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Are we allowed to reference Tucker in this? Luzurdo was very publicly a medicals concern. Bregman would have been nice. Bregman at a multi year deal at that dollar amount almost assuredly takes us out of signing Tucker given the amount of money we would have committed for 2026 (a Ricketts problem, not a Jed problem). Candelario, Paredes, Tucker. Basing your argument on two players they (and 28 other teams) didn’t get seems a little unfair/pessimistic, and also somewhat irrelevant given those were signings and not trades.
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Again, why
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Yeah if you ignore the dodgers, padres, brewers, probably the tigers and astros
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But honestly, what a dumb, annoying series. I clear out my night Monday and Tuesday to watch some intense, playoff atmosphere baseball and get hit with Ryno and the Andrew Vaughn show, and then today I'm running around all afternoon at work and am limited to checking the box score every 10 minutes and firing off snarky comments here while they dominate.
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The pathetic, gutless Cubs somehow, miraculously improve their season record against the clearly superior, transcendent Brewers to 3-3, with the remaining 5 games of the season series coming at home.
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Yeah there's just too much we don't know. Like I would have thought they would have told him not to bother with all the pre-game prep, stretching, lacing up the shoes, etc, just be around in case of emergency. But maybe he felt good, or wanted to test it out in a (low leverage) game setting....who knows.
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why do you know that though? like, what is it based on given his trading history?
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lol I mean, not your fault they have the same name. especially with who knows what the pirates are doing over there after the hayes trade
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You had me thinking there was a trade announced
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I too choose to wind up frustrated by the half inning in which they scored 3 runs to to extend their lead to 5. It increases my enjoyment of the game.
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I'm loathe to overreact to sample sizes (or really worry too much about lineup construction), but the current versions of Tucker and Hoerner have me thinking that putting them 1-2 (then Busch, Seiya, PCA, Happ, Dansby, Kelly/Amaya, Shaw) would maybe solve this problem, whatever magnitude it is.
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Turner with another rope
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lets gooooooo
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Nice, Shota is in a groove now (that's how that works right?)
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Yeah but PCA misses a ton of balls too. Obviously PCA has been more successful in the aggregate, but Hoerner has the lowest non-Arraez strikeout rate in baseball.
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7/30 - Cubs Trade Deadline Rumors & Discussion
squally1313 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
And I'd rather squeeze a different fruit that has juice we are really desperate for (too far?) -
The lack of IL stint for Happ kinda clarifies the Ballesteros move for me based on the past approach by the FO. You don't really need a backup outfielder if Happ is going to stay on the roster, but he probably ideally needs a couple days off. With Amaya rehabbing in AAA, it makes sense to bring up the guy who temporarily lost his daily spot and has also already had a taste of major league pitching. Obviously now we've got 4 major league-ish catchers floating around between Chicago and Iowa, so McGuire has to see the writing on the wall. But that's a problem for the post deadline, healthy Amaya team to deal with
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PCA's last 40 games date back to 6/9 (nice). Over that stretch he has a 127 wRC and the 12th most fWAR in baseball. Those warts are really coming out! 13-10 in the last month, 91.5 win pace. I guess the 'and change' is doing some heavy lifting here? But either way, obviously 'limping' along as a pace better than you predicted at the beginning of the season for the last month. Any reference to Andrew Vaughn and his huge sample size of 15 games of success is laughable. Terrible defender with 1800 PAs from 2022-2024 that resulted in a .319 xwOBA. Came off that rousing success by getting cut by the 2nd worst team in baseball for his .219 OBP.
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I will concede the point that if the Brewers continue to out BABIP the Cubs by 51 points, which they've done since the (very arbitrary!) May 22nd date you referenced, we'll probably be in trouble. Now, their BABIP over that stretch is higher than what any team has done in a full year this decade, so I'd say it's....somewhat unlikely. And the Cubs are 27th over that stretch, which implies some unluckiness in addition to the very good opposing pitching metrics referenced above. But hey, if that all continues for....reasons, yeah, they might win more games than us!
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You can find him on base 36% of his plate appearances in July if you're genuinely looking for him.
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Even just the mention of Cease is also a good sign that teams aren't just assigning themselves one of the two buckets (Buyers, Sellers). While there's only 10 teams with a less than 10% chance of making the playoffs, you're more likely than in past years to figure out a trade with a contending team who is trying to retool.
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If we signed Andrew Vaughn when the brewers did you would have complained about it so effing much
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Depends on how much Marquee is charging Comcast at least a little bit, right? Edit: To be clear, not at all defending Comcast is any situation
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NEWS: Jed Hoyer Agrees to Extension with Cubs
squally1313 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
sorry, further clarification. When I type in 'Urias' into FG, I see Ramon from Baltimore (who kinda just looks like Jon Berti), Luis (who also kinda just looks like Jon Berti), and Julio, who I saw on here was just reinstated (who I want absolutely no part of, for obvious reasons). Intention here isn't to get into the debates of the relative merits of the Ramon and Luis Urias' of the world, but more to confirm you weren't talking about Julio. -
Jed calling other GMs last month:
