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I liked him a lot as a trade target this offseason, he’s been awful in 7 AAA innings this year (never pitched in MLB for the Phillies). He’d be a worthwhile add, imo. He’s cheap and has options and has been good the last few years.

The Brewers signed Gio Gonzalez, he’s probably their best starting pitcher.

I just remembered we have that Johnny Field guy in Iowa, checked his stats... he’s hitting .269/.316/.615, .373 wOBA, 114 wRC+, 2 Dongs, 6 doubles and 3 triples, 7% BB rate and 24% K rate, he had a 101 wRC+ vs LHP in mlb last year. Get his ass up here for Almora

https://twitter.com/Cubsminorswrap/status/1120883627162656769?s=19 Hopefully good news. Have a hard time seeing a hit to the forearm being a big deal and not knowing right away. So do we think Jared Young has a chance to be a thing? With his lack of defensive value I don't imagine he'll ever be a r...

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? *Pure baseball reason, I hope they never bring him up. The defense is definitely a reason, him at SS and Javy at 2B is better than anything we can currently do on the ...

horsefeathers it

Mark Prior Unbelievable college talent and a top draft pick Tore up minor leagues Phenomenal in first couple of big league seasons Flukey injury running the bases Shoulder not quite right Never the same player as before the injury Kris Bryant Unbelievable college talent and a top draft pick Tore up...

He's also making the lowest amount of soft contact he's ever made in his career (9%).

Surely Ian Happ could be OPSing more than .480. He doesn’t make a cool diving catch once every 2 weeks that is largely needed because he’s so slow, though I realize this is the crap on Almora thread, but metrics say you're completely wrong about this. He had the 2nd biggest gap between expected cat...

So basically what we're waiting on from Hoerner is just more balls going over the wall, correct? I still distrust "doubles power" from prospects, as others do to be sure. Yeah he definitely needs to show some more HR power to be a Guy. They have admittedly said they are working on him get...

Is there anyone outside of Jon/Dany who isn't on the table for dying? For Episode 3, I think Jamie survives and probably Tyrion. They’ve got to see Cersei again, especially after she sent Bronn to kill them in Ep 1. I thought for years that Jaime would be the one that takes down Cersei in the end, ...

Derwood wrote:That was an hour long set up for the emotional gut punch that next week is going to be

Yup

Seems like episodes 1 and 2 could’ve been combined and cut in to one like ~75-80 min episode. I get why they’re doing the build up and giving us time with everyone tonight is probably the right way to go but feel like there was just a lot of dead moments in the first two eps. Anyways, whatever, brin...

champaignchris wrote:Surely Ian Happ could be OPSing more than .480.

He doesn’t make a cool diving catch once every 2 weeks that is largely needed because he’s so slow, though

He’s down to .196/.268/.196, .200 wOBA and 18 wRC+ with a 60% GB rate for the year.

Drop Judge, Add Charlie Blackmon

Sammy Sofa wrote:Jesus Christ; it's kind of amazing how terrible he was in April last season. What in the world.

He was hurt then

My point about trading Schwarber (and Russell) back when they had trade value was based on the fact that they were both easily replaced while giving us solid ML pitching (or top pitching prospects). Schwarber always has been the epitome of a DH in a league that doesn't use a DH. Russell's obvious r...

We are back to having the best odds to win the division and make playoffs on fangraphs

My point about trading Schwarber (and Russell) back when they had trade value was based on the fact that they were both easily replaced while giving us solid ML pitching (or top pitching prospects). Schwarber always has been the epitome of a DH in a league that doesn't use a DH. Russell's obvious r...

Corbin Burnes' struggles right now are super interesting. I'm generally an xFIP guy, and by xFIP he's actually been pretty good. However, 58% of his fly balls have left the yard so far. That's insanity. John Lackey's last year when we all hated him was 18%. Like there's clearly bad luck at play her...

Q’s change up usage is now at its highest rate (9.5%) since 2015 (10%). He was under 7% last year, just over 9% in 2017 and under 9% in 2016.

My point about trading Schwarber (and Russell) back when they had trade value was based on the fact that they were both easily replaced while giving us solid ML pitching (or top pitching prospects). Schwarber always has been the epitome of a DH in a league that doesn't use a DH. Russell's obvious r...