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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: Bennett
Date: March 9, 2019, 3:14 pm
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Alec Mills (back) was scratched as today's starter. I hope it
is nothing long-lasting. He'd be one of the prime candidates to
come up from Iowa when the need arose.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: brjones
Date: March 9, 2019, 4:31 pm
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Hoerner is having a nice spring...just tweeted by Len Kasper:
Make it 8 consecutive times on base for Hoerner:
1B/1B/3B/HBP/BB/HR/HBP/2B.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: Reb
Date: March 9, 2019, 5:37 pm
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Cubs win two SS games today by combined score of 19-4.
Hoerner batting .833. Homer, double, walk today.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: JR
Date: March 9, 2019, 5:49 pm
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Our draft team may not be all that great at a lot of things
beyond this, but at the very least they're good at evaluating
first round worthy hitters.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: ben
Date: March 9, 2019, 6:52 pm
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I'd add that Cubs may have been the ONLY team that graded
Hoerner as a 1st rounder, let alone a 1st-round hitter.
Virtually all the "experts" felt Hoerner lacked power and
wouldn't grow into it, so they predicted he would NOT be a
1st-round selection.
Who knows what the future will hold for Schwarber, Happ, Hoerner
or others Theo/Jed/Jason have drafted R1, but they all do appear
to have some serious upside as hitters.
If we add Baez, Bryant, Contreras (and, possibly, even Russell),
there's an abundance of young hitting talent few teams have ever
had in their systems...the early 60s Cubs had quite a bit, but
not nearly as many as this group of young Cub hitters).
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: JeffH
Date: March 9, 2019, 7:08 pm
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The super optimistic comp for Hoerner is Alex Bregman.
Actually, Hoerner is physically larger than Bregman.
Like Craig often points out, a very underrated component of
power is the ability to make consistent, solid contact.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: Deeg
Date: March 9, 2019, 7:16 pm
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--- Quote from: Reb link ---
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> Cubs win two SS games today by combined score of 19-4.
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> Hoerner batting .833. Homer, double, walk today.
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But can he sustain those numbers?
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: Reb
Date: March 9, 2019, 7:36 pm
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--- Quote from: Deeg link ---
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> But can he sustain those numbers?
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Sure, why can’t baseball have a .800 hitter?
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: davep
Date: March 9, 2019, 10:01 pm
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They can, if he retires tomorrow.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
DIR By: Tuffy
Date: March 10, 2019, 1:34 am
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I haven't checked the box scores every single day, but has Luke
Hagerty pitched yet? I would love to see him make it back.
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