Bertz
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It'd be moronic to not have this on as many TVs as possible. Live sports is so incredibly valuable right now. For that reason I very much expect a deal. The one voice of worry in the back of my head is that Sinclair's other networks all have to be renegotiated with Comcast in August. I'm slightly worried that Marquee will be rolled up with those given the timing.
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Bryant has the 4th highest wOBA among the starting 3b they have listed (Bregman way ahead, Arenado a bit ahead, Donaldson in a virtual tie), so the low ranking comes down to playing time and defense (A slight negative). They have Bryant with 180 plate appearances, while pretty much everyone ahead of him is in the 230-250 range. I wonder if the playing time projection is based on injuries or if he gets too many appearances at other positions, diluting his value for this sort of exercise. They have him moving around more than a lot of other 3B. He'd be 7th or 8th playing 3B full time. And that sounds bad too but keep in mind that 3B might be the deepest position in baseball at the moment, like Arenado is 6th and Manny Machado is 8th.
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Really good stuff from Sahadev. The main takeaway is that because Willson has been struggling with this for a while, he's been tinkering a lot. Now they basically have two setups, one for bases empty and one for runners on.
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Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Woah Kimbrel shaved! -
Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I feel like he and Cotton we're two of the guys competing for the last spot or two in the pen. Seems pretty clear who ought to get that spot. -
Sounds like Phegley, Miller, and Brothers all have a good shot at making the OD roster, which would require 40 man moves. So yeah I'd imagine we see 3 vets sent out (Descalso, Norwood, and one of Cotton/Tepera?), and the roster trimmed down to 55. The South Bend roster is pretty light on position players, so I imagine after Carraway we see additions there...something like Giambrone, Rivas, and Roederer? Then save those last two slots for emergency?
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This seems notable
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Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I feel like a lot of the things that make ST pretty meaningless aren't as applicable to these exhibition games. There aren't a bunch of A Ballers making the level of competition a joke. Guys aren't at way different levels of readiness. And most importantly because of the proximity to the season you don't have a ton of guys just playing around trying stuff. Like Kyle Hendricks threw more curve balls than he would have in a real start, but he was still mostly Kyle Hendricks out there. These games are pretty close to real baseball, especially for bubble guys like Cotton or Descalso. It is just one game, but I'd let these three games make the call in the competitions for the 28-30 spots like Descalso/Perez or Cotton/Tepera. -
Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
If Andrew Vaughn runs like that at 22, I don't think he's a 1B very long. He'll be a DH by 25 -
Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I've got Comcast so I'm stuck with the Sox broadcast. It's amazing how much less of a punishment this is than it would have been a few years ago with Hawk. Jason Benetti is no Len, but he's above average and I think he brings out the best from Stone as well. -
Big fan of this move. I like Megill a lot, but don't love having Megill, Sadler, Underwood all optionless in the opening day pen. Using 50K or whatever to essentially buy 3 minor league options is a no brainer.
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Jake's way wrong, *but* he did play college ball and is only like a year out of school. So like if a normal person would get 5 he'd be probably get like 15.
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I think this looks about right Edit: Noticed no Winkler. The team was raving about him in the spring so unless something has changed since he's a lock
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It's close, but I'm leaning a little more Kamehameha and a little less Hadouken on that Bour GIF
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They should just basically bullpen 2-3 games a week after Kyle and Yu with the expanded rosters at 30. Yeah, I would give Lester a soft cap of twice through the order (basically he can earn another inning if he's pitching well), Chatwood a pretty hard cap of twice through the order, and Mills probably limit to once through. We've got several guys in the pen who can go multiple innings, so we should feel comfortable piggybacking with contrasting styles: for example something like Lester-Underwood, Chatwood-Wieck, and Mills-Alzolay. I think there are several ways that this weird season hurts the Cubs worse than the average team, but this is a way it helps. The Cubs came into the spring with like 14 credible guys fighting for 8 bullpen spots, this gives them an extra couple of weeks to evaluate in real games which of those guys should stick. Obviously the cost of failure is much higher in a shortened season, but given the circumstances every team is going to be asking for a lot more innings out of their pen, and probably only the Rays and Padres have a better like 11th arm out there.
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Yeah whatever WaPo has is real bad
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Darvish goes in game 2
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Legitimately laughed out loud at this
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Not news but now official
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I mean, he's just barely a year out from his surgery, so he shouldn't have pitched this year regardless. I'm guessing this is more "I'm gonna rehab at home" than actually affecting anything on the field.
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Sounds like Casey Sadler also did some fun things today
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Yeah, I'm hoping that this is a sign things are indeed going well in Camp from a health perspective. Hopefully that continues, and we can keep adding the two you mentioned, plus maybe a few of Jensen/Clarke/McAvene. Obviously that would require some cuts, but there's several fringey pen arms who if they're not worth making the MLB pen at the start of the season with expanded rosters are pretty easy cuts: Hultzen, Brothers, Adam, Gamez, Norwood, etc. I'd also love to get a few more of the Myrtle Beach guys onto the roster. Roederer and Strumpf especially.
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Jeff Passan seems to be a really good dude
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Assuming team quality stays similar-ish to what it is right now for most clubs, the last ~1/3rd of that schedule looks very favorable.