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This is where I wish the #3-5 hitters still had power.

 

Fixed.

Ramirez has power. Derrek Lee is so overrated. He has turned himself into Mark Grace. Which is fine, if you aren't paying him as much as we are and batting him in the three hole.

 

I've been talking up replacing Derrek at #3 next year for a while now.

 

Aramis has his awesome flashes this season, but he's having a down year and has large stretches of crappiness going back a couple months now.

 

Fukudome is still adjusting and Soto is streaky as hell.

 

Why not bat Edmonds #5?

 

aramis' ops+ is the same as it has been the last two years

We're talking about power.

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The rays have 3 wins below 4 runs. The cubs have a 3 run gap between their closest win and loss.

 

The Cubs are also a better offensive team than the Rays. Every team has days where they don't hit. I don't care how good of an offense you have. That's how baseball is.

Still, you don't get a lot of 20 game stretches where you have no losses where your team scored more than two and no wins where you scored less than 5.

 

You do when your starting pitching has been solid.

 

Cubs runs allowed in the losses: 2, 4, 2, 9, 3, 3, 3, 2.

 

If the Cubs had scored 5 runs in each of those games, they would have gone 7-1 in that stretch.

Do you not see that when you keep adding "if this happens" statements something becomes increasingly unlikely?

 

I added one hypothetical "If" in my last post. Not sure how that constitutes repeated "If this happens" statements.

 

Like I said. Every team is going to have their peaks and valleys offensively and defensively. The Cubs have gotten pretty good starting pitching since the All-Star Break. It's not always going to be like that. The offense has been slightly inconsistent since the All-Star Break but as I said, every single team is like that. It's just going to be a little more dramatic with the Cubs because they have such a potent offense (2nd in the majors with 615 runs scored). While a team like San Diego (432 runs) or San Francisco (436 runs) is also going to have some peaks and valleys, they aren't going to be nearly as dramatic because they suck offensively. The Cubs have a very good, well-rounded lineup but that doesn't mean that they aren't susceptible to poor offensive days. It's not a big deal.

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This is all just plot development to get us to Edmonds being involved in the game-winning play late.

I think this is shaping up to be "The Edmonds game."

 

Past game comments should be interesting. Now, if only we could a rally going...

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