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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not all of those are even upgrades
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you're at or over .500 and you sell, just fold the team.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nothing would surprise me from Fields this season. He could play himself out of a job or into the MVP and I would say "yeah, that doesn't surprise me." My guess is he has a good enough season that his status as a no. 1 QB isn't in doubt
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    i ain't welcoming nothin'
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the team 5 games under .500 is more than three pieces away.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    We were one of the pioneers of the strategy in the 90s
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs suck at developing pitching. There. I covered it in one sentence.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I strongly dislike the concept of "core." An organization controls the rights to a large number of baseball players with varying degrees of importance of impact. Placing a special sticker that says "core" next to some of their names doesn't really add insight.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's been a lot my time, but I vaguely remember the standard sabr estimate being contact outs were worth about 5 runs per 100 over strikeouts. So hoerner not K-ing is worth about half a win a year
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I also think we overvalue Wesneski, so I'm consistent on that one
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I feel pretty confident that there's no 25-year-old AAAers out there that I'm absolutely dying to have, in any organization.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I generally hate the idea that you need to just hand mediocre prospects playing time because they're prospects. There's value in having the organizational self-respect to make people earn playing time. If you can't beat out some random 30-year old AAAA player for playing time then you aren't enough of a prospect to care about
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    In Anthony Rizzo's age-25 season, he put up an .899 OPS in the majors, finishing 4th in MVP voting and hit two homers in the NLDS series victory over the Cardinals. In Matt Mervis' age-25 season, he put up a sub .600 OPS and failed to beat out the likes of Trey Mancini and Nick Madrigal for playing time, resulting in him being sent down for his fourth look at Iowa. I'm not exactly worried we're gonna miss the boat on this one.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Will it, though? Will a two-month callup really settle anything on these guys?
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    (lineup construction barely matters) ((this team can barely use all the fringe mediocre prospects it has now, bringing in a bunch more in a selloff won't gain us anything)
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Did not expect this thread to return to relevance.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm fine with hating los angeles but I can't think of any reason anyone would love San Diego. It's just a smaller, hotter, less interesting, more conservative version of L.A. LA:SD::Chi:StL
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Similar experience different sport: I once scored a hat trick in a pick-up hockey game populated by ex-college players, a few low-level pros and some Korean national team hopefuls. I more or less stood in front of the net with my stick down and let them bank it in off me, like a much shorter, fatter Byfuglien.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not buying the bar a round unless someone gets a second drink.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Being within 3.5 after tonight if this holds is kinda hilarious.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Short answer: No. The difference between good teams and bad teams isn't large enough to be a noticeable influence over short bursts of schedule.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wesneski sucks. This rotation is gonna get worse for the next few years
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    So long story short we don't have anything anyone would want except Stroman and we would like to keep Stroman
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's kinda nice that 10 years later we're still going with the fake job titles we made up to help Theo get out of his Boston contract.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sure, that could be your takeaway. Or you could be impressed by the Brett Dokstra reference.
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