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Do people forget that Kyle Schwarber came back from a supposed season-ending injury he suffered in the 2nd game of the season, then mashed a .412/.500/.471 slash line in the first World Series the Cubs had been in since 1945, helping them get their first World Series win in 108 years? And you all wonder why Cubs fans like Kyle Schwarber? 
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Do people forget that Kyle Schwarber came back from a supposed season-ending injury he suffered in the 2nd game of the season, then mashed a .412/.500/.471 slash line in the first World Series the Cubs had been in since 1945, helping them get their first World Series win in 108 years? And you all wonder why Cubs fans like Kyle Schwarber? Yeah, Schwarbs pretty much guaranteed himself a spot as a Cubs legend with that.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:16
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zoux posted:Nobody likes openers. I'm curious to meet the fan who is just weirdly drawn to the idea of a reliever starting a game and chases it on MLB TV.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:17
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Poque posted:I pulled the best and worst strikeout variances (pitching Ks - batting Ks) since 1960 and the Astros are in one hell of a window The 1992 Tigers only struck out 693 batters in a season. They averaged about 4 Ks a game, almost a full strikeout a game less than the next lowest team. 😨
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Sep 3, 2019 21:17
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STAC Goat posted:I'm curious to meet the fan who is just weirdly drawn to the idea of a reliever starting a game and chases it on MLB TV.  Me when it's a bullpen day
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Sep 3, 2019 21:19
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Kyle Schwarber shook my hand before I got my world series ring so that's pretty cool
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Sep 3, 2019 21:20
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Do people forget that Kyle Schwarber came back from a supposed season-ending injury he suffered in the 2nd game of the season, then mashed a .412/.500/.471 slash line in the first World Series the Cubs had been in since 1945, helping them get their first World Series win in 108 years? And you all wonder why Cubs fans like Kyle Schwarber? "mashed" now means 6 singles and a double I get why fans love him, I don't even mind the guy, he seems cool. But the talk of him (here) becoming elite was real among cubs fans and uhhh, he's just a solid hitter with poor defense; something he was probably always going to be!
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Sep 3, 2019 21:29
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zoux posted:Speaking of chonky bois Hello, please meet my son, Vogelbach Kikuchi.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:39
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Do people forget that Kyle Schwarber came back from a supposed season-ending injury he suffered in the 2nd game of the season, then mashed a .412/.500/.471 slash line in the first World Series the Cubs had been in since 1945, helping them get their first World Series win in 108 years? And you all wonder why Cubs fans like Kyle Schwarber? none of which has anything do with his continuing on-field and/or trade value like I can understand being grateful to the guy for his contributions towards the WS but wanting to keep him on the team no matter what is pretty irrational based on his career production so far if he was a random quad-A guy with a career 111 OPS+ and terrible defense in the OF no-one would think twice about sending him off in a trade even for a rental
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Sep 3, 2019 21:49
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Six singles and one extra base hit in the postseason better put him in the hall Fuckin Kirk Gibson hit an actual game winning home run on one leg
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Sep 3, 2019 21:51
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Schwarber has a career 75 wRC+ vs LHP. He's a glorified platoon hitter the Cubs have to start almost every day anyway because basically all of Theo's touted big draft bats have flopped except Bryant.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:53
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His defense isn't that bad for a LF. Have you guys seen the players starting in LF in this league?Sydin posted:Schwarber has a career 75 wRC+ vs LHP. He's a glorified platoon hitter the Cubs have to start almost every day anyway because basically all of Theo's touted big draft bats have flopped except Bryant. He's improved to just about league average now. Usually takes lefties some time to improve on that. Remember Rizzo couldn't hit lefties for poo poo for awhile. Schwarber has been real good at the plate this year, just incredibly unlucky.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:59
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:Six singles and one extra base hit in the postseason better put him in the hall kirk gibson's a pariah, baby boy
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Sep 3, 2019 22:01
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Niwrad posted:His defense isn't that bad for a LF. Have you guys seen the players starting in LF in this league? He's 13th of 18 among qualified LF according to FanGraphs and his "improvement" this year has been over 102 PAs against LHP
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Sep 3, 2019 22:12
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Statcast's Outs Above Average has him as *peers at list* the worst outfielder in the National League
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Sep 3, 2019 22:14
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He's also fat. He's not Rowdy Tellez or Dan Vogelbach fat anymore but still fat
