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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I remember years ago when the Angels made a big deal about how their stadium had low concession prices. That chart means their beers are $17.50 each. "Alcoholic beverages" does a lot of work there. Maybe they buy a lot of cocktails. Not that I expect the beers are lower than like $14 or so.
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IcePhoenix posted:"Alcoholic beverages" does a lot of work there. Maybe they buy a lot of cocktails. Not that I expect the beers are lower than like $14 or so. Angels Stadium has beers for like $5 and up (that's Miller Lite, though.) They actually have really good concession choices, it's the highlight of the park imo.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Maybe he's good pals with Seiya. If not yet, he will be. Leave it to the Cubs to sign a flyball pitcher to pair with their gold glove infield defense.
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Legitimately shocked the Cubs did something. Shota seems cool, although I expect a lot of mid-summer dingers will piss people off. Having the Professor and The Throwing Philosopher on the same team is cool, though. Hopefully someone makes a shirt I can buy.
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Imanaga is a low velo guy who works up in the zone so yeah I'm not surprised that leads to an elevated amount of dingers. That said he's also consistently posted pretty low ERA's, strikes a lot of guys out, and doesn't walk many, so if most of them are solo shots it's not that big of a deal. Likewise the Cubs also have Steele who's similarly a lefty working up in the zone with a low 90's FB with lots of run and he led all qualified NL starters in the lowest HR/9 allowed last year, and has allowed just 22 over his last 292 IP. Obviously Steele and Imanaga are not a 1:1 comp because of this but it may be the Cubs figure that whatever they did with Steele to help him suppress the longball can be applied to Imanaga as well. Feel free to quote this post in July when Shota's got like a 3 HR/9 and laugh at me.
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the Cubs moved quickly on Shota yesterday because they received word that the bears were going to do something totally insane today and needed to get 15 minutes of local radio coverage.
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tadashi posted:Leave it to the Cubs to sign a flyball pitcher to pair with their gold glove infield defense. Settle down mcmagic.
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Wow! This sounds like it's Bad For Baseball (I hope we find out it was the Giants and Grant Brisbee's mentions spin out of control)
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That sounds like something his agent would say
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bawfuls posted:Wow! This sounds like it's Bad For Baseball Wow look at this so called Goliath team fan being scared about those Chicago Cubs stockpiling talent 
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euphronius posted:That sounds like something his agent would say
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The Throwing Philosopher no doubt heard tales of Wrigley's incredible spirit from Yu Darvish and had to investigate
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Probably met Morel and is now excited to tear his shirt off at every opportunity.
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I found the new market inefficiency. If you want to win..... Sign a bunch of talented players. Someone call Jed. https://twitter.com/TheAthleticMLB/status/1745073143151251474?t=KcWLmnfVffMlg9dNOmR1PQ&s=19
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somebody got paid for this detailed analysis
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It's Keith Law
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Eno Sarris did his writeup in The Athletic on Shota as well which more or less amounted to "elite fastball, plus slider and splitter, but the other pitches kinda suck and he'll need to throw his splitter more in MLB to round out his arsenal."
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Sounds like a reliever in the majors
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's Keith Law Someone pays Keith Law?
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If 1 Imanaga increases the Cubs playoff chances what happens if we add 10 Imanagas?
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ScottyJSno posted:I found the new market inefficiency. If you want to win..... This is the most relaxed pitch face I’ve ever seen.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Sounds like a reliever in the majors Three plus pitches sounds like a reliever? Do we watch the same sport?
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I guess I'm skeptical the splitter is really that great if he doesn't throw it much. If all you throw mostly is fastball/slider then you're probably either Spencer Strider or a reliever. I don't follow NPB at all and don't really know anything about the guy though so if you say the slider and splitter are both legit plus MLB pitches I believe you
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It sounds more like he was able to get away with being a kitchen sink guy in the NPB but in MLB he's gonna get punished a lot harder for throwing lesser pitches and will need to reduce his curve/cutter usage of which the splitter will need to make up the difference. Granted it's not like Imanaga wouldn't be the first primarily two pitch starter for the Cubs. They already have two of them now in Steele and Hendricks.
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Yeah after I posted that I started thinking about it and there may actually be more starters who pretty much throw two pitches in MLB now than there have been since the 1880s, as the distinction between a starter and a reliever weakens by the year. There has definitely been a shift in the methodology of training/coaching SPs away from "throw a mix of 4 pitches and keep the hitters off balance" to "just throw your 2 really good pitches as hard as you can".
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Sydin posted:It sounds more like he was able to get away with being a kitchen sink guy in the NPB but in MLB he's gonna get punished a lot harder for throwing lesser pitches and will need to reduce his curve/cutter usage of which the splitter will need to make up the difference. Hendricks has 2 pitches, but they're really 4 pitches. Two different fastballs and two different changeups. I miss when he threw his curve a lot more often.
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Well Played Mauer posted:This is the most relaxed pitch face I’ve ever seen. not surprising that this is the face of The Throwing Philosopher
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TBH it doesn't even matter how good or bad he is for this money https://twitter.com/JesseRogersESPN/status/1745244274935869825
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ChiTownEddie posted:TBH it doesn't even matter how good or bad he is for this money Holy moly unless he absolutely faceplants this is highway robbery.
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Insane deal.
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Now the Cubs can use that savings to
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The Yankees are really going to sign Stroman? I guess I can live with a 1 year deal but that better be all and it also better be along with another starter.
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ChiTownEddie posted:TBH it doesn't even matter how good or bad he is for this money so it's either a 2 year deal for 27ish million, or 5 year deal for 80, but it's loving great in this market either way
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Well it’s still 4 for 53 if he is blah
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Even with the posting fee (not counting against the luxury tax) every outcome of this deal is fine to great. Lots of space for say, ANOTHER SIGNING.
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ChiTownEddie posted:Even with the posting fee (not counting against the luxury tax) every outcome of this deal is fine to great. Lots of space for say, ANOTHER SIGNING. I hear Cody Bellinger is still available
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Lest we forget, this is peak 80s hair right here
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ChiTownEddie posted:TBH it doesn't even matter how good or bad he is for this money I really want to hear what the Giants and Angels were offering that he went with that from Chicago.
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Give me Jordan Montgomery and Cody
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