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Cubswin11 wrote:

I so want Kimbrel to come out pitching angry. I want him like, “I am the greatest horsefeathering closer of this generation and all you [expletive] who didn’t sign me are going to perish in a rain of hellfire and curveballs!”

We Got The Whole 9 wrote:Seriously though I want to know how the Dodgers are so efficient defensively. They have only 3 players with negative dwar and neither of them are that harmful.

They’re second in the Majors with a .266 BABiP against. That’s an awful lot of balls in play finding their way ways into gloves.

We Got The Whole 9 wrote:Would it make sense to offer him the Bote contract?

VC had a .620 career OPS entering this season and the Cubs have 4 more years of team control. I think they can wait a bit to see how real this offensive surge is before discussing an extension.

EricG wrote:Is Happ going to make it back to the majors.

After starting slow, he has his OPS over .800. His K% is about 26%, which is about 10% lower than it was at the majors last year. So maybe sort of encouraging.

I’d rather Happ than Descalso on the roster at this point, but that’s not saying much.

Their extensions have been absolute nightmares so far. 36 year old Molina is making $20M this year and $20M in 2020 while putting up an 82 wRC+. 33 year old Matt Carpenter is due $18.5M in 2020 and another $18.5M in 2021 with a 2022 option of $18.5M while providing a 97 wRC+ so far this year. 33 ye...

Pitching wise, Martinez and Reyes have set them back big time. Flaherty is learning/growing but not the #1 type just yet. Wacha is only 27 and has fallen apart. Mikolas might be a one-year wonder. They've gotten absolutely nothing in trade for various young cost-controlled position players that wer...

He meant that all of their starters are equally mediocre that any one of the 5 could be their No 1. It is pretty impressive that all 5 of their starters have ERA’s between 4.34 and 4.93. Well so much for that. Wacha up to 5.80. I don’t think he ever recovered from that 2015 playoff series. A big di...

jersey cubs fan wrote:https://twitter.com/nsbbcom/status/1130575171864158210

He fell off a "non-horse" at his ranch?

So he fell off a cow? Or possibly a llama?

The Giants seem like a likely trade partner. They’re bad, but they have a number of quality relievers. Smith, Dyson, Vincent and Watson are all relatively interesting targets. If the A’s decide to be sellers, Treinen and Petit could be targets. Colome from the W Sox or Giles from Tor might work. Sha...

I really don't care who is at fault. Divorces happen. Wondering for those who have gotten divorced, how long do you get to be away from your job while dealing with it? Like is Zobrist gone for more than a month, or does the dude need to get back to work? Speaking as a former divorce attorney, divor...

The three-page filing says his wife "has been guilty of inappropriate marital conduct which render further cohabitation impossible." https://media0.giphy.com/media/oYtVHSxngR3lC/giphy.gif Again, this doesn’t necessarily mean anything. My understanding is that in Tennessee you can’t have a...

That’s precisely the question... good glove/bad bat middle infielders who can backup the starting shortstop are a dime a dozen... so why does it have to be Addison Russell? Why take the publicity hit when there are literally a dozen players who’d happily adequately fill that roll for $2.5MM less per...

Of course he hits home runs in consecutive games immediately after my post.

Because baseball will always prove you wrong.

The way that there's been absolutely zilch about this in the Chicago press - not really even speculation - makes me think that this is something that connected people know about but aren't talking about, out of deference to Zobrist. I really hope it's not something horrible, but I'm kind of afraid i...

Since the original post in this thread (25 games), Vogelbach has slashed 184/333/342

EricG wrote:CEJ up Maples down.

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Marlins are scoring 2.76 runs a game. If there's a team to help Carl get his feet back under him, it's the Marlins.

he's on track to hit like 57 hrs and 136 rbis so I'm going to go ahead and book him as MVP i need to introduce you to cody bellinger (or yelich for that matter - at least until he plays more road games) I think if a shortstop hits 56 and 136, it will make almost no difference what any other player ...

Verlander will probably get 3k next year.

Scherzer and maybe Greinke could get to 3k in 2021.

Amazingly, Hill's career really took off after that. Whereas I, and I'm sure many others here, would have been completely destroyed.

On top of everything else, is there actually a good baseball reason to take at bats away from Bote and Descalso to give to Russell?

It would be fun if Chatwood were really good this year.

But I’m not going to hold my breath.

Could've just signed Cain for a quarter of that and won the division by almost 10 games last season That Cain contract is going to age incredibly poorly for the Brewers. He’s 33 and he’s got three more years and $51M left after this year. adam jones sucks though. not as bad as those 2 idiots, but h...

Surely Ian Happ could be OPSing more than .480.

They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms. Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible. That's where the pixie dust comes in. They went pretty far with that bad pitching staff last year. Cedeno, Gonzalez, Knebel, M...

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms. Outside of Hader, their...