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  1. Bertz
    I believe a week or two ago Keith Law very explicitly said that the Cubs like Taylor, so this is starting to sound kind of real.
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    I haven't been able to catch much of these west coast games, but I think he didn't make the trip. they still don't travel Oh good call then I have no idea. We are in graduation season and he's got a couple of older kids?
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    I haven't been able to catch much of these west coast games, but I think he didn't make the trip.
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    Jake's sitting 92-94. If he can stay living there I think he can get back to actually being solid again
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    Each of the last three years KB has had an injury where he tried gutting through it and it tanked his performance. I think in general guys should probably get a day off per week, but KB absolutely should.
  6. Bertz
    Chris Morel over the last three weeks is at .206/.311/.349 with a 13.5% K rate and an 18.5% walk rate. Obviously he needs to start hitting (though the Southern League is so pitching friendly that's an 89 wRC+), but those are very nice BB/K numbers for him. If he can live anywhere near there, with his tools he's gonna really be a guy.
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    It may be a matter of days before he falls flat on his face. But what separates him from the AAAA sluggers of Cubs past is that he's doing it at a time when it actually matters. If nothing else, hopefully the smoke and mirrors are enough to earn him a few million yen on the other side of the pond. He's going to K a lot, which is not the kind of hitter you necessarily want to add to this lineup. I think what actually separates him from those other guys is that it seems like he can actually play solid defense. Jake Fox could hit, you just couldn't put him anywhere and he wasn't good enough to be a DH. With Wisdom, you get a 5% chance of a Max Muncy thing, a pretty high likelihood he can be the next Bote (or the Bote we thought we'd be getting), and a decent chance his K rate goes to 40% and he falls into the Fox/Hoffpauer/LaHair category. Yeah I think this is where I'm at. One of the good things is that this lineup is going to change SUBSTANTIALLY in the next year or so. So while adding a .240/.320/.450 type of hitter might not be the ideal type of hitter for this moment, if he proves to be fairly real it can change how we approach this offseason. Like maybe you're a little less likely to hold on to Javy, so you can alleviate the RH swing and miss in the lineup. But obviously, we need to see a few hundred more PAs before we get too far down the road on thoughts like that.
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    Yeah, I think even if they had to blame it on the sniffles he was going t get phantom IL'd around now. I'd not be surprised by another in August.
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    I think I actually really like the hat? Too bad I look terrible in them.
  11. Bertz
    Nelson up to .324/.346/.581. The K and BB rates are problematic, but he's hitting the horsefeathers out of the ball.
  12. Bertz
    He got a little buzz at the Alt Site last year and ST this year, but this is ridiculous.
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    I'm surprised how good the Giants' Pride design looks. Like usually these themed logos and uniforms look like trash. Glad they got this one right.
  15. Bertz
    So I don't think Stewart is *good*, but he does look like a league average-ish starter. He won't miss many bats, but he'll avoid walks and keep the ball on the ground. Add in the team control, and you absolutely can't bounce him for Arrieta or Davies.
  16. Bertz
    Still haven't seen a corresponding move. I'm kind of hoping it's Thompson. I'd love to have Abbott take Keegan's role in the pen, and have Keegan get stretched out at Iowa to take Arrieta or Davies spot in the rotation.
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    This is basically exactly what I feared if we had signed Lester. I thought Jake was gonna get enough groundballs to avoid this kind of fate, guess not.
  19. Bertz
    Oh man, some people are gonna HATE Cam
  20. Bertz
    That seems like real high spin
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    I got my hopes up after seeing the Marlins ones. Oh well.
  23. Bertz
    Agreed. I think it was one of the Hawks Cup rallies that I'm still scarred over. I lived in walking difference to Soldier Field so wasn't using public transit or car, and getting out of the stadium vicinity was the worst stadium experience I've ever had. But all the other times I've been, including for Soccer games which aren't as packed as a Bears game and it just always seems to suck. Edit- and as much as getting on the redline after a Cubs game can also be soul-crushingly miserable, there's at least alternatives because you're in the middle of a neighborhood with Bars and restaurants. SF doesn't offer any alternative like that. Yeah, Soldier Field and the Museum Campus are a pain in the ass to get to even when there's not a Bears game. Driving sucks because it's downtown. But then it's like the one place downtown that's a public transit desert. Mile for mile it might be the worst place in the city to try and get to, even on non game days.
  24. Bertz
    Kaplan too. I don't specifically remember Brenly being bad with Aramis (which I'm 1000% sure is my ears not being tuned to those kind of dog whistles yet), but I remember Kaplan regularly saying things that were super yikes about Aramis and Starlin. When Aramis was dealing with some leg injuries, he'd jog to first on routine grounders. Brenly would invariably point it out and his commentary often involved the word "lazy" or other stereotypes. It was pointed out quite a few times that he didn't call out the white players in the same way if they didn't bust it down the line. For those questioning Aramis on why he calls for Brenly to be fired, it is not over this latest incident alone. It is the accumulation of comments over the years. Yeah. I was a teenager for most of Brenly's time here, so I'd hear things like that and think the 2007 version of "Ok Boomer" rather than getting the subtext. But I remember my oblivious ass knowing even back then that Kaplan was a big old racist.
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    Kaplan too. I don't specifically remember Brenly being bad with Aramis (which I'm 1000% sure is my ears not being tuned to those kind of dog whistles yet), but I remember Kaplan regularly saying things that were super yikes about Aramis and Starlin.
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