Hairyducked Idiot
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I'm glad he's doing it. But he's not going to keep doing it.
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Eye test is horrible for guys who are getting unsustainable line drive rates.
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It's good that he's not a total dumpster fire anymore, but the peripherals are still those of a sucky player (except exit velocity!) and he's living in Magical Line Drive Land where an unsustainable percentage of the balls he makes contact with are solid contact. He's going to need to keep improving, and not a small amount, to stay relevant.
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you loved him! viewtopic.php?p=2947071#p2947071 A few pages later in that thread, prescience:
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That's what depth is. You don't want to use him that way, but can if necessary. that's why he's 6 or 7 of 5. Maybe I'm Mojoing a bit on what actually happened this year, but didn't they decline to use him as a 6 or 7, instead keeping him in the pen while they shuffled through guys?
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It's easy to feel OK about your depth when your top 4 stayed healthy and had overall good years, so your crappy fifth starters didn't matter.
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Wood counts if they want to use him that way. They look like actually good prospects with options or swingmen, usually. And it wouldn't kill them to enter ST with six legitimate rotation guys on the assumption that not all six will be healthy at all times.
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Wood is OK, but they don't seem to like him as a starter. Cahill is a flash in the pan and a reliever. Edwards is a reliever. Johnson kinda sucks. Duane Underwood was last seen striking out 5.9 per 9 in A+. what exactly do you expect 6th, 7th, and 8th starters to be? Actual starters would be nice.
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Wood is OK, but they don't seem to like him as a starter. Cahill is a flash in the pan and a reliever. Edwards is a reliever. Johnson kinda sucks. Duane Underwood was last seen striking out 5.9 per 9 in A+.
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My kid is utterly mesmerized by that.
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I'd put it at roughly even odds it balances out or exceeds. Getting there this year helped a ton. Put me down for 2 across the board.
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I don't trust six-win pitchers to stay six-win pitchers. How about a 6 win pitcher who has not been below a 6 win pitcher for the last 2 years and hasn't been below a 4 win pitcher in 5 years and who is 30 y 1 m old? Nope, don't trust him.
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I don't trust six-win pitchers to stay six-win pitchers.
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I don't know if we'll be the plurality favorite or not. Pittsburgh and St. Louis are both pretty good. I do, however, think that adding a depth of pitching improves our chances more than a high-end piece.
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how many bad innings will it take now? But I was told that Kyle isn't negative and doesn't like hyperbole. (In this case it wasn't all that unreasonable of an opinion, but still.....) If you really want to go this route, dig up the Feldman for Strop/Arrieta trade thread. I liked the idea of trading for MLBers instead of prospects, but those two sure sucked. I've accepted that pitchers are a mysterious unknowable force of parity and weirdness.
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I know this post is two months old now but come on. This isn't some great thought of genius here. Most people know you don't take any one team "against the field" in any sport. It's almost like you think you are "this great mind among the idiots" and throw out these little quips to somehow prove your point. Carry on, this is the first time reading this thread so sorry from bringing up old stuff. I like to think of it more as refocusing the discussion. Even if someone disagrees with me on the specifics, I would infinitely prefer the discussion be grounded in the actual median projections on what the Cubs might do in the future, rather than the vague exuberance of a Squidward-like "Fuuuuture" chant.
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He really does. And he has such an inflated self-confidence. A meatball that thinks everyone else is a meatball... shudder. Let the record show this thread started with me posting Vlahos comments only to have Kyle show up and agree with them. That's not technically true, but close enough to still be funny I guess.
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OK. Theo Epstein is currently on pace to make it 0-for-4 by that benchmark. this one is fun to look at It was factual. 1-for-4 now is looking a lot better. It certainly helps.
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#wearegood
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But it's like a million years until they play another meaningful game. Booooooored.
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Well, in his defense, he would have ground Hammel, Arrieta and Hendricks' arms off, so there wouldn't be much choice.
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I just posted the same thing at another site. *brain wavelength gesture*
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The day I turned 30, I lost all ability to spell and use grammar properly. Its the weirdist thing.
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There was a point we had the best record in the NL. I remember Baseball 2Night doing a big story on it and I was ecstatic.