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  1. Bertz
    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.
  2. Bertz
    Maples against Astudillo is fun in an unstoppable force versus immovable object kind of way
  3. Bertz
    Probably depends on how you weight Bob Howry's fantastic first two years versus his awful third year.
  4. Bertz
    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.
  5. Bertz
    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).
  6. Bertz
    That was not a cheap dong either. 103 MPH.
  7. Bertz
    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.
  8. Bertz
    The fact that the pitcher has the green light here tells me everything I need to know about how crappy a manager Molitor is.
  9. Bertz
    That's incredible news. Maybe he can be back during that first series after the break.
  10. Bertz
    It's not surprising. Basically everything Jesse Rogers has ever felt strongly about has been wrong.
  11. Bertz
    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    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.
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  15. Bertz
    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.
  16. Bertz
    DONG!!!!!
  17. Bertz
    Those t-shirts are hideous
  18. Bertz
    One of the least impressive HRs you'll see. Of horsefeathering course
  19. Bertz
    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. Bertz
    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.
  21. Bertz
    That's a good point. Also would make me want Machado way less. I am kind of hoping that Machado's not as bad at SS as the numbers say he is, and that it's a Dexter Fowler situation where UZR/DRS are punishing him for the positioning mistakes of the O's coaches. If he's not actually a SS I don't think he's a guy to give hundreds of millions to.
  22. Bertz
    I think the roster has enough flexibility that Harper/Machado should come down to which player you like more for the contract. If you sign Machado, Russell is likely sent somewhere for pitching. If you sign Harper, Happ likely goes. Also, Heyward's re-emergence probably makes it so trading him is no longer a pipedream. He has not (and at this probably cannot) done enough to make opting out a legitimate possibility for 2018, but if this is his new normal his 2019 opt-out is likely in play. I'd imagine you could trade him, include a bunch of money in 2020+ to protect the other team against him re-collapsing, and something could come together relatively easily. I'm not sure if that's the right move, but it's certainly more possible than it looked in March. So it might be a matter of keeping the homegrown part of the band together and lifting out Heyward for Harper.
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  24. Bertz
    Wish we had one starter who looks like he might be good going forward. Must be nice. I feel pretty good about Alex Lange
  25. Bertz
    The Reds position players are legit. They've also got a few legitimately good relievers. Their problem is that Luis Castillo is the only starter in their org who looks like he might be any good going forward.
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