Brock Beauchamp
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Cubs 2023 Draft picks
Brock Beauchamp replied to chibears55's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Moving this to the draft forum!- 1 reply
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i'll stop now
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Welcome!
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What's closer to .500 at season's end, the Cubs' winning percentage or Mervis's slugging percentage?
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Welcome to North Side Baseball!
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Cy TBD
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Thanks to all of you for voting, here are the results and voting tallies/commentary from each of you! Ranked ProspectsPete Crow-ArmstrongCade HortonBen BrownMatt ShawKevin AlcantaraJordan WicksOwen CaissieMiguel AmayaMatt MervisJackson FerrisJames TriantosMoises BallesterosAlexander CanarioCristian HernandezJefferson RojasDaniel PalenciaKevin MadeBrennan DavisJosh RiveraJaxon Wiggins
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Wow, that game got out of hand last night. I checked out when it was 3-1 Nationals, only to find the Cubs scored eleventeen runs late in the game to win by two touchdowns.
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Anybody said way?
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Post Draft Signings
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yep, we try to update it every day. Here you go: https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-draft-picks/2023/ -
It's rather bittersweet. I'd prefer the Cubs stay in it for at least awhile longer instead of seeing page views spike for a couple of weeks as interest around liquidating assets peaks and then there's nothing to be excited about down the stretch. I managed years and years of deadlines when the Twins were one of the worst teams in baseball. It was nice to have interest spike for a few weeks but it's no substitute for a competitive team.
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In slightly better news, yesterday was the first quasi-viral day of NSBB as one of the trade articles was picked up by an aggregator. We had 2,200 people visit the site, which as far as I can tell is the highest number since September of 2016 (the beginning of recorded site data).
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Well, the Cubs have started their "must-win" homestand by going 1-3. Yuck.
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Bringing Steele into the conversation opens up more possibilities than can be counted, really. And it's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that could lead to great results if handled adeptly... which I don't have overwhelming confidence in happening.
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Madrigal has a ways to go to catch Eckstein, who was very valuable in 2002 and a solid regular for quite awhile, accumulating 16 fWAR in his career.
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Huh. Well, that kinda explains why Suzuki's Baseball Savant page never made much sense to me. It always fascinates me when there is the rare occurrence of a player being okay at the plate but routinely missing dead-red pitches.
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Thanks. I wasn't sure the order in which these things were triggered so I wasn't sure.
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I can't speak for anyone else but I use terms like "top 50", "top 100", etc. very loosely to describe the quality of a prospect. It's just a way to quickly reference a guy, not any kind of concrete line.
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I have a question someone here might be able to answer: Bellinger has a mutual option for 2024. We know those are almost never used so let's just assume he's a free agent. How does that work with a QO? Do the two parties decline the mutual option, then the Cubs offer Bellinger the QO?
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Yeah, you combine both into a single deal and the return should jump from "two pretty good prospects" to "one really good prospect, maybe plus a low minors prospect".
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Okay, that's fair. I can easily see a team like the Orioles just saying "we can weather that loss" without much consternation.
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But also, it doesn't matter. Cody Bellinger is not going to bring back a can't-miss top 50 prospect. Let's be realistic here. Most contending teams have what it takes to trade for Bellinger, it's a matter of whether they'll pay the price and who the Cubs like best.
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Well, the Nationals are in town. It feels like a sweep is needed to maintain any semblance of hope before the deadline.
