squally1313
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But he was fine right after the injury right? Like, you can't just IL someone because they hit bad for a couple weeks.
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Right, it's not nothing, but that goes back to my first point. If he can pitch better in certain situations, from the stretch, etc....we should be wanting him to do it that way all the time. It's like claiming some hitter is clutch or whatever....they're professional baseball players, why can't they perform at that level consistently? If he can't for stamina or whatever other reasons, then he's probably more effective in shorter doses.
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Then tell him to pitch to every batter like there’s guys on, and if he can’t turn it up like that all the time, make him a middle reliever. like, it’s 10% the slightly improved K numbers and 90% the steep, certainly unreliable drop in BABIP
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Quick scan of FG shows that they used all five of their top five relievers both Friday and Saturday, which is probably the better explanation for using their other guys today. Not sure how strict they adhere to something like avoiding three appearances in four days, but definitely stretched thin at the moment.
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I’m sure I’ll look into it before tomorrow would assume the last two brewers game required a pretty large amount of high leverage bullpen work
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If Assad has some additional ability he can pull out with runners on, the obvious question is why he doesn’t just pitch like that all the time. or he’s just gotten very lucky
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7 runs given up and anecdotally balls we’re seemingly hit harder, wind took away a couple home runs. Not championing some elite production but PCA, Busch, Dansby, Happ all had good signs. Javier Assad has allowed 15 baserunners in 8 innings and has matched that with 5 total strikeouts. Know they need plenty of arms with the DH tomorrow but assuming health everywhere else he should be at the bottom of the totem pole, starters wise.
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Ugly but effective. Bats are showing small signs of life. Let’s see what happens this week.
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Good enough. Here’s to 3 fly balls knocked down by the wind for palencia. or kittredge? Whatever
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Anyways bench him for Caissie
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horsefeathers that’s unlucky
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Good horsefeathers Caleb, let’s go get two.
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Get the strategy with the DH tomorrow. All these close games is not ideal. Hopefully we get out of this and scratch one for palencia to wrap up
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Nah. Hes still a shiny new toy so he must be better than the options we have right now. Easy 40 HR a year once he gets ABs…all of four people did that last year, so expectations are totally reasonable
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I can’t even begin to stress how much the people who hate on Dansby, Happ, etc will hate even a successful Owen Caissie offensive profile, let alone the one that likely struggles for half a season.
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Are you guys talking about a different PCA and Caissie?
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I mean, this is bad, if it wasn’t sarcasm.
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I find it really hard to imagine a scenario where the cubs play 500 ball the rest of the way (or even whatever 11-13 ball is) and don’t make the playoffs. The reds just aren’t that good and the math gets tough quick. Which is another way of saying that if the cubs somehow miss the playoffs, and I (obviously) trust the math on their odds, it will be entirely their fault and so worrying about other teams just doesn’t really do anything for me.
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You were 2016 confident in this team?
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I mean, sure, but those are meaningless when ‘confidence ‘ is a 10% chance to win and ‘hope’ is 8%
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Those are not really that different
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but you haven't calculated the impact of The Spark
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Nico is comfortably my favorite player since the WS team
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just give me a wild pitch i'm desperate
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well that helps a horsefeathers lot
