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Slept very deeply, but also very crookedly, which means I woke up with neck stiffness and pain like the dickens. Sometimes it feels good and right to cock your head to the side when you’re laying down to fall asleep, but then if you wind up cashing out at that moment, you’re gonna stay in that position waaaaay too long. Or so it was with me last night, apparently. •   It isn’t quite testy just yet, but you’d have to be blind not to see it coming after last summer: “To be clear, a...

v. RHP: 68 wRC+ Where Bradley Jr. falls short (v. LHP), Quinn has a relative strength – and vice versa. So together, they could probably create a pretty useful platoon in center field … if that’s what JBJ wants. The Cubs, by contrast, have a wide open center field job for Bradley Jr. to take, which would work in their favor as a draw, but have to seriously consider whether ANOTHER left-handed hitting outfielder is really the right fit. As we’ve discussed, the Cubs were horrendous agains...

2009: 2.139 As a refresher, all players become eligible for arbitration after they amass three full seasons of Major League Baseball service time. However, of the players who have between two and three seasons of service time, the top 22 percent of that group qualify as Super Twos, and thus they get become arbitration-eligible going into their third seasons, not after their third seasons. Naturally, this means a lot of extra money in these players’ bank accounts, as they’ll get a significan...