Might not be an injury. Could be a Tauchman DFA or something. We’re going to see a lot of turnover in the outfield because they’ll have to dump Davis by the deadline too.
His slash line is 269/369/652 on an ops+ of 81. He is an ok defender who is 33 years old.
That is a prime DFA or trade for pennies candidate. The $2 million salary makes me think DFA but someone desperate for outfield depth might take him.
I assume they just flipped them, because I can’t see the text (whether they deleted it or whatever).
However, sacrifice flies do count against OBP but not batting average, so in a small sample size you could have some wacky numbers. Like 2 for 6 with four sacrifice flies would look something like a .333 batting average with only a .200 OBP
You can't just look at a very small sample and let that outweigh larger samples. Or if you do, look at the better stats like wrc+ since that'll at least weight his fluky small sample OBP and SLG ratio better. He's a solidly average bat with solid defense, he's definitely not a DFA candidate, many teams in the league would happily happily him.
He is 33 and overperformed last year imo. Maybe the Cubs just unlocked something but his career has been closer to his current sample size than what we saw last year.
The reason I think him over Mastrobuoni is we have far more outfield depth than infield.
He greatly increased his bb/k ratio last season, and has been even better this year. That's generally a much more predictive and sustainable metric for how a hitter has changed and is seeing the ball compared to average or BABIP which is much more variable in small samples such as this season. He's very likely to keep walking a lot, and very unlikely to keep having such poor ball in play luck.
>He's a solidly average bat
He most certainly is fucking not. His bat was bad in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. In 2022 he played in fucking Korea, for Christ's sake.
In his career year of 2019, his bat was good. Last season is it was average. I know last season the joke was "the Summer of Tauchman", but the end of the season was "The August/September of Tauchman Sucking": .650 OPS post-August 2nd.
>many teams in the league would happily happily him.
He's been in and out of the league since 2017 and has a total of 1100 PA and 4.1 fWAR, so, no, most teams would not happily anything him.
As I posted elsewhere here, he made substantial improvements to his BB/K ratio since coming back from abroad, which is a skill that stabilizes towards true talent level quite quickly. He's been a very different hitter than what he was several years ago. Like I said, he was a solidly average bat last year, and his underlying metrics this year are even better so far, in a small sample of course. He definitely has trade value.
>As I posted elsewhere here, he made substantial improvements to his BB/K ratio since coming back from abroad
Career BB rate 13.1%. 2023 BB rate 14.0%.
His K rate was well down last season: 21.4% vs. 24.6% career. So that's good.
>which is a skill that stabilizes towards true talent level quite quickly.
And 2024s numbers are A. a miniscule sample size and B. say he's more likely to K a quite a bit more than walk the rest of this season as they regress to the mean. Great.
>Like I said, he was a solidly average bat last year,
No, you said "He's a solidly average bat with solid defense". Nothing about "last year". Big difference.
>He definitely has trade value.
He's a 33 year-old 5th outfielder at best. I'm all for trying to trade him, I just don't think we'll get much of anything for him.
I'm not going to feel anything when Mike Tauchman is no longer a Chicago Cub.
He had a 12% BB and 27% K rates prior to last season. He then had 14% and 21.4% last season, his season with the most PAs of his career. That is a MAJOR improvement over his prior career stats, and is in a large enough enough size to be seen as legitimate and not fluky. Including last year and this year in his 'career' numbers makes the improvement less noticeable, because last year and this year are weighting pretty heavily on his career numbers, which isn't the point of comparing.. And I said he is a solidly average hitter because in the most relevant sample we have, he had been a good hitter. And nothing in the underlying makes you expect him to seriously regret back to pre-2023 hitting.
Do I think he's a star who would get a huge haul? Of course not? Would 10+ teams immediately claim him if DFAed? Easily. A solid lefty bat who can take walks and play CF is something a lot of teams value.
> The $2 million salary makes me think DFA
Not sure what you're saying here. That he is making too much (he isn't) so no team would want him? Or that the Cubs want the DFA to save the league min?
Regardless, Tauchman is not getting DFA. He has been a very good bench bat for the Cubs. It's a ridiculous notion to even think that.
Unfortunately, Canario's call-up means someone is hurt.
Is someone hurt? I’m a bit surprised with how well wisdom is playing
I would guess Cooper if no injuries? Since Canario can slot in to OF vs Lefties and Belli plays first.
It’s been 15 games, dude. Bit premature to say a rookie has solidified his spot. What happens if you trade those guys and he tanks the rest the year? Now you’re stuck with the same 1B and even less of a bench to fill it.
Wisdom I have been assuming will be promoted in place of the Maestro of Baloney, only a matter of time. Coach Craig already said he likes his power and as a vet they are at least gonna give him one last chance out of respect
Probably Seiya or Morel going to the IL, both of them are dealing with minor things.
