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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/ Third-order Wins now have the Cubs as the 4th-best team in the NL.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not ready to regret missing out on Brown just yet. All his peripherals are the same except for he's suddenly almost tripled his HR/FB%. Maybe that's legit, maybe not.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fascinating. The synergy there is amazingly brilliant. It's basically the flip-side of their "look for high pitches you can drive" offensive philosophy, which also appears to be paying dividends.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Why do some people not understand that MiLB pitchers sometimes develop secondary offerings instead of dominating with refined pitches? Treating AAA games like spring training is the secret. I'm intrigued.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not to discourage the amusingly odd defensiveness from Cardinals fans about Wacha, you do realize that I wasn't saying he was a bad prospect with no hope of a future, right?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Where did some people get the idea that nine starts isn't a lot for K-rate?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe Memphis was just too hard for him and he had to step down to face a lower level of competition?
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hahaha. The Royals broke Rany Jazayerli: http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2013/05/how-hell-did-this-happen.html
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    My problem is that I just feel like it's wrong to firesale on a team that is .500 or better, even if they are a dozen games out of a playoff spot. I can't come up with a great reason. The best I've got is something vague about "winning culture" and respect for your players, or maybe attractiveness to free agents (I think our record hurt us with Sanchez and Grilli this year).
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    JavyBB
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I know I'm pounding the optimism very hard, but I think an interesting question is in what scenarios do you not do a firesale? How late do you wait? What would the line be? Based on record, games back, number of teams in front of you?
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs are No. 6 in the NL in runs/game. I'm pretty sure they are now first in the NL in ISO.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is fun.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs have passed Arizona for 6th in the NL in runs/game.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is probably fair after Garza got away with a ton of line drives and deep fly balls earlier in the game.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    If some of the statistical indicators are right and we get some luck, we could blow past it. (or we could just blow, you never know).
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    All I asked from this team going in to the season was to keep me interested until the draft and then the deadline, and they've basically done that. Though that wasn't a high hurdle because it's easy to delude myself when it comes to the Cubs.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    stop massaging your nerdy numbers to suggest that this is anything but a really bad team Platoons are so awesome. 27 games in June, 14 are against teams with a worse RD than us. Assuming no epic collapse today, we just need to outperform by three wins to go 17-10 and be .500 heading into July.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I haven't added it up, but I think the Cubs might have passed Atlanta for the NL lead in ISO.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The worst part is that in the back of my mind, I'm thinking about the long-term wild card implications of beating the Diamondbacks.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    We've finally got that sequencing thing down. Before yesterday, I think I heard them say we only had like 2 home runs with more than one on base.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Love the bat flip/stare on a ball that just barely makes the basket with the wind blowing out. Perfect.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wouldn't that also make it more attractive for other teams to blow the limits, making our big pool less advantageous.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    The combination of feeling really good about the statistical indicators and playing the Diamondbacks is bringing back bad memories.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Infield single, followed by a pickoff attempt that got away (didn't look like a terrible throw) Sac bunt attempt, Gray tries to get the runner going to third, would have been out but third baseman dropped the ball In the rest of the inning, there was one solid hit and one attempted squeeze bunt where they went for the runner at the plate and didnt' get him. He looks pretty hittable though. Fastball very straight and frequently up and out over the plate. A lot of 94, 95. In the second inning, he gave up a single, a deep fly ball out, and then a double over the right fielder's head before getting out of it.
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