Brock Beauchamp

Ugh thank you. I completely missed the prospect removal step here while doing it on the other two sites.

It's prospect voting time again! A rundown of the rules again: 1. You must have an account and be logged in to vote. If you don't have an account, click here. It literally requires 60 seconds to create an account. 2. Review our current top 20 prospect list, catch up on stats, rankings, etc. 3. Have your prospect list in your dirty little paws? Then flip on over to the new prospect voting page (after reading the rest of this, please). 4. Voting is super simple, you drag and drop players in the order you wish them to be. After you move a prospect, the list automatically renumbers so you don't lose track of the order. This works on mobile devices but it's a *vastly* better experience on desktop. Sorry, that's just how this kind of thing works. There's no great way to make something like this be as awesome on a phone screen. 5. Each prospect has a comment section where you can add any commentary you have on that player. At the bottom of the list, there is a general comment section to explain over-arching things you wish to mention. 6. Don't see a prospect you want to put on the list? Just pop back here and give me a mention (in a comment, start typing @Brock Beauchamp and then select my name when it appears). Mention the prospect you want added and I will do that asap. 7. Once you're done with all of it, click Save. You've now voted! 8. When the voting closes, a new thread will automatically generate in this forum with all of your rankings and comments for everyone to read and talk about. 9. You can only vote once. If you have voted in error, pop back here and again tag me, asking to have your vote deleted. I will remove it and you can vote again. Voting will close at end of day Tuesday August 15th!

This is something that power users often like but also helps lead to the death of communities. They become so insular and impenetrable with miles-long threads that no new user can or will read. More frequent, shorter threads lead to better long-term community health. And I say this as a person who has both run a community into the ground for making these mistakes and a person who learned their lesson and has revived/built multiple communities now.

I downplay batting order as much as the next guy but if Happ isn't hitting, he violates the one rule I care about: give your best hitters the most plate appearances. But he has been good enough that yeah, I don't think it matters much.

Are you asking about me changing the title? It was simply "Happ", which is so non-specific that I changed it to better reflect what the poster wants to talk about.

No game today and I think the Cubs have several off-days coming in the near future (or maybe I'm confusing another team, I can't keep anything straight in my head anymore). The Cubs are back on the outside looking in at the postseason, half a game behind the Marlins and 2.5 back of the Brewers. They face the Jays for three games and then it's smooth sailing for a few weeks as they face terrible AL Central teams and then the Pirates.

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I agree with your sentiment here. I can’t see a world where he gets anything near $100m.

I'm not sure there's a discernible difference between the Reds and Marlins in talent level, really. Both have been exceptionally fortunate and very volatile.

I'm sending this sucker off the rails! What do people think about this process? Is this a good way to use game threads before game time? I do not have strong opinions on this either way, it's really up to all of you.

Cubs are back into a Wild Card spot. After today, they need to get through three with the Jays and then they are faced with three absolute punching bags from the AL Central. If they can get through the next four, they're in nice shape heading to the end of August.

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The Cubs need to take advantage of the soft parts of their schedule and they, uh... failed to do that last night. In a rather spectacular fashion. They need to get back on track tonight, as they lost ground on both NLC teams in front of them.

Ah, yes. The Mets should be interesting this offseason. I think they're going to go hard at David Stearns, though I don't know if they'll land him. It's a good fit for both parties but I'm not sure Stearns wants back in the big chair after only one season away from baseball.

He's still under arb for 2024.

Bleh

Ditto. I understand why they removed games 163 but I don't like it because games 163 are an absolute riot deciding tiebreakers in May is dumb

This is an offseason thing, for sure. Be sure to smack me upside the head about it come November or so. The offseason is when I start addressing the laundry list of things that accumulated during the season and when I consider new features for the sites.

Yeah, I'm saying we *should* switch it to a database toggle so that doesn't happen. It's currently stored in a cookie, I think.

We commandeered an existing plugin and just made it work in a few hours but yeah, a logged-in user state should be pulling dark mode from the database. Something to think about.

Yeah, I hope to sit down and re-think the menus this winter. I haven't found a way to show the various features of the site in a manner I find appealing and useful.

For sure! By the way, almost all of this is listed under "Cubs Resources" on the forum index page (/forums/ page). It's right above the first set of forums.

The Cubs can't stop winning. Now it's time to head to Flushing and take on a depleted Mets squad!

I can merge your accounts and get that old account back for you, if that's what you're interested in doing. Just shoot me a PM.

Rubber match!