Brock Beauchamp

Heads up baserunning by Seager.

And still no runs out of it. Sigh.

Cue the Benny Hill theme.

Well that’s a way Bellinger can get on base.

Bumping this to see if anyone else wants to sign up. Next up after a Cubs loss is @jersey cubs fan.

Pragmatism should always be tempered with fandom, and vice versa. And let's face it, watching the same players is just more fun than constantly cheering only laundry. Not every decision should be maximized for pure performance, as this is a spectator sport. The spectators and their experience matters, too.

I'd rather have Correa or Turner but Swanson is sneaky-good. And if we're talking Correa/Turner for $325m+ or Swanson at $170m, it's a much harder decision and you're probably getting more value out of Dansby with a lot less risk. Only the completely bat-**** insanity of the Correa deal that finally landed at "only" $200m guaranteed confuses the situation.

This is great news, it's pretty much the only thing keeping me on T-Mo anymore. My wife's firm pays our cell phone bill so I'm actually making money with free MLB.tv every year but would prefer moving to a service with better coverage in rural Wisconsin.

A friendly reminder to @Bertz that they still have the game thread for today's game.

Once I get through some of my bug list, I'll take a look at the forums, their placement, and shuffle some things around. The Social forum is too active to be that far down the list, I agree.

Oh yeah, I knew about the more balanced schedule, it just hadn't clicked that teams only face divisional opponents twice at home, twice on the road.

They rescheduled the game for September 1st? That seems rather extreme for a division opponent.

Yes, but it's more finicky. Play around with it and you'll get the hang of it after a bit.

Welcome, Jeremy! He's our draft specialist so expect to see his content ramp up over the next three months. He'll also be managing the draft tracker when that releases on draft day.

Just a tip but you can copy and paste tables from B-Ref directly into the site like this: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA FIP BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) Jul 9 to Oct 3, 2022 CIN 8 8 0 0 3-5 W-L:2-3 4.5 46.1 30 10 9 15 66 2 5 1.75 2.12 184 .185 .272 .259 .531 .292 768 67% 14% 18% 0.66 26% 9% 0 65 ---% 6 0 0 162 6 0 0 4 2 2 1.09 1.330 .01 0.00% 13.12 196.25 346.00 per 162 games 34 34 0 0 19 197 128 42 38 64 280 8 21 782 3264 38 0 26 0 0 688 26 0 0 17 8 8 5.7 0.0% 55.8 834 1470

Ooh, I didn't realize Hunter Greene was starting today. I have a slightly morbid curiosity in watching whether he ever puts his stuff together into a cohesive whole.

I just really dislike Eric Hosmer. Maybe it's irrational. (not personally, just as a player)

Even though he doesn't profile as a typical first baseman, I'd rather have Donovan Solano for $2m. He has a lot more positional versatility, too, and I think low-power, high-average players will play up a bit in 2023.

As long as they move on quickly if things go wrong, it won't be a disastrous move but for a team with payroll space and fringe competitor hopes, I feel they should aim higher in acquisitions. I wholly get and support the Mancini and Bellinger signings. They help the team get better and have trade upside should things go awry. Whereas I just don't "get" the Hosmer signing.

I get this but guys better than Hosmer were available for not much more money. In today's game, it costs mediocre reliever money to sign a stop-gap 1B/DH type, I simply don't see a need to drop down to Eric Hosmer levels, particularly a franchise with the payroll capacity of the Cubs.

Also, there are some truly weird badges hidden behind doing a string of things in a certain order. My personal favorite is the completely nonsensical badge "Repeal the Third Amendment". I can't recall why I created it but I'm pretty sure inebriation had to be involved in the process somewhere.

Nope, they're not tethered to anything, just a fun little thing that exists. Points are awarded for content, mostly, but also milestones. You get a couple of points for a post, ten for a blog post, one for receiving a reaction, etc. And then when you hit big milestones like 10,000 posts, you receive a big chunk of points, like 100 or so.

So as you do various things around the site, you'll receive notifications of various badges you earn. Some of them are pretty fun. A couple of notes: If you see Twins or Brewers mentions anywhere in achievements, please let me know. I tried to scrub all references of other sites but I may have missed something. Second, how do your post counts look now? Is everything accurate? If not, I'll dig into the issue more and try to resolve it.

Despite your bad experience, welcome to North Side Baseball anyway!

This so accurately sums up the Cubs lineup.