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    That he's the youngest player in his league? Oh, and your math is wrong. His ISO for his minor league career is .163. Unless you're calling his 29 games in full season ball 3 months?
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    That he's the youngest player in his league?
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    I knew the ump had a bad game yesterday but yeesh
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    I'd actually put Madrigal in the "mixed bag" camp. He's hitting everything on the ground right now, and that's clearly a big problem. But he's hitting the hell out of the ball, his hard hit rate right now would have been 2nd among qualifiers last year. His patience has been fine as well (Statcast says 53rd percentile). His expected stats have him as a league average-ish hitter so far, even with the huge number of ground balls. He probably starts lifting the ball more and gives back quite a bit on the EV side, ending up where he was with the Sox. Though if he can improve his launch angle AND keep the juice in his bat, that's essentially DJ Lemahieu.
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    I'm curious how to put the offense in context right now. Of course the biggest and most important context is "it's only been 9 games," but they've been really good. On the one hand, they've played 4 games in Coors this far, which will goose any team's offense. On the other hand Pittsburgh and Wrigley in April are sizeably pitcher friendly, AND the Cubs have face 4 SPs who were stars last year. The Cubs early on are: - 8th in runs per game - 2nd in wRC+ - 7th in walk rate - 7th best in strikeout rate - 9th in ISO - 2nd in BABIP - Highest in groundball rate (by a lot) - Lowest in popup rate - 9th in exit velo - 7th in hard hit rate - 11th lowest in chase rate The groundball rate is a problem, but they're doing literally everything else well. And on a player-by-player basis, it's also mostly positive or at least mixed news. I'm not sure there's anyone who I feel significantly worse about than I did 10 days ago except Schwindel. Maybe Ortega?
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    While the overall numbers aren't there for either, I feel MUCH better about Wisdom than Schwindel right now. Wisdom's patience and power are where it was last year, and his contact is actually up. I'm actually cautiously optimistic he's improved. Schwindel though is chasing more, hitting the ball softly, and everything is on the ground. It's a scary combo.
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    I feel like we earned that one. Ump had a wide zone early in the game which contributed to the Cubs not blowing it open, then tightened up big time when Rucker and Givens could have used some help.
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    I couldn't be a fan of an NL West team and do this ten times a year
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    The bullpen is a bit thin, you can tell they're still trying to avoid back-to-backs, but I feel like Rucker should have taken yesterday to the house after Chavez came out. Then they'd have all three of Wick/Givens/Robertson today
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    *sigh*
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    Don't know if I love Rucker coming into a game that's still vaguely close. Should have used him last night
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    Smyly the last three years threw his 4 seamer 47% of the time. His first start and so far today he's at like 25-30%. I'm really curious to see if that's where he lives moving forward or just a small sample "it just worked out that way" kind of deal.
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    Considering how little they work together JD has really good rapport with Beth. I feel like it only took them 2-3 games last year to get there.
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    Abbott AND Deichmann. St. John presumably coming up in the next few days to be the second lefty in the pen.
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    The first three guys on base stole 2nd against him too. Sorta wonder if the track meet got into his head.
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    Two of those pitches to Willson we're technically strikes, but none of them are generally called that way
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    Effross now has 23 strikeouts and 1 walk for his career (3 HBPs too)
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    Mitch Garver, the next batter, then drove in a run. Really looking forward to Joe steadfastly refusing to admit this was a bad idea after the game.
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    Yeah looking at the 40 man Deichmann or Abbott seem like the easiest cuts? Most likely is that one of the minor injuries has escalated and we just haven't heard. Probably Simmons? Because we got positive reports on both Mills and Miley in the last 48 hours, while it's been quiet on Simmons.
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    Someone would need to be 60 Day IL'd or cut to make this happen
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