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    "No hard Innings limit" =/= In the rotation through the playoffs Horton is going to get paused or slowed down at some point. There's not a hard limit, so it's not some Strasburg situation where Horton hits 120 innings and is immediately shut down, but they definitely have a realistic range in mind and will take proactive steps to limit him to roughly that range. Expect either an IL trip at some point, even if its for something flimsy, or a transition to the bullpen. Which one they go with probably depends on how well he's pitching. And every word above applies to Brown as well.
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    Jack Neely appears to have gotten over his early season bout of wildness. Over the last two weeks: 6.2 IP, 2 ER, 2 BB, 12 K Not screaming "I'm ready for another shot" quite as loudly as Luke Little, but hopefully another couple weeks and he'll be right there
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    Medium-warm take: Rojas is our #2 prospect right now and if you promised me Moises would never catch a meaningful number of innings I'd make Jefferson #1.
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    Dansby Swanson this year has a positive run value on Cutters, Splitters, Sinkers, Sliders, and Curveballs He has a negative run value on fastballs
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    Yes! Let's get our hands on some of that sweet sweet Statcast data
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    I saw on Reddit this morning that it's already reached the point where if the Rockies go .500 from this point on they'd lose 100 games
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    Will Sanders in Game 2 please!
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    It's not one big thing, it's a little bit of everything. Plus a heaping helping of bad luck piled on top of it. If the Cubs were worse, or if money looked less tight next year, I'd be interested. But as it stands I don't think this team should be the ones to try and fix him unless Hottovy/Zombro *know* exactly what's wrong.
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    Given the lack of goldilocks starting pitching options I wonder a bit about going nuts on a reliever. Like of course you absolutely have to add a SP. But I'm wondering about a boring SP, let's say Chris Bassitt, and paired with a much more dynamic reliever like Mason Miller. We saw this winter that Jed thinks they're in a place where it is worth paying up for an elite reliever. Miller/Hodge/Palencia has a chance to really shorten games. Add Horton in short relief on top of that.
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    If the season ended today the Cubs and Phillies would get the first round bye and the Dodgers would have to play the wildcard round
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    I'd probably still put him 5th, but I do think at this point between Jaxon's ascent and some of the warts on the Iowa crew you can pretty easily argue him as high as #1.
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    It's his first crack at South Bend, and he's still age appropriate for the level. You basically have to weigh the fact that it took him 3 tries to get past Myrtle Beach (a *very* bad sign) with the fact that he dropped switch hitting, which you would reasonably expect to make things tougher for a while. He's certainly not one of our top prospects at this point, but he was orginally the headliner of the Yu Darivsh trade for a reason. And he's still young enough to develop on a good timeline.
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    The Dodgers won a WS last year with Yamamoto, Beuhler (who was ass in the regular season), and a bunch of bullpen games. The Rangers won with a rotation headed by Eovaldi and Montgomery. Two good pitchers for sure but very much the same tier as Shota/Boyd. Everyone would love a Phillies type rotation, but these days with how few innings playoff starters throw (even most aces are 5 and dive) it's not the only way to skin the cat.
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    .302/.343/.476 and a 124 wRC+ since April 27th
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    I saw on BN yesterday that he was playing catch. If you figure another week or two of that, a week or two of bullpens/sim games, and then 3-4 rehab starts, you're probably looking at early July.
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    Presumably taking Kriske's spot.
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    Another series win too. If I'm counting right they are 13-5-1 on a series by series basis.
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    Pretty incredible game from the bullpen, especially with Palencia and Pomeranz down. Feels like this makes up for one of the disaster games in April.
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    Reggie Preciado dong. Signs of life just keep trickling in.
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    As much as I agree with Tryptamine that the timing is right for adding an impact cost controlled starter, I don't think the market looks like it's going to cooperate unless the Nats make Gore available. And I'd guess it's less than 50/50 they do. I think if you're Jed you're realistically going to have three options: 1. Settle for a rental and revisit the big trade in the winter - Honestly this might be the smart play regardless, as Tucker's fate heavily influences what/how many resources you'd want to part with in trade 2. Buy in on a SSS break out - For example Ryan Weathers and Max Meyer both look great for the Marlins. The fish are early enough in their rebuild to probably make them available, but you're likely gambling a lot of resources on less than half a season of success 3. Rescue a live arm from a dumb team - For instance Trueblood made a pretty compelling case for Ryan Feltner over the winter. Reid Detmers seems pretty fixable. Etc. I think the big risk here is can you fix one of these guys *in season*? Because you need someone who can help out this October
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    20+ inches is insane. Imanaga for instance has elite vertical break and he lives in the 18-19 range.
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    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2025-zips-projections-houston-astros/ A 3.35 ERA, and that's in Houston which obviously is more of a hitters park than Wrigley Also, small sample size but he's been missing a ton of bats since his disaster outing a few weeks ago. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/ryan-pressly/7005/game-log?position=P&gds=2025-05-09&gde=2025-10-31&season=&type=16 I wouldn't be in a huge rush to move him back into the closers role, Id like to see those whiffs translate all the way into strikeouts, but there's a decent chance he's already fixed.
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    Pressly projected fantastically coming into the year. He had declined yes, but from a top 5 reliever in the league to very good.
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