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  1. Bertz
    Looks like he gave up a strike to Cain, and there were no more borderline calls. So +2 on strikes, and 4/4 on borderline calls. I am really interested in this because if Willson is a good framer now we're gonna win like 45 games
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    Very inexact, but looking at GameDay Willson has stolen 3 strikes, and there have been four pitches on the line, all four called strikes as well
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    Ummm I think DeGrom's back feels fine. He's basically sitting at 99 and his changeup is 92-93
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    Love that lineup. I'm irrationally confident in Happ this year so I'd love him at 6, but I'm cool waiting for him to prove it out. Also with his patience maybe right in front of KB and Rizzo is better even if I'm right.
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    I think NESN and YES each have another team or two to help fill out their programming. I know most of the Chicago ones are taken, but maybe we see them try and get rights to the Sky? Or some of the college teams around here (that obviously wouldn't help right now).
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    You could also add him for Phegly or one of the pen guys like Maples too. True. Yeah that works while rosters are expanded. But if he's going to be on the roster past the cut down to 26 it'll have to be in place of one of those three I think. Though that's a full month to evaluate.
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    I like this quite a bit, especially now with the DH. I assume whatever the intake process is means he's at minimum like a week or two from joining the team? So use that time to evaluate Kipnis, Hoerner, and Almora and swap him in for whoever's in the least good spot? (I think we all have an expectation of who that is)
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    Yup. I think the current format is perfect. I go back and forth on the DS being 7 games instead of 5 but that's it. Have you ever been watching game 4 of some random AL division series like Angels-Twins or whatever and thought “man, I sure am glad we are guaranteed at least another week of this before moving on to the ALCS”? I mean, I haven’t, but I also don’t actually like baseball so maybe it’s me. There's frequently at least one really good DS I want a lot more of. So is the an extra week of the good series worth an extra week of the duds? It's close, that's why I waffle on that part.
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    Yup. I think the current format is perfect. I go back and forth on the DS being 7 games instead of 5 but that's it.
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    more shot at getting extra money from playoff shares. Yup, looks like straight cash
  12. Bertz
    Like 17 Seconds I'm cool with this for this year but not afterwards. Curious what the players got out of the deal.
  13. Bertz
    A little more detail on the accompanying roster manipulation. I probably would have done Miller instead of one of the relievers, but overall pretty happy with this group
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    I hope he makes the team. He's probably not good and probably won't ever be good, but if not now when the bullpen is gonna be 10 or 11 guys then when?
  16. Bertz
    I imagine this will be the primary lineup against RHP, with the #7 spot being a carousel
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    Good for Mookie. Sucks the Cubs didn't have a chance, but realistically given that they're now all but locked in over the cap this year, there's no way PTR lets then do anything fun next winter.
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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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    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.
  24. Bertz
    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?
  25. Bertz
    This seems notable
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