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  1. Bertz
    Woah Kimbrel shaved!
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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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    NFL Offseason

    Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports

    Yeah whatever WaPo has is real bad
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    Darvish goes in game 2
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    NFL Offseason

    Bertz replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports

    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.
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    One of the fortunate things about this all happening now is that for pitchers at least they can still be pretty productive in their training without stepping onto a real field. I don't think turning into a spin rate god in a warehouse is the same as doing it on the field, but if you told me that pitchers are still able to get ~70% of their development this year because of trackman/rapsodo/etc. I'd believe you. Hitters though, I'd imagine it depends on what level of the minors they were slated for? For a kid in A Ball or Short season spending 5 extra months focused on getting jacked and cleaning up their mechanics is probably not bad. But the higher up in the minors you go the less I imagine that's a substitute for a real season. I hope that we're not stuck in a bad place, given how much of our prospect capital is position players who were slated for High A. That's too young to put most of them on the travel squad, but may be too old to have a lot to do off the field. Probably not, I'd guess AA is where you hit that point of severe diminishing returns, but I'd buy that it occurs earlier. I guess in that case pray that the AFL 2.0 is able to happen, and we send most of the Myrtle Beach Squad there.
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    I imagine that will be similar for most teams. Bank as many games as possible early in case of weather or virus later. Plus teams have the expanded rosters early on, so it's not as much of a grind as it would be under normal circumstances.
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    Update: Boob deleted his tweet because it was very misleading. Here is the quote in its proper context: Horsefeathering christ that's bad even by Nightengale standards.
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