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  1. JD94
    Kilian 6 scoreless with 6K’s tonight
  2. JD94
    Jesse Rogers says no more moves for the cubs.
  3. JD94
    Cerami has a serious source in the FO.
  4. JD94
    I’m just ready for Sunday. Steele vs Strider. That’s going to be a fun one.
  5. JD94
    I’d be good with that also.
  6. JD94
    I’m not giving up PCA or Horton for Alonso. But I’d be willing to give them anybody else and a strong secondary piece. I’d give Alcantara and Ferris for example.
  7. JD94
    We better not give up much for a platoon 3B.
  8. JD94
    You have to take into account the LT angle. They aren’t going to go over it. Period. Not this year. Not for a team that’s really mediocre with a lot of holes. They are going to have to get creative to open up some wiggle room. Not much you can do when you only have $5M to play with. That might get you a decent reliever and a okay rental bat.
  9. JD94
    Has he been playing since he hurt his shoulder?
  10. JD94
    AZ Phil says don’t count out that possibility that Stroman could be scratched tonight and Kilian makes a spot start. Meaning if Stroman is scratched, he’s likely getting dealt, and obviously if not, he probably won’t get traded. I could absolutely see Jed trading Stroman and riding with Wesneski and still buying small pieces to help the rest of the way. Just throwing that out there. I wouldn’t imagine it happens though.
  11. JD94
    Heck yeah!
  12. JD94
    245 tomorrow afternoon
  13. JD94
    Yeah there was a report early they would listen, but it’s been crickets on Alonso for a while now. Doesn’t sound like there’s much traction there to move him.
  14. JD94
    David Bednar has been elite the last 3 years. He’s thrown a total of 152 innings and has a total of a 4.5 fWAR. Cade Horton could most likely get you very close to that same value in 1 year. So no.. I’m not giving up one of the best pitching prospects in the game for a reliever that’s giving me ~1fWAR a year. It blows my mind how anybody could be okay with that. This isn’t a 2016 Chapman scenario.
  15. JD94
    I wanted Westburg bad in a Stroman trade right before he got called up.
  16. JD94
    Lord no. That would be an awful trade. Cubs get fleeced. The Pirates would pack Bednars bags for him if we called and offered that.
  17. JD94
    I might could budge a little on my initial stance on nobody in the top 10, but not much. If Ferris is a secondary piece, then I’m 100% all the way out. If this team was a closer away, like in 2016 with Chapman, sure. Sign me up. But we aren’t. Alzolay has been electric as the closer. Bednar would be awesome, but if we are trading high end prospects, I’d much rather that be for guys of Alonso’s caliber. Not a reliever. No way am I doing that.
  18. JD94
    Some of the best pitchers in baseball has already had TJ. Wheeler, Ohtani, Gausman just to name a few. TJ is very common at all levels. I can tell you for 100% fact college pitchers absolutely view and accept TJ now as an obstacle they likely have to face at some point as I am around closely to a SEC baseball team and talk with players all the time. It’s not a death nail surgery that puts your career at risk. Sure some may never be the same post surgery, but the large majority come out fine.
  19. JD94
    My definition of elite is the top tier of your peers. Horton should be compared to his peers currently in the minors… not Stephen Strasburg who was drafted like 15 years ago. Mike Trout shouldn’t be compared to Ted Williams. So on and so forth.
  20. JD94
    I missed the Ben Brown / Strider comp. I don’t agree with that one. I do think Strider / Horton is a really fair comp to this point. I kind of like the fact that Horton already got TJ out of the way. It’s a relatively low percentage of pitchers that ever need TJ a 2nd time… much lower than needing it the first time… to this point. I saw the stat a couple of weeks ago. Wish I had saved it.
  21. JD94
    Jesus we are splitting hairs and using your crazy insane own personal preference on prospect ranking to distinguish the difference between very good and elite. Who cares? Horton is damn good. One of the best against his peers. Strasburg isn’t a prospect this year. He’s likely never throwing another pitch in MLB. I’m comparing Horton against the pitchers he’s competing against. Not your personal prospect ranking.
  22. JD94
    So you’d rather have quantity > quality?
  23. JD94
    How are they not similar? Strider is almost strictly a 2 pitch starter in a league where you say starters need at least 4 pitches and maybe 5. Strider is about to be borderline back to back 5 fWAR seasons with 2 pitches he’s throws over 90% of the time. At the same point in their careers Horton has similar or better minor league numbers than Strider. Slightly less fastball velo, but Horton is still around 96-98. Elite ++ sliders. Seems like a pretty reasonable comp.
  24. JD94
    Horton is literally #6 by default in his first full season… even if you don’t take the time to compare him against other SP prospects in the minors that he’s also better than. So the #5 guy is elite, but Cade Horton at #6 isn’t? Lol… Is Kyle Harrison elite? He’s the #3 SP prospect in baseball. Strikes out a ton of batters, sure.. but he’s walking *7* per 9 innings, 4.79 ERA, 5.14 xFIP, 44% FB rate. What is elite about him outside of the strikeouts?
  25. JD94
    Horton has been working on a 3rd pitch most of the year that’s coming along nicely. Sure there will be growing pains. Guess who else sat between 38% - 48% FB% across A, A+, and AA? Spencer Strider… a guy that Horton is very similar too. Cade Horton has the velo, an elite ++ slider, striking out over 12 per 9, has a 2.53 xFIP. I’d say he’s elite.
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