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  • Episode 11 - Baseball incrementalism
    2025/08/12
    By retaining Reese McGuire and giving Jonathan Berti the DFA treatment, the Cubs better set themselves on a path for success than if they had done the reverse.
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    14 分
  • Episode 10 - Shoehorning Large Market Development Problems
    2025/08/08
    Why does it seem like big market MLB development systems are struggling more than before COVID hit?

    Maybe because a small-market team with a good batch of strategies _should_ clock a similar organization in development.
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    15 分
  • Should the Cubs acquire White Sox DFA Gus Varland?
    14 分
  • This is why the Cubs non-tendered Kyle Schwarber
    14 分
  • Defining Baseball Thought
    11 分
  • Episode 6 - Here is something about which MLB-only fans are particularly horrible at
    2025/08/07
    MLB-only fans are people who largely follow their team, have no particular wisdom regarding other teams (as opposed to players), and lack the respect players should receive for being in MLB.

    Their major drawback is discussed here.
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    12 分
  • Episode 5 - The whole Miguel Amaya thing
    2025/08/04
    It's certainly easy to explain why the Cubs put Miguel Amaya on the 60 Day Injured List.

    He'd already been injured for 100 days, and putting him one the 60 Day saved a 40 man roster spot for an indefinite period of time.
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    7 分
  • Episode 4 - The other reason Jaxon Wiggins didn't get traded
    2025/08/04
    Aside from the excessive cost of veterans this deadline, there's another reason Jaxon Wiggins didn't get traded last week. It can be summed up in one word.

    Sustainability.
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    13 分