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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Take $65 million of that contract off our hands and I'll take Almora instead. You'd still have gotten your draft pick from the Cardinals and you'd have Fowler at the top of the order again.
The Cardinals need to bite the bullet and the Cubs kinda need to swallow some pride here as well - losing Fowler has hurt that team.
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Well, Maddon's stubbornness with the top of the lineup has more to do with it than anything.
When Theo signed Jay I figured they got their 1 year leadoff man. Instead Schwarber hit leadoff for the first 2 months and Bryant hit 2nd and has like 13/15 solo HRs. Meanwhile Jay is hitting over .300 and getting on base nearly 40% of the time and hitting 9th, when he's not on the bench platooning between 2 other players, so Rizzo can ****ing leadoff.
I really don't understand why the most obvious lineup of Jay, Zobrist, Bryant, Rizzo, Schwarber was and has never been used. Schwarbers BABIP is ****ing .195 because he's a pull hitter and he was put in the worst spot to hit with runners on base so when he does get a bat on the ball it goes right into the shift. Putting him behind Bryant and Rizzo, 2 guys that get on base a lot, not only would you have a 30 HR hitter protecting Rizzo, but you would eliminate a lot of the shifts on Schwarber because men would be on base. And putting 2 OBP contact hitters in front of Bryant and he might have better than a ****ing 1:1.87 HR:RBI ratio.
It's actually really incredible how ****ing awful Maddon can manage this roster.