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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

Big changes are coming in the off season. Mini rebuild here we come starting with not re-upping Maddon and going a cheaper route. No way are they signing Sgt. Girardi. If their not gone by the deadline in a week - Schwarber, Russell, Al Mora & Happ flipped for young pitching & position play...

They better get it together or we might have to flip to what prospects we want from other teams and sell the few guys in our BP who get outs. It's not the least appetizing idea ever. This group is so dysfunctional a deadline deal or two isn't gonna fix it. You have to figure a teardown is coming at...

So Marisnick destroys Lucroy, giving him a concussion and a broken nose and he gets a two game suspension. Last night, an Angels relief pitcher plunked Marisnick intentionally in the upper back and gets a three game suspension. I know it’s a pitcher so he’s not going to pitch every game. I’m fully ...

If they add the rule about pitchers needing to step off to pickoff runners, all those runners are gonna have an extra half-step on their leads to make up for geared up catchers. Net neutral on the running game, the strike zone is more accurate, and we give the LHP balk pickoff moves the fiery death...

Brian wrote:

Yu can do it!

I'd guarantee Maddon hates red assed Hurdle. One enjoys his glass of wine, the other is busy shotgunning Milwaukees Best This is hate speech. I am an avid wine drinker and also an imbiber of mass quantities of cheap beer. #LoveIsLove Seriously, you can do both. Why do you hate fun? But Hurdle is a ...

CyHawk_Cub wrote:Jason Heyward has 10 HR already. I didn't think he'd hit that many for the whole season.

He has benefitted greatly from the pill enhanced ball (PEB). So many warning track fly balls the last couple of years. Going out this year!

https://twitter.com/MLByahoosports/status/1143939307675115526 I’ll always remember seeing the headline in the newspaper of “McClendon steals first base” and thinking who the horsefeathers is McClendon and how did he steal first. You didn't know who former Cubs great and 1989 NLCS hero Lloyd McClend...

The_Achiever wrote:Andrew Miller looks extremely washed up too.

It's almost like pitching 2-3 innings on back to back days eventually catches up with you.

Season over.

I wouldn’t mind reading that he’s been taking fly balls in the outfield.