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Quote from: Canadouche on August 08, 2018, 09:41:56 AM

Quote from: Wheezer on August 08, 2018, 12:57:40 AM
... I just listened to a CBC exposé on Tmim Hortons' not having changing tables in men's bathrooms.

Strange. On my daily run, I sometimes stop at either one of the two Tim Hortons on my route, and they both have changing tables in the men's room.

I admit it: I'd sooner take my kid into the parking lot and change his diaper in the backseat of the car than I would use a public washroom to do so.

Wheezer specifically said it was Tmim Hortons.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on October 24, 2017, 09:58:03 AM
Here's hoping he comes back.

RIP, Wade Davis's right arm.

No word yet on what they gave up.

Jesse Rogers says "low minor leaguer(s)." Cubs are on the hook for only $4M of the $20M owed.

Bump

Edit to add: there are a lot of shitty thread titles on here, but fuck this one.

Bump

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 25, 2018, 08:51:48 AM
This morning's WAR, according to Fangraphs...

Jason Heyward = 2.0
Bryce Harper = 1.4

I hope he doesn't opt out.

       HR/9  LgAv  HR/FB
2016:  0.7   1.2    9.3%
2017:  1.1   1.3   14.8%
2018:  1.6   1.1   18.2%

Not trending the right way.

Defensive whiz

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=y&type=1&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=24,d

Quote from: SKO on July 25, 2016, 11:28:15 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on July 25, 2016, 11:21:57 AM

Quote from: SKO on July 25, 2016, 11:15:57 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on July 25, 2016, 11:12:01 AM
Ah, gotcha. I went to his page and it all seemed to be about Chapman being a scumbag.

Quote"just bad asset management. traded a lottery ticket for a gas station cheeseburger"

I don't like the trade now that more details have come out, but that's a shit metaphor. The expected value of a lottery ticket is like $0.000000000001. Trading it for a gas station cheeseburger would be good asset management.

Yeah the amusing thing is I don't really like this trade. It is an overpay and I think Chapman's a douchebag. But from a baseball only standpoint it does increase their odds of winning it all this year however marginally and I don't think it's a horrendous overpay, just the kind that teams on the cusp of winning it all are prone to making.

I just am not surprised Trueblood managed to wade in with his Smartest Man in the Room smugness and have the worst take of all.

I was thinking it's a lot like the Snork/Hammel trade.

Elite SS Prospect + Billy McKinney + AAAA swingman + something/body else.

The A's got 1.5 years of Snork and a half season of Hammel.

The Cubs are getting a half season of Chapman and a lot of off-field baggage.

Seems like comparatively, the A's got the better deal since they got two SPs for the second half and could flip Snork's final year for other prospects afterward.

But ... 105.

I think it's possible we've overvalued Gleyber because he's been good for his age but his ceiling still actually seems to be merely "pretty good" and not "great." Freddy Sanchez at SS is the comp that stuck with me. That's a very useful player but it's not one that has a future as a Cub and it's also likely that our fantasy trade packages gave him more value than he actually has. Sahadev was one of a few guys I saw last night saying teams were more impressed with Happ/Eloy then Gleyber.

But again I don't doubt that it's an overpay, it's just one I'm comfortable with them making, or would be if Chapman was just a baseball player and not a wife beater. Hell I don't disagree with Beane making that trade back in 2014 either. Their second half collapse was pretty inexplicable and had little to do with that trade, and he then sold Snork before it was too late and got Semien out of it, and Semien has been nearly as valuable as Addison this year.

Gleyber Torres is really good at baseball. Maybe pitchers will adjust, and he'll slow down, but he's fucking good (.295/.351/.577 with 13 dongs in 172 PA as the youngest player in the AL).

And I have no complaint about the trade. As they say, flags fly forever.

Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on June 13, 2018, 05:36:33 PM
Bumping this for an offense that can't hit anything other than mediocre or bad pitching.

You seem like a miserable person.

Quote from: SKO on June 01, 2018, 04:28:12 PM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 01, 2018, 03:10:28 PM
According to mlb.com, Over the last 7 games (Why they just don't make this chomp 10 games is a fucking mystery*) he's slashing 455/500/591. He's dinking and doinking his way into actual value.

*Best guess is they're trying to represent a week.

On the one hand I feel like this guy has sucked long enough that we should really let him put together a several month sample size of competence before we act like he's fixed anything. On the other hand he's been so goddamn unbelievably shitty it's hard not to be over the top happy when he's merely competent for a while.

IF, IF he can keep his current slashline against RHP going, combined with Zobrist looking like Classic Zobrist and Happ's bat coming around there's an embarrassment of riches in terms of matchups Joe can go with in the outfield.

The embarrassment is that Joe willl still start Heyward against lefties (or at the very least not pinch hit for him).

Four hit game, including a dong.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on April 17, 2018, 08:21:20 AM
bump. Jepstink did some good shopping this winter.

Every time I try to figure out something Epstink has done right since 2016, I end up scratching my head.

He's now apparently Daniel Vogelbach.

President. Win-win.