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Everyone breaks eventually, Father Time is undefeated, etc, but I’m personally not going to write off the guy with four straight years with over 500 PAs and a wRC of 115 or better over 35 PAs this year.
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Little up, not sure the corresponding move
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A lot of slug in those performances too. Mentioned in the other thread, but it's pretty amazing he's looked mostly clueless at the plate up until a couple nights ago, and then just two big offensive performances and he's suddenly 13th in offensive fWAR league wide. Goes to show how much he's contributing beyond at the plate.
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There seems to be very little point in watching the rest of this
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Feel like I would have let Jameson try to get himself out of the inning there.
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We probably needed a starter before this injury, and I would have preferred we take care of that problem in the offseason. 4 innings of Colin Rea is not going to override the grand total of 1.7 fWAR he put up in over 290 innings the last two years. Javier Assad is a fun story but he is also realistically not more than a spot starter going forward unless he has somehow figured out how to eternally pitch better with guys on base. Wicks and Horton aren't close to ready, and they were supposed to be the guys fighting for the #5 slot (or for the maybe still inevitable Boyd injury), not replacing the guy expected to throw 175 innings. We have a team that is playing really well through an incredibly tough stretch and doing it in a sustainable way. We have a giant hole in our budget between where we are and where the luxury tax line is, and we have the most talented AAA team in baseball. Go do something cool and fun.
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Like we’ve all been saying since the beginning, 60 day IL
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Cubs acquire Tom Cosgrove; DFA Caleb Kilian
squally1313 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If his last name wasn't Cosgrove, you maybe could -
Going to really need Boyd to stay good and healthy here, all of a sudden. (Go get a starter)
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this is tiring
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Like, if you're projecting a future where the payroll drops to $120m after 2026 because of various Evil PTR reasons*, sure, there's no chance. But if he's going to publicly come out and say that they're going to spend close to the luxury tax line, why does he necessarily care whether it's one Kyle Tucker or 2.5 Jameson Taillons? They'll just be less active in free agency and have a guy to point to when they sit out future top free agents. But the money is going to be spent either way. * To clarify so goalposts aren't moved, Tom Ricketts is a terrible human being who deserves no happiness or joy and I would strongly prefer he sells the team yesterday, if not sooner.
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I think they sign him. If I were being spiteful I would go back to the original trade thread and find all the people who thought we'd never actually make the trade. But I'm not, so I'm just going to say that they get it done. The luxury tax line is going to keep going up, and I think Ricketts/Hoyer got enough flack from not spending to that line this year. The cost controlled guys are going to stay cheap, he's going to be spending $150m or whatever every year on non-controlled players, and that number goes up yearly, and we have basically just Swanson after next year, who's contract looks more and more reasonable every day. Lock in the elite player and then, if you want to be pessimistic, just run out overmatched AAAA players to fill spots instead of middling free agent signings to save money on the back end.
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that's not how it works. stocks don't provide value while you hold them.
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Does the year of Kyle Tucker not count as part of the return?
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Just go trade for Alcantara and the best Marlins reliever. Pick up the Avisail Garcia contract if you have to. If you're going to earmark money for pitching at the deadline, use it when your top starter goes down.
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An additional fun fact: Shota has settled down very nicely. A separate fun fact: Tucker becomes so much harder to deal with when Suzuki is doing what he's doing now (which is what he's been doing for a while, 15th in wOBA over the last calendar year, 9th since the 2024 ASB)
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It wasn't a specific injury reference, it was a reference to him starting slow last year and then being normal Justin Steele after that.
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Justin Steele, first four starts after injury last year: 6.53 ERA, 7.4 K/9, 2.18 BB/9 Justin Steele the rest of the year: 2.47 ERA, 9.22 K/9, 2.55 BB/9 Justin Steele through four starts this year: 4.76 ERA, 8.34 K/9, 1.99 BB/9 He's fine, and it's in everyones best interest that he comes back quickly and healthy
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No
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Go get a starter please. Overpay if needed.
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Seems fine on my weather app (sitting in the loop currently). Miserable conditions but dry for a while.
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It is a little annoying that the Brewers, who per FG have four starters, the second of which has made one start and the third of third got acquired like yesterday, are somehow still above .500. Also, as a small quality of life request, can we set something up to get the next game threads up a little sooner? Feel like people (or maybe just me) are hesitant to throw random thoughts in the game thread once the game is over, but don't really have the right spot to throw out stupid thoughts like the above when there's no thread for the next game. Feel like last year Brock had it running where it just auto generated at like 7 AM.
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No walks tonight means that we're 'only' at 3 walks in 6 innings since his first outing (1 IP, 3 BBs). Obviously not great but the bigger problem becomes the 2 strikeouts in 7 innings. He's getting BABIPed a little bit, but that's going to happen as a GB pitcher and you're going to inevitably get yourself into trouble if they're putting it in play almost every single time they come to the plate. I'm not going to just conclude that became the most hittable pitcher in baseball over one offseason, but needs to figure out how to get some swings and misses. On an unrelated note, this offense is a force right now.
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6 innings, 3 runs, 1.00 WHIP is just fine against a solid lineup. Let’s get a couple more and take the pressure off the pen.
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Good catch, all the talk of making a trade with the Tigers got this confused in my head. I think the better way to spell that out is like, what are you hoping for out of a rule 5 pick like him that he hasn't given you? You obviously discount spring training results to some extent (see Tucker), but that's 50 PAs of excellent performance. Selecting him in the first place and giving him all those reps to dump him after 7 PAs makes you wonder what the whole point was in the first place.
