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 Post subject: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 2:22 am 
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well after 3 appearances and a 9.00 ERA in AAA, I guess that was enough to promote him to the big club (that or he begged his way out of El Paso after the shootings).

What has he done so far with the big club?

6 ER in 1-2/3 innings for a 32.40 ERA :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:11 pm 
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well the next day after is terrible outing, they put him on the DL.

Some kinda elbow problem or some shit.

He is done.

Whoever said he would benefit from pitchin' in San Diego, that was some terrible, HORRIBLE fuckin analysis.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:36 am 
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I only wish Roger's Park Bryan were here to discuss this with me

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:59 pm 
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Well Edwards now signs a 1 year contract with the Mariners for $950,000. He will be playin' for Scott Servais, another former Cub. Edwards seems surprised that he's a veteran now.

WHoever said he will have better luck in San Diego's stadium, that was some HORRIBLE analysis. Fuck him.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mariners-a ... 37470.html

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The Seattle Mariners agreed to a one-year deal with free agent right-hander Carl Edwards Jr. on Wednesday.

According to multiple media reports, the contract is worth $950,000.

Edwards was a key cog when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016 but fell on hard times last season when he went 1-1 with an 8.47 ERA in 22 appearances with the Cubs and the San Diego Padres.

"I'm excited," Edwards told the Mariners' website. "It's a great opportunity. I'm looking forward to being around those young guys and teaching them the ropes. I feel like Seattle will be a great spot for me, just because it is a bunch of young guys.

"It's funny. They told me (Tuesday) that I'd be a veteran. I just turned 28 and now I'm old."

Edwards' downfall last season was unforeseen. He was 3-2 with a 2.60 ERA in 58 relief appearances for the Cubs in 2018.

Overall, Edwards is 9-8 with two saves a 3.58 ERA in 194 relief appearances since reaching the majors with Chicago in 2015.

Seattle also signed 28-year-old infielder Patrick Wisdom to a one-year deal. Wisdom, a first-round pick of St. Louis in 2012, has a .224 average with four homers and 11 RBIs in 41 big league games with the Cardinals (2018) and Texas Rangers (2019).

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 1:46 am 
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Edwards off to an ok start. Servais impressed.

2.2 IP, 3.38 ERA.

Whoever said he would succeed in San Diego's ballpark, that was HORRIBLE analysis.

Have a feeling it was jb11. That guy has no clue.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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Looks like Edwards is a Brave this year.

Looks like the Mariners lost patience with him.

He currently has an 81.00 ERA.

He's only pitched in 8 games and 6.2 innings since the Cubs traded him.

Hard to believe this guy was a World Champion in 2016.

Never seen such a fall from grace.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2021 8:21 am 
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There will always be another CJ Edwards type for cubbie fans to hope on

professor flakey told me yesterday that 26 year old rookie with a mid 4 era, Aldzolay, is a future ace

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:15 am 
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Apparently Edwards is now in the White Sox system.

Been doin pretty good for Charlotte the last month.

Has only thrown one major league inning this year (Atlanta)

He also thinks his time will come again. Good interview below. Talks about why he flamed out with the Cubs.

https://sports.yahoo.com/former-cub-car ... 37171.html

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. —Mariano Rivera was a starting pitcher, and not a good one, when he broke into the big leagues in 1995.


Maybe it’s not surprising that Carl Edwards Jr., the once-dominant Cubs reliever, knows that history and brings it up near the end of a recent conversation with NBC Sports Chicago at the minor-league ballpark in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“I’m in a Mariano life experience,” says Edwards, who for the last four weeks has been a Triple-A pitcher for the White Sox. “He struggled with the Yankees. Once he got to the pen and was able to be himself and went out there every day and competed, he became one of the best closers in the game.

“I’m not saying I’ll be one of the best — nah, I take that back. I will be.”

Edwards, the man who recorded the first two outs in the biggest inning in Cubs history on a November night in Cleveland, is no Mariano Rivera.

But he also is no longer the C.J. Edwards who pitched for the Cubs, a hard-throwing reliever who followed that 10th inning of Game 7 with a dominant 2017 season and then recurring struggles that eventually contributed to a change-of-scenery trade to the Padres in 2019.

How he found himself in Charlotte on this cloudy afternoon in September is a story that winds through five organizations and nine cities since that trade.

Given that road traveled since leaving the Cubs, it would be impossible for him to be the same.

And that might be the biggest reason for his persistent confidence and faith in what he’ll find around the next corner of his career as he focuses on finishing strong with the White Sox affiliate in Charlotte this week.

Maybe what’s next is an invitation from the White Sox — who signed him as a free agent on the final day to make him eligible for postseason rosters — to join the team as taxi-squad depth next month, though even he knows that’s a long shot at best.

“They have a really good team now, and if I get the call, I get the call,” said Edwards, who would have to be added to the 40-man roster. “If I don’t, I go home this offseason and get ready for next year.”

Next year. Next opportunity. Next team, next city, next chance to find the right door that opens onto a new path toward a familiar place, maybe even a big-league home that embraces him as much as the Cubs once did.

