Bertz
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Everything posted by Bertz
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Would seem to indicate either Kingery made the team or they're about to make a small trade
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Great read without all the histrionics coming from a lot of corners. Smart money IMO is a repeat of last time. Owners dick around until around Valentine's Day and then negotiations start slowly getting more reasonable. Calendar flips to March and things actually get serious. Deal gets done plus or minus a few days from when it would impact the regular season. A late dramatic "breakdown in talks" is a given.
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You're better off arguing with a lamp post
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The non-rational part of my brain does not like the offense getting red hot right before they go north. You're wasting bullets.
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Ethan Conrad Out a Month with a Back Injury
Bertz replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Not that there's no fat to trim off the 40 but adding all three of Carlson, Kingery, and Conforto feels wasteful. Just call up Cowles to warm the bench for a week.
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Yup
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By process of elimination sounds like Carlson and Brown made the team. Pretty surprised Snider is willto go to Iowa.
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No, it sounds like he'll go to Iowa so he can play every day and come up mid-season if there's some runway due to injury. I suspect if we hadn't gotten Bregman he would have made the team. But Bregman pushed the bulk of Shaw's playing time to the outfield.
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I think this was, in addition to the IVB Plaid pointed out, the notable thing to me. The quality of that fastball was all over the place even just over the course of a single inning. This is a young guy who still has projection but also more straightforwardly some experience-fed mechanical consistency probably goes a long way.
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Wing looked great. As you'd expect with a teenager too many non-competitive pitches but he has a chance to be a dude.
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That was a majestic dong from Kade Snell, who has looked really good all spring. Getting sent straight to SB out of the draft was a tough assignment. Hopefully with an offseason under his belt he can come back and conquer it.
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I am not going to get my hopes up that Sanders sits 95 now. He was probably amped up and also isn't fully stretched out yet. HOWEVER - Last year in 79 innings at Iowa Will Sanders did not throw a single pitch above 95 MPH - Tonight Will threw 5 of his 8 4-seamers 95+ - Last yeat at Iowa Sanders averaged 92.4 on the 4-seamer and 92.0 on the sinker - Tonight the slowest fastball Sanders threw was 93.1
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What a PA by Ramirez TBD if he has the game power to be a 1st division starter but he's got a floor of a grindy Tommy La Stella type
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I really enjoy that Wideman on the Padres is so skinny
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Will Sanders sitting 95-96 😍
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None of the regulars are in the lineup today. Given the calendar I suspect tomorrow we see the OD lineup except maybe sans Seiya.
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Via the Athletic I wonder if we're about to see Taillon on the IL, Rea in the rotation, and Brown in the pen.
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In the other game last night James Triantos had a dong and a walk. The dong was not really hit impressively hard, very much an Isaac Paredes ball, but still good to see. Him pulling the ball in the air more frequently is probably how he unlocks the best versions of himself.
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*sigh*
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Taillon had more or less his normal velo back that first inning 🤞
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Not a huge shock but as Trueblood pointed out the Seiya stuff complicated things a little bit
