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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    The absolute date is like 12 or 13 days into the season. But you usually give yourself another week to give plausible deniability, because holding him down purely for service-time reasons is against the rules and he can file a grievance to get the service time restored.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mean I don't care even the tiniest bit about how many hits a minor-leaguer gives up. K's, HRs, BBs, groundball/FB ratio, all stats I might care about. H or H/9? Nope.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kane underwent surgery and had a screw put in. He's out 12 weeks. Season ovah.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think it would happen, but it would be pretty great if this injury allowed them to pick up someone amazing at the deadline with the freed-up cap space, and then have Kane come back on top of it for the uncapped playoffs.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    ...who is 4 years older and gives up way more HRs and hits. Hits don't matter. I'm really curious about how Edwards' HR rate reacts to higher levels. Nobody can be *that* good at not getting taken deep.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bite your tongue.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    if schwarber is an acceptable MLB catcher, we're the 90s Yankees. You know, sometimes guys who are prospects can't hit in the majors even if they seem like really, really good prospects. It's at least theoretically possible.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fair, but wouldn't you still want your best hitter being there? That's Rizzo for now. Nope. If you go by Tangotiger's work, you want your 5th or 6th best hitter there, someone who gets an unusually high proportion of his value from HRs and unusually low proportion of his value from OBP. Jorge Soler or Mike Olt A 30% K-ing Javier Baez would be perfect.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fair, but wouldn't you still want your best hitter being there? That's Rizzo for now. Nope. If you go by Tangotiger's work, you want your 5th or 6th best hitter there, someone who gets an unusually high proportion of his value from HRs and unusually low proportion of his value from OBP.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Tangotiger's work argued that 3rd is about the 5th place you want OBP because of the high probability of coming up with 2 outs and none on.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I voted for the guy who has the same future position as No. 5 except with better stuff and success at a higher level.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't know him personally or anything, but nothing I've heard from or about him makes me believe that's likely.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs best team in city?
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Get the surgery that shortens your career and allows you to come back this year. It's not like he has much of a career left anyways That doesn't seem like something he'd do.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    all that really matters is that he's back for the playoffs. they weren't catching st. louis, and dropping to 4th in the division wouldn't really bother me. i'd actually much rather get nashville in the first round. If that's what it looks like, he might not be back for the playoffs.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fair warning: I am seriously going to do this. If we just miss the playoffs, it's because our lily-livered, faint-hearted front office didn't do enough.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wainwright has left Cardinals camp with abdominal pain that has kept him out of throwing and is going to see a specialist. Cards' GM describes concern as "medium."
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    You are first fan in the history of baseball to argue for more off days.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I would say that having a "need" for beer that can't wait five minutes to be courteous to other people is more mental problem than being annoyed by people blocking the view you paid to see.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe we should stay under the cap and just sign efficient, less-shiny classes the next three years.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not sorry it wasn't us. We can't afford to drop $60m out of the baseball budget in the next two years.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's overrated. More or less the entire pitching staff can function without them, and that's the strength of the team. And the offense can be adequate even if they aren't that great.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    He has some kind of (hopefully) minor injury that they aren't specifying that is presumably keeping him out of workout (or else nobody would have asked about him).
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    BJ Upton is now Melvin Upton, Jr.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even if we count the guys who lost their rookie status in the second half last year as "rookies": 5/8ths of the Cubs lineup, 4/5ths of their rotation, and their entire bullpen (unless Rivero makes it) will be made up of veterans. Anthony Rizzo was the 7th best hitter in all of baseball by wOBA last year. Jon Lester has been baseball's 9th most valuable pitcher since 2012. Jake Arrieta only needed 25 starts to put up 5 fWAR last year. So basically I am saying "Cubs' season is counting on a lot of rookies" is something I'm already completely tired of hearing in the media.
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