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That was an incredible second half, and Brazil/Belgium is going to be so much fun.
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1. Javy 2. ...... 3. ...... 4. Schwarber 5. Bryant (ginger ale instead of beer, of course) Happ? Are you horsefeathering kidding me? It would suck to wake up (if you are lucky enough to do so) after being out with him, only to discover you're missing a kidney. Eh, you got to sit behind Happ out in the bleachers. Completely changed my perspective of him. He was interacting with the fans the whole game, encouraging people to chant his name louder, had a good back and forth going with this one particularly drunk dude the whole time...I think low key he's one of the coolest guys on the team.
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Power Ranking top 5 Cubs you'd want to have a beer/split a pizza with: 1. Lester 2. Schwarber 3. Javy 4. Happ 5. Heyward
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Maples up duensing to Eddie butler land
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I don't mean this as any sort of judgment on his character, but Baez, especially hot streak Baez, seems the type to be back on the field like...tomorrow.
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Obviously getting off track here in this thread. It's good to see the steps Almora has made this year, and it's really fun to watch him in the outfield, even if it's in a Jim Edmonds type of way. Whatever worth you put in it, he's got the intangibles and leadership qualities that can help a team like this. And he doesn't hit arbitration until 2020. These are all really good things. But. Against LHP: 8.2 BB%, 6.8 K%, 303/356/455, .311 BABIP, .348 wOBA Against RHP: 5.0 BB%, 20.1 K%, 323/360/443, .395 BABIP, .346 wOBA Hits about the same number of groundballs from each side, and hits more line drives (21.7% to 16.4%) from the right side at the expense of fly balls. But his infield fly ball rate is much higher (20.5% to 4.8%) from the right side, so that should negate any expected BABIP benefit from the increased line drives.
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Now do BABIPs
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Yep, platoon heyward/almora in CF and if you get desperate and need to trade for pitching, just throw Happ in a deal. With some simplifying assumptions (Schwarber 'full time' in left, Zobrist gone): Almora/Happ Heyward Machado A pitcher you can get for Russell vs Almora/Heyward Harper Russell A pitcher you can get for Happ
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Setting aside Harper's struggles this year, since I generally believe they're fluky and won't continue... With the reemergence of Russell and Heyward, and Baez looking like he has enough 'hot' in his hot/cold streaks to be very valuable, at what point does Harper start to look like a square peg in a round hole given the needs of this team, especially compared to Machado? Said another way, what gives you more value long term...signing Harper and having to essentially dump Heyward or make him a very expensive backup (even with his resurgence, he's still projected to finish at around 2.2 fWAR, which isn't exactly great value), or signing Machado and using Baez or Russell to shore up what could be very real issues in the rotation? Worth pointing out that Machado's monthly OPS has gone from 1.124 to .883 to .747. I get that the basic argument here is "Baez and Russell are good, Bryce Harper is good, we should have all of them on our team." But we might have to create a pitching market going forward, and if we can have a successful outfield from optimizing Schwarber/Almora/Happ/Heyward, being able to float Baez or Russell to get a quality starter has appeal.
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Depending on how much you buy into FIP/the metrics...who's going to be the best, if not him?
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Last I remember, there's still some sort of limit on how many night games the team is allowed to have, coming from the surrounding neighborhood. Assuming that's still in place, my theory is that they're shoving as many of the day games into next week as they can with the holiday. No game on Monday, assume a lot of people are taking the 3rd off, Fourth of July, no game Thursday, and then back to the weekend again. No idea on the timing for tomorrow.
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14 games left before the ASB, 11 against teams under .500 (and the Giants suck too). Then 8 of our first 12 games after against the Cardinals. Get hot now, and the second half will be a lot of fun.
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2-6, but yes. Time to come home and make up for lost time.
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Javy is at .884.
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There goes that pathetic boom or bust offense again.
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There's the fluke hit
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Can we just have one of those fun innings? Couple extra base hits, maybe a fluke hit or two. I'd really rather this not fall on just off the DL Morrow.
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Probably not ideal timing after the Almora dong, but generally against righties, 100% agree.
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Good thing we couldn't let Jason 'I destroy fastballs' Heyward take that AB last inning given that LaStella lasted about 14 seconds in the game.
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To continue to complain about things that don't really matter, you can't tell me LaStella at third, Baez at second is the optimal defensive arrangement here.
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Took a break to get there, but got the job done. LaStella over Heyward or Zobrist huh? Cool.
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Just some horsefeathering contact, please. I know this guy is nasty.
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Single through a hole in the infield or bloop single in front of Happ?
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Our walk rate is ridiculously bad as a staff. It isn't just you. Good thing we hired a pitching coach specifically not to walk people. Worst in the league. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=9,d I'm sure getting Chatwood back will help though.
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We couldn't have kept Chatwood on paternity leave for one more day and rotated up another fresh arm for when Q is at 82 pitches after 4? I swear we've been operating with a 23 man roster for like half our games this year.