5/11 Snakes (Gonzalez) @ Cubs (Gallagher) 1:20PM WGN

[Derwood]

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and the Marlins are the best in the NL. All Florida World Series!!!

[TruffleShuffle]

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what happened to boston, anaheim and oakland?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Did Sean Gallagher run over your cat?

 

i think his point is that projection for gallagher isn't nearly as optimistic as most people on this board think he will be - which is a perfectly valid point. i don't know that he'll be any better than lieber or even marquis this season.

 

Yes, that's all I'm saying. Right now, Gallagher projects to be about the same as Lieber or Marquis and he had a bad day today. It's not blasphemy to admit either of those things.

[UK1679666180]

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what happened to boston, anaheim and oakland?

 

Anaheim=Los Angeles

Boston-1st place

Oakland-1st place

[erik316wttn]

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what happened to boston, anaheim and oakland?

 

Those are the Wild Card standings, not the overall AL standings.

[Guest]

Of course, lost in all this will be that Sean Gallagher's day wasn't all that good.

 

It wasn't all that bad all things considered.

 

4.1 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 6 K. Yes, it was pretty bad. If this was a Marquis game, people would be roasting him.

 

Or, to use fangraph, he lowered the Cubs' chances of winning by 14.4% points.

 

I'll take it as a surprise spot start in the kid's first big league start who hasn't thrown many innings the past 2 weeks.

 

Excuses

 

You can call them excuses but under those circumstances, few if any young pitchers would perform well. It's the reality of the situation.

[Outshined_One]

Chad Fox is approaching 40 pitches.

 

Fearless prediction: He gets put on the DL due to shoulder soreness tomorrow.

[sneakypower]

reed johnson's OPS against right handed pitching is below .600, in case anyone was paying attention.

slugging .287

 

thats overall, by the way

[Hairyducked Idiot]

You can call them excuses but under those circumstances, few if any young pitchers would perform well. It's the reality of the situation.

 

He allowed two runs while he was in the game and left the game in a run-expectancy situation of 1.61. 3.61 ER in 4.33 IP is an era of 7.48. That's a bad day regardless of the weather or recent usage pattern.

[Keener98]

Of course, lost in all this will be that Sean Gallagher's day wasn't all that good.

 

It wasn't all that bad all things considered.

 

4.1 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 6 K. Yes, it was pretty bad. If this was a Marquis game, people would be roasting him.

 

Or, to use fangraph, he lowered the Cubs' chances of winning by 14.4% points.

 

I'll take it as a surprise spot start in the kid's first big league start who hasn't thrown many innings the past 2 weeks.

 

Excuses

 

You can call them excuses but under those circumstances, few if any young pitchers would perform well. It's the reality of the situation.

 

I was being sarcastic Cal, as Ive been the one trying to defend Gallaghers outing today. I think Kyle is being a little rough on a guy making his 1st major league start on a moments notice, and saying it was a bad outing. He was cruising for 4 innings, and given the sporadic use of Gallagher, Im not surprised he started running out of gas in the 5th.

[erik316wttn]

Burke picked off. Inning over.

[inari]

Hey, Chad Fox can do something right.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

LOL, finally got him. Fox with more confidence in his pickoff move than his pitches.

[Outshined_One]

That worked.

 

Time for Chad Fox to go get his arm re-attached.

[PrimeTime]

Good..Get Fox the hell out of this game

[Derwood]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

[Guest]

My bad, Keener. I read that and assumed it was KyleJRM posting that, not you.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

It depresses me how many times I've heard the "manager is using bad players to send a message to Hendry" proposition in the last five seasons.

[TruffleShuffle]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

hendry should send lou a link to the bullpen stats, which show that the bullpen isn't bad at all.

[UK1679666180]

I still love Juan Cruz.

[Derwood]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

It depresses me how many times I've heard the "manager is using bad players to send a message to Hendry" proposition in the last five seasons.

 

i didn't say i believed it

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

hendry should send lou a link to the bullpen stats, which show that the bullpen isn't bad at all.

 

It's been bad when it counts, though. Might have changed in the last few days, but recently we were dead last in expected wins/loss added. The difference between the overall stats and the situation-sensitive stats is why Piniella is the only thing standing in the way of a Cubs division title.

[Guest]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

That's ridiculous if Lou really thought that...the guy sucks and shouldn't be on the roster but there's no reason to risk re-injuring his arm to make a point.

[PrimeTime]

Pretty filthy pitch

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Here's my Kool-Aid inspired positive spin on the Chad Fox situation:

 

Lou is sending a message to Hendry. Lou publicly complains about how bad the bullpen is, and Hendry gives him Chad effing Fox as the solution. Maybe Lou is saying to Hendry: here's your solution, pal, how is that working out for us?

 

mmmmm, Kool-Aid

 

It depresses me how many times I've heard the "manager is using bad players to send a message to Hendry" proposition in the last five seasons.

 

i didn't say i believed it

 

I know, but it's just depressing how often this keeps coming up.