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  1. We Got The Whole 9
    Really pleased with Almora lately. Joe has been putting him in good position to succeed and he's come through.
  2. We Got The Whole 9
    Yeah he was. Boo that man! I'll take the fall. [tweet] [/tweet]That's good stuff. I've noticed he's been putting a lot of first pitches in play. [expletive] I was really thinking Wade was gonna blow it. That was stressful.
  3. We Got The Whole 9
    Yeah he was. Boo that man!
  4. We Got The Whole 9
    Bellinger going ballistic. 21 homers in 51 career games.
  5. We Got The Whole 9
    Brand new ballgame. Now let's leave em in the dust.
  6. We Got The Whole 9
    Get him the horsefeathers in guys
  7. We Got The Whole 9
    If neither Russell or Heyward are available then you only have a 2 man bench(Montero & TLS), and both are lefties with at least 2 more plate appearances left. I would've been alright with Arrieta hitting though. I wonder who the last pitcher to hit in 3 straight games is
  8. We Got The Whole 9
    Of horsefeathering course
  9. We Got The Whole 9
    Didn't he literally have a 4 strikeout game within one of his last ~5 starts? Oddly enough, sandwiched around that game is a bunch of 0K games. Only 5 Ks in his last 28 PA and that includes that game.
  10. We Got The Whole 9
    When your freaking notification headline cuts off after "Eloy Jimenez shatters"
  11. We Got The Whole 9
    Not the greatest results but Happ is putting the ball in play much more consistently
  12. We Got The Whole 9
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-cubs-are-looking-everywhere-for-an-edge/
  13. We Got The Whole 9
    Holy horsefeathers CJ almost died
  14. We Got The Whole 9
    No sweat for Tony
  15. We Got The Whole 9
    He probably will make every start, health provided. I think 45 or 46 is probably a good bet.
  16. We Got The Whole 9
    Almora wouldn't have hit that pitch with a 60 inch bat
  17. We Got The Whole 9
    Soler has 10 HR in 95 AAA PA but was abysmal in his MLB stint this year. Looking like a 4A player but may be turning the corner.
  18. We Got The Whole 9
    I know that in general we've always needed thousands of innings to get a clear picture for a fielder but I feel like over the last couple years people have been much more comfortable citing SSS in those metrics. How many do you think will give us enough of a sample?
  19. We Got The Whole 9
    As much as I want auto umps and 100% accuracy on balls and strikes, wouldn't that pretty much kill a pitcher, like, Hendricks, for example, by forcing him to catch more plate? Take away those nebulous edges and those finesse pitchers would become extinct, it seems to me. I go back and forth on it. I also love when a catcher can steal strikes, and that wouldn't even be necessary anymore with auto zone tech.
  20. We Got The Whole 9
    What do you guys think of Almora's defense as the metrics have seen it? Is he simply too slow? Is it his positioning that needs tweaking? Only 274 innings in CF this year but -3 DRS and -13 UZR/150. I would have bought that he'd actually be average because he is really slow. But I'm surprised at how poorly he's graded.
  21. We Got The Whole 9
    Yeah I didn't really mind the Yankees during their mid-90s dominance but then they just started buying the top 2 FA seemingly every year and just seemed like a squad of mercenaries. This Yankee team reminds me a lot of our 2015 squad. They've arrived a year too early in a lot of minds but they are for real and I'm sure they will make a couple big splashes at the deadline to fortify the pitching. They have a team wRC+ of 146 this month. 6 hitters well over 150 and 2 of those over 230. horsefeathering insane.
  22. We Got The Whole 9
    I still contend that the biggest issues contributing to the offensive woes is our undying love for pulling the ball and making it probably as easy as we can for defenses to position themselves properly and take away several would-be hits every game. It's obviously not an exact science but when you know the team is going to mostly pull or stay up the middle you take a lot of the guesswork out. Obviously you lose a lot of hits to pull-side, but also many up the middle as well. This, combined with our decreasing authoritative contact has really brought our BABIP down. I know that you mentioned last year our EV was nothing to write home about; nobody in the top 100. But I think this year it hit such a low that we have to acknowledge it as a problem. Just not enough truly hard contact. A ton of the mushy-middle. Not enough line drives. I feel like the guys are about to go on a tear. June has been very solid. These two things are generally mutually exclusive. There were 4 opposite field hits in the 9th, and only La Stella's was over 85 mph exit velocity. That's true. Only a select number of hitters can merge the 2. But our hitters certainly need to work with what the pitchers give more, and that 9th inning was exactly what I'd like to see a lot more of.
  23. We Got The Whole 9
    Judge has a 380 ISO A rookie has the best OPS in baseball. He's in line for a Triple Crown. Say what you will about RBI but this season from a rookie is incredible. I hope he keeps it up. I know he's a Yankee and I never pull for them but this is historical stuff what he's doing. Gotta admire it.
  24. We Got The Whole 9
    Some really good stuff. A lot of the areas we've struggled in, that We Got the Whole 9 has mentioned... we did those things well. They were legit hits. Crisp line drives. The 6 hits were all between 0-20° launch angle. Four of them went the other way. Really good to see. I still contend that the biggest issues contributing to the offensive woes is our undying love for pulling the ball and making it probably as easy as we can for defenses to position themselves properly and take away several would-be hits every game. It's obviously not an exact science but when you know the team is going to mostly pull or stay up the middle you take a lot of the guesswork out. Obviously you lose a lot of hits to pull-side, but also many up the middle as well. This, combined with our decreasing authoritative contact has really brought our BABIP down. I know that you mentioned last year our EV was nothing to write home about; nobody in the top 100. But I think this year it hit such a low that we have to acknowledge it as a problem. Just not enough truly hard contact. A ton of the mushy-middle. Not enough line drives. I feel like the guys are about to go on a tear. June has been very solid.
  25. We Got The Whole 9
    Hopefully we get one of those hometown kid returns to sack the city type of series out of Happ
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