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Jan 11, 2024 19:50
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Busch is probably going to get starts at 3rd in Chicago especially with Hoerner and Swanson. Like it's dumb but they didn't sign a Hosmer kind of no hoper to plug the spot
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Jan 11, 2024 19:51
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26 year old who can't hit in the majors for a future TOR pitcher plus another potential top 20 Cubs prospect. Got fleeced again.
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R.D. Mangles posted:26 year old who can't hit in the majors for a future TOR pitcher plus another potential top 20 Cubs prospect. Got fleeced again. he has 81 MLB PA e: was looking at AB not PA Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:don't trade with the loving dodgers This Dodgers FO traded Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields
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R.D. Mangles posted:26 year old who can't hit in the majors for a future TOR pitcher plus another potential top 20 Cubs prospect. Got fleeced again.
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Traxis posted:This Dodgers FO traded Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields You don't trade an international amateur a month after signing him.
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Jan 11, 2024 19:56
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this Busch guy plays first and is immediately standing in the way of Matt Mervis and is therefore an Enemy
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Jan 11, 2024 20:03
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What the gently caress are you doing, Jed? You didn’t have to make a move there.
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DeepDickPizza posted:What the gently caress are you doing, Jed? You didn’t have to make a move there. Cubs got 2 guys for their MLB roster that they can pay peanuts to. The farm was always going to he used for cash savings.
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Jan 11, 2024 20:08
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to be clear I have no idea who any of these guys are and am just mindlessly complaining!
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R.D. Mangles posted:to be clear I have no idea who any of these guys are and am just mindlessly complaining! Going by bawfuls reaction, we got fleeced and that pitcher is their Kershaw replacement.
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Jan 11, 2024 20:19
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I don't know the guys the Cubs got but Jackson Ferris is one of their best pitching prospects. 19 year old who was drat good in A ball last year. Feel like you could have gotten more but guessing money is a concern.
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R.D. Mangles posted:to be clear I have no idea who any of these guys are and am just mindlessly complaining! -Ferris was the Cubs #8 prospect, 19 year old lefty who could touch 97 and already had a plus changeup. Pitched well enough in A ball this year but was really heavily protected innings-wise. Personally I really liked him but he's young as hell and TINSTAAPP. -Hope is an 11th rounder who inexplicably caught fire in complex ball and was hitting really well at age 18. This is entirely a lottery ticket play by the Dodgers, it'll suck in 3-5 years if he's legit and fans of both teams won't even remember he was traded if he's not. -Busch is basically Mervis but more highly regarded by scouts. Old for AAA at 26, has spend his entire minor league career breaking sobbing pitchers over his knee, struggled in an intermittent cup of coffee last year, a bit oafish in terms of speed and defense but apparently plays passable 1B/2B/LF -Almonte is a journeymanish reliever who alternates really good and really bad years like clockwork, so coming off a 5 ERA performance in 2023 he should be a stud for the Cubs in 2024. Can hit >95 on his fastball which instantly makes him one of the hardest throwers on the entire roster.
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Mustached Demon posted:Going by bawfuls reaction, we got fleeced and that pitcher is their Kershaw replacement. Don't read too much into it, I hadn't heart of Ferris or Hope an hour ago.
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Jan 11, 2024 20:23
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Did Busch make big strides with the glove last season? He has like a 20-grade fielding tool in every scouting report I've seen (it has actually gone down over the last few years.)
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Ferris has a high ceiling but he is 19. Seems like a pretty reasonable deal on both sides.
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I mean, whatever, a high-A prospect is a high-A prospect, but I do think Ferris is going to be very good. Busch seems like another mediocre putz to throw on the pile with guys like Madrigal, Mastrobuoni and Mervis. There are major league players on the free agent market. You don’t need to trade a good prospect for another AAAA guy. Ugh.
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Inspector_666 posted:Did Busch make big strides with the glove last season? He has like a 20-grade fielding tool in every scouting report I've seen (it has actually gone down over the last few years.) Oh I have no idea. I just assume they're plugging him there because their current 3B option seems like Madrigal.
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Y'all are crazy. TINSTAAPP. And I like Busch a hell of a lot better than the in-house 3B options. But then again I'm a simple kind of man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZTRzVMT6QQ
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Inspector_666 posted:Did Busch make big strides with the glove last season? He has like a 20-grade fielding tool in every scouting report I've seen (it has actually gone down over the last few years.) Yeah he apparently put a bunch of work in to at least be passable at 1B/2B, but then the Dodgers mostly stuck him at 3B where he was dogshit.
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Jan 11, 2024 20:48
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Busch's ZIPs projection is a .243/.326/.453 line with a 109 OPS+. That's... pretty solid? Ferris may end up being real good, but he's 19 and a pitcher and thus might have his arm fall off before he sees the bigs.
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Trading some teenagers for a well-regarded (if old) major-league ready hitting prospect and immediately freaking out that he’s a worthless AAAA flop that we overpaid for is next-level Cubsposting
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Wayne Knight posted:Mervis to the Mariners CALLED IT
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It's also possible the Cubs plan to swing around and flip Busch, who is still regarded as a top 100 prospect, in a bigger deal. There were rumors awhile back the Cubs were trying to swing both Bieber and Naylor from Cleveland (idk why any team would want to trade either but Cleveland is cheap so  ) and maybe Busch would be attractive to them as an MLB-ready guy who they could pitch as the 1B of the future. If that trade were to happen though it would cost actual top prospects people would get mad about losing like Cassie or Alcantara. Also would probably involve sending Morel back over.
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lol, we DFA'd that random Colorado catcher to make room for Busch and Almonte.
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If Busch can play 3B at all then I'm down
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xbilkis posted:Trading some teenagers for a well-regarded (if old) major-league ready hitting prospect and immediately freaking out that he’s a worthless AAAA flop that we overpaid for is next-level Cubsposting I mean they traded a high ceiling pitching prospect for a AAAA guy so they won't have to spend actual money on Matt Chapman or someone else who can play 3rd. It's not the trade that's bad, it's them using their farm system to save the Ricketts from spending money. Small market poo poo.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:If Busch can play 3B at all then I'm down it seems like his record at third is pretty grim
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Busch in 89 MLB PAs: .167/.247/.292 Mervis in 99 MLB PAs: .167/.242/.289 Chill out, everyone
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I'm seein' double! Four Mervises!
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It's weird to call him a AAAA guy when he hasn't had enough MLB ABs to really say anything about him.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Busch in 89 MLB PAs: .167/.247/.292 I will not worship your False Mervis
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R.D. Mangles posted:I will not worship your False Mervis I shall call him Mini Merv
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R.D. Mangles posted:I will not worship your False Mervis Mervisn't
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Busch in 89 MLB PAs: .167/.247/.292 This is Mervising.
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Forrest on Fire posted:Mervisn't
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Forrest on Fire posted:Mervisn't Stealing this for future GDTs
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:If Busch can play 3B at all then I'm down He was extremely bad at it last year and seems more likely destined for 1B. Kevlar v2.0 posted:Busch in 89 MLB PAs: .167/.247/.292 lmao uncanny
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