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  1. From what we know publicly Carl is super into video games, dinosaurs, and Skittles. I doubt anyone else on the team is anywhere close to as fun to hang out with.
  2. https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1013853860052570112?s=19
  3. And the Cards are 5 back, about to head out west for the next week. We're really close to being able to write them off for the division.
  4. Like 20% the Twins offense being better than you expect, 50% the conditions, 30% the Cubs pitching being bad (basically Chatwood and Maples)
  5. Yeah I don't see any issue with Maples pitching and Joe leaving him in there a little long. But probably after the Astudillo hit he should have been pulled.
  6. Maples against Astudillo is fun in an unstoppable force versus immovable object kind of way
  7. Probably depends on how you weight Bob Howry's fantastic first two years versus his awful third year.
  8. I’ve wondered the same thing as well and can get on board with taking that route. Smyly fits this role as well if he is able to be back this year. This winter it sounded like Smyly is a pure reliever this year, but I would assume he's definitely in play for the Monty role next year.
  9. I'm wondering if they might go get someone with a profile similar to Mike Montgomery when we acquired him; a promising young reliever for whom the book has not entirely closed on starting. I think the team is likely going to need to horsefeathers or get off the pot with Montgomery as a starter this winter, and so going out and grabbing Montgomery 2.0 would kill two birds with one stone. It would bolster this year's rotation depth and it would backfill the swingman role for next year. A few examples of names I'm looking at are Robbie Erlin, Seth Lugo, Robert Gsellman, and Daniel Norris (might be a little too much of a reclamation project).
  10. That was not a cheap dong either. 103 MPH.
  11. This is easily the best Chatwood has looked as a Cub. Except for walking the backup catcher in the 2nd can't really complain about much from a process standpoint.
  12. The fact that the pitcher has the green light here tells me everything I need to know about how crappy a manager Molitor is.
  13. That's incredible news. Maybe he can be back during that first series after the break.
  14. It's not surprising. Basically everything Jesse Rogers has ever felt strongly about has been wrong.
  15. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  16. Montgomery's been perfectly good today. This start has basically been the inverse of Lester's start against the Dodgers where all those 105 mph line drives were hit right at our defenders.
  17. Montgomery had experienced pretty close to Jon Lester levels of luck his first six starts, and the baseball gods have decided to collect their entire price today.
  18. One of the least impressive HRs you'll see. Of horsefeathering course
  19. I'm a little worried about this series. The Twins suck, but Berrios is pretty great, and we've got Chatwood going tomorrow. Luckily Sunday should be a gimme.
  20. This is what I think of whenever someone complains about trading a good player No one wants to take take Almora out back and shoot him. If you trade him, you're getting something comparably good back. That being said, I don't think trading Almora makes sense in the Harper scenario. His defense and his lefty killer-ness make him a necessary compliment to a Schwarber-Heyward-Harper OF.
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