Stratos
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You could take Montgomery over Hendricks, who is making 16.5m this year.
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"Davis won't join Triple-A Iowa on Friday for the start of the minor-league season and will remain at the Cubs' spring facility while he recovers from a minor undisclosed injury, Tommy Birch of The Des Moines Register reports. Davis isn't expected to be headed for an extended absence, as Birch relays that the outfielder will stay in Arizona for about a week or two before reporting to Iowa." https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/cubs-brennen-davis-sidelined-to-begin-milb-season/
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I see Horton isn't on the Iowa roster. Is this April weather related, or they just want him in AA again for a bit? Or maybe they're delaying his start of the season to give more depth down the stretch for the Cubs MLB team. McGeary is also starting in AA again, which might have to do with the roster crunch in Iowa more than anything. Aliendo is also starting in AA. Peralta stayed in AZ to continue building his elbow/arm. Apparently he can still only hit and not field/throw yet. Brennen Davis also staying in AZ for an extra 1-2 weeks, his injury is undisclosed but not serious.
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Betting is fine IMO but pushing it before and during the game and on MLB Network etc is just bad taste.
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Alzolay was lights out last year. If Steele didn't get hurt and maybe pitched another inning or even finished the 5th they may have won even with the Alzolay HR. Almonte may not have come in and Merryweather maybe could have pitched a full inning.
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One of our strengths is our depth. Could do worse than Ben Brown in for Steele for 1-2 months. Assad could start too once Taillon is back. The good thing is this division sucks and nobody is going to pull away with it early.
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Morel 3B experiment over on Opening Day haha jk. Well with Steele hurt now I guess Morel might start at 3B more often.
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Watched Imanaga's last ST start. His FB wasn't fooling many guys. He was living in the top half of the zone with it and the Cardinals were getting really good swings on it. Before the start Marquee showed he had a 20% GB% in ST. He may give up a lot of HR if he keeps throwing letter-high FB's all the time.
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Cubs almost got Sam Moll in a trade from the A's last deadline. Moll was unhittable after the trade with Reds. That miss may have cost us a playoff birth. https://heavy.com/sports/mlb/chicago-cubs/trade-rumors-sam-moll-reds/
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Agree. It's only ST though so it's fine that way. 162 + ST is a lot, I don't blame Boog and JD for not doing a lot of ST. Though they can do it from the studio.
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Brennen Davis rakes in AAA, re-enters the Cubs prospect Top 10, and makes his Cubs debut before the ASB....then gets hurt again. Busch starts at least 25 games at 3B. Garrett Cooper becomes a hitting machine and goes 2021 Frank Schwindel on the league. Mervis comes back up and mashes. Luke Little legally changes his name to Brailyn Marquez.
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I guess they want the extra INF but I just haven't seen anything that Mastro does above average besides run well. I don't really like the glove much either. The BB% and other stats he's shown in the minors just haven't translated to the MLB yet. If he has no pop he at least needs to draw more walks and not be a liability at the plate. It would be nice if he could be the INF version of Tauchman but I just don't know if it's going to happen. We may not have other good choices to fill his role but I just don't like Mastro on the roster. At least Madrigal has 2 good tools.
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Ricketts gets a D Hoyer gets an A. Nervous about the Hendricks regression. Busch has power but his movements are pretty stiff including the swing which seems slow/late at times, not convinced he has the hit tool to hit for good AVG and I think the K% with be well above AVG, but we'll see. If Ricketts gave Hoyer more money he could have cleaned up with the discounts on Chapman/Snell/Montgomery types.
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Or there was an injury. Same with Cooper and Smith. Cooper is in because Wisdom is hurt. Hoyer did a good job making sure we had depth options.
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They don't have any other LHB on the bench besides Tauchman and Mastro so I assume Tauchman is in the lineup vs RHP. Smith was a guy, Mervis and eventually maybe Peralta remain as LHB bench options
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Maybe Keegan Thompson
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I like Assad, he doesn't throw anything straight and he came up clutch with us last year a bunch. He's projected for a 4 30 ERA and doesn't K a lot of guys, but maybe his stuff plays up a bit. Who knows. Let's hope he just hasn't been lucky.
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They'd also have to make a spot on the 40-man for Edwards, while the other guys are already on it.
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I think if this rotation ends up being above average it will largely be due to luck. Our only SP's projected for above-average ERA's this season are Steele and Imanaga. Assad, Wicks, Hendricks, and Taillon are all projected for average to above average ERA's well over 4 and I agree with that being the most likely outcomes for all of them. Smyly and Wesneski will provide no help there. We may see Brown and/or Horton down the line this year but they probably don't pitch enough to be difference maker overall. Hopefully we do get some luck like 2022 and some guys overachieve, and the pen does well also. Rooting for Neris, Leiter, and Cuas to have good years, and Alzolay stays healthy.
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Eager for an average pitcher like Taillon to get healthy in order to replace an average pitcher like Assad in the rotation to join average pitchers like Hendricks and Wicks. Why sign Montgomery when there's Smyly and Wesneski bumping around? Fans like the longball so does it really matter if it's the opponents who are hitting them?
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He used to be decent but he's been terrible for years.
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I think Cuas and Little make the final cut. I think Edwards needs an injury to get in. He needs to be on a team where he gets innings.
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Yeah I think that's the bench too
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Hope it's a bone bruise
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I thought Lovelady was recently cut from the ST roster. I think Little is likely on the team. Smyly may also get on "release watch" if he doesn't have a good April.
