caulfield12

They better hurry up, the way things are going...we could fall below 70 wins again and back into the conversation for the #5-6 picks and possibly even 4th. Although the returns of Jimenez and Anderson will likely prevent that from happening. Fangraphs has it like this as of today... 1. Baltimore and Detroit (probably get another superstar to go with Mize), 56-106 3. Miami, 63-99 4. KC and Toronto, 65-97 6. Seattle, 69-93 7. White Sox, 70-92 We’re five to seven meaningless late season losses from picking 3rd to 5th again.

One wouldn’t read into this that they’re going to make it a huge weekend-long party to announce the signings of Cole, Ozuna, Grandal and Betances....

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=15467&position=P Some of his baseline stats like K9and BB9 are a little worse...but for these two years, he has been the precise definition of a 3 fWAR starter. On paper, as a free agent, you’d pay at least $20-25 million per year. Most fans aren’t as familiar with him, especially since he plays most of his games at 9 p.m., so the idea of him being of a similar value to Quintana in 2017 is kinda shocking. The fact that he’s got three arbitration years remaining, that means the ask is going to be something like Lopez or Dunning, Walker and Adolfo. We can throw Fulmer or Hansen into it, as well...Collins, etc. The Cubs have had Quintana for 2 1/2 seasons and hold the option for 2020. He’s a similar age 27 as Q, throws LH, former first round draft pick. Their repertoires aren’t even that different, as both are finesse pitchers. He’s also arguably been pitching better than Quintana in 2017...and not on an obvious downtrend or at least plateauing in terms of his career trajectory.

It’s not like we are getting beaten out by the Red Sox, Yankees, Astros or Dodgers. That would be more understandable. It’s even smaller market teams like the Twins, Indians...for example, the Giants have won 18 of their last 22 and are playing themselves right into the wild card hunt. Even teams who “retool on the fly” are giving their fans something to be excited about...just hard to be excited about baseball now when it’s starting to seem 2020 will be yet another lost season. On paper, the Giants are not more talented than the White Sox, but they have a Hall of Fame manager.

Dodgers desperately need some bullpen help...

Another 93 mph fastball over the plate he couldn’t square up...

Meanwhile, the Cubs’ game is 2 1/2 innings ahead. Need to work at a faster pace.

It’s a sad day when they’re looking for Ryan Goins to protect our cleanup hitter. All we had to do was sign Cruz to DH and we’d at least have a quite respectable transition year offense that would have been a blast to watch. Scouting.

And there’s a pretty high likelihood that Machado, Tatis Jr. and his father and their agent in common decided quite early to go with the Padres and were just waiting to see if the Sox would significantly outbid it in the end...Padres did a great job keeping that early interest out of the media as Hahn set the market for a couple of months.

Abreu missed another 92 mph cookie over the heart of the plate...

If Adam Engel is the excuse not to add a real outfielder next year...let’s not forget his OPS was a pedestrian 708 entering this game.

Even if they finish with below 70 wins and Cease has to be shut down to prevent his ERA from going above 6 or even 7? No, that’s reserved for Tom Selleck, lol.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a good alternative to this...or a James Patterson thriller. Would almost say Cubs-Brewers is more compelling.

Two days in a row they seem to know every pitch before it’s thrown...

Not over Closers on the block: Will Smith, Kirby Yates, Ken Giles, Alex Colome, Shane Greene, Ian Kennedy, Mychal Givens, Sergio Romo Could be shopped: Felipe Vazquez, Edwin Diaz, Raisel Iglesias, Hansel Robles, Greg Holland, Wade Davis, Roenis Elias, Chris Martin/Jose Leclerc

Yeah, would love to but tricky to effectively monitor investment from half a world away...in China, there’s a saying, never trust anyone to run your business, sometimes not even your own family.

17 years old...

https://mobile.twitter.com/_dadler/status/1154670832842657792 Save by a position player with average velocity that inning of 54.3 mph, pretty funny...not for the Angels. https://www.mlb.com/video/wilkerson-records-the-save

Shows how much I was paying attention to those Marlins games, lol...55 year old son, Todd’s brother. He coached until he was 67. Who were they talking about coaching until he was 82?

Yet Stottlemyre’s running out there at 82...and the Marlins, for as many youngsters as they have, are middle of the road in the MLB without an exceeding amount of highly-touted prospects.

I forgot Bruce Lee...that was awesome, too. I must have fallen asleep there somehow...never adjust completely to jet lag from China, 4 p.m. show is like the middle of the morning.

Jon Adkins...

If they want to claw back a year of control...and they don’t spend big in free agency, then there’s no pointing in pushing Kopech too hard next year in the majors. He’s only going to throw 130-150 innings anyway.

DiCaprio and Pitt were great together. Telling the Tate story without giving her much dialogue was an interesting decision. One or two too many shots lingering on the hippie girl’s butt as she was sweet talking Pitt on Ventura, Hollywood or Melrose. As much as researchers try to figure it out, nobody has cogently explained the hold of Manson on those kids. Finally, favorite scenes were with the precocious Trudi...and missed the Luke Perry cameo somehow. For a director known for violence (and certainly the gruesome true story underpinning the events), it wasn’t that type of movie, it was a love letter to that period of cinema and the way things used to be. Maybe a bit of self-reflection on the director’s part that the things you used to be able to get away with back then are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Crawl was actually the best alligator/crocodile movie of all time, although a low bar for sure. Art of Self Defense already gone after one week, was meaning to watch that...although Zombieland 2 is enough Eisenberg for me. The Lion King was strangely disappointing. Just too much cognitive dissonance laying that soundtrack over real life animals in nature...Seth Rogen for once made it more tolerable.

Very realistic if it’s approached like they did with Robertson, LaRoche and Cabrera. If they just wait until the last minute instead of picking those guys off one by one in an organized November/December blitz of signings, they’re going to be left sorting out the Jake Odorizzis, Jonathan Schoops and CJ Crons of the free agent barrel.