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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?
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The only team that will potentially give him an opt out after year 1 is the D-backs. That's why he likely ends up there. I'm not interested if there's an opt out. I honestly think there's a 30-40% chance Taillon outperforms him *this* year.
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Either this is the same guy, or this is the second wave of Gen Alpha discovering message boards.
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Yup. It’s different and I agree position player over pitcher. But not by much. As in I’d chose a top of the rotation pitcher over a bottom of the order hitter even with elite defense. Bregman does play defense, but not so well for it make much difference over say Shaw. again you are right on. Judge over Skubal. But skubal over Bregman. and to the original question Bregman. And that is without leadership ability factored in. But if you forget clubhouse leadership, im not disagreeing with you. And while I’m not inside your head, I think my opinion is that the margin is slimmer than your posts seem to indicate you think it is. my post “it’s not that different” which you quoted lacked nuance.
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It’s not that different. 20 bf per 5 days, 20 abs per 5 days.
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9 hours ago, CubUgly said: Hard to count on him pitching for 150+, but then again - last year I would have bet the Farm that Boyd would not have pitched over 100 innings. 'cuz there's no farm left....hey-o
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This year that would be a low-stakes bet.
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I’m asking, if fWAR is fielding independent, fip rather than RA9, then the Cubs pitchers should do better in bWAR, because they aren’t big strikeout guys. The opposite is true.
