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  1. squally1313
    It's been 4 games. He's been the same player all year though granted he was hitting by the time the Cubs traded him which was awesome because it probably landed them PCA. I mean, no, he hasn't been. That's the thing about trying to draw any conclusions from four horsefeathering games. He was a 2 fWAR player on his way to a 3 win season. And he's one of the few players in baseball where you from a business perspective look beyond his statistical production. I don't know what he's going to get, but a single series worth of baseball games isn't going to have any impact whatsoever.
  2. squally1313
    It's been 4 games.
  3. squally1313
    Theo is using the Cubs to run all his experiments on being anti-three true outcomes. Pick up Astudillo and a couple more Alec Mills and see what happens.
  4. squally1313
    He went on the ultimate heater but yeah, he'd have good weeks with the Cubs where he'd homer once a game and then he'd have a few weeks where he'd hit .100 or so. It's fine if you have players behind him that are consistent but that was the problem with the Cubs. I think the issue every baseball fan has, regardless of what team they watch closest, is complaining about inconsistency as if it's a unique issue to their team. There's no one in the league who hits .300 every week/month. Schwarber put up one of the best 3 week stretches in offensive baseball history, and almost singlehandedly dragged them back into a playoff race, relegating that to 'eh, he was on a heater, won't happen again' is pretty dumb.
  5. squally1313
    Hoerner hasn’t proven himself to be a star, but he has 1.5 fWAR in 360 MLB PAs and is having his best offensive season yet. Not much comparison to Rizzo, who had a .248 wOBA and negative WAR in his 150 PA as a Padre. Nico would have plenty of trade value if they went that route. Hoerner is 2 years older than Rizzo was when he was traded to the Cubs. He's not getting the Cubs anything in a trade with his resume to date. Yeah but he has also shown elite defense at second, teams know he can play short, and also looks capable of playing center or the corner spots in a pinch. That and the team control plus the aforementioned offense shown so far is plenty valuable.
  6. squally1313
    No DeRozen I assume?
  7. squally1313
    Well that pretty much puts an end to any talk on bringing those dudes back.
  8. squally1313
    Good. Let them teach him how to be average there and then bring him back this offseason.
  9. squally1313
    As someone who didn’t watch a lot of soccer until a couple years ago, this feels significantly rougher than Premier League/Euros/etc. Is that par for the course for USA/mexico?
  10. squally1313
    Can we just agree to not post pictures like that? I’ll watch highlights when I’m good and ready.
  11. squally1313
    You can win a lot of games with Nick Madrigal as the fifth/six best bat in your lineup. Having that locked up for dirt cheap, and ready to go opening day next season, is plenty valuable, and he’ll always be an attractive trade chip because every team in baseball thinks their lineup strikes out too much. You just have to, you know, fill out those top four spots. Here’s to hoping it’s Davis, KB, Contreras, and some top FA.
  12. squally1313
    He also projects north of 2 WAR each of the next five years. I'm very okay getting immediate safe value to contrast all the teenagers with limitless potential we're getting in other deals. Unfortunately he was hurt his senior year of college, missed half the 'season' last year, and is out for the rest of this year. Going to be interesting having his profile of Theriot 2.0 (ie dumb fan favorite) mixed in with the KB-esque trait of always being banged up.
  13. squally1313
    Of the three, my reasons for wanting to keep Javy were the most irrational. Go flip this dude, KB, and Davies for Joey Bart and whatever else and figure out a way to be fun next year. Fun fact: this kid's mom is the mom from Little Big League.
  14. squally1313
    Remember when we had too many shortstops who hit dongs? Can I interest you in too many second basemen that slap oppo singles?
  15. squally1313
    Giving a lot of people who do not deserve the benefit of the doubt the benefit of the doubt, I could see a scenario where they didn't think they were going to get enough to justify trading him and then this offer kinda blew all the others (Red Sox, etc) out of the water. But I think it's just easier for me to stay mad at PTR/Ross/etc. I don’t know why people would expect the Cubs (or any team for that matter) to let a player they are maybe trading take a final at bat or play a final game. I would have been super pissed if the trade fell through because he got hit by a pitch and broke his wrist just because we wanted him to have one last ovation. Then put him at first base for the top of the ninth or something. If you know you're trading your starting first baseman for two prospects, wanting to win is clearly out the window. Ross said before the game he hoped that he could get them in to PH to get an ovation, and then let Kyle Ryan hit for himself in the 7th inning.
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    Giving a lot of people who do not deserve the benefit of the doubt the benefit of the doubt, I could see a scenario where they didn't think they were going to get enough to justify trading him and then this offer kinda blew all the others (Red Sox, etc) out of the water. But I think it's just easier for me to stay mad at PTR/Ross/etc.
  17. squally1313
    Wouldn’t be surprised to see a Lester retirement coming soon. Doesn’t want to miss any part of hunting season.
  18. squally1313
    Saw a few good posts in there, but got derailed by prospect/Ricketts/Columbus Blue Jackets talk. So trying this out for the few hours before we have to start talking about KB. I’ll start here. Stealing it from the other thread, but this is the first memory I have of him. We sucked, but it was just nice to see the pride, the leadership, etc. [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
  19. squally1313
    Heyward striking out so KB doesn't get a chance at potentially one last AB seems fitting.
  20. squally1313
    Saying it would be cool to get Rizz and/or KB a nice ovation in a pinch hitting spot and then letting Kyle Ryan hit for himself in the bottom of the seventh is certainly a choice.
  21. squally1313
    5th round pick last year out of Auburn, pitched well in single A (2.63 ERA in 27 innings) and has gotten rocked in 4 starts in high A.
  22. squally1313
    Uneventful Javy AB, with first base open. Would be pretty funny to have 'Say goodbye to KB/Rizzo Day' also be a bench clearing brawl day, but looks like it'll stay calm.
  23. squally1313
    There goes that LTIR money.
  24. squally1313
    Hard to get too mad at losing to the best three innings/game of Vottos career. Wouldn’t think the cubs will retaliate for that pitch to KB, especially because it made no sense to be on purpose in that scenario, but we’ll see.
  25. squally1313
    From my understanding, there is room during the offseason to make moves that put you over the cap You have to be under it once the season starts, but then the LTIR comes into play. Seabrook and Shaw immediately go into LTIR which allows for their salaries to no longer count against the cap, freeing up something like $11 mil. But free agency starts tomorrow morning. Do we know if he's even going to show up? Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have an extra $7m to spend or not? Do they really think they were Jones (minus Keith, minus Boqvist) and a goalie away from contending?
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