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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wasn't there an out-of-nowhere rumor today that one of the crummy third catchers was making the team?
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    225 Ks and a few really exciting moments in between.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Meh, it's Almora. Unless it's a three-year injury, it won't dent his Wrigley ETA.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not watching, what happened?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a lot of it. But maybe I'm just being a pessimist, but I see a lot of meh-to-decent OBP in our top prospects, too. Maybe I'm just expecting too much.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The question wasn't: "Why aren't the Cubs slightly better at getting on base than they would be if they'd fielded nothing but Hendry leftovers?" It was "Why do we have massive OBP problems?" And we do, even if it is better than it would theoretically be if they fielded a team made entirely of leftovers from Hendry. Luis Valbuena and Mike Olt in your lineup may make your OBP a little better than it otherwise would be, but they don't stop it from being a massive problem. Epstein has had three offseasons to add whatever types of players he wants to the team. The answer to every "why isn't this better?" question can't be "because Hendry."
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Angels' pitcher hurt?
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Splits are pointless. The stats are what they are. And that goes both ways.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    We re-signed him to a different kind of minor league deal the next day.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    And here's where I have to disagree. A lot of the guys you mentioned are meh-OBP guys at least, despite their excellent plate discipline. That's the second time in recent days I've seen Valbuena, career .302 OBP, praised as an on-base guy.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    We've talked about this before. It's one of those amazing/frustrating ying/yangs that are defining Epstein's early years. Hoarding something the rest of the league is short of? I love it. But OBP still drives run production, and did anyone think we'd still have such massive OBP problems entering Epstein's third year?
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Epstein lost Fred, he's lost the whole Cubs fandom.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Huh, I missed this. Are you sure? TCR still has him as an NRI in camp. And given that he's an NRI and not on the 40-man, I don't think they could option him to Iowa regardless.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Olt has 63 days of service time, so he'd have to be down for like 2.5 months to make any difference.
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  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    That was crazy. I'm very frustrated with Epstein on the scale of "how good is he among the 10-20 team-runners who are relatively modern and intelligent"? But on the scale of "Lynch to Friedman," I'm very thankful we have him.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Feels like this spring has been heavy on injuries around the league.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Olt has just been destroying lefties this spring.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Olt is good and Valbuena starts at 2b... Well I guess the offense will still suck because we punted on the whole @#$#@$ outfield.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, if that isn't just about every Cubs conversation for three years in a nutshell. "X doesn't look too good." "Yeah, but if you include players who aren't here yet, it's *going* to be good"
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I refuse to believe the crowd at a bulls game made any deafening noise unless it was for a fee Big Mac It gets pretty loud for regular-season wins over Miami, although that qualifier might be redundant.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Going down through the pitching, extrapolating jobs, I think we're looking at for Opening Day: DL: Fujikawa, Arrieta (I think you can post-date to like 10 days before Opening Day, so he can miss as little as one start) Rotation: Samardzija, Jackson, Hammel, Wood, Villanueva Locked-in: Veras, Strop, Wright, Russell Cut: Wada, McDonald, Rusin On the bubble (for two jobs): Grimm, Rondon, Cabrera OK, to be honest, now that I'm starting to see it actually come together, that bullpen kind of sucks. It's one thing to look at 15 interesting guys and hope that a few break out. It's another thing to realize you have to actually pick seven and put them into live MLB games against MLB hitters.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    That would be a pretty solid list of candidates for the 5th outfield job on a good team.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    He'd be the only actual top-tier pitcher to hit the market. I'm not even sure we'll finish 2nd on this one.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Between you and gameday, someone is lying.
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