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I wonder what the lowest wRC+ is for a league MVP from a position player. MVP is basically a default Ohtani award like NFL MVP is a default quarterback award but to finish as a runner up he’d be at the bottom end.
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Unless they trade Shaw, I think they’ll roll with what they have. The Steele and Horton injuries, not to mention Cabreras blister which could linger all season is as close to a death sentence as there is. Bregman and Swanson are the only 2 position players where there’s a possibility of a drop off from the back of their baseball cards due to their age. Can’t say for sure but won’t rule it out either. Bregman’s struggling to square anything up and it’s already June.
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Holy horsefeathers they came back. It’s about time they’re not on the ass end of bad sequencing with 7 hits in the 9th. PCA is now tied with the entire Cubs pitching staff with a 2.6 fWAR.
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They’re inevitable. No chance they’ll come back.
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I’ve had enough of this horsefeathers horsefeathers. I’ve seen this ending before.
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This team is inevitable right now.
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It’s much deeper than Counsell versus Murphy. Milwaukees success can be traced back to Maddens final 2 seasons as Cubs manager, coached by none other than 1X manager of the year and 3X runner up Craig Counsell. Murphy isn’t some 6 war manager, regardless of your thoughts on Counsell.
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I blame Sox fan Pope Bob. It’s 2 on 1 versus the Ghost of the Sandberg.
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It’s time to admit that we hired the wrong guy from Milwaukee. Brewers General manager Matt Arnold has turned Milwaukee into perennial overachievers who defy projection models from a team previously under Davis Stearns that routinely overachieved and defied projection models.
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7 extra base hits, including 2 home runs and only 4 runs scored is comical in a lose 5-4 with a 52 point edge in wOBA..
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I’m loving Nico and Crow-Armstrong at the top of order.
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Suzuki has always had these month long stretches where he looks terrible. He had a 33 wRC+ in June of 2023 and a 71 in May of 24. He couldn’t air last August either. This is who he is. He’ll bounce back at some point.
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He’s our only middle of the order bat with a wRC+ 130 and slug. That makes all the sense in the world. Bregmans singles, Suzukis groundouts and Busch’s singles and walks don’t quite pack the same punch.
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Which current Cubs player would you say has the potential to earn a multi year contract on the open market for north of $240 million ($150 million for pitchers) off of peak production under the current CBA in place? PCA if he decided to bet on himself? The Cubs are log jammed with steady Eddy’s so your options are slim.
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1/30 from our 3-6 hitters since Sunday. Team slug is currently at 384, the league average is 392. 7 straight losses at wrigley, most since August of 2021.
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If Jed is unwilling to commit to a player like Skubal long term then do something bold and rent him. This the best player he’ll ever have the opportunity to trade for at the deadline and he’s got a leg up with Shaw. I hope anyways. No more half assed efforts. It’s Shaw. You just spent $175 million to replace him.
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he looks like he’s wearing a blindfold when swinging at sliders.
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I thought I made it pretty clear that Texas was the exception.
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Sure. Miz is in the running for a Cy Young and Turang is establishing himself as the best second baseman in baseball. It’s not a rule. The 2015 Royals had no truly memorable names besides maybe Zobrist whose fame is tied to the Cubs. I think the superstar question is rooted in skepticism over Jed’s quirky roster construction. If you look at all the other teams with $250 million top 10 payrolls, he’s the only GM without a player signed to a $200+ million contract and a roster mainly comprised of high floor, medium length deal vets with a few exceptions. There’s a bit of unfamiliarity with the lack of aggressive signings unless I’m mistaken.
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I’m aware. But we still have to cross that bridge first. Outside of 2018-19 Yelich, they’ve been defying all projection models with mostly random names.
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I’m speaking about adding another silver slugger DH bat to convey the point that they’ll need to score a ton of runs because the pitching staff blows. They can certainly trade for a top of the rotation starting pitcher, the Ben Brown thing is real (maybe a star in the making) and Cabrera and Boyd perform better, especially Cabrera when they come off the IL, then who the horsefeathers knows. They can shock the world. That needs to happen though. But to your initial point, teams with great players win championships whether they emerged during their championship seasons or were established stars well before. That incomplete list features both of the above. Milwaukee doesn’t really have anyone that belongs on that list and they turtle in the playoffs every year. You took that as a direct shot at the cubs for some reason. My direct shot was comparing the talent gap between the Dodgers everyone else.
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I agree. Better players and or better performance from the pitchers currently on the team is needed in the rotation. If we’re stuck with what we have we’ll need an Aaron Judge like bat at DH to compete with the Dodgers superstar roster, at least on paper. Although I could be off on this, Ian Happ has a higher wRC+ than Freddie Freeman, which may or may not disprove that the Dodgers have really good players.
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Do you think the Cubs are on a similar level of talent to the 2018 Redsox? PCA is great, sure. We don’t have Mookie Betts trending towards league MVP or a Chris Sale who finished top 4 in cy young voting though. We have some great complimentary pieces. Boggarts played like a “superstar”/all star/whatever by earning himself a $280 million contract with Sandiego. So we’ll have to wait on Busch for now.
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That’s a typo, right? Did you mean to to type 70?
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Freeman and a Braves core that won between 88-104 games from 2018-24, Sale, Martinez, Boggarts and Betts on Boston, Soto, Rendon, Turner, Scherzer on Washington, Verlander, Alvarez, Altuve and Bregman on Houston, Texas is the one team where you can definitely say caught lightening in a bottle thanks to career years from Seager, Semian and Garcia, I don’t have to explain the Dodgers or the 2016 Cubs. This has definitely been a phenomenon over the last decade. There has to something to Milwaukee turtling in the playoffs despite 90+ wins every year.
