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I know the flyball revolution is all the rage these days, but I don't think it works for guys like Saladino. He doesn't hit the ball hard enough, so all those extra flyballs mostly just turn into outs. Same thing with Anderson, really. They both should stop hitting so many flyballs.

I'm not that high on Rodgers so I wouldn't be that excited about that package. His home parks in both Asheville (Low A) and Lancaster (High A) are bigger hitter parks than Coors is, and his road numbers are pedestrian at best. Plus doesn't he have questionable defense? I agree with Cameron that he's overrated.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 16, 2017 -> 07:31 AM) And they have also priced a lot of fans out of their games. With their new dynamic pricing, you could see a weekend Sox game for maybe 25% of the cost I bet. (That's not criticism of the Cubs, they know exactly how to maximize every bit of revenue and it's the cost of winning for fans) I do know at least one Cub fan who has been going to Sox games this year because he can't afford to go to Cubs games anymore.

Guerrero is starting to get pretty intriguing.

Even if he wins another Cy Young this year I still doubt Theo would resign him. I think he's gone regardless.

His choices for tonight are Kevin Pillar and Ezequiel Carrera.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2017 -> 03:23 PM) I am honestly curious what his numbers are after that report came out that he was on PEDs and he said it was Pilates That article came out April 26th of last year, so since then Arrieta has a 3.92 ERA and 3.75 FIP over 211 innings and 35 starts.

Rangers have won 6 in a row and are just one game under .500 now. There's been a lot of Darvish trade talk lately so hopefully they keep playing well.

Leury is having a good season.

Heads up baserunning by Frazier there.

Quintana just doesn't have his usual control this year.

Keep him for now. Put him in the closer's role after Robertson/Jones are traded and if he continues to pitch well he should bring in a better haul later than at the deadline. And then depending on how the rebuild is going you reevaluate again later.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 12, 2017 -> 09:52 AM) You guys think the Cubs would do a Miguel Gonzalez for Candelario swap? I think the Cubs do trade Candelario this season but they could probably do better than Gonzalez.

Guerrero is probably done for the day. Final line is 5IP, 5H, 1ER, 3BB, 7K.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 10, 2017 -> 08:47 AM) Is there a place to find ISO for minor leagues? It's listed on Fangraphs. Moncada's ISO is currently .204.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 9, 2017 -> 10:43 AM) About to start the Americans. Anyone watching Designated Survivor...it has good parts abut more times than not it's wtf stupid kind of like TWD where people do things that are just not something they would do. Also anyone know where to watch Vikings second half of the last season and Ray Donovan. Trying to watch Homeland and Ray Donovan without a Showtime subscription and not having any luck. You can watch Vikings on Hulu, they just released the second half of season 4 on it last week.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 9, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) Hype is often a product of what people see as potential for a guy. You can definitely see super hero type potential in a guy with his power and his natural offensive ability. He may never fulfill that potential but if he gets close it will be scary. The problem is even if he does hit like that, he's still not going to be super valuable because he doesn't offer anything else of value. His ceiling is basically prime Adam Dunn, which is a fine player, but not justified by the hype.

Yeah Giolito is a big project. If he's still struggling like this a year from now I'll worry. I'll wait for him to adjust to his new mechanics, which could take months.

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/early-bar...rlsbbe-leaders/ So Davidson is 5th in the MLB right now in barrels per batted ball at 23.1%. For those who don't know, a barrel is, as Podhorzer puts it in the article, a ball that a batter "hits the crap out of".

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 8, 2017 -> 10:17 AM) It's official. This season of The Americans blows. Yeah I'm usually the first to defend shows that are slow burns, but this season has slowed to a crawl. Nothing is happening and this is the penultimate season. Just disappointing.

Yesterday's Yankees-Cubs game broke the record for most strikeouts in a game, and was only the 3rd game in MLB history where all 18 starters struck out at least once.

QUOTE (daggins @ May 7, 2017 -> 02:01 PM) Rodon Q always walked a fine line - we may just be witnessing the beginning of the end. I'd be more worried if the underlying numbers looked a lot different but so far Q's zone rate, O-Swing%, swinging strike rate, contact rate, hard-hit% and soft-hit% are all almost exactly the same as last year, he's still pretty much the same pitcher.

This game is a good example of why ERA sucks

Bad luck again for Q on that hit.

Hitting .389/.441/.778, 236 wRC+ since the thread was started.