We Got The Whole 9

Agreed

Cease was the story. Struck out Vlad Jr and Bichette on 7 pitches. https://www.milb.com/milb/news/chicago-cubs-dylan-cease-pitches-five-shutout-innings/c-239750130/t-185364810 Started reading more headlines on milb.com and they have articles for Dewees and Villenueva so I checked out their stats. Dewees has struck out in just 12% of his 300 PA (110 wRC+) in AA and Villenueva has found some power at El Paso (granted, hitters haven) with 15 HR in 200 PA and 7 in his last 10 games. I know, random. I like to see what former Cubs are up to.

Ah, last year. Feels like ages ago.

I heard Ice Cube had the T-Mobile Arena booked for his 3-on-3 tourney on this same date and now is gonna make a few mil just to let them have it for the fight

Not only is he helpless vs sliders but he swings at everything and gets himself out on crappy pitches

April and June they hit 250 but they hit 215 in May and pretty much sunk the season line to depths very hard to climb out of. If they hit 250 all year they're right around the middle of the pack.

Thank you Billy you cocky mofo

Blake Parker got a FG spotlight http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-new-relief-ace-in-anaheim/ Filthy season he's having

Potential Moonlight Fowler

That can't be right

I want to win too but I also would like to open the window of contention wider and bring in a guy with a live arm and 7 years of control ready to step into the rotation. We can then use other small chips to bolster the pen with a Strop/Duensing type of arm and move Carl into the closer spot and Monty back into the long role and trade for Gray (starting to accept it will cost Eloy) or Gausman or whoever they're most intent on. Then we have a real rotation moving forward and plenty of financial flexibility. I don't really want to have a 15-20m Closer but I definitely don't think the idea of extending him is a bad one. 1) Monty can stay in the rotation. 2) You're really devaluing the pen, in doing that. A Duensing or Strop addition really doesn't add much. 3) We've got financial flexibility now. You've got Jake, Miggy, Lackey, Davis, Jay, Uehara, Anderson, probably Rondon, and Duensing coming off the books. Even AFTER arb raises, you've got 60-65 mill to spend just to get to last years payroll. We've got room. I don't know what starter we'll add at the deadline, but we're going into the off season with plenty of money to spend.(even if there's not necessarily a ton to go buy). At any rate, we're plenty flexible now. Don't need to trade Davis to get even more so. I don't want to buy old arms on the market and cut into any ability to extend our core when the times come. We have flexibility now, I didn't mean it that way. But if we can fill in the rotation with cheap arms we can really start trying to lock some of these guys up. And while I really like Monty in the rotation. The long role he was playing this year was huge because our guys keep getting bombed. Lester Kyle Gray/Gausman Tinstaapp Butler Doesn't look so bad for the next 2-4 years. Anyway I'm gonna stop. Don't want to beat a dead horse.

If this was a computer sim game, then absolutely. But, its not. Selling off your closer is going to piss off everyone on the major league team. They deserve their leniency, after last year. You can't sell off a major piece for a team that's a game out of the division lead. It'd just send the wrong message to the players. I think they would probably understand that the team desperately needs better SP like now though. You're probably right... It would be a shrewd move, though.

No sir. I want an extension. Leave the blown saves for Nats. I want to win too but I also would like to open the window of contention wider and bring in a guy with a live arm and 7 years of control ready to step into the rotation. We can then use other small chips to bolster the pen with a Strop/Duensing type of arm and move Carl into the closer spot and Monty back into the long role and trade for Gray (starting to accept it will cost Eloy) or Gausman or whoever they're most intent on. Then we have a real rotation moving forward and plenty of financial flexibility. I don't really want to have a 15-20m Closer but I definitely don't think the idea of extending him is a bad one.

[emoji28] [emoji23]

Holy horsefeathers Jon Jay!

This team reminds me of 2004 Well, the 2004 Cubs won 89 games, which would win this division by 22 games. Yeah I'll take that. The wins are still possible. But the ending to that season was a huge heartbreaker.

Anybody on board with flipping Wade for a tinstapp yet

This team reminds me of 2004

Possibly not but Carl did strike Murphy out

Murphy looks confused by the zone. I wonder why.

Time for Zagunis first hit now

Damn I like what Willy was trying to do there

Yeah I want them all to sit it out. Couldn't care less. Last year we had our fill.

My my my Willy

Gee, Al, maybe you should've swung at one of those other 2 strikes right in the kitchen