Random Cubs Musings

[bukie]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

[Guest]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

Even the ones that do think that now that the prospects are up, you still have to wait like 3-5 years for them to get good and to sign anyone good. They're just so far off in a lot of ways.

[jersey cubs fan]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

Even the ones that do think that now that the prospects are up, you still have to wait like 3-5 years for them to get good and to sign anyone good. They're just so far off in a lot of ways.

 

Huh, I've noticed a fair amount of media who seems to think really big improvement is possible next year.

[Guest]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

Even the ones that do think that now that the prospects are up, you still have to wait like 3-5 years for them to get good and to sign anyone good. They're just so far off in a lot of ways.

 

Huh, I've noticed a fair amount of media who seems to think really big improvement is possible next year.

 

Other than Kaplan, I personally haven't really noticed that.

 

When I leave that sports talk show on comcast on for more than 5 minutes, I usually wind up wanting to bash my head against a wall.

[jersey cubs fan]

When I leave that sports talk show on comcast on for more than 5 minutes, I usually wind up wanting to bash my head against a wall.

 

That probably has nothing to do with the Cubs situation heading into 2015.

[Banedon]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

Even the ones that do think that now that the prospects are up, you still have to wait like 3-5 years for them to get good and to sign anyone good. They're just so far off in a lot of ways.

 

Huh, I've noticed a fair amount of media who seems to think really big improvement is possible next year.

 

Other than Kaplan, I personally haven't really noticed that.

 

When I leave that sports talk show on comcast on for more than 5 minutes, I usually wind up wanting to bash my head against a wall.

 

Pretty much every host on the Score has talked about how much the Cubs are going to improve next year.

[jersey cubs fan]

Mark Gonzales ‏@MDGonzales · 9m

Nothing physically wrong with Hendricks, who set a career high in innings pitched

 

Bruce Miles ‏@BruceMiles2112 · 11m

Jacob Turner Will start Sunday over Hendricks. #Cubs say Hendricks has worked enough this year

[Guest]

Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.

Even the ones that do think that now that the prospects are up, you still have to wait like 3-5 years for them to get good and to sign anyone good. They're just so far off in a lot of ways.

 

Huh, I've noticed a fair amount of media who seems to think really big improvement is possible next year.

 

Other than Kaplan, I personally haven't really noticed that.

 

When I leave that sports talk show on comcast on for more than 5 minutes, I usually wind up wanting to bash my head against a wall.

 

Pretty much every host on the Score has talked about how much the Cubs are going to improve next year.

 

 

I listen to the Score every single day and I'd disagree with that strongly. VERY guarded optimism at best from a few guys. Abbatacola was saying how they're still years away from being good. Hanley is far from optimistic. Mully doesn't know anything about anything. Boers and Bernstein agreed a few weeks ago that they wouldn't be any good next year and Boers was dismissive of any notion that they should start spending money. Bernstein changed his tune a bit after I emailed him that Jazayerli article and Boers just kinda went "Hmm." when he read it.

[Guest]

When I leave that sports talk show on comcast on for more than 5 minutes, I usually wind up wanting to bash my head against a wall.

 

That probably has nothing to do with the Cubs situation heading into 2015.

 

There are times when Kaplan is somehow one of the least idiotic people on that show.

[treebird]

I listen to the Score every single day

 

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[Guest]

I listen to the Score every single day

 

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It's not that crazy when you have an hour each way drive to work five days a week.

[sneakypower]

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[Sammy Sofa]

Listening to some crazy guy scream at you on the side of the road for not giving him money is better than listening to the Score for an entire hour.

[treebird]

Listening to some crazy guy scream at you on the side of the road for not giving him money is better than listening to the Score for an entire hour.

 

why are you assuming he'd listen to adam carolla's podcast?

[Sammy Sofa]

Listening to some crazy guy scream at you on the side of the road for not giving him money is better than listening to the Score for an entire hour.

 

why are you assuming he'd listen to adam carolla's podcast?

