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    Great to see Morel's not dead. Also not sure there's a better option at the moment but poor PCA is going to get eaten alive by Sale.
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    Yeah he's another good one. And Michael Arias isn't ready yet but I don't need him to string too many good outings in a row before he heads to Iowa either. The bullpen situation is dire enough that I'd love to get these stuff-forward guys to Iowa pronto, and then if/when any of them are throwing strikes (however fleetingly) bring them up to the MLB pen until that unit gets stabilized.
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    As a corresponding move I'd love to see Eduarniel Nunez head to Iowa. Let's start pushing guys who might impact the MLB pen a little aggressively.
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    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-positional-power-rankings-bullpen-no-1-15/ Cubs were projected 13th in reliever WAR coming into the season, it wasn't like a vintage Brewers or Yankees bullpen but there was no reason aside from September PTSD to think the group wasn't fine.
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    The opener is often used to protect lower end SPs, I wonder we could use it to protect our poor middle relief. Like against an opponent that's righty heavy, let Tyson Miller open the game and then bring in Assad. You're not getting the platoon advantage that you're normally utilizing the opener for, but you're putting Miller in a more advantageous position so hopefully the collective 6 innings you're hoping to get from Assad + Miller feature better results. Keegan's another great example. He's very effective when he's got 3-4 days of rest and is tasked with working a clean inning. Do you proactively use him as an opener (for two innings probably) rather than potentially being forced to use him in situations where he'll be diminished? It's not something I'd want to do long term but I wonder if it would stop some of the bleeding while we wait for the circle of trust to develop.
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    He's always had the makings of a good ROOGY he's just been varying levels of awful against lefties. With how left handed the rotation is and Adbert dead there's probably honestly room for him and Cuas both in the pen. Probably about as much as you can hope for in mid May.
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    Patrick Wisdom has very starkly defined strengths and weaknesses and Reynaldo Lopez is very much a pitcher Wisdom tends to struggle against.
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    The forearm is what took him out last September IIRC. Forearms are often a symptom of a larger elbow issue, and "Alzolay's elbow has been compromised since last August" actually makes a lot of things make sense. Let's hope I'm just tin foil hatting.
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    There's a ton on this flying around and this certainly isn't the best place to start, but the bat tracking data provides some additional suppiort for the the Isaac Paredes/Cody Bellinger xwOBA overperformance not being luck.
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    You're probably right, but Steele's shockingly close to split neutral which is where my head's at. Last year he got tagged pretty well by lefties with a .473 slug against. It's probably a combo of some SSS and some selection bias (only star lefties are allowed to face him)? But pending where Imanaga nets out with more playing time we don't have someone who is pure heat death on lefties like Crochet or Luzardo.
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    We've correctly been conditioned to not count the Cardinals out until you see the life leave their eyes, but man this really feels like it's going to stick until Mozeliak gets canned.
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    There's not a ton of great alternatives on the market so the Sox will get their price, but man with Crochet's lack of durability I'd be really scared to pay the price that his talent and current production demands. But if you want someone who can potentially get Ohtani and Freeman out 3x in the same game you're not going to have a lot of alternatives.
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    Not so fun fact: Ozzie Albies in his career is a .272/.325/.476 hitter. That's good, that's a 110 wRC+ Ozzie Albies against thr Cubs in his career is a .406/461/.734 hitter. That's incredible, it's a 213 wRC+. That's 2003 Barry Bonds
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    Acuna and Olson are going to get white hot at some point and make some poor pitching staff wish they'd never been born. Just gotta hope that's at least 10 days out.
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    My boy Sam McWilliams with a perfect inning and three strikeouts. Averaged 96.9 and touched 98. Maybe most importantly he just worked Friday. The Cubs normally throw relievers every three-four days until they're on the big league radar.
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    Comments like this are so ******, and of course they usually come from the same people that railed against Jed's lack of loyalty in breaking up the core.
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    That's Triantos' 13th XBH of the year already. He had 22 last year (missed some time with injury) and 32 the year before. It really looks like the power has taken a step forward and with zero trade-off for contact.
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    Glad for that bases loaded walk before the rain delay but we're very close to needing to have some uncomfortable decisions about Yan Gomes. I believe in pitcher whispering but I don't believe it outweighs terrible hitting AND terrible framing.
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    I definitely expect everyone to be totally normal about this
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    The contact numbers are sub-acceptable, but if you want to hold out hope on Brennen the rest of his offensive game has come back and maybe the contact gets into a more reasonable range as he makes up for lost playing time and knocks off more rust.
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    I don't hate the idea to make up for his time away, but yeah we're well past time to start getting him ramped up to help the big league club.
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    Statcast had Horton averaging 94 and topping out at 95.5. And I'm not going to break out Excel on a Friday night but looking pitch-by-pitch I'd guess he was averaging close to 95 through the first two innings before falling off in the third. I'm guessing that's right and whatever mechanical issues are causing the wildness are also keeping him from peak velo. Also Sam McWilliams shortened up tonight to only 2 IP/6 BF and was absolutely dominant. He's going to be a thing.
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