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  1. Cuzi
    The infield fly rule is only called when a defender is camped under the ball. That didn't happen.
  2. Cuzi
    Cant make this horsefeathers up. Just feels like destiny to get swept.
  3. Cuzi
    I'm biased towards winning. I believe you can rearrange the deck chairs and reduce the overall production at 2B and put that into pitching and be a better playoff team. Of course, if the Cubs simply decide they dont want Kyle Tuckers on their team then it probably doesn't matter.
  4. Cuzi
    Oh, so you agree with me that the majority of his value is in the glove. Awesome. Glad we could come to this understanding.
  5. Cuzi
    Cool, fantastic, great. Meanwhile if you took away Nico's glove you are looking at comparables like Jeff McNeil who is out there getting 4/50 and you are talking about Nico's market at 6/130.
  6. Cuzi
    Use wRC+. I dont care. I can do it for you. This year he was 10/22. 2024 he was 9/16. 2023 he was 9/17. 2022 he played SS and was 9/22. 2021 he didnt qualify. His batting value from 22-25 is 50.5 percentile. He is an average bat. His value is coming from his glove. I'm not saying he is a bad hitter. I'm saying a team is paying Nico Hoerner for his glove. That is where he is going to earn his contract.
  7. Cuzi
    Yes, it is. You dont seem to understand the definition of value. If Hoerner's glove was on par with his bat, he would be a 2 WAR player. You could plug anyone into his spot and expect equal results because the average starting player accumulates around 2 WAR a year. But since his glove is so damn good, it increases his worth by 200%+. That, my friend, is VALUE.
  8. Cuzi
    His batting value is smack dab league average, where as the rest of his game is 95th percentile... So, yes. No team is giving Hoerner a 9 figure deal because of his average bat. They would give it to him because you can't do much better than him on defense and his bat doesn't hinder his ability to start.
  9. Cuzi
    5/100 puts him in the Ketel Marte range. Marte got 6/116.5. I'm docking Hoerner a year because he gets pretty much every bit of his value from his glove.
  10. Cuzi
    We are talking about a FA contract. Andres Jimenez got 7/106 but that is only because his deal included 4 years of control. His FA years he's set to earn $23M/yr. 7/100 aint getting it done for Hoerner if he doesn't fall off a cliff. $14M/yr isn't getting you a 4 WAR player on the FA market.
  11. Cuzi
    If it's much higher than 5/100, I walk away.
  12. Cuzi
    There's no pivot from Tucker other than pitching. The position group is already locked in unless they do something outrageous and not only pivot from Tucker, but then follow it up by trading Nico Hoerner and moving Shaw to 2B and going after Bregman or something. Other than that you are just looking at bench/role players to fill out the lineup. Should probably just....... sign Tucker.
  13. Cuzi
    The Yankees still have Aaron Judge.
  14. Cuzi
    He is playing injured, after all. I'll take Tucker any given day. The idea the team is better without him is asinine. There's no reason for him not to get a retirement contract from the Cubs.
  15. Cuzi
    Don't want one of the best hitters in baseball. Bold strategy. Teams with the Cubs money have multiple Tucker level contracts and we are scared away from having just one.
  16. Cuzi
    Going back to 80 wins when we let Tucker walk and hope Caissie becomes a 5 WAR player.
  17. Cuzi
    This is how every fan feels when their team is losing. Announcers generally don't praise the team getting their ass kicked.
  18. Cuzi
    Do you have any idea what the asks were? I dont. All I know is that in a year where you go all out on a 1 year deal for Tucker, you should be willing to meet the asking price to capitalize on that 1 year. We were talking about the need for starting pitching during winter. So it's not like this is something that just snuck up at the deadline. As it sits, the Tucker deal looks more like a move to save ones job. Mission accomplished I suppose.
  19. Cuzi
    Maybe we should have been a little more worried about getting someone better than Imanaga at the deadline. But here we are.
  20. Cuzi
    I'll take Ballesteros' bat over Caissie if you asked me to pick right now. Caissie has too much swing and miss in his swing.
  21. Cuzi
    I dont care if he can't catch. You dont send that bat back down to AAA in favor of a Reese McGuire.
  22. Cuzi
    Ballesteros has 794 PA's in AAA. Why send him back to AAA after 66 PAs in MLB with a 143 wRC+?
  23. Cuzi
    I feel like when you make a trade for Kyle Tucker to begin the season and apparently have no intention to extend him, I dont think you have an excuse to balk at the asking price for pitching at the deadline.
  24. Cuzi
    At least I dont have to worry about finishing this game out. On to better things for the rest of the day.
  25. Cuzi
    I would be 100% against ABS if MLB did even a little bit of something to punish guys like Angel Hernandez. At least do what soccer does and relegate the worst teams. They have all the tools to grade performance on these guys. Send the worst ones back to the minors until they get horsefeathers right.
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