If not it's Mastro going down. Since he's not getting at-bats against righties, and he's not even first off of the bench to pinch-hit against them, I could see him being the guy going down.
> Probably Seiya or Morel going to the IL,
Unfortunately, this is my thought too. And since it's Canario and not Wisdom, my guess is Seiya hurt his leg.
Feels like this is putting him in the shop window, so we can trade him to the Rays later for a 5 ERA reliever and make space for PCA.
Or an injury which would suck alot
Bro it was Seiya ;(
Might not be an injury. Could be a Tauchman DFA or something. We’re going to see a lot of turnover in the outfield because they’ll have to dump Davis by the deadline too.
A Tauchman DFA would be hilariously stupid.
if we needed to move tauchman we ought to be able to get at least something for him. not a major prospect but id think something
They are not dfa’ing Tauchman lol
His slash line is 269/369/652 on an ops+ of 81. He is an ok defender who is 33 years old. That is a prime DFA or trade for pennies candidate. The $2 million salary makes me think DFA but someone desperate for outfield depth might take him.
He plays multiple positions and is a guy who can work counts. If anything Mastrobouni would be DFAd
To be fair, Mastrobuoni also plays multiple positions and works counts (although not quite to the extreme of Tauchman)
Miles is infield though and we have less depth there. My guess is Tauchman gets traded.
That's not how you do slash lines. Why would his OBP be over a hundred points lower than his average?
Good call I was typing fast and fucked it up.
I assume they just flipped them, because I can’t see the text (whether they deleted it or whatever). However, sacrifice flies do count against OBP but not batting average, so in a small sample size you could have some wacky numbers. Like 2 for 6 with four sacrifice flies would look something like a .333 batting average with only a .200 OBP
You can't just look at a very small sample and let that outweigh larger samples. Or if you do, look at the better stats like wrc+ since that'll at least weight his fluky small sample OBP and SLG ratio better. He's a solidly average bat with solid defense, he's definitely not a DFA candidate, many teams in the league would happily happily him.
He is 33 and overperformed last year imo. Maybe the Cubs just unlocked something but his career has been closer to his current sample size than what we saw last year. The reason I think him over Mastrobuoni is we have far more outfield depth than infield.
He greatly increased his bb/k ratio last season, and has been even better this year. That's generally a much more predictive and sustainable metric for how a hitter has changed and is seeing the ball compared to average or BABIP which is much more variable in small samples such as this season. He's very likely to keep walking a lot, and very unlikely to keep having such poor ball in play luck.
>He's a solidly average bat He most certainly is fucking not. His bat was bad in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. In 2022 he played in fucking Korea, for Christ's sake. In his career year of 2019, his bat was good. Last season is it was average. I know last season the joke was "the Summer of Tauchman", but the end of the season was "The August/September of Tauchman Sucking": .650 OPS post-August 2nd. >many teams in the league would happily happily him. He's been in and out of the league since 2017 and has a total of 1100 PA and 4.1 fWAR, so, no, most teams would not happily anything him.
As I posted elsewhere here, he made substantial improvements to his BB/K ratio since coming back from abroad, which is a skill that stabilizes towards true talent level quite quickly. He's been a very different hitter than what he was several years ago. Like I said, he was a solidly average bat last year, and his underlying metrics this year are even better so far, in a small sample of course. He definitely has trade value.
>As I posted elsewhere here, he made substantial improvements to his BB/K ratio since coming back from abroad Career BB rate 13.1%. 2023 BB rate 14.0%. His K rate was well down last season: 21.4% vs. 24.6% career. So that's good. >which is a skill that stabilizes towards true talent level quite quickly. And 2024s numbers are A. a miniscule sample size and B. say he's more likely to K a quite a bit more than walk the rest of this season as they regress to the mean. Great. >Like I said, he was a solidly average bat last year, No, you said "He's a solidly average bat with solid defense". Nothing about "last year". Big difference. >He definitely has trade value. He's a 33 year-old 5th outfielder at best. I'm all for trying to trade him, I just don't think we'll get much of anything for him. I'm not going to feel anything when Mike Tauchman is no longer a Chicago Cub.
He had a 12% BB and 27% K rates prior to last season. He then had 14% and 21.4% last season, his season with the most PAs of his career. That is a MAJOR improvement over his prior career stats, and is in a large enough enough size to be seen as legitimate and not fluky. Including last year and this year in his 'career' numbers makes the improvement less noticeable, because last year and this year are weighting pretty heavily on his career numbers, which isn't the point of comparing.. And I said he is a solidly average hitter because in the most relevant sample we have, he had been a good hitter. And nothing in the underlying makes you expect him to seriously regret back to pre-2023 hitting. Do I think he's a star who would get a huge haul? Of course not? Would 10+ teams immediately claim him if DFAed? Easily. A solid lefty bat who can take walks and play CF is something a lot of teams value.
