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  1. champaignchris
    Didn't the Cubs decline to pick up the option on Jason Hammel in part because they didn't feel right about picking up an option just to trade a guy? I could totally see the Cubs declining the option on Hamels and then re-signing him to a Lackey-ish deal. But I don't think there's any way they pick up the option.
  2. champaignchris
    Harper since the ASB: .339/.447/.677
  3. champaignchris
    Have a year, Javy!
  4. champaignchris
    Ju-u-ust a bit outside.Doyle>
  5. champaignchris
    It’s pretty amazing that Hamels pitched as well as he pitched for that many innings for some really good teams, and only has 153 career wins. From ‘06 to ‘11 Hamels averaged a 3.39 ERA and 194 innings a year, but only 9 wins for Phillies teams that averaged 93 wins a year during that time. He had a 2.79 ERA over 216 innings for the ‘11 team that won 102 games, and only went 14-9. Reason #6743 that pitchers’ won loss records are dumb.
  6. champaignchris
    Jackson arguably had the two worst seasons as a starter for the Cubs over the last 25 years. If you go by bWAR, his 2013 (-1.4) was also worse than Estes’s 2003 (-1.3). Justin Germano, Chris Volstad and Glendon Rusch all also had seasons in that -1.3, -1.4 range. Jackson’s somehow actually been pretty good through 7 starts with Oakland this year.
  7. champaignchris
    The dude now has a 3.18 career ERA in 408 innings when pitching for anyone other than the Cubs. I’m still pretty miffed at how that Castro trade panned out. I know the Cubs eventually got Chapman out of Warren, but he could have pitched to expectations and the Cubs could have traded a different bum reliever back to New York instead.
  8. champaignchris
    Edwin Jackson in 2014. 6-15, 6.33 ERA, -2.3 bWAR in 140.2 IP.
  9. champaignchris
    They gave Javy a Caught Stealing on that play last night. I don’t know. The pitcher wasn’t paying attention and Javy got a great jump. The third baseman was 30 feet or so from the base when Javy started running. If the pitcher had waited to throw until the third baseman got to the bag, it would have been a really close play. If the third baseman had stopped running to catch the ball the pitcher threw, Javy might have run right past him. Of course the pitcher’s throw went into left field and the point is moot. I think a lot of the “risky” stuff Javy does on the basepaths is a lot more calculated than people give him credit for.
  10. champaignchris
    Well, the Cubs do in fact rule, while the Brewers’ drooling has been patently obvious for some time now.
  11. champaignchris
    Probably nothing else major, but a waiver deadline deal or two wouldn't surprise me. A depth outfielder and a third catcher seems to have been the Theo/Hoyer pattern for waiver deadline deals.
  12. champaignchris
    They did add Mike Moustakas. Ah yes. I forgot about that one.
  13. champaignchris
    Are the Brewers going to do anything at all? I mean, I guess they added Soria to an already good bullpen. But that team could use a couple more bats and a starting pitcher.
  14. champaignchris
    Less weird than Archer to San Diego, which was the hot rumor about 24 hours ago.
  15. champaignchris
    So he’ll back next year, right? There’s pretty much no way Kintzler turns down the $5M player option, right? Don’t know if that makes the trade better or worse.
  16. champaignchris
    Obviously, we have to see what’s going back. But in the words of C. Montgomery Burns, “I know what I hate, and I don’t hate this.”
  17. champaignchris
    I’m breathlessly awaiting Tommy Pham verbally unloading on the Cardinals organization the minute he reports with the Rays. We all know it’s going to happen. Does that make me a bad person?
  18. champaignchris
    The main thing that bothered me about that whole ARod rant is that it made it sound like the Cubs passed on trying to resign Arrieta in favor of Darvish, when multiple sources - including Arrieta himself - have said that the Cubs offered Arrieta significantly more in guaranteed money than he ended up signing for before the Cubs signed Darvish. The only reason Arrieta isn’t a Cub is because Arrieta didn’t want to be a Cub. I dislike the rewriting of history to make it so the Cubs messed up by choosing Darvish over Arrieta.
  19. champaignchris
    Fangraphs still has the Nats with a 57% chance of making the playoffs. Unless the Nats know something fangraphs doesn’t know - like maybe Strasburg is toast for the year - then it would make more sense to add and try to turn the thing around than to sell.
  20. champaignchris
    I will admit to having wanted the Cubs to sign Cecil when was a free agent. (But not for as much money as the Cards gave him.)
  21. champaignchris
    Josh Donaldson was the first name to come to my mind. He was the 48th pick of the draft. But he had a pedestrian minor league career, was never a top 100 ranked prospect, was a deadline deal throw-in with three other guys as an A-baller, and didn’t become a Major League regular until age 26.
  22. champaignchris
    You’re Confusing him with Leland Meeks.
  23. champaignchris
    This is what had me wondering about this trade. With Hosmer signed long term at 1st and Tatis eventually at 3rd, if Mejia doesn’t stick at C, is his bat good enough to be a plus corner outfielder? At this point, i’m sure the Pads are just in asset acquisition mode and are less concerned about how things shake out a few years from now. But it will be interesting to watch.
  24. champaignchris
    Yeah Taking three minutes to get the call right is better than 10 minutes of the manager losing his horsefeathers when the umps blow an obvious call.
  25. champaignchris
    Agent to assistant: “We just signed Giolito. Follow our normal procedure and scrub his social feeds.” Assistant to agent: “Got it.” 20 minutes later... Assistant to agent: “I can’t scrub it, sir. It’s. Just. Too. Adorable.”
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