Hairyducked Idiot
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If we were a few picks further back, trading up wouldn't bother me. But there's enough premium talent that I'm not convinced moving up from 9 gains is all that much
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If Daniels really goes before Maye, I'll just accept that NFL teams see things I don't
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brown putting it together would be really useful
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I know most people agree with this but I'm gonna say it again anyway: If managers actually fixed or broke bullpens, the good ones would make a lot more than $8m/year
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Over on "being above .500 at any point this season" looking pretty good
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3 bb/9 in the low minors is pretty iffy, and he's frequently struggled to dominate the minors
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Mervis isn't a thing. Stop trying to make him a thing.
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Here's a name drop: Jeff Pico
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Our best starter isn't on the DL after all.
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I'm going to continue to assume that Ben Brown is a bad pitcher until he shows otherwise. Which he might. He's not a guy you plan around or try to hold a spot open for. He's a guy you keep in the organization because the small chance he does a 2014 Arrieta is worth the opportunity cost of keeping him.
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Well yeah, that would be an objectively bad outcome. I don't see any reason to think it's more likely for the Cubs than any other decent team.
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Over
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Guy who got smacked around by AAA hitters last year finds out that MLB hitters are pretty good too.
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As TT said in the other thread, if he's actually getting called up today, that would imply he's not here to actually start. Or maybe he's joining the team today but not formally rostered until the next rotation turn comes up? Anyways, he's not a floor prospect where he needs to show incremental steps until he's big-league useful. He's a "maybe someday his command will snap into place and he becomes a superstar" prospect. Which does happen sometimes for pitchers. Maybe it's happened with him. If it hasn't, if he's the same guy he was at AAA last season, he's going to get abused by MLB hitters.
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I hope we learned a valuable lesson from game 1 about not smoking the crap out of bals to areas they can be played by the defense. Hit 'em where they ain't, boys.
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Pitchers spontaneously developing control is a real thing, it's not implausible.
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I like win probability because it shows a few things that people tend to find counterintuitive: 1) comebacks are harder than they feel 2) more outs to work with (home team in the middle of an inning) is a big advantage 3) the value of non-scoring hits drops rapidly from 0 outs to 2 4) the leverage individual situations have on baseball games varies wildly.
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If managers actually had a large impact on bullpen performance, they'd make a lot more than $8m a year
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I'm going to continue to assume ben Brown sucks until he stops walking a bajillion people in competitive games
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cobs
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What if craig counsell isn't a magical close-game taiisman that can massively swing your win total for a mere $8m or whatever it was.
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That wasn't even one where you need to super slow motion and you're still not sure, or where you need the cricket technology where you analyze the sound waves as the ball passes. It was visibly tipped.
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That's so brutal. How does the umpire not hear the tip.
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He's a pitcher not a runner, he should just play through it.
