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I'm being silly, or Super-bold. Sorry. Caught me on a weird day.
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Not if you have 3 cy-young candidate starting pitchers, and a ROY DH!
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Nope. Love Happ. He is consistently above average to not-quite-special. The kind of very good role player every team needs.. I just think his age 31 season will show a significant drop off. I'm not all sure of this, and in fact, think it is unlikely that there's enough drop off that he's benched. That's why it's a "super-bold" prediction.
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Super-Bold prediction: Matt Shaw is your everyday left fielder by June.
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Definite choice to see Kelly there. Long at DH and Mo behind the plate. Could easily have been otherwise. I like Kelly and Amaya spelling Busch. Gets back the roster spot you lose by having a dedicated DH. The potential of Amaya, Kelly and Shaw all in the lineup sitting Mo and Busch is huge.
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Oooh now do number 2 overalls who never made mlb.
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Shaw out two days in a row. Any indication if hbp is to blame?
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Cabrera looks amazing. Hits in third inning were cheap. One was a high chopper over Cabreras head.
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And Wisdom at first.
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Glad Steele isn't back until May. In fact lets shut down Cabrera and Horton until its 70 degrees at wrigley. On Steele: He was taking PFP yesterday on field 3. He wants to be back so bad.
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Rare rain and humidity the last couple days. 93 today, should dry out. Yesterday was a bad day to pitch: rare hot humid day in AZ.
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I don’t know his wonderlic score, but he’s been a pretty quick study in OF and third base last year.
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Harvey looked great. Also Shaw’s hbp may have been elbow. He stayed in for another AB, but came out before the other regulars. Not sure if hurt or just awful.
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At the game. Shaw looked awful at first base. Broke toward the ball on every play, always late to the bag. Error was ugly.
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Rea, Brown and Assad back to back. All looking good. Competition for the swing role.
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Makes me wonder about the gun.
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I don't see it that way. If he's injured you call up Long for two weeks, while Mo backs up catcher a couple times (asking extra heavy workload from Kelly). Then you send Long back down to get regular at bats and let Mo catch a little more for a couple week. Hopefully this buys you enough time to pick up someone off the scrapheap as defense heavy backup. I'm also hopeful that Amaya is athletic enough to be a more than adequate short side platoon first baseman.
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This is huge. Amaya risked being the odd man out with Shaw eating up at bats. Amaya is too good to just be a backup catcher. (hopefully) One more way to get the strong part of our bench (Amaya and Shaw) ABs and our everyday players a day off every now and then. It also helps stack the lineup with righties against tough lefties without using your back-up catcher as your only RH bat off the bench that you're afraid to use because you'll be left without an emergency catcher. Mo and Busch on the bench against a lefty. Yes please.
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He throws really hard with the other arm.
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If you look at the triple play, it may have been his fault as well. Looks like he told Shaw he was out.
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See Also: Kyle Schwarber.
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Even if Mo is a complete bust by May, then Shaw is your 9th bat, giving everyone a day off to DH. Seiya DH's, Happ DHs, Swanson DHs, Bregman, Kelly. Repeat. Anyone over 30.
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And yet following the Durbin trade this site puts out an article on what the Cubs would need to get from a Nico Hoerner trade. The internet is dead. So long and thanks for all the clicks.
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Really thought we were done with this ridiculousness.
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Where are we talking about the Durbin trade?
