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Thanks, but neither STEAMER nor a palm reader can predict what such players will hit next year.
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Last year was Matt Shaw's rookie season. Probability is that he'll improve significantly. Maybe dramatically.
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Based on him "having the stuff," but lacking command and consistency, something that can get much better with practice of his technique. Witness Hottovy's "school." Seems he may also need to come up with another decent pitch. That takes time. Thanks for asking.
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Brown is the kind of dude that gets better with age, seems to me, hopefully so with the Cubs.
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Very interested in Jonathan Long and think he deserves a shot, thankyouverymuch.
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Well, I'm 66, but I could consider signing-up.
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It seems that when an injured pitcher has a successful operation, he generally recovers to form or improvement. And it seems when the injured pitcher hasn't had an operation, not so much, not quite as often. #NipTuck
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Kudos to masterful Hoerner and Cubs team and organization. Look at PCA's numbers vs. Rafaela. My vote is PCA.
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Just didn't see it in the results, compared to Keller, for example. Not when it counted bigly.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong fell off, too, from where he was. We'll see.
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I don't remember that kind of thing in old-timeyness... ruling out Sodom and Gomorrah, of course, but I wasn't there.
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Plus the Los Angeles Dodgers promote the transvestite men that mock Christians, dressed as nuns.
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I don't quite understand what people see as very special in Kittredge. On the other hand, to me, Collin Rea seems to be pitching better than he ever has.
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Go for the prospects and the long-term, Cubs, yes, yes, and it appears wise to figure in that potential lock-out. Thanks.
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Thanks for the note. We'll see about Cam Smith as well as Matt Shaw. I tend to think the difference is highly explainable in his being a year behind. But, I like Shaw for the future and the Cubs should have OF/DH talent to use if not to spare from their prospects next season, so there's that.
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Fine question, thank you. Ask me again, next July, as his BA and OBP come up. He may be the Cubs' leadoff man. (I'm having a challenging time understanding all the short-term interest in these pundit blogs and lack of interest in long-term investment.)
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Matt Shaw is a slugging third baseman as well as stellar fielder and very good baserunner. I like him better than deal-crazy pundits.
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He was quite a friend of the deceased.
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The Kyle Tucker trade.... didn't like it... still don't....
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Chicago Cubs Minor League Starting Pitcher of the Year (2025)
Arlen replied to Paul Niemiec's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Good. Let's have more of those prospects that the Cubs organization finds tough to trade away. That is how excellent franchises are built, not one year wonders. -
Waiting for the big postseason news: Cubs Release Counsell, Sign Pat Murphy!
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Yea, Rea did alright. But wow, did Counsell burn through those top relievers quickly. And then, it's just better than average Kittridge, while saving Keller till too late.
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One simply has to recognize when players are having trouble and when they're doing especially well... and if possible in each case, why that is.
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Wow. I thought Tommy Hottovy's staff was there to pick up on things like that. Then again, one would think Crag Counsell would pick up on the simple trend of Imanaga's ineffectiveness. The office might think of hiring Northside Baseball.
