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  1. Rcal10
    By “we” you mean the fan base of the Cubs, right? Do the fans that talk here have any knowledge that the Cubs want him traded? Again, the last 2 years his WAR total is over 7. That is a good player, no matter how much he is disrespected by people talking here. In his time as a Cub he has to be the least respected player on the team with people who post here.
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    He did improve the team. He didn’t spend what people wanted. But he did improve the team. As for the one we are working with the 9th, 10th, 11th and even 12th pen arm. How do you expect the pen to be good with all the injuries. Get Merryweather back, wicks back and even Smyly back and the pen looks different. Wicks takes Hendricks spot in the rotation and Brown and Wesneski stay in the pen. Suddenly the pen looks a lot better. Then Merryweather comes back and it is even better. Almonte too. And finally, if Alzolay was really hurt and that was the cause of his struggles, if he is healthy that also helps the pen. Yes, it has been bad, but it can change very quickly. Just look at the Dbacks from last year. Their pen sucked until the deadline. They made some moves and were very good the rest of they year, including the playoffs.
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    Agreed. And the same thing happens every year. They start playing bad and suddenly everyone overreacts. I said at the start of the season they are a mid to high 80’s win team. And nothing that has happened up until now has changed my mind. No, they aren’t great. But they are pretty good and most likely a playoff team.
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    Hasn’t been good in a while? In 22 his WAR was 4.2 and in 23 it was 3. He has struggled this year. But still plenty of time to turn it around. He is absolutely worth his salary. I am not saying they shouldn’t trade him. But if they do there is no reason they need to eat salary to do so, unless doing so gets them a better prospect or something like that.
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    Well coming into today they were 25-20. That is a 90 win pace. They have accomplished this with a crazy amount of injuries. I would say they are doing fine. Get healthy, the schedule softens up a bit and they stay the course of a high 80’s to low 90 win team. If you expected more than that, then sure you should be disappointed. Steele has had 4 starts. And really yesterday he was more unlucky than bad. He will be fine. As for Kyle, I think he is done. But they have enough pitching behind him to take his place.
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    I agree Kyle needs to be let go. Thank him for a good career but he is done. As for the line up, how many times are you going to make this suggestion? What do you really think they can do? I think the last time you suggested it you had Amaya moving up to 5th and Morel down to 9th. That is a ridiculous idea. Hopefully Hoerner and Swanson come back soon and we see a little more consistency. But they are what they are. An average offense. Moving guys around isn’t going to do anything.
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    Agreed. He is not good defensively and he should have caught that ball. After that I am not sure what happens. But I would have liked to have found out.
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    Also the double play they should have turned in the first inning would have saved 2 runs.
  10. Rcal10
    Does he throw out the runner at home if he catches the ball? I am not sure he does. The bigger non play to me was the perfect double play ball that wasn’t turned in the first inning. That has to be a double play. Instead the next guy homers.
  11. Rcal10
    Calling it now. Suzuki walk off.
  12. Rcal10
    Considering the major league average is .239, I would say what you said about the Cubs is probably true about most teams in baseball.
  13. Rcal10
    What did he do when he didn’t strike out tonight? And who are they going to play right now anyway.
  14. Rcal10
    If he has a good year there is no way he stays here next year. He would be able to get something like 6/$150 at the least. That is a much better sure thing then the Cubs did 1 year. So if he stayed and played first he would be very overpaid.
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    Bad feed from Madrigal. Mastrobuoni doesn’t have a puss arm. It was just a bad feed to him.
  16. Rcal10
    Yep. Announcers said Davis homer was the farthest ball hit in Syracuse this year.
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    Davis with another bomb.
  18. Rcal10
    Slider is a wipe out pitch.
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    Horton came one pitch from an immaculate inning. 3rd batter fouled off the 0-2 pitch. Popped up on the next pitch. 10 pitch(all strikes) inning.
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    Well they only play 3 against the Braves, so they can’t go 1-3.
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    That is all I am saying. Of course he isn’t going to pitch to a 1.49 ERA all year. But even double puts him just under 3.00. (For rounding sake, let’s call it 3.00). That’s still a very fine pitcher who I wouldn’t mind as the #2 or #3 guy in a playoff series.
  22. Rcal10
    One of the biggest talking points of it not being sustainable is the batting average with men in scoring position. And it is extremely low. However the man has a WHIP of 1.034, so it is not like many are getting on base anyway. Sure he will regress some. And initially I still considered him to be a very solid BOR starter even with regression. However, if he keeps up the WHIP number he will be a very solid #2 or, at worst, #3 starter even if the BA goes up with men on or in scoring position.
  23. Rcal10
    Is it wrong to start to get a little excited about Davis again? I mean he is hitting the ball hard at AAA. He is still only 24. If an outfielder went down now, would he come up over Canario? I can’t help but pull for him. He has had so much bad luck. It would be awesome if he actually made it all the way back.
  24. Rcal10
    I agree. But I was responding to the post that suggested Bellinger moving to first. First of all, if he opts back in for next year that means he doesn’t think he can get a better deal than the Cubs deal of 2/$50M. Which means he might not have been very good this year. Next, if he is moved to first that means Busch failed. It also means he wasn’t very good offensively in 24’ and now he is the Cubs $30M first baseman. All of which is not an ideal situation. Which is why I said I hope he is not moved to first. But you are correct, he could move to right or left and the Cubs could made a trade to open up that spot. That wouldn’t be awful.
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    True. And not like the Braves started bad pitchers. I am pretty sure they felt pretty good with Lopez, Sale and Morton going.
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