Hairyducked Idiot
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What I take away from that list (and the gmLI one) is that we had very few high-leverage innings to go around last year.
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I'm worried that we're giving Schierholtz a chance to prove he's an "everyday" player and won't leverage Sappelt effectively. Huh? Are you forgetting about Hairston? I'm thinking instead of going Sappelt in CF and Hairston in RF, they'll go Hairston in CF and Schierholtz in RF.
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I'm worried that we're giving Schierholtz a chance to prove he's an "everyday" player and won't leverage Sappelt effectively.
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I'd rather just go with Valbuena, but I don't care that much either way. They both suck.
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Closing innings are high-leverage innings. They aren't the highest leverage every time, but if you go with traditional-ish roles, it's going to be one of the top-2 spots in leverage.
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Wild speculation: Deal could have been done today, someone in the city wanted to make a point about the Cubs setting arbitrary deadlines.
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I thought he was a FA after next year. But I agree, with pitchers attrition rate, we should wait a while to extend him. I'm think ASB time of his final year here (assuming he continues to pitch about where he has been the last year and he hasn't had any injuries/signs of regression). Not an FA until after 2015.
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meh - there's six good pitches just outside the zone there. And one up and in to a lefty that you counted as bad for some reason. Wasn't that the one up and out over the plate to Alvarez that he hit for a line-drive single?
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It's probably just victory drunkenness talking, but I'm starting to wonder why I thought the Pirates were better than us. Their lineup is barely better, if at all, and Wandy Rodriguez is their No. 2 pitcher? Their bullpen is better, I guess, but that's not hard. Time to break out the Platoons! I want to see both Sappelt and Hairston in the outfield.
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We have him for three more years, right? He's still a pitcher. He could win the Cy Young and be out of baseball two years later. No hurry to extend him.
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Can you imagine if we traded Baez and Almora for middle relievers this year? ROFL. Bad middle relievers, at that.
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High tech analysis to follow:
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That was mostly just a function of who we had up in those situations. When you are counting on Valbuena and Lillibridge, you are in trouble no matter how many outs or baserunners.
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Other teams have scouts. Until/unless he pitches better, he has no value, no matter what we tell the press or whatever. Not everything is gamesmanship. The fastball velocity was where it needs to be today, but he only had two locations: Completely wild and down-the-middle. His pitchFX graph is a ghosttown in the edges of the strike zone.
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Was really impressed with the Cubs' approach today. Burnett especially pitched very well, but they made him work for it. Taking lots of borderline pitches is not a bad thing even if some goa against you or it gets you into a 2-strike situation and you have to swing. Rizzo's home run was a great example of fixating on a pitch up in the zone and then just crushing it.
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Yes. Anyone who says draft position is better than this at this point in this season can eat a whole bag of monkey scrotum.
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Correct. Also, Marmol gets a hold.
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In this case, yes. I think they want Fujikawa in that role, but someone, sometime gave Marmol a promise that he'd have first dibs or something. That was his chance.
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I was going to rant against Sveum for having Marmol as his Proven Closer, but at least he's got the pen warming up immediately in this situation.
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It will be Marmol. It should be Fujikawa. You can't convince me Marmol is one of our top two relievers right now. With a three run lead and nobody on, do you really need your best reliever? That said, I am scared. Good point. Fangraphs has the Leverage Index of this inning starting at something pretty tiny. But I really, really don't want Marmol to blow this. And he's trying. He bounced ball four in there.
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True, but so far this game has gone remarkably according to plan. Pretty much everyone is doing what you'd want or expect.
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It will be Marmol. It should be Fujikawa. You can't convince me Marmol is one of our top two relievers right now.
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Didn't some scrub get close to a no-hitter one year? Remembering stuff is hard.
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@#%#@ I would love to have them facing Garza tomorrow and not letting up with the good pitchers.
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Castro with a great defensive day. LOL that Lillibridge needs a defensive replacement.