squally1313
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The cubs are playing at a 100 win pace 40% of the way through the season while receiving, due to injuries, 0.3 fWAR from their top two starters. understandably, people are very upset about this.
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Wait, we’re going to extras? I was told we ‘bent over’ and lost.
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Ok you take the Mets I’ll take the rest of the NL
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Why do the games since April 23rd lead you to conclusions about how they’ll play in October but not the ones before?
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17-17 against over 500 teams this year. Dodgers are 15-14, Phillies are under 500. But sure, fun with arbitrary end points I guess.
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Whatever keeps you angry man. This team is awesome and fun.
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The cubs are 24-15 since April 23rd
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Do you want a 120 wRC hitter who plays generally positive defense for $20m a year or no
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Avg, OBP, slug, wOBA, xwOBA, wRC
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He’s inconsistent
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I think that if your expectations for three road series against the three best records in baseball are 4-5, if you were to add up all your 'expectations' based on the talent level of the opponent based off the expectaion of these series you'd end up with like 105 wins.
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(Three road series against the top three records in baseball, a combined 45 games above .500) Well, I guess I would take 4-5
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the dumbest game
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I know thielbar got the K but I wonder how many times this century a team has had zero offensive strikeouts and lost the game.
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That was a fun pitch
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The problem is Colin Rea sucks
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Despite what you’d believe browsing these threads, occasionally the cubs get lucky and the other team can’t get anything to fall (they’re beating us in xBA by like 55 points)
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Happ hot streak going into this stretch would be very nice
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I can’t explain how little I care/think about the cardinals at this point.
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Any sort of DeGrom deal would assuredly include the Rangers eating a substantial portion of that contract. Having said that, no real interest in the moment. If you aren't getting elite level DeGrom you can store on the shelf until September and you can't provide me any real certainty he's going to be around for the rest of the year, I don't really see the upside.
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I mean, it's Chris Flexen.
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Generally agreed, and I think it was a misstep on his/their part, especially ending the offseason with 'dry powder', to the extent you want to believe Rickett's quotes about staying right below that first tax line. There were quotes/implications/whatever about setting that money aside for in-season acquisitions, which was a little absurd given the concept of picking up like $25m in pro-rated 2025 salary, but still. This was also before Steele went out and Shota went down. Having said that, Boyd and Rea have given us 110 innings of sub-4 ERA, 1.7 fWAR production, Shota was regarded as an underwhelming signing and has been great, and Taillon was similarly viewed as middle of the road and has given us 400 innings of 4 ERA pitching. So Hoyer has earned some trust in that type of acquisition. And he's made relatively big moves (in quiet trade seasons) with essentially .500 teams in the last few years, so I wouldn't count on him sitting out.
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Unfortunately they need both. We're missing a playoff pitcher and someone who can take innings away from Brown/Horton. The type of average pitchers I'm thinking about, trading for them isn't 'jumping the market'...an Andrew Heaney trade would barely register, would have a immaterial impact on our prospect pool, and would come with the implicit understanding that this doesn't have an impact on our playoff rotation.
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Feel like one of us are reading this wrong because I think it's the opposite (and would prefer it that way). Get the mediocre innings eater now to take some burden off, find the (still healthy in 6 weeks) stud closer to the trade deadline.
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Well that was fun. Sucks it ended on the missed 2-1 pitch.
