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What does a season ending arm injury have to do with Alzolay? The Cubs posted at least a couple statements about Alzaloy's performance in Iowa, you should check them out. For him being in Iowa, I was jacked he was there and his good stuff was dominating. Not giving guys like Underwood and Clifton c...

fWAR. By bWAR, Machado has three seasons better than Seager’s rookie season. This year, however, Machado’s not on pace for a better season than Seager’s rookie season primarily due to how poorly his defense grades out at SS. Is there some consensus out there that fWAR is better than bWAR? I go to B...

I know it doesn’t really work that way most of the time, but I hope the Dodgers adding Manny ups the level of trade targets for us with the bullpen add(s) or even starter (DeGrom) since I believe Theo views the Dodgers as our main competition.

fun fact: Manny Machado has never had a season as valuable as Seager's rookie year. fWAR. By bWAR, Machado has three seasons better than Seager’s rookie season. This year, however, Machado’s not on pace for a better season than Seager’s rookie season primarily due to how poorly his defense grades o...

Oh, ya gotta love Brailyn Marquez single-handedly saving the Cubs organization's pitching prospect list after losing Alzolay to injury, De La Cruz to suspension and Albertos to Steve Blass disease. 5 starts, 1 ER in each of them. Gotta love consistency. 21.2 IP, 13 H, 7 BB, 29 K, 2.08 ERA, 0.92 WHI...

Duke Silver wrote:

Cubswin11 wrote:https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/1019056122903318534?s=21

Surely this guy I've never heard of has similar trade value to Russell + Happ + + ?

We should make sure we don’t want to trade Russell and Happ +++ for this Phillies pitcher if he’s that good.

Criag Edwards seems to follow the same line of logic the majority of those guys have over on that VBs board. And by line of logic I mean totally delusional, living in outer space view point of their team.

Roederer just took Corey Black yard for his 2nd bomb in the past 2 games. Had already walked and stole another base before that. Gonna have to ask AZPhil what he looks like defensively in CF, because he's been great at the plate so far. So we drafted Mookie Betts (Nico) and Benintendi (Roederer). N...

soccer10k wrote:The Marlins had 22 hits against the Nats last Sunday and 20 of them were singles, including the first 19 of the game. The other two were doubles.

Didn't we do this vs the Twins a few weeks ago?

I liked Kirby Yates as a target and even more now after seeing him pitch after last night. We should take him back with us after the trip to SD. Would think he wouldn’t take more than like Underwood and Short.

Seems like the Mets would want Victor Caratini included since they don’t have a decent catcher and don’t look to have one any time soon right? I hadn’t seen him mentioned at all here. They might have to make a secondary deal for a backup catcher but that shouldn’t be to hard. They can have him. Jus...

another sign Over the past month, Harper has shaved his trademark beard, changed one of his walk-up songs -- he ditched Sam Hunt's "Body Like A Back Road" in favor of "Drunk On Your Love" by Brett Eldredge -- Pretty sure Rizzo uses that walk-up song, or at least did in the past....

Let’s say Happ was blocked and never came up last year and was still down this year or just came up this year. I think we can assume he’d be putting up great numbers in AAA with positional versatility and a switch hitter, he would be like a top 7-12 prospect in baseball right now if he qualified, ri...

I do wonder if a 3 team trade would be possible if the Mets want more prospecty dudes. Maybe Almora and some stuff to the Marlins for a good prospect which goes to the Mets, Happ and some prospects from us as well to the Mets and DeGrom and Maybin to us. Almora is the local kid coming home and Jeets...

CubinNY wrote:I don’t think Happ/Almora gets it done.

I’d kindly go tell the Mets to go horsefeathers themseleves then if those 2+ a few non Amaya prospects didn’t get it done.

If you can make a deal for DeGrom using Happ and Almora and basically any reasonable permutation of minor leaguers, that's realllly hard for me to turn down. Especially with Bote looking at least LaStella-caliber with the bat, you can add a bench OF too and shift more of Zobrist's innings to the OF...

If you can make a deal for DeGrom using Happ and Almora and basically any reasonable permutation of minor leaguers, that's realllly hard for me to turn down. Especially with Bote looking at least LaStella-caliber with the bat, you can add a bench OF too and shift more of Zobrist's innings to the OF...

CubinNY wrote:DeGrom for Happ/Russell makes me swoon.

I'd also see if I couldn't get Starlin back and put him a 2nd when Javy slides over to SS.

I’m not including Russell for him. Happ and Almora + non Amaya prospect(s) I’d do and then find a RHH OF (like Maybin).

I just got around to reading that article, what a horsefeathering joke of an organization. There's totally going to be a actual fight in the dugout or clubhouse with that team at some point this year.

Hairyducked Idiot wrote:There will never be another slumping or broken player who doesn't get a "actually his peripherals" are fine posts. There's enough peripherals now that there's always some that are fine.

Yeah only idiots try and post about those to make sense of things

I think this is the rare case where the eye test and the stats don't match up. "Unlucky in BABIP" is him constantly grounding into the shift and popping balls up into the infield. I'd be curious how those numbers break down by month, as he has looked terrible more often than not in the la...