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  1. Bertz
    This would, pending appeal, force both to miss this weekend's series in Chicago
  2. Bertz
    Nick Madrigal sucks but he's better than David Bote. He's also better than Jake Slaughter and lightyears better than Chase Strumpf before anybody goes there. Like TT I would swap Madrigal for Mastro probably? I do also think Nick tends to do better when he has been given consistent play time, so having him stashed at Iowa and coming back up when injuries demand it is probably the best move.
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    Not pitching for Iowa until the weekend
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    If the team was closer to full strength I would have liked to get PCA in there. As a lowball hitter Manaea is the type of lefty you'd like to ease him in against I think.
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    WOW
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    I would guess in season that if any SP goes out that another SP comes in. For example if the Padres continue to slide trading for the remaining 1.5 seasons of Dylan Cease. We saw how quickly depth can erode and you are forced to throw your #8 starter out there. Especially with Horton and Brown having pretty low inning caps this season, no way Jed goes net negative on SPs until at least the winter.
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    With the benefit of hindsight I think it's pretty clear it was intentional. The team tasked him with making XYZ mechanical changes over the winter and ST, and at Iowa told him to focus on hitting those in a live setting over hitting his normal velo/spin benchmarks. He gets back to MLB, they tell him to let it rip while attempting to keep those XYZ changes and now knock on wood he's fixed. I think the big test will be how does he hold up in leverage spots. Because the AZ game is the only one he's pitched in thus far with major stakes. But he seems back to being the guy we loved in the latter part of '22.
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    I'll say I feel good about where things are at in-season. I think the flow of gamethreads getting pinned to then hanging out in discussion for a day or two postgame to getting archived works and is legitimate improvement from the old way of working. I also feel like the tenor of the conversation and community is generally good. People get overly dramatic when things get tough, but that's anywhere. I mean if you want to see a place that's gone totally off the rails in that regard check out the change in tenor over the last 18 months at Bleacher Nation. I do think we need to figure out the best "flow" for next offseason. I think many/most of us old timers would vote to resurrect the Transactions forum. But the megathread this past winter was a slog and at the same time we shouldn't start a new thread every time like JP Morosi tweets conflicting info about Cody Bellinger. Maybe separate running threads for some of the hotly rumored/logical Cubs targets and then a megathread for assorted league goings on?
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    Especially having been proven right about how ready to roll Assad/Brown/Wicks were, signing someone from the Severino tier of FA starters would have been a bad idea. Good on Severino for seemingly getting back on track, now he can be one of the top deadline rentals in July and make some real money next winter. But I don't think it's worth kicking ourselves over.
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    Yeah I think the two big things you'll see different between them: - Outfield assists aside, Schwarber was a horrible defender basically from the jump and is now catastrophically bad. Caissie will probably be vaguely average initially and then slide from there - Despite probably ending up with similar K numbers, I think Caissie likely hits for a good bit higher average. Some of that is his approach and being less launch angle-y and less pull happy like 1908 pointed out. Some of it is not at all to his credit and due to the shift ban. But I think you see 20-30 extra points of average with Caissie, though he will cede some dongs in the process
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    My laptop when I open BaseballSavant to check the data Cade's first AAA start
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    I saw they were going to get it done in New York. So my guess is logistics of doing it on the road were just easier there. And once you've committed to IL'ing him there's not a ton of urgency. Also looks like I missed a Merryweather update on the broadcast last night If he hasn't even started throwing yet feels like a May return is already off the table (though being on the 60 day IL may have forced that regardless).
  15. Bertz
    Patrick Wisdom should feast tonight A win would be really big. Between Shota being awesome and Houser being terrible winning at least one of games 3/4 feels like a safe bet. So win tonight and the prospects of a winning series + road trip look great.
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    It's probably just a hot streak? I see two things notably different from last year: 1. He's swinging In-Zone a lot more. Tauchman is often beyond patient to the point of passive so this is big 2. His launch angle is way up but his groundball rate is flat. So he's trading some low line drives for outfield liners and also unfortunately some pop-ups Neither of these feel like fundamental changes? I would guess they are more just the things that he's doing when he's going well.
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    Brewers fans are going to howl over this. I'm torn, on the one hand in real time it didn't seem to matter. On the other in the replay it clearly hit him and did move his head a bit so you probably should call the play dead.
  18. Bertz
    Beyond the actual win, burning Edwin Diaz like that is also big for the rest of the series. He worked Sunday too, so he is probably only usable one more time in the series to avoid a 4/5 stretch?
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    And then circling back to Hendricks, if you want some reason for optimism that an IL stint has a chance to help things, looks like his release point was off in the early going this season (Also the entire thread from Bryan should probably be required reading)
  20. Bertz
    And then from last night reasonably good news on Wicks and seemingly great news on Bellinger
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    Steele & Hendricks both likely back in the next 10-15 days Seiya probably not far off from a rehab either?
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    I don't know what specifically goes into this guy's model vs. what shows up on FG but he gets quote tweeted into my timeline pretty regularly by people I respect. But if Hayden's cutter is now an impact pitch to go along with his sweeper and his fastball/changeup/sinker are all grading out as vaguely average we might be cooking. Especially with the way Hayden fills up the strikezone.
  23. Bertz
    I don't know Casali's reputation as a pitcher whisperer, but with how rough Gomes has looked to open this year I'm starting to wonder if Curt's the best option at backup catcher right now. With how injured the team is that's not a move you make right now, but it's probably something to consider if trends continue another couple of weeks.
  24. Bertz
    This is probably the toughest game this series, but honestly isn't *that* scary. I feel like all of these games are winnable, but at the same time Wednesday's the only game that feels like an absolute should win. Feels like an obvious split.
  25. Bertz
    I'm interested in what things the team does to maximize rest during this stretch as guys (hopefully come back off the IL). Like last night the team teased a possible minimum stay on the IL for Bellinger, which would bring him back Sunday-ish. With PCA producing, do you send down an infielder (Mervis) so you can run a Tauchman-PCA-Bellinger OF for a few days and get Happ the rest he so clearly needs? In the rotation, with Steele's ETA you only need one more start out of Wesneski, but do you take two in order to get everyone an additional rest day with minimal roster manipulation?
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