horsefeathers my life. Just imagine the first time a Cardinal gets a big strikeout of a Cub and seeing Willson hopping up from behind the plate and pumping his fist in celebration. I would be incredibly surprised if they sign him. Between what he's likely to get paid, the Arrenado and Goldschmidt contracts and the fiery personality, just doesn't seem like a great fit. And much like the McGwire replacement was always going to have enormous pressure to perform, just not being Molina will be enough of a knock against the next guy that it's probably not a great investment overall for them next year. On the other hand, Contreras has been more valuable this season than Molina has been in the last four seasons combined, so any sort of competency back there might be received well in a pleasantly surprised way.
  19. squally1313
    That's weird. I would have expected all those draft position weirdos who complained about the winning streak to be happy about this. No sign of them for some reason.
  20. squally1313
    While I wish I spent more time in the actual game threads than in here, these got pretty fun to follow the last few months and we all really appreciate the time you put into this.
  21. squally1313
    Our quest to reach 150 passing yards in a single game is looking up! A couple of those games might not have 150 passing yards in total.
  22. squally1313
    And I'm saying that using 31 innings of effective bullpen work as the reason to trash the idea of him being a cost controlled starter on a team that has like....1.5 of them at the moment is not a good idea.
  23. squally1313
    He's thrown 31 innings as a reliever this year? Not sure if we can just mark him down for Josh Hader.
  24. squally1313
    That's an interesting analogy.
  25. squally1313
    This Sox run makes me appreciate the Cubs 2012-2020 era so much more. It's so easy to say we should have done more with the talent we had, but the Sox basically spent the same amount of time to put together this core and have 2 playoff wins to show for it (Cubs = 19).
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