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  1. Stratos
    He had over 20% HR/fb last year and 23.1% as a reliever.
  2. Stratos
    Michael Babushka has a higher wRC+ than Alonso and worth 50% more fWAR (1.5 vs 1.0)
  3. Stratos
    On the plus, hopefully they'd be 19 years old in low-A ball and several years away from helping the team or being old enough to enter an alcohol-serving establishment.
  4. Stratos
    Looked into some numbers at Baseball Savant. Morel, Swanson, and Amaya have been greatly unlucky according to expected stats like xBA, xSLG, xwOBA. All of their xBA is around .255. Nico is also trailing in xBA. Hang in there folks. However, Busch's BA is about 30 points higher than his xBA (around .223). Oddities: Leiter's splitter has generated the 5th most whiffs in the MLB. Truly elite pitch. Imanaga's 4-seamer is tied for 2nd in total run value for any pitch in the MLB (helped greatly by how much he throws it). Assad's sinker is tied for 12th. PCA is tied for being the 3rd fastest player in the MLB despite MLB.com grading him a 60 run tool.
  5. Stratos
    3.97 ERA as a reliever, 5.93 FIP, 2.28 HR/9. Sucking bawls.
  6. Stratos
    Love seeing the success of Estrada and Megill on division rivals while this pen are trash. Megill is throwing 100mph and Estrada has over 15 k/9
  7. Stratos
    Cubs suck, let's look ahead for fun. Free agents this offseason are, to my count: Hendricks, Gomes, Smyly. Plus Barnhart, Mancini, Bote off the books = about 46m total. Most are just old and post-prime. Also possible is Bellinger walking (but not trending that way). 46m to fix catcher, the pen, find a 3B, and possibly another BORP/MORP SP. They could trade one of Happ/Suzuki/Bellinger, also Morel, plus any prospects on the table. 3B FA's: Bregman, Drury, and Chapman if he opts-out. SS/2b who maybe could play 3B: Adames, Torres Catchers: Danny Jansen
  8. Stratos
    Hate is strong word. I hate this team.
  9. Stratos
    At least the Brewers had a pen and their rebuild didn't take 3 years and counting. Craig Counsell isn't magic. The Brewers org is just better. They have a $120m payroll FFS.
  10. Stratos
    This team is a sad sack of sorry losers. They were sorry losers last Sept too. When the going gets tough roll over and die is the motto. You can't win when the offense is useless through the first 5-6 innings and the pen is useless through the rest of the game. Just put everyone on the DL and call up the entire Iowa roster at this point.
  11. Stratos
    Where's the magic fairy dusk this guy was supposedly farting out in Milwaukee? Fart it out all over the Cubs' faces. It was all lies. Like the Dusty Baker Giants "getting most out of his team" nonsense.
  12. Stratos
    Wesneski and Neris are total garbage. Can Assad or somebody teach Wesneski how to throw a fb? This team needs major changes immediately. Neris out as closer, call a hitter up from Iowa tonight. Write the lineup out backwards. Do something. Make some adjustments. This piece of crap offense can't hit any SP. NOBODY. Change the entire BP routine. For the love of *****.
  13. Stratos
    I like questions like this. Another thing I've thought about is what pitchers a hitter (or team) hits well or not against. For instance, when a team is down especially by multiple runs they will typically bring in their worst relievers. Are there hitters who do much of their damage against those kinds of pitchers, which doesn't have as much value as hitting against a SP or better relievers who only pitch during leads or close games? And for a team, the runs scored/against stat can be skewed by teams that win or lose in blowout fashion more than other teams. Winning or losing by 1-3 runs vs by 4+ runs is irrelevant, a win is a win, loss is a loss. Blowouts will pad stats but are totally irrelevant to winning/losing. So run "efficiency", I would guess, may differ among teams with similar stats and/or records and might matter (no idea). I also don't think the stats us fans have access to (like wRC+ and WAR) that we use to evaluate players factor situational stats like hitting with RISP or runners on. Some of that can be random, but not so much over larger samples (multiple years).
  14. Stratos
    It was so hot outside today. The air was thicker than Mike Tauchman's neck.
  15. Stratos
    Some people like to complain and point blame and call someone trash if they have a bad stretch.
  16. Stratos
    If it's the ball it's probably a manufacturing issue because I can't see them actively wanting to suppress hitting even more after all the rule changes they've made or tested in MiLB to increase offense.
  17. Stratos
    Well we don't really know how he'd do at 2B or SS either, we've only seen him there a little bit. He might be a MI, or a DH. On a team like the Cubs that desperately needed surplus it wouldn't have made sense to trade him other than acquiring a young 3B that can actually play some D. If Morel was hitting better this year I don't think we'd be complaining much.
  18. Stratos
    Yeah but Heywards glove didn't regress. Oh wait...
  19. Stratos
    Hoyer fired 2016 fav David Ross to hire a rival manager. He also traded away Rizzo, Bryant, and Baez and said bye to Contreras. Morel has major issues but I don't think they kept him because they're scared to trade him.
  20. Stratos
    Oh he's not a good hitter and doesn't walk and this will probably never change, but he still needs PAs IMO
  21. Stratos
    Maybe this adds a glimmer of hope. They really need at least 2 of Morel, Happ, and Swanson to get going. Morel has a .208 BABIP. Last year and the year before it was both over .300. He's been extremely unlucky. They need more production in the 2nd half of the order. What I realized the other day is that this team's offense is driven by walks. They can get guys on base ok, but they just can't drive them in. You can't walk your way to runs without hits/slug. Cubs are 5th in MLB in walks, 26th in AVG, 24th in SLG, 21st in ISO. Tauchman walks alot , Busch walks, Happ walks, Morel walking a lot more. Tauchman hasn't walked or hit over the past month (6.3 BB%), that could be a fluke, or pitchers challenging him more. They should try Canario in the lineup over PCA or even Tauchman. He might struggle with K% and AVG but can mash at least. I'd send PCA down, he needs to get AB's every day if he's going to ever hit in the MLB.
  22. Stratos
    Team not good.
  23. Stratos
    They showed a stat on TV today: Cubs hitting ..212 with RISP, dead last in NL. Maybe they can try writing the lineup in reverse except keeping the catchers at #9. Just do something.
  24. Stratos
    I blame Jed Hoyer and Yan Gomes.
  25. Stratos
    Probably best.
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