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  1. We Got The Whole 9
    I'd like Zagunis to get a look
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    Team contact is 80% and they have the lowest K rate at 15%, with a healthy 10% walk rate. They have several hitters playing over their heads right now but putting that many balls in play puts a lot of pressure on the defense. They've had a heck of a start to the season offensively. If they can keep up that kind of BBK they should be pretty dangerous to face. The team offensive leaderboard is like the upside down right now. None of the top 5 were in the top 10 last year (Braves, Pirates, CWS were no better than 19th) and only 3 in the top 10 were top 10 last year.
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    For as critical as I have been toward KB, it is only because I hold him to absurd standards. He will absolutely put up a 3/4/6 slash line in his prime, I believe. I will be beside myself if he ever plays for another team.
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    Love that, Al. Sorry I was so wrong.
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    That was solid. Swung at 1 ball 4 but laid off the low pitch to take the walk.
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    Almora leading off... against Chase Anderson? Russell is seeing the ball as well as anybody, he should get a shot. Weird horsefeathers, Joe.
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    Freddie Freeman is slashing 409/618/818 with a 4.0 BBK
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    Now reports say minimum 6 weeks
  9. We Got The Whole 9
    More unintentional walks than hits
  10. We Got The Whole 9
    horsefeathers that guy. Such a [expletive].
  11. We Got The Whole 9
    My hope is that we can work a deal with AZ for the 15 pick, their 3rd, and their 2019 1st. They need a franchise QB and they should be desperate enough to trade up for one, and their roster sucks enough that they should still be a bottom 10 team this year, if not bottom 5. So I was thinking 8 and our higher 4th for those 3 picks. Thoughts?
  12. We Got The Whole 9
    You could tell he joked but not in an insulting way by the way Braun only smiled and acknowledged he'd gotten got
  13. We Got The Whole 9
    Send Suter to the showers in 40 seconds or less
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    Any team pic without KB is so incomplete
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    I saw somebody say he also removed his college and HS stuff as well. Maybe he's stating his athletics don't define him?
  16. We Got The Whole 9
    So Nagy and Burton have bought in to the fired up Pace lexicon
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    Christian Villenueva launched 3 bombs tonight vs the Rockies
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    Nova was obviously impressive when they shot the ball but their defense was outstanding
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    It's all good. Won't mention it again.
  20. We Got The Whole 9
    I didn't even look at them until CW11 brought up hard and soft% but I don't see anybody scolding him for looking at that small sample. I completely agree with everything you said but I can't not see last year's first half struggles as a result of trying to yank everything. Like I said, Joe acknowledged it as a problem and he wanted them to shift their approach at the plate and they pretty clearly did and they saw a 48 point BABIP increase and got back to plating a [expletive] of runs. I feel like I'm watching them bang their heads into the wall when they hit a bunch of atem balls and have nothing to show for it. I'm not labeling it as a fatal flaw. I'm saying that I'm not surprised they have a low BABIP. All the horsefeathers I cited and complained about in the first half last year only lingered until the break. It's not like I was egregiously wrong about any of it.
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    Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit. This is the same nonsense you spouted ad nauseam last year. We told you repeatedly that you were digging too deep into things and trying to make stats say things that they weren't capable of saying. And then the Cubs BABIP'd .328 in the second half last year, completely debunking your notions. And now you're ready to dive back in after a 5 game sample? I mean, seriously, you are trying to take Pull% from 4 games and deducing some Big Theory about our organizational philosophies. First half 2017: 43.6 (1st) Second: 39.9 (16th) They didn't debunk horsefeathers. Maddon even talked about it several times last season. He said he was preaching the same thing but the hitters weren't listening. It's not an organizational philosophy; it's a lot of young hitters who aren't yet adept at hitting the ball where it's pitched.
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    Proposal for TBL theme in this thread
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    Dudes in Houston pulled out all the stops to get the cover off the new WS banner, including using a leaf blower as another dude climbed the stanchion to physically separate it. That was hilarious.
  24. We Got The Whole 9
    Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit....if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point? 280 is nothing to write home about and would have been 28th in the league last year.
  25. We Got The Whole 9
    Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.
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