squally1313
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Too much smiling. Don’t they know we’re in a cold stretch
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Pedro ruins the chance for the first ever grand slam cycle
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I think that was (half) joke. Too many home runs, not enough opportunities to steal bases.
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Bad challenge
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I miss Dansby
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Anyone know how Shaw did in Iowa, besides presumably enjoy the lack of any multicultural presence?
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The reds bullpen and the cubs bullpen is like the Batmans pointing at each other me, only instead of batmans it’s drunk toddlers
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Alex Bregman ranks at the top of ‘not challenging pitches he should have’, of which he has several, which is a stat I am obviously super familiar with for players around the league
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it wouldn't have done anything but it's hard for me to understand the thought process on not challenging there
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absolutely, 100% this after a shaky may, they've gone 16-10 in june, 14-10 in july, and up until today are 14-10 in august. they seem streaky because we're cubs sickos who grind through every at bat and 'he had 2 hits yesterday and 0 today' seems streaky. we've been top 2 in offense every month of that stretch, and bottom 8 in pitching. very very elite offense and absolutely terrible pitching has basically been the status quo for most of the season.
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are they out there in the field cracking jokes? going up to the plate and laughing when they miss a pitch? if not, who the horsefeathers cares. banning smiles in the clubhouse isn't going to make thornton start striking people out
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hopefully someone punches the wall or something to meet your level of dugout behavior in the sixth inning of an august baseball game
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yeah man, why aren't they crying
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well i mean, that's a totally different set of hypotheticals. to me, it seems incredibly unlikely that they're going to commit $50m to the offense in the offseason and basically lock in their entire lineup. the very obvious plan going forward is to bring back one of the outfielders (seiya at this point, but happ on three years or less is fine), and find some cheap platoon for the other spot. that keeps the corner spots mostly open for the prospects that are actually outfield prospects, ie that project as hopefully above average hitters, but are at least a year away. and then you trade the blocked infield prospects for pitching.
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ok thornton can go
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assuming it's not like, $80m....that would be fine? again, who should we put there next year. pretty sure he's a year away from getting 10 and 5 rights anyways
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to be fair(?), Thornton was never in the circle of trust, unless someone made a terrible mistake. it was the 6th inning against 8-9-1 of a bad lineup. Thornton just sucks.
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Here are the free agent outfielders (without club options) listed on mlb.com: Arozarena: 31 yo, 143 wRC, 3.8 fWAR Springer: 37 yo, 103 wRC, 0.7 fWAR Adolis Garcia: 33 yo, 63 wRC, 0.0 fWAR Grisham: 29 yo, 104 wRC, 1.0 fWAR Castellanos: 34 yo, 51 wRC, -0.9 fWAR Happ: 32 yo, 111 wRC, 2.5 fWAR Suzuki: 32 yo, 134 wRC, 3.7 fWAR Varsho: 31 yo, 87 wRC, 1.2 fWAR Marte: just got released Mullins: 31 yo, 78 wRC, 1.1 fWAR Taylor Ward: 32 yo, 106 wRC, 1.3 fWAR Laureano: 31 yo, 86 wRC, 0.2 fWAR Lane Thomas: 30 yo, 101 wRC, 0.8 fWAR Refsnyder: just got released JJ Bleday: 28 yo, 111 wRC, 1.5 fWAR Austin Hays: 30 yo, 67 wRC, -0.4 fWAR Do we really think the third best outfield free agent is going to take a QO?
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He has a 113 wRC in August. He's definitely taken a step back from the normal performance he's consistently given us and the underlying metrics don't necessarily predict an offsetting hot streak, but every time this comes up it's inevitably 'if you ignore all the good stuff he does, he's bad'
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agreed, totally fine 'letting him walk', don't think it's super necessary to 'fire him into the sun'. And also not sure what the alternative is. Because I certainly don't want it to be Pedro Ramirez (.301 xwOBA, not a four time gold glove winning outfielder) or Matt Shaw (.301 xwOBA, not a four time gold glove winning outfielder, terrible person).
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as per usual with happ, this is not the problem you think it is
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busch
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sub three hours until first pitch but I guess I'll throw it here that shaw is back, alcantara down
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This isn’t how making the playoffs work. There’s a reason going into today we had a 9% chance of winning the division and a 1% chance of missing the playoffs. There’s three wildcard spots, it’s not a two team race.
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haven't seen a second of the game, but....boyd with 5 IP, 5 Ks, 4 baserunners, and a .214 xBA against is good right? jesus christ, i typed this out, looked over at my phone before hitting send and saw the home run. cursed this series.
