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  1. Bertz
    Hard to be mad about Keller's outing, yeah there was a walk mixed in there but it was simple bad luck. Morgan and Pearson have to be swapped out today though. Palencia and Brandon Hughes maybe?
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    Understandably overshadowed by Hernandez, Brethowr's seeming breakout has been really fun to see as well. The contact numbers are worse than the strikeout rate, so there's probably some regression coming there (and for as much as I'm cheerleading for Cristian, ditto), but he's looking like he's validating the spring training hype.
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    One of the things that's nice too is that we do actually have reinforcements available to the pitching staff if things backslide further. Last May when the season was slipping away one of the things that sucked was that every pitcher of substance at Iowa was also hurt. So the only guys available to stop the bleeding were like Colten Brewer and Richard Lovelady. On the SP front we just had to keep running Hendricks out there even though it was clear he was cooked. Right now I'm excited for Palencia and Wicks to come up. Neely and Horton and Little don't seem that far off. If you just needed to stop some bleeding guys like Noland and Hughes could probably give you some boring innings. It's a far cry from a year ago even if there are some parallels with the bullpen.
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    I think it depends if his UCL is messed up or not. If his UCL needs to be replaced, because it's his second TJ I think realistically he misses most/all of next year too. If it's not the UCL I suspect given the timing he'd be good to go next spring.
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    It's definitely possible with all the off days, but with the Monday off day the Dodgers would have to skip someone. Right now it's slated for us to get Dustin May and Landon Knack.
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    Cease has a horrible ERA but the peripherals do not back it up. This is still going to be really a tough night. Conversely for this upcoming weekend Corbin Burnes and Zac Gallen's horrible ERA's are largely backed up by bad peripherals. So there's an argument that this is the last really tough pitching matchup until the Phillies come to town in a week and a half.
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    Cristian Hernandez has a 17% groundball rate right now which is ludicrous. Even in small samples I never really see it drop below 20 for a player. He's also rocking a fantastic 17.5% strikeout rate. Though his contact numbers make it seem pretty likely that bumps up with more sample size.
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    Busch absolutely Hulking out every time we face the Dodgers is one of my favorite sub-plots on this team.
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    Also Rea was kind of incredible tonight. If he can sit 94-96 for 3ish innings there might be some real long term utility there. With how dominant Jordan Wicks was at Iowa this afternoon in a 3 inning stint maybe there's a successful piggyback arrangement to be had.
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    1 run in 10.1 IP for the bullpen this series is maybe the biggest development in my mind
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    SP at the deadline just went from a 'probably' to a 'definitely'. I think there's extra incentive to get someone long term and not just a rental. i.e. like Squally said a few days ago, go get Sandy Alcantara. I will say with Horton and Wicks looking great at Iowa my concern is more about replacing Steele's TOR-ness and less about replacing him with broadly competent innings.
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    League average is about 40-35-25 pull-middle-oppo, and he was 40-26-34 last year. So a little oppo heavy. This year early on he's pulling everything, 68% coming into today.
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    Oh hey an opposite field double from Cristian Hernandez
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    Glasnow's actually been pretty bad to start the year. I presume that won't keep up (it's likely rust after last year's injury?), but hopefully he has one more clunker before righting the ship.
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    The offense is obviously the story but the pitching staff coming into this environment and giving up only 3 runs in 17 innings is pretty cool. Especially with no Shota/Steele contributing to that.
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    With Wicks presumably not needed in LA I hope he at minimum gets to piggyback Flexen today
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    I'm not in the "no way the Cubs sign Tucker" camp, but I'd be very surprised by this timing, and I trust Hector Gomez about as far as I could throw him.
  20. Bertz
    Brewers pulled a Cubs tonight and blew a 4 run lead in the 9th in Arizona
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    Counsell also said Rea "probably" starts tomorrow. So my guess is Wicks is being held out in case Brown gets blown out tonight (in which case Rea goes long out of the pen)? That or Wicks is hurt
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    Moises had some uncharacteristically high swing and miss upon reaching Iowa last year, that looks to be rearview mirrored thankfully. He's been getting the ball in the air more early on too. Good stuff generally, though he is chasing a good bit right now.
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    Also appears to be on a mission to maintain a SB per game pace. Too bad he sucks because our expectations were too high three years ago or whatever.
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    Blue glove is a tell even if I'm too dumb to say who. Matt Garza?
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    Connor Noland if you'd like to keep up your strong start that'd be pretty sweet
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