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  1. Bertz
    I roll my eyes at a lot of the Joe bullpen whining, but what the hell. 3 righties coming up, Lester at about 100 pitches, and basically everyone good but Cishek fully rested. Why did Lester start this inning?
  2. Bertz
    This might have been Lester's best start of the year. I'd pull him and turn it over to the well rested pen.
  3. Bertz
    I'm torn. I like Happ a lot, but I'm worried about cost and I'm a little worried about how similar he is to Quintana and Lester.
  4. Bertz
    You picked 2 isolated examples during a month long stretch where the Cubs are killing it with RISP Fair enough. With the offense struggling at the moment, it’s just frustrating to see them come away with one in what should’ve been a big inning. Be honest, would you have been mad if Russell's ball had otherwise the same but several feet to the left and snuck through for a hit?
  5. Bertz
    I can't decide if I'm more encouraged by Jon getting plenty of swings and misses or discouraged that most of the balls in play have been hit super hard.
  6. Bertz
    That sounds reasonable. People who think he can really hit love him while those who are a little more skeptical think he's kind of a tweener. Would explain why he didn't get a ton of draft love but given our FO's strengths in identifying hitters I feel good about it.
  7. Bertz
    Son of a horsefeathers I'd really talked myself into him.
  8. Bertz
    He's a guy who pitches at the top of the zone with a high spin fastball. The fastball is down a tick, so he's still getting a ton of K's but the dongs have spiked as well.
  9. Bertz
    I feel like outside of the 1st round picks from 2012-15 (and Cease), their drafting hasn’t been that good and one of the reasons their farm system doesn’t rate very well. They’re a big boy organization with big boy resources and there’s no reason we couldn’t have found more guys outside of the first round. Maybe I’m just ignorant... Craig Edwards, is that you?
  10. Bertz
    Kyle's last 5 starts: 28 IP 33 H 2 HRs 5 BBs 25 Ks 3.54/2.94/3.30 ERA/FIP/xFIP A little less efficient than you'd like, but he is probably fixed. Quintana seems to be on his way as well. We need to acquire someone (Eovaldi!) to replace Chatwood but my dread about our rotation is starting to subside.
  11. Bertz
    Hendricks did something to infuriate the BABIP gods tonight. Oh well, Milwaukee's losing too and I absolutely put this in the "Encouraging" column for Kyle's prospects going forward.
  12. Bertz
    Based on MLB.com's ratings that's #9 and #15 from a strong system. Plus a nice AAA reliever. So something like Lange, Maples, and another guy would be our equivalent? I think I've been the biggest Britton cheerleader and I'd say horsefeathers no to that.
  13. Bertz
    I know some shine is off the Dillon Tate apple but that's still a better headliner than I would have been alright sending for Britton.
  14. Bertz
    Not at all. and I want him. The glass half full version though is that his velocity came back at the start of July. and since then he's basically been back to normal. But because of the salary and the risk involved, the prospect cost shouldn't be too high. It's kind of like Justin Verlander last year. He had a disaster start on July 2nd, that left his ERA at 4.96 and xFIP at 5.03. From then on he was JUSTIN VERLANDER again, but it still required a leap of faith to trade for him. Even at the end of August he had only been good again for 8 weeks. Sometimes it works out, but quite often it doesn't.
  15. Bertz
    I want Britton, but he has enough question marks that we don't need him specifically. That being said I do want someone better than Brach. He was very good for a while but currently looks like a perfectly fine 7th inning guy and not much more.
  16. Bertz
    I think you stuck the landing with Thermo-dong-namics
  17. Bertz
    Teams probably prefer not to trade ML pieces at deadline if contending. But if Theo was willing to trade Nomar at the deadline, even if it was 14 years ago, you can never rule it out with him. In a move that quietly got him Big Papi, right? No, Papi was a free agent the year before that. Nomar got him Mientkeiwicz, Orlando Cabrera, and I think a reliever.
  18. Bertz
    Happ and Chatwood for Britton, Gausman, and a bunch of IFA money? Is that crazy?
  19. Bertz
    Cards are now in 4th place, closer to last than first
  20. Bertz
    Especially after we get Britton. Innings 1&2: Chavez Innings 3&4: Montgomery Inning 5: Wilson Inning 6: Strop Inning 7: Carl Inning 8: Britton Inning 9: Morrow Cishek in reserve to bail out whichever guy doesn't have it that day.
  21. Bertz
    Oh man that was almost a fastball to the beans.
  22. Bertz
    Yeah I am fairly happy with that. If he can give us a dominant start in one of his next few I'll be ready to say he's fixed.
  23. Bertz
    That's probably fair. The Royals also didn't get a ton for Kelvim Herrera. I think if we get Britton it's not going to be very painful, particularly given his salary.
  24. Bertz
    Very shallow but the wind was playing tricks so he didn't have his feet set when he caught it. Not a bad send IMO.
  25. Bertz
    I wonder if Morrow's arm actually fell off instead of just bicep tendinitis. They were going to go after a high end reliever even if Morrow was 100% healthy IMO.
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