What's wrong with Pujols?

[Flames24Rulz]

There are 17 pitching staffs with a higher ERA than the Cubs right now.

 

And that's after today's game.

 

Besides Miller and Zambrano, the pitching has been the least of our worries. It's our offense's inability to score runs.

[RichHillIsABeast]

The Cubs are slumpbusters.

 

Exactly.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

There are 17 pitching staffs with a higher ERA than the Cubs right now.

 

And that's after today's game.

 

Besides Miller and Zambrano, the pitching has been the least of our worries. It's our offense's inability to score runs.

 

Wrong. It's our offense's ability to score runs consistiently. We're second in the division in scoring runs. Our pythags indicate we should have the best record in the division. We can score the runs, we just don't always score them when needed.

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There are 17 pitching staffs with a higher ERA than the Cubs right now.

 

And that's after today's game.

 

Besides Miller and Zambrano, the pitching has been the least of our worries. It's our offense's inability to score runs.

 

Wrong. It's our offense's ability to score runs consistiently. We're second in the division in scoring runs. Our pythags indicate we should have the best record in the division. We can score the runs, we just don't always score them when needed.

 

Yeah, but that's true of every offense. If there's anything that can be done to make offensive output more consistent, I'd like to know what it is.

 

The Mets and the Marlins, the two best offensive teams in the NL, both have higher standard deviations than the Cubs. I'd rather have their greater inconsistency and higher run totals than what we've seen thus far.

 

Underperforming pythag usually just indicates bad luck, but it can be a sign of a poor bullpen.