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    Those three in the outfield, Morel at 3rd, and in another month or so add Strumpf at 2b. That's phenomenal.
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    I was going to reply and say something about how the Cubs are good enough that no week should be considered "a real chance to be a horsefeathering bloodbath", but then I looked at the schedule and saw 3 games at Coors and 4 at Dodger Stadium. Can certainly do well, but yeah thats about as tough as it gets. 5-5 between this weekend and next weekend would be fine and all I'm hoping for. Winning (or sweeping) this series would obviously go a long ways to making 5-5 the floor for next week. Exactly. I was just hoping that this two week stretch we wouldn't be a disaster considering how tough those two series are in isolation AND that they come at the end of a 33 games in 34 days stretch. After how well this week has gone so far, 5-5 over these ten would be awesome. The great news is though that after next week, the schedule gets pretty soft. We'll be done with the Dodgers, done with Houston, done with Colorado, and done with road trips to the Braves and Nats. Basically every tough road series outside the division except the Phillies (and I guess the Mets if the pitching lines up right?). So if we're still within a game or three of first place next Monday, we're totally winning the division by at least 5 games.
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    Great win I'm never one to be like "we need a sweep," but man one this weekend would be huge. Next week has a real chance to be a horsefeathering bloodbath, so any cushion we can get going in would be extremely useful.
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    so, wasn't kimbrel just doing demos for interested teams? Is he really just getting off the couch now? Seems odd to me that he would need that much time to get ready. He has been throwing bullpens but not facing real hitters. He's probably at somewhere around where guys are typically at on March 1st. Figure another week to get him into a real minor league game, and then you probably want him to have at least a half dozen games in the minors, which is another ~2 weeks.
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    I know he had a HBP so it's sort of just semantics but this looks like Albertos' first outing without a walk since August 10 of 2017.
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    And the Brewers have a pretty strong chance of getting swept at home by the horsefeathering Marlins.
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    Awesome. Really interested in how long it takes him to get onto a major league mound. Over/under of around July 1st?
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    So with day 1 of the draft in the books, what's the Top 10 look like at this point? Something like this? 1. Hoerner 2. Amaya 3. Marquez 4. Alzolay 5. Ademan 6. Davis 7. Roederer 8. Jensen 9. Strumpf 10. T. Miller That's...pretty solid. And there's even a few more guys I tried to find a way to put on the list like Riley Thompson, Cory Abbott, and Nelson Velazquez. It lacks top end talent but I think the farm's finally back to being in decent shape.
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    Keith Law MLB.com
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    Yeah those are not at all the same. Those two were picked right where they were supposed to, it just didn't work out. Abbot wasn't in anybody's top 100 that I remember, for starters. Little wasn't ranked as high as he was drafted either. Pretty much Lange was the only on who wasn't a reach. Irrespective, their track record with college pitchers is truly grisly. They really need to try another tack. Fair enough on Abbott, but Little was #18 on Keith Law's board. Not at all a reach. And taking a College Pitcher this high *is* trying another tack. The Cubs haven't hit big on college pitching yet, but with the notable exceptions of Lange and Little they've taken the quantity over quality approach. And even the higher value guys they've taken haven't been big time fastball guys like Jensen.
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    Every time? When's the last time? 2017. Not that long ago. To be fair, they didn't exactly reach on the two pitchers they selected that year. Just bad picks in retrospect. Yeah those are not at all the same. Those two were picked right where they were supposed to, it just didn't work out.
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    Every time? When's the last time?
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    I think it's pretty obvious the Cubs think they can get him to have a consistently plus secondary pitch
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    Michael Busch was announced as a 2b??? Keith Law thinks he's barely a 1b/LF
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    https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1135729071013470209?s=19
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    MLB.com had him at #99
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    from Keith Law's top 100. Given that everyone else has him as a 2nd/3rd rounder I wonder if they're saving some money here
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    Hey look at that!
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    I really want Busch and I've heard good things. Even has a decent chance to be average in LF. He's a better athlete than Schwarber (not super high praise I know). Busch's scouting report to me reads like Michael Conforto. A little safe and boring but fantastic value at the end of the 1st round.
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    I would love any of Busch, Hoese, or Misner. The latter two could easily be trash but the Cubs have earned enough benefit of the doubt with college bats that I'd be super optimistic.
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    I would love any of Busch, Hoese, or Misner. The latter two could easily be trash but the Cubs have earned enough benefit of the doubt with college bats that I'd be super optimistic.
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    - Keith Law I find it really interesting how everyone seems to be hearing us attached to arms but mocking us college bats seemingly out of habit. I wouldn't be shocked at all if we go HS Arm then College Arm with the two picks today.
  25. Bertz
    Sign Kimbrel and trade for Will Smith: CL - Kimbrel SU - Smith, Strop MR - Cishek, Kintzler, Ryan, Brach LR - Chatwood That's maybe the best Non-Yankee bullpen in the league, and leaves Montgomery to be used either in the Smith trade or in a deal for some outfield help. And if Morrow were by some miracle to come back good lord.
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