MLB 2019 thread

[WI inferiority Complexes]

C: Sanchez
1B: Goldschmidt
2B: Albies
3B: Rendon
SS: Bregman
OF: Puig
OF: Castellanos
OF: Pollock
UTL: Segura
UTL: Encarnacion
SP: Scherzer
SP: Snell
SP: Mikolas
SP: Castillo
SP: Quintana
RP: Hicks
RP: Strop
RP: Barnes
Bench: Brantley (OF), Peraza (SS), Moustakas (3B), Moncada (2B)

The Cubs are look bad.  So very, very bad.
However, my Fantasy team is solidly in 2nd place (out of 10), one week into the season.  I know everyone was wondering.  Goldschmidt had one very good game, Moncada is a monster, Albies and Rendon are good.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Yu was special tonight.  Who gets the boot first, Jed or Joe?

[MU82]

I don't think there is an agreement to not sign Kimbrel, but, rather a loose agreement on what he can be paid. There were numerous instances this year where a free agent did not get a single offer for months and then received offers for the same amount of money on the same day from several different teams. Coincidence? I don't think so. They are not being obvious about it like the last time, but it is still there. To think that no team needs guys like Kimbrel or Keuchel seems ludicrous.

The agents let it be known what their client will accept.

For example, Kimbrel's agent communicates with 4-5 teams that might be interested and might have the $$ to pay for him, and say, "It's gonna take $XX over X years to land him. Until about 2016, that would have gotten several teams to negotiate. But now, with so few teams seen as able to bid for the highest-priced guys, they just say, "Okey dokey then ... just let us know when he comes down to our price range."

And then it feeds on itself -- kind of like an overpriced house sitting on the market. It might be a perfectly nice house that could have fetched $400K. But the owner asked $559K for it. There were no nibbles, the owners had to keep lowering the price, and eventually it went under $400K.

[Dish]

I mean I know it's April 4th, but if the Cubs get swept in Milwaukee, they'll be 7.5 out before even playing a home game.

[MU82]

I mean I know it's April 4th, but if the Cubs get swept in Milwaukee, they'll be 7.5 out before even playing a home game.

I happen to believe the saying: "You can't win a pennant in April, but you definitely can lose one in April." The Cubs already are in the danger zone.

[RJax55]

Yu was special tonight.  Who gets the boot first, Jed or Joe?

Joe's gone in October anyway. Might be best for both parties to end this quick than dang it out all season.

[jsglow]

Wow.  I was joking last night that the Cubs might be mathematically eliminated prior to playing their home opener.  Then I open scoop and you guys are talking like that's true.  Long season boys.  (Admittedly, they don't look good right now.)

[WI inferiority Complexes]

"Over the last 35 years, 68 teams have started 1-6 or worse. Twelve of them finished over .500. Only three made the playoffs.  By the end of the weekend the Brewers and Cubs could be separated in the standings by as many as 7.5 games or as few as 1.5 games." https://abc7.com/5233529/

And the Cubs look awful, and the Brewers look great.

[muwarrior69]

Wow.  I was joking last night that the Cubs might be mathematically eliminated prior to playing their home opener.  Then I open scoop and you guys are talking like that's true.  Long season boys.  (Admittedly, they don't look good right now.)

Glow, only 106 more years to go.

[wadesworld]

Can I get a magic number update for the Cubs?

I have to admit, I did not expect that the Brewers could get swept at home by the Cubs in the third series of the season and still be a game and a half up on them in the standings.

Go Crew.

[jsglow]

You guys!    I'm not going to anoint the Crew just like I'm not going to believe the Cubs fan BS if they happen to win 2 out of 3 this weekend.

[cheebs09]

"Over the last 35 years, 68 teams have started 1-6 or worse. Twelve of them finished over .500. Only three made the playoffs.  By the end of the weekend the Brewers and Cubs could be separated in the standings by as many as 7.5 games or as few as 1.5 games." https://abc7.com/5233529/

And the Cubs look awful, and the Brewers look great.

I'd disagree a little that the Brewers look great. They are winning games and their bullpen seems to have picked up where it left off. Maybe because it's been so reliant on the homer so far, but the offense isn't really ticking. The exciting thing as a Brewers fan is that it doesn't seem like they are ticking, but they are still grinding out wins.

I'm also the type of person that fully believes the Cubs are going to recover their mojo this weekend and sweep the Brewers.

[jsglow]

I'd disagree a little that the Brewers look great. They are winning games and their bullpen seems to have picked up where it left off. Maybe because it's been so reliant on the homer so far, but the offense isn't really ticking. The exciting thing as a Brewers fan is that it doesn't seem like they are ticking, but they are still grinding out wins.

I'm also the type of person that fully believes the Cubs are going to recover their mojo this weekend and sweep the Brewers.

Agree that the Crew isn't even scratching the surface yet, especially on offense.

[MUBurrow]

Projecting the Cubs out based on the first week is all about whether you think the pitching will normalize. The offense has been fine. But the bullpen has been a dumpster fire, and the starters only have 1 QS among them over the first week. Personally, I think they'll be (mostly) fine. The 'pen looks no worse than league average to me over a full season - Strop, Edwards, Cishek, Montgomery, Brach and Kintzler can all get the job done. I'd be more worried about the starters. Lester and Hendricks should be fine, steady pieces, but there's a ton of questions after that. Quintana hasn't been the best version of himself for awhile now, Darvish is pretty objectively broken, and they got a big post-trade bump from Hamels that might not bear out again.

[jsglow]

The Cubs will be fine.  And the Crew will have a slump.  And the overreaction will continue. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

Can I get a magic number update for the Cubs?

I have to admit, I did not expect that the Brewers could get swept at home by the Cubs in the third series of the season and still be a game and a half up on them in the standings.

Go Crew.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrewersMagicNum/status/1113265761454313472?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[wadesworld]

Brauny back on those gummies. 🔥

[GB Warrior]

Brauny back on those gummies. 🔥

And sharing with the rest of the lineup eh? What a disaster for the Cubs

[jsglow]

Relax boys.  Long season.  Heck, long game.

[GB Warrior]

Relax boys.  Long season.  Heck, long game.

If the Cubs defense/pitching returns to even replacement level, that offense is deadly

[jsglow]

If the Cubs defense/pitching returns to even replacement level, that offense is deadly

Is it?  Is it somehow better than last year?  Honestly asking, who did they add?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Edwards to AAA and Monty to the IL for the Cubs.

[withoutbias]

thought this stuff doesn't happen at wrigley so it has to be the brewers fans that cause it at wrigley north.

https://www.instagram.com/barstoolchicago/p/Bv7TQTSl2NX/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=bqtbtwbq79oq

[Cheeks]

This Trout kid might have a future

[Dr. Blackheart]

thought this stuff doesn't happen at wrigley so it has to be the brewers fans that cause it at wrigley north.

https://www.instagram.com/barstoolchicago/p/Bv7TQTSl2NX/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=bqtbtwbq79oq

Stale cotton candy can cause riots.