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So you made that up or are confusing him with Martin Van Buren. I'll go with you made that up.

Translation. Moncada will throw the World Series !

I have never seen a crazy lightning rod for hate and love for a high draft pick like Madrigal . You compare him to Nellie Fox and I saw a post a few days ago calling him a 2nd to 4th rounder who plenty of people dislike because he has shown little pop in his limited time in the low minors. This thread should be fun. Grabbing the popcorn.

Wow I had no idea $9M was the difference between Cleveland trading a valuable member of their starting rotation for nothing in return and not being able to contend. Tell me what else your magic crystal ball says. That $9M must be like magic beans used to be.

Yea that "optioned him to Charlotte" part of the Merkin tweet was really hard to decipher. Luckily I'm part Navajo.

Why don't you just bump all the threads you started?

Misplays is not a thing that shows up on any stat so there is no answer

Looking through the MLB League Leaders , I see Moncada leads all of MLB in runs scored but even on MLB.com it still lists him at second base.

Going to keep bumping this if it doesn't get pinned. Maybe some of you don't know the rules of Pick to Click. They were probably lost in transitioning to the new and improved Soxtalk . So here they are per El Rockin. RULES for scoring for 2019: run = 1 Single = 1 RBI =2 HR = 4 2B = 2 3B = 3 SB=1 Walk=1 HBP-1 EXAMPLE: a bases empty home run equals 7 points (4 for the HR ,2 for 1 RBI , 1 for 1 run scored.) You can pick the same batter only twice in a week (Monday to Sunday) This is to prevent picking the best players over and over again. It's so easy and fun and all you have to do is pick a position player who you think will do well. If your player gets the most points based on the scoring system above you win. Gives you something to root for . See the post above this one to navigate your way to the PTC game thread. Remember all picks must be made before the game starts. Edited to change you can pick a batter to you can pick the same batter because it makes more sense that way.

Good job .

Hey El Rockin. Didn't there used to be rules about how often you can pick the same player. Maybe those should be posted somewhere ? Also would be nice to know what's the formula you use to determine the winner. ? Total bases + RBI's ? Maybe post that too. Pinned at the top of this section perhaps.

Somewhere in the middle . Better track record than Jackson, not as good as Lester without the Lester upside since stuff is so different.

But they only played 5 games.

Moncada is scalding. Just wait till Eloy gets his bearings. Then it will be really fun. The starting pitching isn't this good but fun while it lasts.

PTC hard choice between Moncada, Abreu and Leury. I think El Rockin has a formula maybe total bases not sure if walks count (they should) , RBI's . Gotta go with Moncada then.

Moncada

Bingo ? Why are we rooting so hard for wins in April that we want to sacrifice our best bullpen arms. Arms that might mean we trade for a decent prospect . No perspective at all here now. All little picture no big picture. Yes we hate losing we hate when players play badly . But guess what ? Bad players on bad teams play badly. Yet all we want to do is blow out the arms of the few good ones we have for the sake of a win in a season where winning means zero. Year three of a rebuild most of us wanted and thought was needed. The bad players will slowly fade away when they are replaced. Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing mentality doesn't work in a rebuild.

All the games so far have been competitive. The BP hasn't pitched well and the defense has sucked but there are positives. Focus on them instead because we are a bad team but it's just another brick in the wall we are hopefully building.

The board is so full of baseball stupid now it's hard to imagine Cubs fans being so reactionary and idiotic. Yolmer was another 2.0 WAR guy and look at all the venom spewed at him today.

But that's not what you said . You were talking about Colome and Herrera. Everyone dumps on relief pitchers who blow games, I get it , But this isn't a good team and like it or not we are going to blow games. Fry didn't exactly set the world on fire either . It's also difficult to label Covey as the worst reliever in the pen this early in the season. He's given up 1 earned run so far in 2 appearances. If we are looking at SSS then Banuelos, Burr, Jones and Fry are the worst pitchers in the BP. It's not like he has a bunch of Chapmans out there.

Ok then so at some point in those 3 games you are going to be using pitchers other than Herrera and Colome and the guy I was responding to was talking about using Herrera and Colombe again today. What's done is done , Cannot undo it.

And if you knew anything about baseball you'd understand you don't use guys who just pitched 2 days in a row even if there is an off day tomorrow. No need to wreck decent arms we are probably going to trade anyway.

Maybe not.

I've been telling people that all off season. He throws strikes. He knows the game plan and can usually execute it. Not great or anything but he knows what he's doing.

Woot. Cordell is the greatest of all time !!