“Maybe I got complacent,” he says of what derailed him in Chicago. “Maybe I thought I would be in Chicago my whole life, like even if I struggled they would look at me and be like, ‘He can get out of it.’ That didn’t happen.

“I just blame myself. … No hard feelings.”

Edwards still has the fastball with the natural cut — the one that rarely could be squared up when he threw it for strikes.

But command came and went, along with confidence.

And racist social media posts and taunts that seemed to intensify with his struggles — at one point prompting an MLB investigation — reached a point in his final season with the Cubs that caused his wife to stop going to his games with their young kids.

Barely two years later, he has been with so many organizations since then that he second-guesses himself when he rattles off teams: Padres, Mariners, Braves, Blue Jays and now White Sox.

“The road may get rocky, but it’s part of being in the game, it’s part of learning,” he says. “It’s part of realizing who you are.”

Edwards turned 30 this month. He doesn’t sprint through the clubhouse or leap over furniture to get to the field for practice or games anymore.

And a few more lines crease his face when he speaks now, although that may have less to do with the years than the miles.

He uses the word “patience” a lot these days, he says.

“I don’t look too far ahead. I stay right here,” he says. “I’m not on the roller coaster no more. I’m not getting on and tick-tocking all the way to the top and then go down and then come back up.

“I ride a train now. Yeah, there’s some mountain routes, but the ones where I’m from, we don’t have mountains.”

Talk abut routes.

If you followed Carl Edwards Jr. from the day he got traded in July of 2019 to now, you would have traveled 10,301 miles — from Chicago to El Paso to San Diego to Seattle to Tacoma to Atlanta to Gwinnett, back to Atlanta, to Buffalo to Dunedin, back to Buffalo, and to Charlotte.

Or about the round-trip distance from Chicago to Siberia.

Which in a baseball sense is a pretty good way to sum up where he’s been.

“If I was the guy I am now, better than the guy that I was when I came [up with the Cubs],” he says, “and just continued to build off him I would not be in this situation.”

But it’s OK, he says. He has peace, both at home with his family in South Carolina, near his parents, and where he is in his career, he says.

“I am in a great place,” says Edwards, who likes the idea of staying with the Sox organization if they want to make that happen after this season.

“It’s just a different route. I had never understood the different routes that people take.”

Edwards says he also has come to terms with who he is as a pitcher, instead of trying to reinvent himself, like he did his last couple of seasons in Chicago.

“I tried to change stuff, tried to trick people,” he says.

Now, he says, “I told myself I’m not changing for no one. I’m not doing nothing that I haven’t ever done. I went back to my windup, something that got me to the big leagues, and I’m going to ride it till the wheels fall off.

“And when the wheels fall off,” he adds, “it’ll probably be time for me to hang up my cleats and be a dad 100 percent.”

Edwards, who missed two months with an oblique injury this season, has pitched in one big-league game this season, in May for the Braves, and so far is pitching as well this month for Charlotte as he has all season — allowing two runs in nine appearances (2.25 ERA), with 12 strikeouts and two walks in those eight innings.

What might be next?

“We don’t know,” he says. “I’m like everybody else. I tell these young guys here, ‘Hey, fellas, you’re fine. Your time is coming.’

"And my time is coming. I’m in no rush.”

One big difference is Edwards already has had a time, a moment, like few others ever have experienced.

“Yeah, and it’s coming again,” he said. “I’m excited. I’m excited for what it’s going to be like.”

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:40 am 
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Looks like CJ might find his way back to the big leagues.

He signed a minor league contract with the Nats.

So far this year, he 1-0 with a 0.68 ERA in 14.1 innin's, with a 0.49 WHIP, 17 K, 3 of 3 in saves, and 1 fuckin hold.

https://www.milb.com/player/carl-edwards-jr-605218

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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whistler wrote:
Looks like CJ might find his way back to the big leagues.

He signed a minor league contract with the Nats.

So far this year, he 1-0 with a 0.68 ERA in 14.1 innin's, with a 0.49 WHIP, 17 K, 3 of 3 in saves, and 1 fuckin hold.

https://www.milb.com/player/carl-edwards-jr-605218



Nobody gave a shit at the time, but I was on it.

CJ Edwards back in the big leagues havin' a banner year.

3.10 ERA in 41 innin's. Looked good against the Cubs tonight.

Dont forget, he was on the Cubs when Davey Martinex was bench coach.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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Edwards had a hold in Wed's win over the Mariners on the ROAD.

Gave up a run in 1.1 innin's.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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Edwards with another hold today. He is a main guy outta that 'pen.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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Pitched 2 shutout innings last noght for the Hold, and got it to the stopper.

A banner year, 58 IP with a 2.64 ERA. And this is all since May 10.

Most relievers barely reach 50 innings over a full-ass season.

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 Post subject: Re: The CJ Edwards watch
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Pitched 2 shutout innings last noght for the Hold, and got it to the stopper.

A banner year, 58 IP with a 2.64 ERA. And this is all since May 10.

Most relievers barely reach 50 innings over a full-ass season.

You're right, that is a solid season. Gonna get paid by someone.

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