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As good as Jack Flaherty is, Dakota Hudson has been just nearly as effective. Hudson has a 0.9 fWAR. But is 15-6 for a reason. Generates the weakest contact in baseball. Fangraphs needs to figure out how to quantify that in their WAR calc. Both young cornerstones of the rotation. In less than two y...

As good as Jack Flaherty is, Dakota Hudson has been just nearly as effective. Hudson has a 0.9 fWAR. But is 15-6 for a reason. Generates the weakest contact in baseball. Fangraphs needs to figure out how to quantify that in their WAR calc. Both young cornerstones of the rotation. In less than two y...

Sammy Sofa wrote:How did this thread not make it out of April?!?

They went through a good stretch there where they were tolerable.

We suck again!

Thought this was semi interesting https://twitter.com/670thescore/status/1168967333269987329?s=21 https://twitter.com/670thescore/status/1168967702179983362?s=21 That's way more than semi interesting. Don't think we've heard an admission like that about anything before. Since I'm a complete Astros-...

I believe this belongs in the Topheavy umpires thread.

Cubs training staff.

I blame this thread for Willlson's injury.

Prince Fielder is still being paid $9Million to not play baseball.

I liked it back then because I still trusted that the FO knew what they were doing when making FA signings, so the red flags didn’t bother me as much. Yeah, I basically completely ignored his usage by the Dodgers in the playoffs, especially from the perspective of his relatively stress free half de...

PackLandVA wrote:

Brian wrote:Morrow officially out for the year per Theo.

Who?

Theo Epstein. He’s the guy that runs the Cubs and says things.

What a weird reply. More replying to the guy you were replying to. And in general agreement to the idea that it’s not unreasonable to think that someone (anyone) coming off the IL may have some residual issues. That may manifest itself in lost velocity, lack of control, or decreased use of the pitc...

Unless that reason he was secretly almost 40 the entire time and it doesn't matter that he's 37 and broken now, then who gives a horsefeathers. How do you know he's still hurt? Are all our hurt guys going to be broken when they come back of the IL too, or is this just a SSS Cardinals thing? Haahaha...

Guancous wrote:What would his career look like now if he had closed out the World Series?

I think we can use Monty as a guide to suggest that not much would have changed.

Cubswin11 wrote:So Almora is at -3 DRS, he isn’t even a that great of fielder which many have been saying on here for a while and the offense speaks for itself. He hits Arb 1 next year, he probably isn’t worth even offering a contract to.

Don’t poke the troll.

In summary: baseball is awesome. Everything else ranged from not awesome to not tolerable.

Is it just me or does Addi drive others nuts too. I want it to be Addy if it's shortened. Ideally he's rocketed into the sun so we never have to post his name but in the meantime... Regardless of the person I cannot stand either variation of the shortened name. "Javi" is the only one of t...

The hilarious multi-car pileup of someone simultaneously flogging the meatballiest of meatball takes (that bad players suddenly becoming good when moved to a contending team is any kind of a thing) while hyper-obsessing over the drilldown stats of the tiniest of sample sizes is just a deliciously m...

Troll level 16000

Bryant's Disco Ball wrote:So this is why it was sort of weird to trade Maldonado.

Also, who has the rifle arm to catch Lester now?

Javy

BigSlick wrote:I love that our GM has to come down and tell the media :

Wild thought guys, let’s give our good hitters more at bats and our bad hitters fewer at bats

Maddon not returning confirmed.

Tony Kempana

I wonder if they thought they had a deal for Caratini when they traded for Maldonado and that plan fizzled.

We feel confident Maddon will use him appropriately? I feel like if anything, he would use a non-LOOGY as a LOOGY, rather than use a LOOGY in a role that LOOGY can't handle. He settles into the obvious, this lefty should be able to get out a lefty because he's a lefty mindset, and in this case, it ...

I don't think he's as dumb as D.Rose. Rose was genuinely an idiot. Like "can barely read" dumb. Russell seems more like a lazy and entitled brat who doesn't think it's important to know things he should know, and thinks he can get away with things he shouldn't get away with. are we sure R...

Derwood wrote:I have come to just really hate his face. Someone needs to slap that smirky grin off of his stupid face

The obvious solution is for other teams to hit him every game using a tube sock full of quarters.

HawkeTrackler wrote:Interesting article about Hard-R Hader's fastball and why no one can hit it, which is something I've been curious about for a long time.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/jo ... ous-pitch/

A more important factor is Hader’s deal with Baalzebub