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Sammy Sofa wrote:The Cubs have long trafficked in guys who love sliding like dickheads, so he'd fit right in.

The warm, tender embraces of Javy Baez more than make up for anything his teammates may have done.

Is he going to be the first pitcher since Dave Dravecky whose arm literally falls off his body while pitching?

If Hamels’ option isn’t picked up, or maybe even if it is, young, buy-low, change of scenery candidate starting pitchers:

Stroman, Fulmer, Bundy.

I had no idea that Gibbons had managed Toronto for 11 (non-consecutive) seasons.

Thed Hoyerstein wrote:Brewers are certainly resembling Maddon's Rays sans the creepy manager thing

You’re drastically underrating how creepy Craig Counsel is. I mean, just look at him.

I’ll just assume it’s all part of their long term scheme to sign Mike Trout.

I don't hold athletes or coaches to a particularly high standard when it comes to speaking about non-sports related topics. As long as they don't come off as a raging (misogynist/racist/homophobe/other category of jerk), I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to not being train...

Just for fun:

The Cardinals are 9-10 since taking the interim tag off of Schildt.

Z was a 4.5 WAR a year pitcher for 8 years and then basically got drummed out of the league at age 31 for being a head case. I don’t know how Theo/Joe would have handled him differently, but I guarantee they would have handled him better.

Right. I don’t think it can be overstated how “all-in” the Bears’ front office have gone with Trubisky. They’ve basically banked the next three years and their jobs on him being worth the 2nd pick of the draft. They cashed in every bit of developmental wiggle room with the Mack trade. They can’t go ...

Schedule plays a role in it too. The Dodgers have a significantly easier remaining SoS, while the Rockies and DBacks are tied for the toughest remaining SoS in the League per Fangraphs. All told, they predict the Dodgers finishing 14-8 and the Rocks and DBacks both finishing 11-12. I think the diffe...

How many pitchers drafted in the supplemental and later rounds of the draft since 2012 should realistically be contributing to a playoff caliber team? I counted. The number of players drafted with the 31st and later pick of the draft since 2012 who have contributed at least 1 bWAR to one of the 13 t...

Not Brandon Morrow.

George Altman... [OB1]Now there’s a name I haven’t heard for..[/OB1] Didn’t make his MLB debut until age 26 and was pretty well done as a contributing player by age 31. Played almost a decade in Japan after his MLB career was over. Had two All-Star appearances as a Cub and then traded to the Cardina...

itisallpartoftheplan wrote:

Stu wrote:I remember when we had Bobby Hill and I thought he was going to be really good.

Aramis was great enough for him.

I was just about to post the same.

There’s still $87M left on Pujols’ contract!!!

Not including the $10M personal service contract that kicks in after he retires.

cubsandbears wrote:With Girardi still available for now, maybe Epstein wants Girardi to take the reigns going forward.

Why in the world would Epstein want Girardi? What is it about Girardi’s managerial style that anyone would thInk is a good fit for this Cubs franchise?

I also got A-Rod and Big Sexy.

I imagine there’s a slightly older group of people for whom Jamie Moyer is everyone’s older cap.

“Allowed the Cardinals to get back in the mix” = going .570 in August while the Cardinals go .810.

I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say that only one of those trends is going to continue

it's kind of worrying that the only remedy we've heard suggested so far is for him to not play baseball. i'd almost feel better if they just said he's going to have surgery in the offseason. I've long been picturing a heartwarming scene of him and Yu holding hands as they get wheeled into the opera...

Duke Silver wrote:I tried to balance things out to prevent the Duke Curse from my praise in this thread and it went predictably.

The Grand Slam today was right at the bottom of the zone.

Didn't the Cubs decline to pick up the option on Jason Hammel in part because they didn't feel right about picking up an option just to trade a guy? I could totally see the Cubs declining the option on Hamels and then re-signing him to a Lackey-ish deal. But I don't think there's any way they pick u...

Harper since the ASB: .339/.447/.677

itisallpartoftheplan wrote:https://twitter.com/tbrownyahoo/status/1025085818858176512?s=21

Think of what Hickey could do with him!

<Harry Doyle>Ju-u-ust a bit outside.</Harry Doyle>

It’s pretty amazing that Hamels pitched as well as he pitched for that many innings for some really good teams, and only has 153 career wins. From ‘06 to ‘11 Hamels averaged a 3.39 ERA and 194 innings a year, but only 9 wins for Phillies teams that averaged 93 wins a year during that time. He had a ...