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  1. Bull
    What an inning. That's what winning teams do. They didn't fold after some frustrating developments. Busch just went way up in my estimation.
  2. Bull
    See, I feel like this is an opportunity to get a look and get them some rest. Instead of going every 5 days in Iowa, bring one up the one time you need a fifth starter (lots of off days) and the other up once when you don't need a fifth starter to get Imanaga an extra day of rest once in there. With all the off days you could *almost* go six day rotation with the off day as the sixth man. Get each of them some extra rest when you send them back down. This gets you well through May (at least one off day every week in May) and now you're looking at teams that aren't competing being a little more ready to deal.
  3. Bull
    Two games up on Milwaukee feels … necessary… heading into this series.
  4. Bull
    I feel like I should feel worse about this than I do. I really like this team's depth and ability to spend at the deadline. I feel like they were ready for this (not saying they were expecting it, but could be). Shota can deal, Boyd looks legit, Taillon still has plenty in the tank. If two of Brown, Assad, Wicks, Horton and Rea can do something this offense has the upside to really be something. Or go trade for a Mariner.
  5. Bull
    Ever had tendinitis?
  6. Bull
    If this team looks approaching the trade deadline anywhere close to as good as this team looks now, it has to be in the budget to add a closer (which would still keep us well below the first threshold), Right? .... Right? *sigh*
  7. Bull
    We have yet to see the nincompoop emerge on the bases. Perhaps he's evolving. All joking aside, if he can all but eliminate TOOTBLAN from his game, he really doesn't have to hit much to be extremely valuable, as you demonstrated.
  8. Bull
    I heard in the broadcast that Braiser is "not making much progress". I haven't heard on Miller and Assad. If you can bump Brown to the bullpen to make room for Assad, add Miller and Little, I feel like that's a great bullpen. One that I feel good about top to bottom. Miller, Braiser (eventually) and Rea are the kind of relievers who *could* come in a game you are losing and hold the deficit of 2 or 3 until this juggernaut offense can come back in. The last few years it felt like if you put in the low men on the totem pole, you were conceding the game.
  9. Bull
    Still on the radar. Cubs have scouts at the retirement homes these days.
  10. Bull
    My bold prediction *last season* was that Little would be closer by the end of last year. All aboard!
  11. Bull
    Vance Law?
  12. Bull
    Maybe, but not based on today. He was get squeezed. Padres we’re not chasing.
  13. Bull
    Just bumping this thread to see if anyone has found a workaround to see the games in Japan. The free T-Mobile mlbtv isn’t available until the 25th this year.
  14. Bull
    Can we add a “?” or puzzled emoji reaction? Until then I’m going use the laughing emoji as a lol wut.
  15. Bull
    Definitely de Jesus. It was the shape of the nose blob that gave it away for me.
  16. Bull
    But I'm sure you see that the two are inextricably tied. No one hopes that their favorite player strikes out, but that's a strawman; now on is saying that. The point is that the same behavior that leads to harder contact also leads to more strikeouts. So the strikeout RESULT is not as bad because it is part of a PROCESS that leads to greater results more often. Though I'd suggest that Anthony Rizzo's going for contact with 2 strikes is an interesting balanced approach.
  17. Bull
    But it’s not just home runs, it’s hard hit balls you’re looking for. A ball sneaking through the infield at 98mph instead of grounded weakly at 78 mph, a double in the gap instead of a looper to the shortstop. But then sometimes it’s a swing and miss instead of a weak grounder or looper. And sometimes it’s a line out screaming into a rightfielders glove instead of a bloop single. The results vary, but usually swinging in a way that has a potential for hard contact gives better results than weak contact.
  18. Bull
    Derwood gonna Derwood.
  19. Bull
    The most incestuous of results.
  20. Bull
    I would love to see Wicks come out and dominate. If the knock is a lack of a third pitch, any chance he can become a bullpen lefty answer? If Little can gen healthy those are two significantly different lefty arsenal options.
  21. Bull
    Can someone who can do it off the top of your head take that list (plus any other pitchers on the 40 man) and note who has options, and who has to be rostered or lost?
  22. Bull
    Still, I think he's worth mentioning above several names listed.
  23. Bull
    There are several pitchers on your list that I would put behind Jordan Wicks. I'm guessing the assumption is he'll begin the year in AAA.
  24. Bull
    Pie
  25. Bull
    This will never happen, but I’d love them to go trade disgruntled DHs with Boston. Devers plays 3B 60% of the time, DHs 40%, while Shaw picks up that 40% and 40% at 2B letting both Hoerner and Dansby rest or DH. Give or take 10% here or there.
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