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The main appeal of Miller to me isn't the 5 or 6 innings he'd be a slight upgrade over Montgomery in the playoffs, but the next two years of reliable relief pitching he'd be able to give us. That's why I'd consider someone like Eloy. Not someone who has made it here and shown he can dong with the best of them. Chapman, all things considered is worthless and should die in a fire soon.
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I'm generally more in the TT camp of not wanting marginal upgrades, but...that would give us a pretty intriguing Reddick/Baez platoon.
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I'd love to see this response put out in the comments of the article, just to see the reactions from not just Cubs fans (and maybe Cameron himself). Great work, as always.
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I'd rather just give Reddick's potential ABs to Baez the rest of the way. Even if he doesn't keep hitting the way that he is, the defense will make him valuable.
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Cubs trade Vogelbach/Blackburn for Mike Montgomery/Jordan Pries
squally1313 replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Trading some dude with a 6.2 K/9 rate isn't going to keep me up at night. -
Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right? Yes, I would have the same response. And it's not to say he hasn't been bad. Clearly, he has. But, to be hung up on it is silly, when the underlying numbers say he's been about the same all year, and he's just been incredibly streaky. Yeah that's fair, and your response above makes sense. If it can be explained away by mostly luck, it doesn't provide much.
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Now to pick on you, but just so you know, I'm sure at some point in May you were posting something like this about Anthony Rizzo. So that kinda shows why arbitrary endpoints are stupid, and why people think you are too obsessed with them. Out of curiosity, since you're better at this than I am, if he would have gone with 'Zobrist is hitting some terrible batting average over the last 150 (or whatever the number is) PAs'....would you have the same comment? I get that picking a random date, even the beginning/end of month, can lead to a lot of false/cherry picked conclusions, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that it's 6 or 7 weeks of bad performance, right?
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Trick question. Nobody. And that's without including the guy with the second highest defense rating per FG on the team.
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Somewhere, on some Mets message board, that was a terrible decision to send him.
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His best current skill (pitch framing) is the one that's hardest to pick up when watching the game. Even all the walks don't really do a lot aesthetically. That being said, if you would have told me in April that people would prefer Ross to Montero, I'd have thought you were crazy.
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Eventually this isn't bad luck and more of a bad trend. The Cubs have been bad with RISP for a few weeks now. Hitting below your true talent level and/or hitting significantly worse with RISP than you do otherwise is pretty much the definition of bad luck.
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4-3 (double play to end it in the 9th) 6-1 2-1 (walk off win) 6-5 (outhit 10-6) 1-0 2-1 (11 innings) 6-1 Our season series against the Mets last year.
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KB and Rizz. We got this.
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It's a shame that after we walk this off we won't know if Rondon Fan got banned or no because he'll be silent either way.
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After tonight? After how they've played since the break? We went up against one of maybe two pitchers in the NL who matches up with Jake and outplayed them in basically every way except the score. It happens.
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Sometimes? We're 20 games over.
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.771 OPS with RISP, .776 with bases empty, but yes, recently I get the same impression. You'll never guess who leads the league in OPS with RISP.
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After all our prospects not named Bryant came up and didn't turn into studs, I think I just started assuming everyone coming up would take a few years to really turn it on. It would be fantastic if Contreras proved me wrong on that one.
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I don't know, while I'd obviously rather be up 6-0, my gambler's fallacy mind almost rationalizes this by thinking that sometimes sequencing is going to go your way, and sometimes it isn't, so I'd rather end up on the bad end of it today, in a relatively meaningless game, than in 3 months. I know it makes no sense, but, it is the game thread.
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Isn't that the one that stabilizes pretty quickly too, unfortunately? It's totally blown up from his MILB numbers, and you'd think it would settle down eventually (probably at the expense of some power, but still). A stat "stabilizing" doesn't mean it won't improve from there, it just means it takes X PAs until you can reasonably draw any conclusions from it. Yeah good point, it's highly doubtful he'd go from low teens to 30% long term...just knew it was something that became somewhat meaningful quicker than other rate stats.
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Isn't that the one that stabilizes pretty quickly too, unfortunately? It's totally blown up from his MILB numbers, and you'd think it would settle down eventually (probably at the expense of some power, but still).
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I probably missed his name being mentioned at some point, but does Zach Duke interest anyone here? He doesn't have much in the way of splits (lefties have been way better against him this year, but it was flipped last year). Nothing fancy, but he's cheap.
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That's a fair point. It's very important for us to get our record this season against them to 2-4. That will show them. (Assuming no sarcasm. If it was, just pretend this was directed to Rondon Fan)
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We swept the Mets in the regular season last year. Correct, and then the playoffs turned the tide as their starters shut us down. So this tide....it can turn at any time? But this particular game is important? Until the next time they turn the tide back? Should we wait until the playoffs to turn the tide then?