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Trying to decide if Hitman is actually a Cubs fan or a Mitch alias (troll).
No way. Mitch was clearly a Yankees fanatic, anti-Cub and at least had the sense to disappear when his outrageous comments proved to be idiotic; he actually came back and ate a little crow before that. This dude has a different approach; he's clearly a typical miserable Chicago sports fan and can't figure out when it's just time to take the L.
 
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Jed didn’t think he was good enough for the Cubs. If you and a good majority of the posters were running the Cubs you would have given Bryant, Rizzo, Baez and Schwarber the massive contracts they were looking for. The Cubs would be in last place right now with them. While I would have been rebuilding around Corey Seager, Freddie Freeman and Kevin Gausman.
I have plenty of posts in these threads and a podcast with 50+ episodes and not once will you ever read or hear me say that the Cubs should have kept all of those guys for any level of massive contracts. Feel free to go check. I’ve actually been pretty supportive of a lot of Jed’s moves, probably more so than a lot of Cubs fans. Again, I have 50+ episodes of receipts out in my podcast and hundreds of posts here.
 
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You and your friends on here would have given each of them contracts worth more than $200 million.
The Cubs would NEVER have extended all of them. I think they made a mixed bag of effort to keep 1-2 of them. I do think they non-tendered Schwarber a bit early, but I understood the move at the time, even if I didn’t agree with it. Cubs were reportedly VERY close to extending Baez before the pandemic and then funds dried up during “BIBLICAL LOSSES!!!”

Ultimately, history will show that Jed came out of those questions very well, even if you believe it was more by accident than design.
 
When someone has a chance, can you please explain to me why Canario, after having a short season in the minors due to recovering from two major injuries, was brought up to the Bigs so that he could be a cheerleader for the past 6 games instead of either continuing his development at Iowa or at least getting some taste of the Majors? I don't know what the best approach is with him, but keeping the bench warm in Cincinnati and Wrigley probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
 
When someone has a chance, can you please explain to me why Canario, after having a short season in the minors due to recovering from two major injuries, was brought up to the Bigs so that he could be a cheerleader for the past 6 games instead of either continuing his development at Iowa or at least getting some taste of the Majors? I don't know what the best approach is with him, but keeping the bench warm in Cincinnati and Wrigley probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
I can quibble with him not playing during the Cincy DH or coming in late in the blowout, but the Cubs are right in the middle of the playoff chase and every game matters. They get to expand the roster to 28. They were never going to suddenly grab a guy and put him right into a prominent role. He’s up to be around the team and see what being in a race is like.

That said, he should play at some point, but they are going to treat him like the 12th-14th member of the non-pitcher roster. I’d love for him to play, but other than Tauchman, not entirely sure where he’d be getting significant playing time. Happ and Seiya are both on good runs and nobody is benching Belli or Candelario. I’d love to see him play tomorrow, but not sure who is throwing for SF or what kind of matchup that is. I also support putting him in position to succeed. Workload isn’t a huge concern because the Cubs have already said Canario will play in the Arizona Fall League, so he’ll make up some of those ABs there.
 
Mets and Red Sox the exceptions?

Going off my memory, which isn't always the best.
Yep. Lost the Mets and Red Sox and split the 2-gamer at home vs. White Sox and the road 4-gamer last weekend with the Reds. Won all the rest. Haven’t lost 3 games in a row since July 3.
 
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Yep. Lost the Mets and Red Sox and split the 2-gamer at home vs. White Sox and the road 4-gamer last weekend with the Reds. Won all the rest. Haven’t lost 3 games in a row since July 3.
And that is pre All Star. Quite the second half.

Thought I saw a stat the other day where Bellinger had 56 RBIs post AS game and that was about 10-12 RBIs above his closest competition in all of MLB. Belli really should get some MVP votes as Christian Yelich did the year he beat Javy Baez. Javy was on his game all season while Yelich caught fire after the ASG and ended up winning the award. I forget what year that was, 2020?
 
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And that is pre All Star. Quite the second half.

Thought I saw a stat the other day where Bellinger had 56 RBIs post AS game and that was about 10-12 RBIs above his closest competition in all of MLB. Belli really should get some MVP votes as Christian Yelich did the year he beat Javy Baez. Javy was on his game all season while Yelich caught fire after the ASG and ended up winning the award. I forget what year that was, 2020?
I think Belli actually IS the NL MVP, but he’s going to lose a lot of votes across a lot of counting stats since he missed a month with injury.
 
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I think Belli actually IS the NL MVP, but he’s going to lose a lot of votes across a lot of counting stats since he missed a month with injury.
Yeah, Acuna is having a HOF season and Betts has had an extremely great August (equal to what Bonds did for 2-3 complete seasons), which actually brought him into the conversation. You could take both of those players off of their respective teams and those teams would probably still be in 1st place in their divisions, but, if you took Belli off of the Cubs, they would probably be on the outside looking at a playoff WC position. It's too bad Belli missed a month after his injury in Houston.

What might have been, but of course, there is still what, 23 games to go?

You just never know.

Belli should be a runaway for Comeback Player of the Year.
 
Now 3.5 games above the last wild card team out and 1.5 games out of number 1 wild card team. Also interesting despite Atlanta and Dodgers lofty records, if season ended today 3 of the 6 NL playoff teams would be from Central.

 
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I think Belli actually IS the NL MVP, but he’s going to lose a lot of votes across a lot of counting stats since he missed a month with injury.
I don’t agree with you about Bellinger being the MVP, and that is the reason why I think they should have MVP and Most Outstanding Player as two separate awards.
 
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He deserves it, and he could really help the team - who couldn't use a fresh, hard-throwing lefty?

But, now the 40-man is officially full, which means that if Boxberger, Hughes or Burdi are going to be activated this season, then they'll have to start waiving pitchers.

Will it be Keegan or Palencia that gets optioned? Edit - just saw the news about Alzolay
 
Succeeding once doesn’t prove someone is reliable.
My same friend wants to know if hitting .311 in the 7th-9th innings and hitting .250 (MLB average) with RISP qualifies as "succeeding more than once." He says that you would know, because you're really smart.

This same friend also apologizes for Happ's 2 bullet knocks and 2 runs scored so far today.
 
My same friend wants to know if hitting .311 in the 7th-9th innings and hitting .250 (MLB average) with RISP qualifies as "succeeding more than once." He says that you would know, because you're really smart.

This same friend also apologizes for Happ's 2 bullet knocks and 2 runs scored so far today.
That’s the part about baseball he forgot.
 
Sounds like alzolay is going on the IL.
Greene was DFA'd, but are you hearing something else is coming? I don't think he's pitched for a few days. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Ross killed off another pitcher's elbow.
 
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