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  1. Rcal10
    I think if Tucker sticks around the Cubs will use both Alcantara and Cassie in a trade offer to get better pitching. Because of that I agree on Long being a keep. I still think they get more for Cassie and Alcantara then they do for Long, so if Tucker stays they might as well get rid of both those outfielders to improve pitching. If they need some salary relief(which is ridiculous to me, but probably a Ricketts reality) they can always deal either Happ or Suzuki and bring Ballestaros up to DH.
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    Strumpf is having an interesting year. He is older so not a prospect, but it looks like this year he is swinging at more pitches and not taking the walks he always took in the past. I am just going by the numbers I see. But in the past he had hit around .230 but had an OBP around .360. He also struck out a lot. Which tells me he was very selective in what he swung at therefore he drew a lot of walks but also struck out a lot because he passed on too many pitches. This year he is hitting .271 but with an OBP of only .350(which isn’t bad, just not how he used to perform) with a slugging over .600. As j said, he isn’t a prospect and will probably always be a minor league ballplayer. I just find what appears to be a chance in his philosophy on hitting, interesting.
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    After 2 starts I would say Horton is doing pretty well. I know he has given up 6 runs in 9 innings, but he hasn’t walked anyone. Today he pitched in a game with the wind blowing out pretty hard, and did fine. Best part of this is in two games the Cubs games the Cubs had to fill in for Imanaga they won both of them. I am actually encouraged by Horton’s two starts.
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    Good spot for Merryweather
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    And besides not taking the sure out at 2nd, he didn’t even throw it hard to 3rd. He lobbed it in. What a terrible play.
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    Now Pressly.
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    I think they need to bring Shaw back and just let him play. That collection of guys they have there all suck.
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    PCA!
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    I know on occasion the scorekeeper can award a win to a guy who isn’t technically the pitcher of record. But that is usually done when the guy who is the pitcher of record sucked ad got lucky to be in the game when his team turned the game around. The scorekeeper can award someone else who may have been effective, with the win. But Horton was the pitcher of record after 5 and the Cubs never trailed. I thought that was the requirement to get a win using standard rules.
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    I don’t really like that idea. Wind blowing out any lead is not safe.
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    I don’t think this is true. You have to be the pitcher of record at the end of the 5th and the team not lose the lead after that. If someone faces one batter and is replaced, if that replacement doesn’t thru 5 he doesn’t get the win.. or am I mistaken?🤷
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    It would be his second. He got the win in NY.
  13. Rcal10
    It was. But he did give up one real loud and long ball to the deepest part of the field that has it gone out would have changed his line to 3 runs in 4 innings. I didn’t really notice much more hard contract, but that one was crushed.
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    I know what they did against them. But they were tight games. I said the Sox play them tight, and IMO they view these games as their biggest games of the year. Seems they line up the best pitching they can against them and if I remember correctly, Robert came back from an injury right before the Cubs series. He sat versus Milwaukee . Didn’t Morel hit a game winning walk off against them to save them from losing to the Sox? Weren’t the other games at close? I think they won 3 games by one run and another by 2. My only statement was I do worry about the games against the Sox, especially with the Cubs treading water right now.
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    And struck out the side in the 3rd
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    I don’t think they will wait long in Shaw. They just wanted to see him take aggressive swings and he seems to be doing that now.
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    Shaw just walked it off with his second homer of the game.
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    Scare me as well. TBH, I would gladly take 2 of 3. Seems these games always mean more to the Sox than others during the season. And no matter the records, they always play the Cubs tough. On top of that, Fridaynlooks like a wind blowing out day, so no telling how it ends up. Last I looked winds were 15-20mph, out.
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    His second time up he hit a rocket to the second baseman that handcuffed him. Was over 100mph. If he keeps hitting the ball hard I expect him to be back by the end of May. Hope so, anyway.
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    Hope the game is played as you drew it up🤞👍
  21. Rcal10
    My guess is Busch won’t start either and Kelly will be the DH. Turner at 1st.
  22. Rcal10
    I agree with your basic point. But we are actually more than 25% done with the regular season.
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    You said they would bring Shaw back at that time. I thought you meant if Shaw plays well the next week, he could come up and Moses go down. So are you saying when they send Moises down they also release someone (Lopez) so that along with activating Happ they would then bring back Shaw? To me Ballasteros going down and Shaw coming up are two entirely different transactions. Moises goes down when Happ is ready. Shaw comes up if/when he is ready. Lopez cut.
  24. Rcal10
    Rose may have been a scumbag, but there are plenty of those in the HOF. If we are putting guys in based on what they did as a ballplayer, without cheating the game by taking enhancement drugs, he belongs I. The ball.
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    Wouldn’t they just activate Happ when they send Moises down?
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