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Good work Al
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Robel singles/doubles on a....changeup?!?! That can't be right.
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This is exhausting. Lose the biggest game of the year...tear it down. Send down Russell and go up early with Chatwood on the mound...we're back. Lose KB to a potential injury...rebuilding time.
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Finally, we got to the bottom of why anyone would still want him around.
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Yeah, however will we have any chance against a pitcher with a 4.70 ERA (which is apparently lucky, given his FIP).
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Garcia came in hot but the league is already figuring him out as he's 2-for-16 with 6 K's his last 5 and while he has power he has a .233 OBP his last 10 games. Also Russell sucks off the bench but has been great starting. Addison Russell has been worth 0.3 WAR over the past calendar year, a calculation that unfortunately does not take into account him physically and mentally abusing the mother of his children. Robel Garcia has been worth 0.3 WAR in 14 games, hits massive dongers, and to the best of our knowledge is not a terrible person.
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So your point is that Russell is better than Javy, Bote and Garcia? He's 100% better than 2 of them and a better SS than Javy In July Garcia has a 1.020 OPS to Russell's .723. That's a bigger sample size and a much bigger margin. Also Jon Lester has a 1.400 OPS in July. Arbitrary sample sizes are fun.
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This guy is the best
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Bote is the only other player that has played there, for all of one inning. I think he's probably more athletic if something were to happen (although if something were to happen, you'd see Russell or Short on the roster almost immediately). I do wonder if this makes it more likely that they go after a middle infielder, which would be bad only in that it probably lessens the chance they go after Castellanos. But this could just be like a punishment type thing, this crappy organization giving a terrible person his 19th chance. Who knows.
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Best 1-7 I've seen in a long time.
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I was told we needed to sell off all our good players for less good players, so it'll be interesting to see who is still around by the time they play today.
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That's kinda besides the point, isn't it? Unless you're assuming/implying that Russell is some sort of incredibly unique outlier amongst baseball players, much less athletes in general who are expected to memorize schemes/playbooks/etc, this is something everyone who plays is expected to be comfortable with. I'm aware he probably wasn't allowed to have much interaction with the team during his suspension, and therefore missed the meetings at ST or whatever, but he's been with the team for 2.5 months now. He knows, or at least should know, he's on thin ice. He needs to get his horsefeathers together when it comes to stuff like this.
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If you want to say this 9 game road trip is the most important trip of the year (so far)...sure, you're probably right. Milwaukee, St. Louis, makes sense. If you want to say this particular game, against a non-division team, in July, where we've gone 7-3 in our last 10, is the most important game of the year...no, you're 100% wrong.
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Ah. So it's the biggest game of the year in the sense that every game is the biggest game of the year.
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He's clearly going to continue playing baseball for the Cubs. I know you've gotten to the point of just hating the team and hoping they are bad, but if he's going to play, I'd rather him play well and still have the fans dislike him, than play poorly but pull an Almora and inexplicably become some gritty fan favorite.
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Which one is has been bigger? If we lose this we haven't won a road series since Mid-May and St Louis could tie us on the loss side. We would be facing a sweep that would push SF 3 games over .500 and take away a potential trade partner who has 3 BP guys we could use. Starting 0-2 on a 9 game trip (8 before the deadline) and falling to 18-29 on the road could set us up to not add big or potentially sell if the rest of the trip is bad and slip to 3rd. This is 100% the biggest game of the year. knock off Mad-Bum, build on Yu's last two starts and then you get a 4.70 ERA guy vs Lester with a chance to snap the drought on the road and have some momentum going into Miller Park. Any game against Milwaukee or St. Louis, for starters. I understand that losing this game would hit all these weird panic triggers for you, but us winning tonight isn't going to magically turn SF into a seller, much less a seller to us, 1-1 vs 0-2 to start a roadtrip doesn't really change anything, and I'm not sure why 19-28 is any better than 18-29.
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I mean, it is definitely not the biggest game of the year.
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Well, I was maybe wrong about this as it his horrendous on field decision-making in general wasn't a consideration as it should have been. Cubs sportsball fans seem to have let up their principled enabling of Russell as of late. Weird. "It's worked out well" definitely isn't the right phrase, but his very obvious mistakes on the field have gone a long way into turning the meatheads' opinion against him, whereas his metrics have been relatively satisfactory so far. Since he came back on 5/8, he's been the 5th most valuable offensive player on the team, over guys like Schwarber and Heyward (in less PAs). 0.8 WAR in 54 games/167 PAs is about a 2.5 pace. Rather it be this way than him going on some fan-endearing Almora type run.
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KB >>>
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Edwards down, maybe Wick up? His season has been handled wonderfully so far.
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I definitely wasn't following the team back then (on account of being born two months before the trade), but based on the two links below, he was getting either internal or media criticism about being too heavy and it having an adverse impact on his knees. There's a quote in there about just requesting to be traded, not necessarily to Boston. http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/06/19/close_up_with_the_ultimate_closer/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070105194455/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Lee_Smith_1957
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So incredibly dumb
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How many 8-1 outs have there been in the history of baseball
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(whispers very, very quietly) Russell has the same fWAR as Schwarber (runs away)
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The Padres seem like a fun team to be a fan of