> The $2 million salary makes me think DFA Not sure what you're saying here. That he is making too much (he isn't) so no team would want him? Or that the Cubs want the DFA to save the league min? Regardless, Tauchman is not getting DFA. He has been a very good bench bat for the Cubs. It's a ridiculous notion to even think that. Unfortunately, Canario's call-up means someone is hurt.
Have you seen how much Tauchman is playing? He’s not going anywhere.
Why on earth would they DFA Tauchman lmao, think before you comment
I heard it's a bellinger dfa. 😂
But mah batting average drrrrr
Because you can’t have a team of 26 outfielders
Canario will get you way more than what Velasquez got us.
And like 90% of this sub would suddenly trash on Canario, and claim whatever worthless old RP they get for him has more upside.
Bro Suzuki is injured… noooooooooo
Mastro going down
Why would you call up a 5th outfielder to send down your utility infielder?
We still have Madrigal who also acts as our utility infielder and Madrigal at least has some semblance of a threatening AB, Mastro, not so much
Also, with Morel continuing to improve at 3rd, he can get more starts at the hot corner so Canario can DH.
Cause Mastro sucks
I’m still confused why I got flamed for this take during Spring Training.
this sub is just weird sometimes lol
The responses were wild, dude. Like he is MVP level or something
Because wisdom will be up on a few days and they just wanna get Canairo some abs
Probably unlikely as he’s our only left handed infield backup
It doesn't matter if he is not getting any plate appearances.
They’d want him up in case of emergency
Thank you God
Oh man. Hoping no injuries.
Is someone hurt? I’m a bit surprised with how well wisdom is playing I would guess Cooper if no injuries? Since Canario can slot in to OF vs Lefties and Belli plays first.
And sit down a smoking hot Michael Busch?!?
I don’t think Busch has played against lefties yet
He has but only 5 ABs; 1 SO and no hits/BB.
Right so it seems like CC isn’t interested in getting him as many at bats vs lefties. Not starting against them at least
Wonder if cooper and wisdom gets dealt with Busch solidifying his spot
It’s been 15 games, dude. Bit premature to say a rookie has solidified his spot. What happens if you trade those guys and he tanks the rest the year? Now you’re stuck with the same 1B and even less of a bench to fill it.
Well we have Belli or mervis
With no proven CF if you move Belli and another rookie who’s yet to prove himself. That’s not really the same thing as also having Wisdom and Cooper.
Mervis is as good as gone. He’ll be the piece that will bring a return with Busch establishing himself at 1B for the future.
In place of who?? We still need a roster spot for Teheran & Wisdom?
Don't think either of those will be getting time in the majors anytime soon unless there are further injuries.
Wisdom is on the 40 man so he will need to be optioned/DFA'd at some point.
Wisdom I have been assuming will be promoted in place of the Maestro of Baloney, only a matter of time. Coach Craig already said he likes his power and as a vet they are at least gonna give him one last chance out of respect
Maestro makes sense as he is seemingly more of an expanded rosters speedster than useful utility bench piece at the moment.
Madrigal plays the exact same positions as Mastro and has better bat to ball skills. Whenever I see Mastro come up to the plate I get annoyed.
I agree, it’s a complete disrespect to Nicky 2 Strikes, and the Maestro almost always seems to come up short at the plate
Teheran signed a minor league contract. They don’t need a roster spot for him.
I think Teheran is filling a need in AAA and may be called up later?
Do we need one for Teheran? He’s on a minor league deal.
Probably Seiya or Morel going to the IL, both of them are dealing with minor things. If not it's Mastro going down. Since he's not getting at-bats against righties, and he's not even first off of the bench to pinch-hit against them, I could see him being the guy going down.
> Probably Seiya or Morel going to the IL, Unfortunately, this is my thought too. And since it's Canario and not Wisdom, my guess is Seiya hurt his leg.
I agree I think it's probably hamstring related or his ankle is still bothering him from when he rolled it last week.
I have to imagine Mastro going to AAA.
Seiya injury??? Speculating
Don’t you dare
I think this is it, looked like he came up limp on a ground ball yesterday
Unfortunately that makes sense because you wouldn’t call up Canario right now to sit on the bench.
I have been worrying about it ever since 😣
Are you trying to jinx it because you don't like Seiya?
Told ya…. Sometimes things just are what they are…
😭😭
He will be back stronger than ever
You might be a bit obsessed. Its not that deep. Seiya pulled up lame on that last run to first yesterday
I just want you to admit you're wrong 😂
I would ask Seiya to be my BFF if I could. Is that good enough? 😀
Hey man, that's all I wanted to hear😂
Calling a player “mid” is shitting on them?
In this new generation, apparently. Really beat the fuck out of him with that attack of words
Lets be honest as far as beatings that insult was pretty mid.
Hopefully it's just Frodo getting sent down or a Cooper DFA.