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Sep 3, 2019 22:20
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Julio Cruz posted:He's 13th of 18 among qualified LF according to FanGraphs He was good last year and mediocre the year before. Look at his 3 year average in LF. It's not that bad.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:23
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He’s a bum
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Sep 3, 2019 22:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrPWk3YLGw Been waitin on this one e: also lol https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/1168970503337459713 He was suspended earlier for "violation of team rules". What'd he do? Here's the rumor: "So here's the situation as recounted to us by a source with knowledge of the situation and not denied by multiple relevant parties: Dean Deetz is a little bit of a character, and talks a lot of smack. He was giving Reymin Guduan The Bidness about not being able to throw a strike. Guduan responded by throwing a shoe at Deetz and missed (badly, apparently), to which Deetz responded "See?" That is legitimately funny. What happened next is not. Guduan picked up a bat, swung it, and hit Deetz in the head. Guduan apparently didn't get a great swing on it, but "it definitely dazed" Deetz. Guduan was removed from the clubhouse, but came back later, this time with a knife. "He didn't do anything with it, but he stood at his locker and glared at Deetz." No one called the police, but the Astros did suspend Guduan. That, by any standard of the law, is assault. You'll notice on Round Rock's website that Dean Deetz did not pitch between July 26 and August 5, which was a span of eight games in nine days." zoux fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 22:24
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Niwrad posted:He was good last year and mediocre the year before. Look at his 3 year average in LF. It's not that bad. ...a total of -2.5 dWAR isn't that bad? e: he had half-decent numbers last year because people were forgetting he's got a great arm and running on him this year that's not happening which is robbing him of the only positive element of his defense
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Sep 3, 2019 22:24
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People getting upset about Cubs fans liking Kyle Schwarber despite his mundane stats makes me love Kyle Schwarber even more.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:27
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It really is a shame we hype Schwarber instead of Rowdy Tellez because he looks like he runs a vape shop and his name is "Rowdy Tellez"
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Sep 3, 2019 22:27
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Schwarber makes a team that I hate actively worse, and the team's simple fans seem to love him for it. So really I can't complain.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:30
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:It really is a shame we hype Schwarber instead of Rowdy Tellez because he looks like he runs a vape shop and his name is "Rowdy Tellez" Also he's Jewish.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:30
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Do people forget that Kyle Schwarber came back from a supposed season-ending injury he suffered in the 2nd game of the season, then mashed a .412/.500/.471 slash line in the first World Series the Cubs had been in since 1945, helping them get their first World Series win in 108 years? And you all wonder why Cubs fans like Kyle Schwarber? See my avatar and text
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Sep 3, 2019 22:31
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Niwrad posted:His defense isn't that bad for a LF. Have you guys seen the players starting in LF in this league? Yordan makes me very happy the Astros are in the AL zoux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrPWk3YLGw Wow. Bye Guduan RIP my sarcastic "Good one" joke when he pitches poorly (basically every time he pitches) Still doesn't beat Gilbert Arenas though Reminder that Shawn Chacon assaulted Ed Wade once Intruder fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 22:37
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GalacticAcid posted:Schwarber makes a team that I hate actively worse, and the team's simple fans seem to love him for it. So really I can't complain.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:37
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I get irrationally loving a mediocre player on your team, i really do. I'd possibly take a bullet for Charlie Culberson but I'm not under the illusion that he's very good
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Sep 3, 2019 22:40
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Intruder posted:Yordan makes me very happy the Astros are in the AL Deetz doing the “See” after Guduan missed with the shoe sounds like it came out of Major League
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Sep 3, 2019 22:42
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Schwarber couldn't be making our team worse because who the hell else is going to take his spot? We have like 100 outfielders rotating and none of them are very good. At least Schwarber has a positive WAR.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:42
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zoux posted:Deetz doing the “See” after Guduan missed with the shoe sounds like it came out of Major League So does the bat and knife, if you only consider the first one Didn't Rick Vaughn pull a knife? I can't remember, it's been awhile
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Sep 3, 2019 22:43
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zoux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrPWk3YLGw Ok so we're all in agreement that Joe West is unable to go from a kneeling position to a standing position under his own power, right? That seems unbelievable but it's the only explanation here, right?
