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Sydin posted:Yeah I sure am looking forward to yet another year of young rookies with upside riding the pine so loving losers like Eric Hosmer and Drew Smyly can take reps away from them! The front office needs to "Carlos Pena" some veterans, if you know what I mean.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Unfortunately for Cubs fans it’s an election year, and the Ricketts need to take the money for Bellinger and put it into a Trump PAC Or funnel money into the "Biden is actually Obama wearing a rubber mask" lunatic PAC.
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mcmagic posted:Why are the Mets dumping Alonso again? Why keep Pete Alonso who only plays one position when you could have Christopher Morel who plays many positions?
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LongTimeFirstTime posted:Just wanted to let the Mariners, Cubs, and Mets fans know that some of us miss you over in the playoffs thread. Oh, what coulda been. The playoff thread is a myth.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I will continue to Cubspost. For Earth. What am I supposed to do, go post on Bleacher Nation?  no
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1711944101292105939 Chris "Not that Chris Young... or that other Chris Young" Young
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I still can't believe the loving Rangers won a world series. This has to be made up. Is this what people felt like when the Twins won the world series back in 1987?
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bawfuls posted:were they though? the 1987 Twins were "good" kinda like Jack Morris was an elite starting pitcher My point was this team that nobody really follows finally wins the world series.
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/startelegram/status/1720475337199432168 "gently caress Brandon Pfaadt. What a dumb name." -Obadiah 1:22-23
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MLBMetrics/status/1720521647692665091 They should have done this with the players standing in one location and a parade of fan trucks and vans driving by them.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:He did lead all LF in assists in 2023 I haven't run the correlations or w/e but I'm pretty sure outfield assists are still the driving metric behind outfield gold gloves. What I'd like to find out is how many assists were direct throws vs throwing the ball and it results in an out via a cutoff throw. I guess he'll have to play LF, again, next year when Juan Soto is the DH. So, hopefully, his fielding takes a step back in the right direction. tadashi fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Nov 6, 2023 |
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Sydin posted:Eloy is still somehow only 27 so it's still entirely possible he puts a good career together, but man the thing where his legs just spontaneously combust 2-3 times a season is depressing as hell. At least they got two really drat good years out of Cease, even if they were ultimately squandered. Also he absolutely should have won the Cy last year, gently caress Verlander. I'm pretty convinced Eloy's ceiling is Jorge Soler at this point?
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Seattle just making room on the roster for Ohtani, right?
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:https://twitter.com/longleysunsport/status/1731785929633783818 He's too busy making GBS threads himself blind with norovirus because baseball execs are filthy bastards who don't wash their hands.
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Eric the Mauve posted:
Wade Miley 2011-2020: 10.2 rWAR 2021-2023: 7.8 rWAR Did he unlock the secrets of the left-ballers?
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I have some important analysis on the Juan Soto trade. gently caress the Yankees
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If only there were some other "entertaining" industry that often caused its employees to commute between LA and Toronto.
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gently caress this poo poo. Sign with my team.
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MJeff posted:Game 7 of the 2016 World Series was great because we got to see Aroldis Chapman get his rear end whipped and blow the biggest save of his life, but then the Cubs still won and broke their curse and he wasn't the guy on the mound for it, which was cool. I can't wait for the Cubs to bring Bauer back from overseas. Someone needs to make an animated smiley where the W gets lowered lol.
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Nodoze posted:Maybe not! Bryce Harper and Shoei Ohtani gonna build a retired MLB players' compound in Knoxville and buy the Knoxville Smokies.
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Sydin posted:Dang that sucks if true. It really does seem like the SF narrative in particular has penetrated general cultural consciousness more than other "unsafe liberal city" ones for whatever reason. Mark Rober isn't helping this perception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWWyG5ZwG8
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Does anyone want a copy of MVP Baseball 2005 for Xbox for free? It's a useless disk to me because I don't own an OG Xbox but maybe someone in this thread does and would like to have their own copy of the greatest baseball game ever made?
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Bregor posted:https://twitter.com/ctrent/status/1725663781768810508?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ He's still a minor celebrity in Knoxville and everybody here thinks he's the nicest guy. I'm sure there are plenty of teams lined up to offer him a AAA contract with an NRI. He's certainly worth keeping around as a break glass guy.
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Sydin posted:Sounds like a 2024 league minimum Cub who inexplicably blocks an interesting prospect already! Their approach at this point is clearly "what's the minimum amount we can pay for a winning record?"
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Bregor posted:They also have no direct competitor for realistic-looking MLB games, so Most of us are happy enough to stare at spreadsheet simulators instead of live action baseball games, so the revenue stream for baseball baseball games is probably impacted by that.
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rickiep00h posted:What's this? The most recent I have is 20. They created a mode called Perfect Team that uses baseball card gacha mechanics similar to the team building in The Show.
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bawfuls posted:He was a piece of the Mookie Betts trade yes So the Red Sox got nothing for Mookie Betts? It's even worse than thought at the time?
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Inspector_666 posted:One of the wildest things about the Mookie trade is that people will still defend it and say Mookie was dead set on testing the FA market! Never let hindsight get in the way of a bad argument.
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live with fruit posted:The Red Sox traded Nomar for a worse shortstop and a glove-first first baseman and won the World Series. I still can't comprehend that trade.
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Luigi Thirty posted:The Rays really know how to pick ‘em, here’s just the first rounders: 2010 - signed Matt Bush, former #1 pick (2004), who'd already been in legal trouble 3 times after being drafted (that we know about) and went on to run over an elderly man while drunk after stealing his roommate's car
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DeepDickPizza posted:There’s honestly been so little chatter in the Cubs media sphere…on anything. I don’t think there’s a chance in hell Stroman is back. I see nothing linking the Cubs to any interest, at this time, to any pitcher. I know they're too smart to think their defense is going to be elite every year and that Justin Steele's going to be a Cy Young candidate every year.
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ScottyJSno posted:Watching Jack reacher season 2. I am still laughing at the Yankees fans in this thread who loving hated on Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo and got stuck with each of them. It will never not be funny to me.
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Inspector_666 posted:Who the hell is out here hating Rizzo? Somebody called Rizzo a platoon bat after he signed his extension with the Cubs. I actually think his contract with the Yankees is just fine. Hindsight is 20/20 but they paid him like a 2nd tier free agent and that's the value their getting if he can just bounce back into the 2 WAR range this year. Free agents are usually old and expensive and you just hope they leave before they become trash.
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Remember that time John Lackey pitched for the league minimum for the Cards because he signed a dumb contract with the Red Sox before they traded him? I really thought he'd just sit out that season in protest. I'm not sure if I respect him for pitching that year or not.
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Mustached Demon posted:I would appreciate him, in all his glory, pitching on the Cubs. I know Lincecum, Cain, and pray for rain worked for the Giants, but I'm fine with Stro and 3-4 other pretty good starters. I am not expecting a future Hall of Fame starter. The Cubs' defense should be pretty good in the near future.
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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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Popete posted:Stroman wanted an extension from the Cubs and on the open market he got a whole 1 extra year for less AAV. Doesn't really seem like the gamble paid off but I wish him best, he was fun to watch for a few years. I mean, isn't this how all employment works? You aim as high as you can until you're forced to settle... At his age, the smart thing is to aim for guaranteed years, in my opinion. At 32, you're at a high risk of just sucking all of a sudden or getting a season ending injury at any given time. tadashi fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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