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Chiman

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Re: Predictions
« Reply #765 on: April 04, 2022, 12:38:17 pm »
74-88

Dave23

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Re: Predictions
« Reply #766 on: April 04, 2022, 12:40:42 pm »
76-86

JeffH

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« Reply #767 on: April 04, 2022, 12:56:03 pm »
81-81
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Deeg

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« Reply #768 on: April 04, 2022, 07:17:46 pm »
Depends on how quickly the fire sale comes.  As constructed they may be a 75 win team, but take all the guys who'll be traded - Contreras, Miley, Smyly, Villar, Robertson, Givens, maybe Simmons and Gomes and even a few more - away, and it's a 60-win team.  I'll say 71-91.

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« Reply #769 on: April 04, 2022, 08:01:24 pm »
That was my thought.

CurtOne

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Re: Predictions
« Reply #770 on: April 04, 2022, 08:11:33 pm »
All you pessimists.  With the Schwindel, we will romp!

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« Reply #771 on: April 05, 2022, 12:22:18 am »
That was my thought.
Dusty,

Are you changing your vote from 70-92 to something else?

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« Reply #772 on: April 05, 2022, 06:10:00 am »
No.

guest405

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« Reply #773 on: April 05, 2022, 07:30:41 am »
I just dont think they're very good at all.

Bad rotation,questionable bullpen,2-3 holes in the lineup,nothing very useful on the bench.

Im saying 70-92 but when the firesale comes you could see us approach 100 losses.

Robb

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Re: Predictions
« Reply #774 on: April 05, 2022, 08:40:38 am »
67-95,  which may be optimistic.

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« Reply #775 on: April 05, 2022, 09:14:12 am »
69-93 though I of course hope for much better.

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« Reply #776 on: April 05, 2022, 04:56:22 pm »
ZiPS has Cubs at 9.3% chance to make playoffs and 77 wins.

Cards and Brewers at 88, 87 wins.

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« Reply #777 on: April 05, 2022, 06:19:53 pm »
I find myself in the altogether unfamiliar position of being the optimist.

I recognize that there is tremendous downside potential for the club.  Hendricks collapsing.  Suzuki busting.  Bad middle up-the-middle defense.  No obvious closer.

But I also see some positives.  Very good possibility to avoid some of the complete black holes that we had last season (Bote, Sogard, Joc, the brutal backup catching corps, etc.).  Schwindel and Wisdom disappear like dandelion spores?  Villar and Rivas should be able to step in and be anti-awful.  I expect an offense that will be less powerful and less explosive, but perhaps more consistent (Hi, br!).  You don't like this year's rotation?  No Davies, Williams, or the corpse of Jake Arrieta.

Will there be a sell-off?  Yes, I'm sure.  I expect it to be mostly bullpen pieces, which is where we should be able to backfill relatively effectively (Ueckert, Leeper).
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« Reply #778 on: April 05, 2022, 07:36:31 pm »
The selloff is going to be way bigger than that.  Villar and Contreras almost for sure, Simmons if he’s decent enough to have value, and if the lefty rhyming bros in the rotation have any value, them too.

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« Reply #779 on: April 05, 2022, 09:51:32 pm »
I expect an offense that will be less powerful and less explosive, but perhaps more consistent (Hi, br!). 

Will there be a sell-off?  Yes, I'm sure.  I expect it to be mostly bullpen pieces, which is where we should be able to backfill relatively effectively (Ueckert, Leeper).

I mean I don't think he meant consistently bad though.

This team is a lot like last years.  Is there a chance this team makes the playoffs, sure.  This team is built to sell tickets and be sold off though.

Sell-off- Contreras, anybody on a 1 year deal, Stroman and Hendricks maybe too.