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  1. Bertz
    What happens if the Astros draft Bryant instead of Appel. The fact that the brain geniuses down in Houston passed on him is further evidence that this stuff is hard, no?
  2. Bertz
    My thing is this, almost any competent baseball person could have done what the Cubs did to get a championship. I use to think Theo and the guys around him were special, but it turns out they were not. Then ownership decided to use the Cubs as collateral for buying Chicago city blocks and donating millions of dollars to the worst of humanity, It makes it kind of hard. I love baseball and I love the Cubs, but man is it hard. That's nonsense. If it were that easy there'd be an example of a tanking success story post Cubs/Astros. The Phillies failed spectacularly at the task. The White Sox have failed modestly (they look like they're going to top out as like a 92 win team). None of the Tigers/Mariners/Giants look to be coming out of the other end of their tanks with super teams. The Dodgers being on another level doesn't make what Theo and Co. did not impressive.
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    How much of an off-field reprieve do we get? Because if we erase the Chapman/Russell sagas and turn the Ricketts into regular evil billionaires rather than cartoon evil, I probably take door #2.
  4. Bertz
    Justin Steele debuting is fun
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    Good on Willson there to ensure he got the out and prevented the run. I feel like two years ago he would have spazzed out trying to turn and get the ball to first for the double play and it would have led to disaster.
  6. Bertz
    This Brewers lineup without Yelich is really bad. Even still, what Alzolay is doing tonight is outrageous.
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    He might just really suck. He’s like a worse version of Javy at the plate with the Ks and contact issues, he walks a touch more but doesn’t have the raw power and obviously brings nothing on defense or base running. The little bit I've heard out of Milwaukee is that he fell in love with all the dongs he hit his rookie year and is now selling out for fly balls, but at like 5'10" he doesn't really have the power to do that without the rabbit ball. And he was never going to be a contributor on defense.
  8. Bertz
    Keston Hiura is so bad in both sides of the ball right now
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    By Fangraphs' numbers, the Cubs have given up nearly half their playoff odds already. They were at just under 1/4 to open the season, now they're just over 1/8.
  12. Bertz
    The one thing keeping him from being NL Mike Trout was contact, and early on his K rate is down to 15%. He's incredible.
  13. Bertz
    Jason Adam's early season wobbliness is gone, so that's one positive from this weekend?
  14. Bertz
    Brothers has a nearly 8:1 KBB, could be interestingNot in his walk year. Yeah we have him next year as well. I imagine with so may walk year guys, they won't really shop guys controlled beyond this year except for Kimbrel. But Brothers, Trevor Williams, and Contreras are all only under contract through next season so they'd likely be available at least theoretically.
  15. Bertz
    Maybe we’ll get more value starting our sell off in June vs July It's really possible. I think if nothing else, the Cubs have 10 (!) guys in their walk year that depending on performance could be attractive trade chips. KB Rizzo Baez Joc Kimbrel (club option) Davies Arrieta Chafin Workman Tepera If the team is out of it, you probably want to clear the deck a bit in June or early July so you're not juggling ~5 trades the week before the deadline.
  16. Bertz
    Cubs next 22 games are brutal 3 @ Milwaukee 3 vs Atlanta 3 vs Mets 3 vs Milwaukee 4 @ Atlanta 3 @ Cincy 3 vs Dodgers The Cubs are either going to get their horsefeathers together, or they're going to be out of it by Cinco de Mayo
  17. Bertz
    They deserved to have this overturned. Hitting the ball 86 MPH on the ground on a 3-0 count is horsefeathering inexcusable
  18. Bertz
    It scored a run, but that was a horrendous decision by Rizzo. Just awful.
  19. Bertz
    All three of Tepera/Workman/Adam need to get in this game. We need to get at least one of them in a good place as the primary RH setup man til Wick is back.
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    Musgrove, Williams, Taillon have all looked incredible early on, so you can't even really just blame the old regime.
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    So I was perusing Rex Brothers' FG page, and if you want reason for optimism, back when he was good with the Rockies, he threw just over 50% of his pitches in the zone. This year he's right back to that level. HOWEVER, the most he's ever been in the zone was 2017 with the Braves, and he got smacked around. So it'll still take some time to find out if he can get back to throwing an adequate number of strikes AND limiting contact. I'm certainly happy to give him another few weeks as the second lefty.
  24. Bertz
    14, 9, 0, and 0 now Of the balls in play, only one was hit over 90 MPH. That was a 90.1 MPH groundball yesterday
  25. Bertz
    DIRTY CRAIG
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