Prediction Machine giving the Bryant absentee factor as 1 W....thus 85 wins with him...

I would actually wager under 85...if I did. Lotsa of things need to gel early for this team.

-Madden, happy with him, but he never managed early April in Wrigley. Sucks , Cold, Windy, Snow...gotta go small ball. Every run more valuable.
-3 catchers...limits other moves.
-New #1 pitcher
-Rookie mistakes,
-Olt still Olt

I know every team says 'they need to get out of the gate well" and I want to see that, but I dont expect it. If it does happen, that makes things REAL interesting,.

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81. Too many rookies (soler, bryant, baez, alcantara) or guys with only 1 year of success (hendricks, ramirez).

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Team defense worries me. We might lose a lot of close games because of it.

Who is valuing Bryant at 1 win for missing 11 games?

82-80

Good Dolphin's first thread on Bryant being a bust this season will be up before memorial day.

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got out of the gate well last year

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throw in pretty much the entire bullpen into that 1 year of success thing along with arrieatta

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They will start out 0 & 12....call up Bryant and finish 150 & 12.

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Stated, PREDICTION MACHINE, give Bryant 1 W value

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Kris Bryant is not a 16 WAR player.

Paul Bessire v America

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The difference between Babe Ruth and his replacement might be 1 game

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He's going to miss more than 11 games.

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I just dont like all the newness into COLD wrigley and think it starts off well. Almost never does. One would think knowing this should help you when visitors come in, but it hasnt to date.

Maddon, due some stuff.

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ok,ok....I'm feeling good about this team.

85-77

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Who's your breakout Cub this year Jimmy? I'm thinking Fowler is going to have a pretty good year.

They will be 65-65 or maybe 66-64 after play on August 31. I think they'll slip a bit at the end once they've been eliminated from the 2nd wild card and they start resting some of their younger pitchers.

So 79-83.

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81-81 @ best.

1-161

Fowler is kind of a known commodity that has been on some bad teams.

I'm going to suggest that Addison Russell comes up at some point and dazzles... this would presumedly be after Castro is traded to the Mets, or suspended for something.

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Matches,
I really like Soler. I predicted on here somewhere that by the All-Star Break ,he will be the Cub MVP.
I think another Cub who might improve from last year is the overlooked Chris Coghlin. He had a good comeback season last year and I think he will improve on that.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

True, but Olt is probably a negative WAR.

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i know. he's a 16 WSAR player, in that he'll give you 16 more world series than a replacement player.

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UNDER

I hate to say it, but Joey Maddon looked like he just got Cubbed. Lotsa time to fix it and Wainwright was very good, but still looked AAA'ish

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

.500 would be quite an accomplishment. Looked pretty familiar tonight.

yeah, it's...just a reminder. this is the cubs.

If Waino was AAA (he's also pitching hurt, BTW then the Cubs lineup is AAAA

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I think he meant the Cubs looked AAAish. The hard truth is Maddon can't do shit.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

There is really nothing that happened on the field last night that should surprise anyone.