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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I have irrationally high expectations of winning this game. Expensive FA pitcher and our platoon-heavy lineup get a chance to do their respective things.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because that's what it is.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah. I'm surprised that anyone would claim him. He seemed toast.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Game recognizes game.
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    Minorleaguecentral.com, but it only goes back two seasons. http://minorleaguecentral.com/player?pid=543743&split=3000
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really want that "Cubs front office thinks they have figured out how to harness Jackson's natural ability" thing to be true and not just ST BS.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow. That really surprises me.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think that's just a sample size thing. Valbuena had normal platoon splits in the minors. Lillibridge in the majors has crazy power splits against lefties (15 HR in 305 PAs career). Still no OBP. If he's going to be useful (he isn't), he needs to hit in games like tonight.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. As is so often the case, my worries are unfounded. I wonder if we should have considered a Vitters call-up here. We might be better off vs. lefties with Vitters at 3b and Lillibridge at 2b than this configuration. Then again, Gonzalez has vaguely acceptable career numbers vs. lefties, right down to the peripherals. We should be favored to win this game. We have a better pitcher and our anti-lefty lineup isn't half-bad.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/yu-darvish-now-throwing-harder/ Also, Yu Darvish has an xFIP of 0.02 after last night.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't care if we're 10 games OVER .500, if we're 7 out of the last playoff spot, we better be selling. I think Epstein chose his words very carefully when he said '78 is no different than 73' or whatever. There was a reason he didn't say 81 is no different than 71.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    After July 30 last year, .500 on the dot put you 7 games out of the 2nd WC. Would we really firesale a .500 team?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    If we assume the Cubs are a true-talent 77-win team (win percentage .475), then after starting 1-0, our odds of being at .500 or better after 90 games are about 40%.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I would think there are three options. Fire sale. Hold firm. Actually go out and try to acquire a difference maker. There are variations of those, like a Vitters for somebody's overpaid veteran which is essentially holding firm. The chances of actually going out and acquiring a difference maker would probably require the team being in first or second by late July. My guess: I can't see any situation in which they "actually go for it" by that definition, unless there's a deal so good that they can't pass it up and won't get another shot at it (like a Price or Stanton). If they are .500 or better, they hold firm. Anything below .500, and they fire sale as hard as they possibly can.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    What does "truly go for it" mean? There can be a continuum here. It doesn't have to be "trade everything that isn't nailed down and try to lose 100" or "Ship out three top prospects for a stud rental."
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Obviously too late for wire-to-wire, but I expect the Reds to win this division by 8+ games.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    .500. If we go one game below .500 at any point in July, half the team will be gone the next day.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow, already? Don't they usually open a week or two later than MLB?
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    I think my favorite part was that he struggled with his command and was still dominant. He didn't have his A game, but he was able to produce nearly perfect results.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd like it more if they were consistent about it. We get triple-redundancy on fourth outfielders, but we don't have enough useful infielders to fill an infield, let alone backups.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    This isn't the mid-1990s. A .700 OPS from an outfielder is perfectly acceptable.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    No longer the offseason, but we signed Ryan Sweeney to a minor league deal. Surprised he couldn't stick on some MLB roster. We now have like 7 useful MLB outfielders and 3 useful MLB infielders.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jay-Z will be a great agent, as long as you want to play for the Yankees. I don't know what you take him as, or understand the ability that Jay-Z has. I'm gonna resist this time, because nobody will get it. I'm glad it's so versatile, because it's close to the only one I know.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jay-Z will be a great agent, as long as you want to play for the Yankees. I don't know what you take him as, or understand the ability that Jay-Z has.
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