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  1. Rcal10
    Oh, I see. My point still stands. I can find way more ridiculous hot takes than what you said. I didn’t find your that bad. Frustrated, sure. But I have seen way worse.
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    Of course Happ homers now. It isn’t high leverage so of course he gets a hit. Right?
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    Of all the stupid takes you choose his pointing out the A’s aren’t terrible as a stupid take? I can find numerous comments far more ridiculous than that. And I don’t even need to look far.
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    This is a pointless post unless you can tell us the amount of AB he had in those situation. My guess is 40-50% of his AB are low leverage.
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    If the line up doesn’t start playing to their ability there isnt enough players they can add to help them. I don’t agree with past performance not mattering and only what they are doing now is what matters. Players typically perform to the back of their baseball card. That said, I can see one bat added for DH. They don’t have a definite starter there. But that’s about it. The team will score more runs, more as a result of players they already have playing to their capabilities than because they traded for some mystery big bat who will obviously come here and lead the team. They need pitching because even if their pitchers perform to the back of their baseball card that is not a very good staff.
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    I could be wrong. I know my season ticket rep loved the guy. But I thought he was a bit of a cancer in the clubhouse. I am pretty sure pitchers didn’t like throwing to him. But that wouldn’t be an issue here. Bottom line is the team is going to succeed mainly if the hitters they have play better and to their norms. Willson isn’t going to carry the team if they don’t start hitting. He would be a nice addition but the bigger need is pitching.
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    As much as I don’t think they need another bat, I wouldn’t be opposed to this. Willson would be nice. But not sure about his clubhouse presence. Wasn’t he supposed to be a bit of an A hole?
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    That don’t need to add to the line up. They need the players they have to play to their ability. They are not adding a middle of the line up bat. Skubal is exactly what they need. The problem is they might need more than him on the pitching side and/or even with him they still may not make it. Tell me, where do we get a sure fire run producing middle of the line up bat that we know will produce with risp? How many have a better track record than Seiya, Bregman, Busch and Happ coming into this season? And if the guys who have better records how many are available?
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    I’m definitely not on team sell. But tbh, not sure about giving up young talent for a rental. I think you only go big on guys if you are clearly making the playoffs. Or winning the division by a good margin. Unless things change quickly I cannot confidently say this is a sure playoff team. I do think they will turn it around and still compete for the playoffs. But you just don’t give up major assets just so you can compete for the playoffs. I am not team sell but I am also not team buy big.
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    I agree. But the problem now is, who pitches the rest of the game.
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    Basically did what I expected. 2 of the next 3 batters are lefty. So Milner. Interesting that none of the people who criticize Counsell spoke up on this. They would rather wait until whatever decision he makes doesn’t work so they can suggest they wouldn’t have made that decision.
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    Is Rea done for the evening? Similar to his last start. Only 65 or so pitches thru 5. But 3rd time through the lineup. He is pitching well. Righty leads off next inning. So not sure they go to Milner right away.
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    What are we now, in your opinion? Personally I never thought the brewers would regress. I assume they are going to be good every year. I did think the Cubs were a low 90 win team. Injuries have caused me to lower that expectation. But I do think they can win 87-80. So again, what is your projection? Posters here act like they never watched baseball before. So they have a bad streak. That means they suck and will be lucky to play .500 ball? Bad streaks happen every year. It happened last year too and they won 92 games. I am more concerned about the injuries they had lessening my expectations than I am the recent poor play. They are better than they played in May.
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    When league average is taken into account Happ was exactly the same player he was last year as he has been basically his entire career. About 15% to 20% above leave average. How is last year meh and the others good? Happ is a good player who has end numbers very consistent and virtually always 15-20% over leave average.
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    Not a brewers organization move. They will trade for Detmer or some obscure pitcher a team has given up on and he will become their version of Skubal. That’s more likely.
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    How much do you want to wager? I will take that bet.
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    He pitched well tonight. They aren’t going to IL him.
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    He is fine. But as Boyd and Cabrera come back he might be shipped out. It will be 2 of him, Ferguson or Thornton once the Cubs get a few starters back. The only other option they have is to dfa Taillon. And I don’t expect that to happen.
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    I agree with this. But I think long term he is still considered a starting pitcher by the Cubs. I understand Bertz wanting him to stay up and pitch like they used Brown last year. I am also not a Rolison fan. But I am fine with the Cubs sending Wicks down to start ever 5th day. I would have also been ok with them keeping him up to take Rolison’s spot. It’s temporary anyway with Cabrera coming back. If Ferguson stays up Rolison might be gone then.
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    Why? I mean even if you believe in Wicks isn’t he better off in the Iowa rotation instead of the Cubs pen. I will admit I am struggling to keep the faith in him, but even believing in him I think he is better served starting in Iowa.
  22. Rcal10
    Interesting that you think Logan Webb would cost less than Skubal. IMO Webb would cost more prospects because he is signed for several year longer. And, as squally said, he has paid the prospect cost to land a big player when he traded for Tucker. BTW, I think someone like Gray or Ray are more likely too. But I don’t think it is a foregone conclusion the Cubs wont aim higher.
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    I think every team in baseball has enough in their system to get Skubal. Whether it be prospects or young major leaguers with a lot of control left, like Shaw. It isn’t like the Tigers are going to get 2 or 3 top 50-75 prospects for him. So the question isn’t how can the Cubs or any team beat out the Dodgers for him. It is does a team want to give up what the Tigers want for him? They all can, but will they?
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    Again, I said it wasn’t you. It was peanut. This started pages ago with his idea of superstars. You did say Texas was the exception. He didn’t.
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    An oddity. Two great posts in a row. Nicely done!
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