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I'm surprised former players are admitting it now. I don't know if MLB can retroactively punish the Astros for this because I'm not sure if electronic sign-stealing was prohibited in 2017? I hope they get punished for this. . I’m sure they can punish them now, but it’s too hard to do anything about...

Stop arguing about stupid stuff and tell me why my post above about called strikes is wrong and dumb. Thanks.

Kyle struck out a lot less in the second half, and I think that accounts for the change. How do you account for the fewer K's? I think reputation. Early in the year, Kyle got rung up on a lot of balls out of the zone. As umpires got feedback on their varied degrees of awfulness, I think they learned...

I won't say that I'm not disappointed in how the last two seasons played out, but I do want to take a step back (I know we've done that many times) and appreciate. I just took this sporcle quiz . It's out of date, but if you update it through this season, Among Cubs All-Time HR leaders, Jason Heywar...

minnesotacubsfan wrote:

ConstableRabbit wrote:

Brian wrote:weird photo to use

I love that photo. It's really cool.

considering all of his wizardly slides, its not the best one out there. god I hope we never trade him

Does the game have a “swim move?” Or a “stop time” cheat code?”

How close would he be to a straight up trade for KB?

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