4/22 Dodgers (Billingsley) @ Cubs (Coleman) 1:20 p.m., WGN

[TruffleShuffle]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

[Tarver]

Wells better be back quick, this [expletive] can't continue 2/5 times much longer.

[Soul]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd start to suspect we aren't world beaters.

[erik316wttn]

This game should have been rained out.

 

Or at least I'd have liked it.

[Backtobanks]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd start to suspect we aren't world beaters.

 

Obviously not world beaters, but when you have 2/5 of your rotation as non ML-starters the results are pretty predictable. Eliminate the 12-2 and the 11-2 blowouts started by Coleman and Russell and you have a -14 run differential in 18 games.

[Drew Doughty]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd start to suspect we aren't world beaters.

 

Obviously not world beaters, but when you have 2/5 of your rotation as non ML-starters the results are pretty predictable. Eliminate the 12-2 and the 11-2 blowouts started by Coleman and Russell and you have a -14 run differential in 18 games.

 

which is still ****ing terrible.

[TruffleShuffle]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd start to suspect we aren't world beaters.

 

Obviously not world beaters, but when you have 2/5 of your rotation as non ML-starters the results are pretty predictable. Eliminate the 12-2 and the 11-2 blowouts started by Coleman and Russell and you have a -14 run differential in 18 games.

 

which is still ****ing terrible.

 

plus you have zambrano, who has missed time each of the last couple of years; cashner, who was in the bullpen much of last year and is unproven as a major league starter; dempster, who sometimes falls over railings... the bottom line is that starters sometimes get hurt, and the cubs chose to not have adequate backup options in case injuries happened.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I know theres no other games thread, but Marlins pitcher Anibal Sanchez is an inning away from doing something that I wont yet say to the Rockies, although they did manage to score a run. Hint, hes done it once before.

[Little Slide Rooter]

never mind, they just got a hit.

[Bote McBoteface]

I never figured I'd be hoping that Doug Davis would be on our team soon.

[Backtobanks]

now -33 run differential in 20 games... not great.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd start to suspect we aren't world beaters.

 

Obviously not world beaters, but when you have 2/5 of your rotation as non ML-starters the results are pretty predictable. Eliminate the 12-2 and the 11-2 blowouts started by Coleman and Russell and you have a -14 run differential in 18 games.

 

which is still ****ing terrible.

 

So far the Cubs have shown they're a team flirting with .500, which is pretty much what everybody expected. It's still early, but things might get a little better when Cashner and Wells return, the other starters show more consistency, and production from Pena, Soto, and Byrd picks up. Of course, there's a good chance that Castro and Barney come back down to earth to negate some of the positives.

[CUBZ99]

Coleman this year:

 

7.43 ERA .339 BAA 2.03 WHIP

 

Believe it or not he has a worse WHIP than James Russell. Maybe Dolis or J. Jackson should be given a chance?