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  1. Bertz
    I think this might be the first one he's pulled. His others that I've seen have all gone to LCF.
  2. Bertz
    Manfred and most of ownership (everyone but the Dodgers?) wants to consolidate TV under the league umbrella. That does two things; - Makes it easy for fans. All local broadcasts for all teams live under MLB.tv (probably with some different pricing tiers) and blackouts are officially dead - If the league controls the whole pie instead of it being team by team, it makes it easier for MLB to peel games off and package them to national broadcast partners at a markup I don't know exactly what level of veto rights the players have, but my understanding is this is something that needs to be handled under the CBA. And the league set all of the current national broadcast deals to expire in '28 specifically so they could come to the negotiating table with as much inventory as possible. So it can't be punted to 2032 without some major pain. (As an aside this TV stuff is why there's roughly 0% chance of the lockout impacting a significant number of regular season games)
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    It's very obvious that this is going to end up being a trade of: - Green light on TV and expansion changes for - 10-15% bumps to various financial pieces (LT, min salary, etc.) It's so stupid this is going to require a 3 month lockout first. This god damn league just can't do anything without a deadline.
  4. Bertz
    The good and the bad about Bummer is his issue is clearly velocity. On the one hand that's an issue that is generally tough to address in season. But on the other if a month from now he's at Iowa sitting 93-94 you don't have to do a lot of hemming and hawing over whether he's worth a shot.
  5. Bertz
    Wicks feels like he's where Brown was coming into the year, where he's clearly in his head every time out and small jams almost always snowball. This next start is clearly just a matter of necessity and I'm not expecting great things, but I do think he should stay up after and slide into long relief. Rebuild that confidence, slowly increase leverage, and hopefully a month or two from now we'll consider him back on track.
  6. Bertz
    Under Breslow the progression on pitcher development was explicitly laid out as Velo -> Shape -> Command Maybe with e.g. Will Sanders not getting his velo bump until he got to AAA that's not such a rigid progression under Zombro? If Reid wants to wait until he gets to Iowa before he goes from 92 to 94 I guess I'll let it slide.
  7. Bertz
    Yeah he had 2nd and 3rd with one out in the fifth and threw some nasty ones to get Ks #8 and #9
  8. Bertz
    Speaking of guys who could use the bump up Dom Reid struck out 9 in five innings
  9. Bertz
    Feels like Grant Kipp should be at Iowa and working out of the bullpen ASAP
  10. Bertz
    I wonder how many dongs they can get Southisene up to without breaking him because even just like 5 a year would be plenty with the rest of his profile
  11. Bertz
    If Hartshorn makes AA good lord. As far as I can tell Jesus Made (a top 5 league-wide prospect) is the only guy younger than him at AA.
  12. Bertz
    Man if Hartshorn keeps doing at SB what he did at Myrtle you're talking about a guy that's probably a top 20-30 global prospect. Fun stuff
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    Lovich with a huge game right after Hartshorn skipped town is nice to see. Need some guys in that lineup to step up Also Pierce Coppola has a 41% strikeout rate. I know the focus is more on building innings right now but there's probably a point before too long where you've gotta send him to an age/experience appropriate level.
  15. Bertz
    Looks like only ten 19 year olds have at least 50 PAs in High A, and Hartshorn is a little younger than any of those guys.
  16. Bertz
    Awesome. Can't wait to see how Hartshorn does against more advanced pitching. Wouldn't be surprised to see a less silly K/BB but more power. I am presuming Kepley to Tenn to make room for Hartshorn? And dare I ask for Cabada to Myrtle to backfill (not directly) for Hartshorn?
  17. Bertz
    Honestly for domestic players it's fine. The rare Konnor Griffin gets boxed out of debuting at 19 which has downstream impacts on his career earnings (certainly ownership's aim here), but for most guys it's somewhere close to a wash. Guys at big time programs like Vandy it's probably actually better than toiling in the minors, and even your like Middle Tennessee States or whatever have gotten WAY WAY WAY better at player dev over the last decade. I'd be real worried for the IFAs though. It's already harder for a lot of these guys to get their footing in full season ball than it was a decade ago. Now you need to go straight from the ACL all the way to High A? That's a super steep learning curve. we get like one of those guys in the system every 2-3 years? Even if rising tides help bridge the gap it's still going to harm a lot of mid tier international prospects.
  18. Bertz
    The crew chief in Knoxville is extremely bad at his job
  19. Bertz
    He's not pounding on the door to the org's top 10 or anything like that but gotta say I don't hate Alexis Hernadez's batting line. There's some leeway with a 21 year old shortstop with some tools.
  20. Bertz
    Mathis is alive!
  21. Bertz

    Jaguar Time

    Bertz replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Now that Carson's annual April hot streak is over plus what Conforto has done I wonder if Craig is going to be as aggressive with mid-game PHing at C as he has been to this point at DH.
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  23. Bertz
    Really fun. I got curious so went back to look at Jackson Ferris' debut and it was similar. Really great to have an arm like this in the low minors again.
  24. Bertz
    Cam Sisneros should probably be on the plane with Kepley when he goes to Tenn. He's not like destroying the league but with his age it's like Ayers where you've gotta push him.
  25. Bertz
    Surprised Wicks only went 5 especially given that they didn't hand the ball to Assad right after
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