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  1. JD94
    Can we just call Mo up now lol
  2. JD94
    I’d be really happy with Cam Smith at 14. There was swing and miss concerns after his freshman year but he was most outstanding player at the Cape last summer and really cut down on the swing and miss and that translated to this current season. He’s also 6’3 220 and has the size and strength to continue to hit for power. He should stick at 3rd with a strong arm. I know you never draft for need, but just in general, 3B is a semi blackhole across MLB. Only 3 players had a fWAR of 4+ at 3B last year. That makes Cam Smith even more interesting to me because he will stick at 3rd and play it relatively well.
  3. JD94
    Batted ball data and expected stats are nice. I generally like those stats. But I also like actual results. Pete gets actual results. We have a 6 year sample size saying you’re getting around 40 home runs, 3+ fWAR, and a 120+ wRC+. I’ve already done it, but making a 1:1 comparison between Busch and Alonso isn’t exactly fair when one guy has like 3 months of MLB experience and the other has 6 years. We don’t know what Michael Busch is or isn’t. There’s not enough sample. And why does it have to be an either / or? Let’s put the 40 HR bat in the middle of the lineup and figure out the rest later. It likely comes down to one of Busch or Morel playing 3rd and the other DH. I know, I know “but defense,” fact is, there isn’t any better options. Then you’re left with figuring out PCA, Tauchman, and Busch. Play the guy that’s playing the best. Simple.
  4. JD94
    He does not strike out a lot. His K% (19.3%) is well below league average (22.7%) compared to Busch who is striking out 34.5%. Busch’s overall numbers look solid although they are still inflated from that 6 game stretch where he hit 6 of his 8 HR’s. It’s been mostly bad outside of a hot week although admittedly he has looked a little better recently. I’m not writing him off in anyway, but I’m also not turning down a perennial proven 3-4 fWAR top 5 first baseman in baseball either. Alonso is a power hitting run producer that doesn’t strike out much. He’s never had a wRC+ under 120 in his 6 seasons. I think he would be a huge difference maker in the middle of our lineup. Trade for him and then pay him and keep him. At some point you have to take a leap and get proven major league talent that’s going to improve your team. I love prospects, but they aren’t all going to work out. We absolutely should be trading from our prospect depth to acquire proven big league talent.
  5. JD94
    Ideally I’d love Danny Jansen and Pete. That’s likely wishful thinking, but obviously would totally change our team. I’m not getting my hopes up. Jed has yet to take a risk and do something splashy unless you count trading for Busch. So until he does, I’m not expecting it. Sure you can argue it hasn’t been the right opportunity or they’ve tried, point is they haven’t. We heard all offseason how hard they were working on trades and all we did was do a prospect for prospect trade. Nothing Jed or Carter says scream urgency to make a move either. I know it’s easy for me to say “go trade for Jansen and Alonso” and it’s really not that easy, but that’s 1 & 2 on my wishlist regardless.
  6. JD94
    I’d love Pete Alonso. Adding a 40 HR bat to the middle of the lineup would be pretty nice.
  7. JD94

    PCA

    JD94 replied to thawv's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Shaw is fine in AA. He has a 132 wRC+. Walk % is very nice. K % is around 20% which is more than fine. I mean his batting average is .239, but his BABIP is .283 which I’m assuming is below average for AA.
  8. JD94
    On a scale of 1-10. 1 being no concern. 10 being they probably shouldn’t be on the roster. Happ 6 Mastro 10 Madrigal 9 Busch 5 Hendricks 10 Morel 2 Amaya 4 Gomes 10 To be fair a lot of this is based on recency bias. Pittsburgh threw 4 good to elite starters at us. Atlanta threw 2 very good starters against us. It’s just been tough luck on the pitching matchups these last 3 series. It won’t always be this hard, but it would be nice if we showed a little more life in some of these games.
  9. JD94
    I’d definitely be cool if it was centered around Alcantara. But I’m not doing all 3 as Bleacher Report mentioned. Relievers are so volatile and he has a very small track record of being this dominant. I’d love for Jed to be able to pull it off, but if that’s the package, then I’d rather just piece the bullpen together with guys like Harvey from Washington as mentioned above, Nardi from Miami is interesting if you look past his ERA (although he’s under control for multiple years also), Yimi Garcia from Toronto, etc. There’s tons of solid relievers out there that you can piece the pen together with rather than going and trading big time prospects for a big name closer no matter how fun it would be having him in a Cubs uniform.
  10. JD94
    Bleacher Report has us as the favorite to land Miller. Their proposal has us giving up Alcantara, Caissie, and Triantos for him. Hardddddd pass for me if that’s the price.
  11. JD94
    Kind of don’t hate to see Horton face a little adversity. He has basically seen zero bad as a pro. Every start for him has been good to great. Obviously something is off with him at the moment, and you hate to see that, but your mechanics are going to get off at times and it’s a good thing to be able to figure it out and get back on track. Any idea on what Wiggins velo looked like? Was it still upper 90’s like he was in college?
  12. JD94
    This bullpen is going to make me commit a crime
  13. JD94
    I see Cubs Twitter wanting Tanner Scott. I’m guessing it’s based solely off a quick glance at his ERA and nothing else. But he’s walking 9 per 9 innings and has a 5.90 xFIP. He’s still very intriguing though. He was excellent last year. His strikeouts are way down and walks are way up in 13 innings so far this year though. I’m not sure if it’s mechanical or just too small of a sample size to get an accurate reading on him. Other than him, there’s not much there really in terms of bullpen help.
  14. JD94
    This team is injured to hell and held together by duct tape at the moment, just keep on keeping on scratching and clawing out victories until we get our dudes back. I don’t even care if they are ugly wins. Just keep fighting until we get healthy in another month or so. This is a fun team and a tough team. To be 15-9 with all the adversity is quite the accomplishment in this young season.
  15. JD94
    I wish we could make a move for somebody like Jason Foley at Detroit or Hunter Harvey at Washington. Those are a couple good relievers on teams going nowhere. If we aren’t going to give Mervis a real opportunity, then we should move him for bullpen help.
  16. JD94
    I love this team I hate this team
  17. JD94
    You just can’t run him out there anymore. I’m sorry, but you can’t. He needs to figure his **** out somewhere else. He’s batting practice right now
  18. JD94
    I didn’t want to keep Hendricks this year. I’m thankful for the World Series and his part in it, but I’d be 100% perfectly fine if I never watched Kyle throw another pitch in a Cubs uniform again. He just doesn’t have it anymore. We are almost conceding the game when he starts and that’s unacceptable.
  19. JD94
    Counsell wasn’t bs’ing about that 75 pitch count for brown lol. My guy was one out away from his first big league win
  20. JD94
    Brown is still a work in progress and you can see it with his breaking balls, but man there’s a lot of promise in that arm.
  21. JD94
    Anybody else wake up in a bad mood this morning? Trying to tell myself it’s just 1 game of a long season, but damn letting a 8-0 lead slip away is infuriating. Especially considering the rest of the pitching matchups the rest of this series.
  22. JD94
    8-0. Cubs are absolutely rolling.
  23. JD94
    To be fair, there’s not much he can’t do on a baseball field. It’s easier to just assume he can do literally anything lol
  24. JD94
    Busch has looked awesome. I guess in this hypothetical Busch would move to 3rd, Morel primarily DH, and Naylor at 1B.
  25. JD94
    Ohtani is not a switch hitter.
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