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This has given the Cardinals a 2 1/2-game lead on the Cubs heading into Busch, and on Friday, they face a Triple-A pitcher in Eddie Butler, with Leake, their current ace. This is the first time in the new era of the Cubs-Cardinals rivalry, the world in which Chicago has a World Series championship (it still seems amazing to say that!) and St. Louis is trying to catch up, that the Cardinals have the upper hand. Good reasoning.
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Rizzo day off, please update the sign.
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Found a live stream without any of the negativity:
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Ooooh, look, it's our resident bastion of positivity! Eh, I think he gets a pass today, given that 80% of the posts in here sound pretty similar to that one. This is not at all fun to watch, but I just can't bring myself to care too much. The offense is too good, the division is too bad, and we've got more than enough in reserve to trade for whatever holes we have. Plus, the whole World Series Champions thing.
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For no reason whatsoever, Justin Hancock sounds like someone who is better at baseball than what we got...26 year old double-A reliever with average at best peripherals. Guess we didn't have much leverage.
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Love the hustle from Willson, but after seeing the Eaton injury I'd be fine with him taking it a little bit easier.
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Speaking of velocity, Gameday has Chapman at 96-97. So either everyone is low, or someone is about to go Rajai Davis for us.
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Random In-season Musings and Rumors
squally1313 replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Chapman cost Torres. Even if teams were blowing up pen value, I'd be shocked if Darvish doesn't net a top 10ish type prospect, plus more. We just won it all, let some other team get desperate for rentals. Fangraphs article today about the Cubs and Yankees could get into a bidding war for his services. Cameron said as long as we include Happ, he can't see another team beating our offer (if we were interested). I can see it both ways. No matter how you want to dissect the numbers, Darvish has been really good his entire MLB career (though susceptible to injuries). But, we won a World Series with 4 starters, all of which are still here, and Cleveland came within a game with 3 starters (2 of which were terrible). Assuming Lester, Jake, and Kyle are still pitching within expectations, even if Lackey takes a step back, I don't think it's worth the upgrade. -
Baez at SS for Russell, Jay in center.
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We're on an 88 win pace with multiple hitters unsustainably underperforming. We might not have the dominant pitching we had all of last year, but 2017 is the year of the dong. We're going to be just fine.
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I think I'm good without his 5.20 ERA, and this is his good half too.
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Had a really dumb drunk idea while sitting at the game last Sunday. For games on the road, put yesterday's starting pitcher in the lineup. If he comes up in the top of the first, you can use a pinch hitter. If not, just sub in the correct starter when you get to the bottom of the first.
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Regarding earlier comments...I was being extremely generous with the word 'peripherals'...just looked at walk and K rates. Had no idea they were all intentional walks and just saw his K rate was in line with last year. TLDR I'm an idiot.
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Small sample size, but Baez' peripherals actually looked pretty good going into today's game, especially if you figure the one thing you don't have to worry about with him is hitting for power. Hopefully this is just a bad game.
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The Deadspin article doesn't explain it very well, but from how I read it, it sounds like his past conviction is now void because he hadn't used up all his appeals. Therefore, any evidence used in the criminal case can't be used in any potential civil case going after his estate. Obviously they can just reintroduce everything, most likely coming to the same conclusion, but the article almost cited that as a potential reason for what happened last night. Not a lawyer, just how I read it. http://deadspin.com/aaron-hernandez-commits-suicide-in-prison-cell-1794445345
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Eh, whatever. I'm going on Sunday, so now I'm guaranteed to see a win.
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I know how line-ups are constructed now, and I know Zobrist is getting the day off, but there's still some dissonance in the best team in baseball with by far the best offense in baseball putting out a career below-average hitter in the clean-up spot.
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I wonder if part of the reason for all his starts early on is that, while he needs to improve a ton to get there, his ceiling is still right up there Russell/Schwarber, if not Rizzo/Bryant, and given our projected cushion in the division, Theo/Joe know they can afford to put out a suboptimal lineup (one that is still far and away better than any other team in our division) and not have it impact our chances of making the playoffs (while giving Javy the best chance to reach his peak). Or basically what Cubswin said.
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schwarber is out Hendricks pinch hit, obviously. (Still rounding into regular season form)
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Willy now or Kyle in about 15 minutes, whatever works best for the Dodgers.
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I honestly can't decide, I just love them all so much - lying parents, or me talking about a bunch of grown men I will never meet
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I'm guessing they are bounced pitches? I would be able to tell you, but somehow this game says blacked out on CSN's website, my phone's data plan in Chicago, and my brother's MLB account that he set up in Champaign. Which is nice.
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I'm watching this game on my laptop. Six inches to the left of my laptop screen is my bobblehead of Kyle Schwarber holding the World Series trophy. It is not hard at all.
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I know Barstool/Pardon My Take doesn't have the best reputation around here, but they had Theo on this morning and it was a pretty solid interview in terms of getting actual answers from Theo on building the team. Theo comes off about as exactly as you'd expect in terms of being incredibly cocky and self-assured, but he actually answers some of the questions I thought he would deflect. http://www.podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=865&pid=1723712 Starts at the 27 minute mark.