NSB Community Forum

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 ...

and somehow dude is still pitching in MLB Jackson arguably had the two worst seasons as a starter for the Cubs over the last 25 years. If you go by bWAR, his 2013 (-1.4) was also worse than Estes’s 2003 (-1.3). Justin Germano, Chris Volstad and Glendon Rusch all also had seasons in that -1.3, -1.4 ...

Is that called pulling a Warren or a WIlson? The dude now has a 3.18 career ERA in 408 innings when pitching for anyone other than the Cubs. I’m still pretty miffed at how that Castro trade panned out. I know the Cubs eventually got Chapman out of Warren, but he could have pitched to expectations a...

cl smooth wrote:are estes and chatwood the worst cub starters of the past 20-25 years?

Edwin Jackson in 2014.

6-15, 6.33 ERA, -2.3 bWAR in 140.2 IP.

They gave Javy a Caught Stealing on that play last night. I don’t know. The pitcher wasn’t paying attention and Javy got a great jump. The third baseman was 30 feet or so from the base when Javy started running. If the pitcher had waited to throw until the third baseman got to the bag, it would have...

ConstableRabbit wrote:One man's cocky is another man's... horsefeathers it CUBZ RULE BREWERS DROOL

Well, the Cubs do in fact rule, while the Brewers’ drooling has been patently obvious for some time now.

mul21 wrote:

Andy wrote:Report is Harvey's staying put, so unless Theo had another late ninja move, this is our team.

Probably nothing else major, but a waiver deadline deal or two wouldn't surprise me.

A depth outfielder and a third catcher seems to have been the Theo/Hoyer pattern for waiver deadline deals.

XZero77 wrote:

champaignchris wrote:Are the Brewers going to do anything at all?

I mean, I guess they added Soria to an already good bullpen. But that team could use a couple more bats and a starting pitcher.

They did add Mike Moustakas.

Ah yes. I forgot about that one.

Are the Brewers going to do anything at all?

I mean, I guess they added Soria to an already good bullpen. But that team could use a couple more bats and a starting pitcher.

Banedon wrote:Lots of ppl agreeing that Archer is heading to the Pirates. So weird.

Less weird than Archer to San Diego, which was the hot rumor about 24 hours ago.

Cubswin11 wrote:Kintzler has a $10 million team option next year and if it’s declined can exercise a $5 million player option, fwiw.

So he’ll back next year, right? There’s pretty much no way Kintzler turns down the $5M player option, right?

Don’t know if that makes the trade better or worse.

Obviously, we have to see what’s going back. But in the words of C. Montgomery Burns, “I know what I hate, and I don’t hate this.”

I’m breathlessly awaiting Tommy Pham verbally unloading on the Cardinals organization the minute he reports with the Rays. We all know it’s going to happen.

Does that make me a bad person?

The main thing that bothered me about that whole ARod rant is that it made it sound like the Cubs passed on trying to resign Arrieta in favor of Darvish, when multiple sources - including Arrieta himself - have said that the Cubs offered Arrieta significantly more in guaranteed money than he ended u...

Fangraphs still has the Nats with a 57% chance of making the playoffs.

Unless the Nats know something fangraphs doesn’t know - like maybe Strasburg is toast for the year - then it would make more sense to add and try to turn the thing around than to sell.

soccer10k wrote:This is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Cards still owe Cecil $15M the next two years.

I will admit to having wanted the Cubs to sign Cecil when was a free agent. (But not for as much money as the Cards gave him.)

Josh Donaldson was the first name to come to my mind.

He was the 48th pick of the draft. But he had a pedestrian minor league career, was never a top 100 ranked prospect, was a deadline deal throw-in with three other guys as an A-baller, and didn’t become a Major League regular until age 26.

The Logan wrote:Jalen Beeks also used to be a cop, but now he works as hired muscle to protect hookers cut to look like movie stars.

You’re Confusing him with Leland Meeks.

https://twitter.com/jimcallisMLB/status/1019973370631290881 This is what had me wondering about this trade. With Hosmer signed long term at 1st and Tatis eventually at 3rd, if Mejia doesn’t stick at C, is his bat good enough to be a plus corner outfielder? At this point, i’m sure the Pads are just ...

Yeah Taking three minutes to get the call right is better than 10 minutes of the manager losing his horsefeathers when the umps blow an obvious call.