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Sep 3, 2019 22:43
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In legit cool heartwarming news, Aaron Barrett is coming back to The Show https://twitter.com/HbgSenators/status/1168999100945223680?s=19
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Sep 3, 2019 22:44
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What are some weird end of season things to look out for in September? The Angels can possibly become the first team ever to not have a pitcher throw 100 innings in a season. Right now Cahill is at 91.1, he threw 12.1 innings last month, maybe with September callups they'll give some rookies a shot out of the pen to see what they can do, but also maybe they'll need innings eaters as they shut guys down. They're also not going to have a single 20 game starter, but with the opener thing that isn't quite as interesting a statistic. I'm convinced that Justin Upton is actually the worst LF in baseball, he just makes so many bad plays that don't count as errors so it largely goes unnoticed. I think he was worst among Fielding Bible stats.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:48
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Wouldn't it make sense with the 40-man rosters to have an opener bat 3rd in your lineup at the home team? Then sub him out in the bottom half of the inning?
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Sep 3, 2019 22:56
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Niwrad posted:Wouldn't it make sense with the 40-man rosters to have an opener bat 3rd in your lineup at the home team? Then sub him out in the bottom half of the inning? What would be the functional difference? If you keep your best hitter on the bench and then sub him in to bat third, you're still subbing out your 9 hitter. If you just put a pinch hitter in and keep the pitcher at the 3 spot, now that spot is a weakness in your lineup
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Sep 3, 2019 22:58
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Good Dog posted:What are some weird end of season things to look out for in September? The Angels can possibly become the first team ever to not have a pitcher throw 100 innings in a season. Right now Cahill is at 91.1, he threw 12.1 innings last month, maybe with September callups they'll give some rookies a shot out of the pen to see what they can do, but also maybe they'll need innings eaters as they shut guys down. The Cardinals could go from most errors in baseball last year to fewest in baseball this year, assuming I didn’t just jinx them.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:58
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Niwrad posted:Wouldn't it make sense with the 40-man rosters to have an opener bat 3rd in your lineup at the home team? Then sub him out in the bottom half of the inning? hitters don't get fatigue in the same way pitchers do, in fact them getting more ABs through a game is better for them as they get to see the opposition pitcher more times
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Sep 3, 2019 23:01
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Intruder posted:What would be the functional difference? If you keep your best hitter on the bench and then sub him in to bat third, you're still subbing out your 9 hitter. If you just put a pinch hitter in and keep the pitcher at the 3 spot, now that spot is a weakness in your lineup Well you wouldn't use your best pinch hitter unless you had a couple runners on. I guess the difference is that you move the pitcher slot down so your follower won't have an at-bat for a couple innings. Basically cutting the percentage of times you may have to let your pitcher hit.
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Niwrad posted:Well you wouldn't use your best pinch hitter unless you had a couple runners on. I guess the difference is that you move the pitcher slot down so your follower won't have an at-bat for a couple innings. Basically cutting the percentage of times you may have to let your pitcher hit. At the expense of having a hole in your lineup at the three spot instead of the bottom Unless you're planning to pinch hit every time the pitcher's spot comes up, and even then your bench guys aren't going to be as good as your best hitters
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