Its infuriating really. You look at the lineup and you really don't see any obvious places for improvement but they all shit the bed way too much.
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MLB 2016 Regular Season |OT2| - ASMR Edition ...with Ketchup
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Its infuriating really. You look at the lineup and you really don't see any obvious places for improvement but they all shit the bed way too much.
Silver Arrows
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stop watching and get shitfaced on your flight
Heyward could step up in a big way. If he does, that's a big right handed bat for them. Otherwise, you're absolutely right.
I have no faith Heyward is going to turn things around. He looked completely baffled at the plate.
You're right. But he's definitely under performing compared to expectations.
Grover Cleveland
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Carpe Libertatem
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Cubs have been trying their best to lose ground, but Cards just saying "nah"
Silver Arrows
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chicagocubsfan
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Rizzo has looked awful tonight.
chicagocubsfan
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Heyward is a black hole on offense
I'll never fucking understand the Orioles moves. Signings or trades, they've all been total shit. They get lucky here and there, but when you are spending 28 million dollars on 3 starting pitchers which have an average era of SIX, what the fuck are you even doing.
This organization really seems to be spinning its wheels when it's come to player development for the last few years. You know that MLB poll of the 100 top minor league prospects? Guess how many the O's have. Did you guess a fucking goose egg? I bet you did!
Really, it just seems like in 2 or 3 years, after we probably lose manny and a few others, well just be back to our tried and true losing ways. Duqueette will get fired and they'll start rebuilding again.
This organization really seems to be spinning its wheels when it's come to player development for the last few years. You know that MLB poll of the 100 top minor league prospects? Guess how many the O's have. Did you guess a fucking goose egg? I bet you did!
Really, it just seems like in 2 or 3 years, after we probably lose manny and a few others, well just be back to our tried and true losing ways. Duqueette will get fired and they'll start rebuilding again.
What they really need is to reboot their entire player development system. At least on the pitching side.
chicagocubsfan
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Holy shit lol
Frozenprince
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Your farm system is a burning tire fire of awful because you haven't developed it in years and invest in FA's instead.
There's a reason most pundits and people picked the O's to finish pretty low this year, pitching depth is non-extant and you can't rely on an offense designed purely for Camden Yards to work 82 other times.
The window for tearing it down and starting again closed, Machado is still there, he's worth too much to trade for or to give up, so for the next three years, be prepared for an Angels level of ineptitude at some point.
It was a great catch
Certainly better than Aoki.
Mr. Enigma
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Braves and Yankees have agreed on the players involved on a Brian McCann trade. The only thing now is how much money the Yankees would cover on McCann's deal. But it's looking like McCann is heading back to Atlanta.
LyleLanley
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What the fuck is this about the Sox looking into trading for Beltran?
Where are you seeing this?
Frozenprince
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Calling up Benintendi would be too hard.
Don't toy with my heart. Spill your sauces!
LyleLanley
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If we give up even a single asset for Beltran I will personally fight Dombrowski.
Frozenprince
Banned
The future is quite literally right there. Waiting.
He's ready for the majors now no reason to wait till next year.
LyleLanley
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No need to sell me on the idea. There's no way calling up Super Nintendi can be worse than trading for Beltran.
17 Seconds
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the cubs offense is less than 10 runs away from leading the league, but it's been feast or famine all year. there's no real reason to believe it will continue that way, and there's nothing you can do to fix it, but it's really god damn frustrating to watch.
chicagocubsfan
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Can't wait for Chapman to play LF.
Mr. Enigma
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Got a push notification from the ESPN app. It says Yankees and Braves deal was dependent on how much money the Yankees would cover.
McCann still would have to waive his full no-trade clause.
Frozenprince
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You traded nothing for them and you need guys who aren't complete garbage at their respective positions to eat games.
Diaz hits 101 out of the pen? Damn.
17 Seconds
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you cannot be serious with that strike 3 call
Now do you see why he should not be stretched out? 17.64 K/9 in 25 IP.
We need guys who aren't complete garbage so we get 2016 Matt Kemp and Brian McCann? Tyler Flowers has been worth .3 less WAR than McCann in 30 less games.
I'll reserve my criticism until we see if it happens and how much they end up paying, but you're going to have a tough time convincing me that they needed to take on both of Kemp's and McCann's contracts.
I'd rather just let flowers be the starter, don't see McCann as much of a upgrade at this point.
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