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  1. Bertz
    Good outings from Thornton and Maton. Maton I assume goes one and done? Rejoins the big club on Sunday? Thornton's velo was below his 2024 peak but in line with the rest of his career. Curious where it goes from here.
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    Yeah that checks out
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    I've mind of been wondering if Velasquez might have some juice as a reliever. No better time to try than now.
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    I'm not sweating any of these guys specifically, but setting aside the specifics the team is going to get burned on one of these lottery tickets eventually. That's just the nature of the game though. The Guardians are one of the smartest most conservative FOs in the league and they got burned on Junior Caminero in what they thought was a minor trade. The Rays got burned on Joe Ryan. The Dodgers got burned on Yordan Alvarez. etc. etc. We laugh at like Tatis/Shields but mainly they're just called lottery tickets for a reason.
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    Pedro Ramirez is Jose Ramirez and Ronny Cruz is Fernando Tatis Jr. is not exactly making me re-think my lapsed BA sub
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    Thielbar's hammy injury got described as "tightness". Obviously he's down today but curious if he's going to get IL'd. Bullpen is shredded, honestly wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for Taillon to get knocked around (though not so much he can't go 5-6) and let Rolison just wear it and take the game to the house.
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    Sharma Doesn't mention Roberts but considering his injury presumably he'll be back on Monday after the 15 day minimum as well.
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    I really like his swing. Walks aside has had a rough start to the season, hopefully this is the start of a heater.
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    Ironically he got doubled off in today's game on a ball he shouldn't have been running on.
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    I hate performative yelling. I think it's eyewash that appeals to the lowest common denominator. That said, Rob Thompson's body language staring down a 9 game losing streak being most analagous to "guy in the doctor's office waiting room annoyed that someone who showed up after him has already been called back" feels like a major problem in the other direction.
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    62% contact rate in A ball?
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    Ooof man if I was a Phillies fan I'd be in a daaaark place right now. I expected this to be the season their window started really closing but slamming like this is a real yikes
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    Wicks' velo way down. Hopefully just dead arm given where he is in his ramp up
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    Ben Brown has 19 innings in 24 team games, which prorates out to almost 130 over a full season. I REALLY like having a leverage-y long reliever.
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    I've been very impressed by Corbin Martin. He's not pitched incredibly well, but he's come into some pretty tough spots (medium leverage but the tough part of the batting order) and kept things under control. I feel like we've had a lot of these reclamation type arms come in and pad their stats during garbage time and wilt as soon as they come into a game with any drama (Colten Brewer the most egregious example IMO). I don't know that Martin has the stuff for more than middle relief but I appreciate his seemingly steady heartrate.
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    It's *probably* just a slump, but it's worth noting that this is by a slim margin the worst slump of his Cubs career. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/michael-busch/26319/graphs?position=NP&statArr=50&legend=1&split=base&time=game&ymin=&ymax=&start=2024&end=2026&rtype=mult&gt1=22&dStatArray= His bat speed is down and his groundball rate are up, both bad things but I think we still need more runway before they hit a sample size we worry about.
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    The Boston Red Sox have gotten a 57 wRC+ out of their 2B this year and a 40 out of their 3B. Jed needs to torment Breslow until he sends Payton Tolle our way for Shaw or Ramirez.
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    This is so interesting to me. Is this pure SSS or is there something about hanging out in the 9 spot that's getting him pitched like he's Bryce Harper?
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    Ty Southisene had another triple, his ISO is almost into triple diggies. Not quite as egregious as Mathis but he should probably be at SB too. Maybe bump him up in a ~month with Hartshorn?
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    I saw this mentioned elsewhere and admittedly my first reaction was an eye roll, but why not BJ Murray for the last bench spot? - Craig barely uses that spot, so you don't want to put an actual prospect there - Ostensibly it's only use is to have a viable infielder in reserve in a game where you've swapped Shaw out mid-game - Clearly Kingery is not bringing a gold glove to the table. He's a better athlete but clearly the lack of experience is hurting him - Murray's 2024 killed his prospect shine, but you'd expect a decent at bat from him. Certainly better than Kingery, and worth noting that he'd generally be called on to face relievers with big platoon splits Kingery provides baserunning value Murray doesnt, he also provides coverage at 2B Kingery doesn't, but still feels like we could squeeze a smidge more out of that roster spot without expending any resources?
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    Presumably Rolison or Little out for Boyd. And I'd guess Assad needs another day of rest after his Sunday start but is a bullpen option starting tomorrow? Bullpen won't be in good shape until Palencia is back, but I feel like it's back to being in okay shape. We got very lucky that the offense went supernova while the pen was in tatters.
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    Looks like we went 6-0 against them in '22 (WTF?!?) but otherwise hadn't had a winning season against them since '18.
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    I'm sure someone is gonna tell me like "we did it in '24 dufus" but it feels like we haven't won tbe season series against the Phillies in a long time?
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