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  1. champaignchris
    I can’t believe the Reds continue to put up with Hamilton. That at bat against Darvish was horrible.
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    So, basically identical to his last month and a half in Colorado. Imagine that.
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    The Cubs are never going to play ever again.
  4. champaignchris
    Would anyone of that caliber be any better than Alzolay or Mills? And speaking of Eddie Butler, is he dead or what?
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    Despite playing 18 of their games in Coors, they're 13th in the League in runs per game. That's raw, without taking park factors into account at all. Their team OPS+ is 80.
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    If that were the case, there’d be nothing stopping teams from saying, “He’s healthy now,” regardless of his real injury status and starting the suspension clock then. At least this way teams aren’t encouraged to lie.
  7. champaignchris
    When is the “Schwarber can’t play outfield” thing going to die?
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    Kelvin Herrera has a 14 to zero K/BB rate over 13.2 innings. That's pretty good. He's probably pitching himself onto a contender by the deadline and then to a pretty nice contract in the offseason.
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    I don’t hate the Cubs trying to acquire Machado. I don’t hate the Cubs trading Russell. I do hate the Cubs trading Russell for Machado. That said, the Orioles are last in the AL is runs, BA, OBP, and SLG despite Machado slashing .344/.428/.606! How is that even possible? Unsurpringly, Machado leads the league with 7 IBB already. Trout led the AL in IBB last year with a grand total of 15. Machado is on pace to double that.
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    If the Cubs could somehow throw Heyward’s contract into the mix, I could see Russell for Machado making some sort of sense. But there’s absolutely no way Heyward is waiving his NTC to go play in Baltimore.
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    I have yet to hear a compelling reason why a team in the Cubs’ position (young, primed to compete for the next 4+ years) would trade 3 1/2 years of a 3 WAR a year player for 1/2 a year of a 5.5 WAR a year player that plays the exact same position. Why add a tiny bit to your chances this year while subtracting quite a bit from your chances the next three when you should be competitive in each of those three? The only way that would make sense is if they think 24-year-old Addison Russell is irretrievably toast. Which would be a bizarre conclusion. Even with the hitting struggles, he’s on a 3.0 bWAR pace.
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    With all their other free agents and Zimmerman, Strasburg and Scherzer combining to make about $95M, will the Nats be able to sign Harper for $40+M per year and put a WS caliber team around him? I’m sure he doesn’t want to be National League Mike Trout.
  13. champaignchris
    I was figuring since Forsythe and Turner were also hurt, they’d be looking for whatever cheap, not necessarily horrible infielders on bad teams they could find. I thought about adding Starlin to my list, but at $14M, he’s probably too expensive for them. They could still send Kemp and basically their entire farm system to the Orioles for Machado.
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    https://twitter.com/chadmoriyama/status/990462619990437888?s=21 Scooter Ginnett, Whit Merrifield, Freddy Galvis?
  15. champaignchris
    Don’t you guys dare put me in a position where I have to defend how good a Cardinal is!!! He isn’t even the best Cardinal catcher not currently in the Hall. (Ted Simmons.)
  16. champaignchris
    I don’t think there’s any question that Molina is one of the top 6 defensive catchers of all time. The thing is, of the others on the same defensive level as him, the ones in the Hall - Bench, Carter, Pudge - were significantly better hitters than him. The ones that are not in the Hall - Boone, Sundberg - were significantly worse hitters than Molina. Molina has been a just below average MLB hitter (98 OPS+) for his career. Does that get you in the Hall? He’s a great defensive player, but he’s not on another level the way that Ozzie Smith was at shortstop. Posey, Russell Martin, and Mauer (even when only counting his years as primarily a catcher) have all been more valuable than Molina.
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    Insert Cartman licking tears gif >here<.
  18. champaignchris
    AKA how Rizzo describes a normal face. AKA a “Lackey.”
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    Puerto Rico is fantastic. After they get their place put back together from the hurricane, I'd highly recommend it as a vacation spot. It's just a slightly different flavor of USA. Walgreens and food courts and cable television and all. Just more palm trees, rum, and salsa music. It's like a Latino version of the Florida panhandle. Beautiful beaches, beautiful people and excellent fried food.
  20. champaignchris
    Shenanigan... or chicanery?
  21. champaignchris
    Can’t say Price had much to work with. And pretty much the entire team is hurt this year. It’s wild to think that after 2013 they’d won 90 games three out of four years and had a decent core of young players. And that franchise just fell apart. Arroyo, Phillips and Ludwick got old. Bruce’s production completely fell off. Bailey, Latos, and Mesaroco all got hurt and never were good again. Cingrani never panned out. And they traded Leake, Frazier, Cueto and Chapman before they hit free agency and got very little back in return - Duvall, Schebler (hurt) and Finnegan (hurt).
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    Edit: re putting an MLB team in PR. I expect MLB to take a really long hard look at Latin America on the next expansion go around. Manfred has all but admitted that baseball will be expanding after Oakland and Tampa get their stadium issues worked out. One of the expansion teams will go to Montreal, but there’s a real question of where the second one should go. It’s not like the 90s when Miami, Denver and Phoenix didn’t have teams. There’s a real question as to why anyone would want to pay the franchise fee to put a team in Charlotte, San Antonio, Portland, etc. Basically signing up to be another Cincinnati or Kansas City.
  23. champaignchris
    I know you're asking about draft picks, but why doesn't anyone seem to want to give Thoyer credit for development of Hendricks and Edwards? Acquired as 22 and 21 year old A-ball pitchers, respectively, neither a top-100 prospect (although Edwards became one later). People claim Thoyer haven't developed any pitchers since coming to the Cubs, and I'm wondering what farm system they think Hendricks played in.
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    He pushed the ump out of his way and only gets one game?
  25. champaignchris
    I'm ashamed to admit that I read that five times, thinking there weren't enough names there to fill up the line up card.
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