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  1. We Got The Whole 9
    Stringing along 2 of our very few stars in search of new contracts, injuries already, tough ass schedule, Nagy seemingly still lacking in coordinating the offense with playcalls taking more than half of the play clock up, and probably a few weeks starting Andy Dalton. Probably a 6-7 win season. Pace really hamstrings the team's depth with his continual proclivity for putting all his eggs in one basket. This Jenkins situation is infuriating.
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    Launch angles Happ 9.4 Bote 10.2 Heyward 7.6 Wisdom 19.2 Ortega 18.5 Schwindel 18.1 I don’t think this is quite that simple. Just taking the top 50 hitters in wOBA as a proxy, 8 of them have sub-11 launch angles, and 8 have 18+. Bote’s launch angle is a career high and Heyward has never been higher than 11.3 while still having strong offensive seasons. Plus, even if we accept launch angle as decisive it’s still a symptom of something else which is unlikely to be universal across 3 or 6+ guys. You're right, the issues are aplenty. The line drives all but disappeared, we are 28th. Only Bryant (24.5) out of our regulars (not including Nico because of all the time missed, but kudos to him for his LD%) was above average (20.5%), Rizzo was right about average, and the rest below. Too many GB; Heyward and Willy are both at freaking 50%. Just God awful. We are also top 10 in IFFB%. To me it just spells out a lot of crappy contact just about throughout the roster. The sweet spot is classified as a BBE between 8-32 degrees. Huge chasm, really. But you see those guys' LA were right there on the low end of the spectrum. Meanwhile the AAAA group is much more in the meat. The xwobas on this team are mostly horrific because they have such crappy launch angles, no?
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    Launch angles Happ 9.4 Bote 10.2 Heyward 7.6 Wisdom 19.2 Ortega 18.5 Schwindel 18.1
  4. We Got The Whole 9
    The old core is better than the old core
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    Bryant 0-3 on the night, dropping his SF line to 261/320/413. His last 7 games in particular have been awful. Edit: now 277/333/426 after a single and a double
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    Willy Adames 2nd in position player fwar since the trade. Yelich-lite transaction yet?
  7. We Got The Whole 9
    High fastballs seem to be a major organizational bugaboo. Also, curve balls.
  8. We Got The Whole 9
    Struck out swinging 1st AB Against a rehabbing Luke Weaver. Rough draw for a pro debut for the 18 year old. True. Saw Weaver in the box score and just figured they had another horsefeathering brother coming up the ranks or something lol
  9. We Got The Whole 9
    I made the 10 millionth post on PSD back in 2014 (or maybe it was 2013, whatever) and they gave me a reward of any jersey of my choosing. I chose a white Starlin jersey. Went against my first thought of getting a HOF like Sayers (already have/had Payton), MJ (wanted the cursive '85), or Banks. That's the last time I acquired a jersey of a player in any sport.
  10. We Got The Whole 9
    Struck out swinging 1st AB
  11. We Got The Whole 9
    I could see Triantos giving us something like that
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    He really shouldn't have made the team even with a good camp
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    Bummer that Killian's start was washed out. Too bad they didn't hold him out.
  14. We Got The Whole 9
    Nothing's been mentioned, just that he was placed on the 7 day IL on 7/23 I thought he pulled a hammy and his season is likely done https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2021/07/22/sogard-does-one-thing-very-well-kimbrels-velo-hermosillo-pulled-draft-relocation-and-other-cubs-bullets/
  15. We Got The Whole 9
    Yeah I look at the numbers and then the more recent reports and I see people project a 4 and I'm like wth I get that he's 24 but it's not like he's been repeating levels and languishing. His stats are ridiculous.
  16. We Got The Whole 9
    There was a Tweet on Friday that had when everyone we traded for last pitched that I really wish I had saved. But most of the guys pitched mid week last week, so we'll see them all get starts likely in the next 2-3 days. I think the exception is Bailey Horn, who I believe got put on the Development List. (Basically it's like the IL but instead of being hurt you go hang out in the Pitch Lab for a few weeks.) Thank you
  17. We Got The Whole 9
    Tampa loves fast groundball hitters. Shop there.
  18. We Got The Whole 9
    I saw somebody claiming to have some inside knowledge on the matter say that the MRI the Mets received was unreadable, there was so much scar tissue in there, and that he received over a dozen cortisone and other inflammation-suppressing shots over his time at Vanderbilt.
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    When will Killian pitch? I saw Canario had a 2 hit day.
  20. We Got The Whole 9
    Never in my life did I expect to be excited over a comment like that. Before this past season it would have made me scream.
  21. We Got The Whole 9
    They're afraid to pitch to Caissie. I wish we could see his chase rate. It's gotta be like single digits lol
  22. We Got The Whole 9
    I would like Madrigal a whole lot more if he worked on cutting down his chase rate. Take some walks. Like, I'm fairly certain he will never elevate the ball, and, frankly, we probably don't want him to. His 85 EV makes for a [expletive] of dying quails. He will have to keep his pound the ground approach, really. Just hope he maintains his speed and gets enough hustle doubles or something. I wonder if they believe Heuer can start.
  23. We Got The Whole 9
    I remember when we finally traded Dempster. We got this guy who nobody had heard of. There was a lot of dismay going around the Cubweb. Then some researched that guy, and, despite really good numbers, the scouting reports made the critics even more sour. A few years later that guy pitched 5 shutout innings in game 7 of the World Series. This trade kind of reminds me of that one, only Killian's reports are much more exciting. I mean his numbers are ridiculous. I'm gonna give this one some time. But he was certainly the "get" in the deal IMO.
  24. We Got The Whole 9
    Rizzo has been hit by like a thousand pitches in his career and has he ever missed time due to one?
  25. We Got The Whole 9
    It's pretty amazing that 4 of probably the best 5 Cubs that most of us had the pleasure of watching during our lifetimes came via wholly lopsided trades. I'd say that includes Cashner for Rizzo DeJesus for Sandberg Bell for Sosa Hill for Ramirez Hell, then you got Choi for Lee, Feldman for Jake, Demp for Hendricks, junk for Fergie It's like, besides KB, you had Maddux, and fan-favorite-but-probably-overrated Mark Grace, and have to go back 60 damn years to the Banks/Williams era to find legit amazing homegrown talent. Its pretty amazing how poorly the Cubs drafted for that long. Somehow they managed some truly awesome trades. I'll never forget Rizzo. He changed our entire perception of the franchise at the time. He lived up to the billing. He made our most outrageous dreams come true. He rarely lost his zeal and he was able to joke and goof around during the most pressure-packed situation really any ball player had been a part of. I talk a lot of horsefeathers during games and I've said some dumb horsefeathers about him before but I wasn't us to sign him back so badly. He really needs to retire a Cub.
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