 

[Gilby]

I listen to the Score every single day and I'd disagree with that strongly. VERY guarded optimism at best from a few guys. Abbatacola was saying how they're still years away from being good. Hanley is far from optimistic. Mully doesn't know anything about anything. Boers and Bernstein agreed a few weeks ago that they wouldn't be any good next year and Boers was dismissive of any notion that they should start spending money. Bernstein changed his tune a bit after I emailed him that Jazayerli article and Boers just kinda went "Hmm." when he read it.

 

Every local guy I've heard thinks all of the young players are going to go through struggles like Baez and Alcantara, completely ignoring how well Soler has done, the fact that Mendy isn't in the same class as Bryant and Russell, and that those two have much better approaches than Javy.

 

Edit- To clarify, I'm not saying they won't struggle, but it's fair to expect Bryant and Russell to do quite a bit better than a ~.600 OPS.

Edited September 27, 2014 by Gilby

[Guest]

I listen to the Score every single day and I'd disagree with that strongly. VERY guarded optimism at best from a few guys. Abbatacola was saying how they're still years away from being good. Hanley is far from optimistic. Mully doesn't know anything about anything. Boers and Bernstein agreed a few weeks ago that they wouldn't be any good next year and Boers was dismissive of any notion that they should start spending money. Bernstein changed his tune a bit after I emailed him that Jazayerli article and Boers just kinda went "Hmm." when he read it.

 

Every local guy I've heard thinks all of the young players are going to go through struggles like Baez and Alcantara, completely ignoring how well Soler has done, the fact that Mendy isn't in the same class as Bryant and Russell, and that those two have much better approaches than Javy.

 

and it's like they forget about the two 24-25 year old all stars who are already there and the garbage that said potentially struggling prospects will be replacing (and the garbage that soler replaces)...point being that even if they aren't great right away it doesn't take a ton for them all to be upgrades

[Guest]

I listen to the Score every single day and I'd disagree with that strongly. VERY guarded optimism at best from a few guys. Abbatacola was saying how they're still years away from being good. Hanley is far from optimistic. Mully doesn't know anything about anything. Boers and Bernstein agreed a few weeks ago that they wouldn't be any good next year and Boers was dismissive of any notion that they should start spending money. Bernstein changed his tune a bit after I emailed him that Jazayerli article and Boers just kinda went "Hmm." when he read it.

 

Every local guy I've heard thinks all of the young players are going to go through struggles like Baez and Alcantara, completely ignoring how well Soler has done, the fact that Mendy isn't in the same class as Bryant and Russell, and that those two have much better approaches than Javy.

 

and it's like they forget about the two 24-25 year old all stars who are already there and the garbage that said potentially struggling prospects will be replacing (and the garbage that soler replaces)...point being that even if they aren't great right away it doesn't take a ton for them all to be upgrades

 

This.

 

Schierholtz went .192/.240/.300 this year in 341 PAs.

Lake .212/.247/.352 in 325 PAs

Barney .230/.265/.328 in 217 PAs

Olt .161/.249/.357 in 257 PAs

 

That's 1140 PAs of terrible production. Olt, Lake and Schierholtz combined for -3.2 bWAR and -2.4 fWAR. Barney had a positive WAR but that's only because of defense.

 

As long as Soler and Bryant don't do their best 2014 Javy impersonation next year, they'll be significant improvements over what that group of 4 did this year. We'll lose the production from not having Shark but that will hopefully be negated by not throwing Edwin Jackson out there every other day.

[Tracer Bullet]

I listen to the Score every single day

 

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the best part is that he tried to change B&B's minds by sending them an email.

[Guest]

I listen to the Score every single day

 

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the best part is that he tried to change B&B's minds by sending them an email.

 

Bernstein read it on air and mentioned the baseruns thing like 3-4 times after in the next couple weeks SO THERE

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Had a Cardinals fan tell me Lester won come to Chicago next year because the Cubs can't score and the Cubs can't contend next year because their offense sucks.I didn't point out to him the Cardinals have only scored a handful more runs than the Cubs and that the Cubs would benefit significantly from improving the rotation.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

you tell them David

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Avoiding 90 losses makes me happy.

 

If I'm adding it up right, the Cubs draft 9th. I'm glad we screwed up our position and all those "no point in winning 73 games might as well pick at the top" dorks have to about-face and be happy about this.

 

Holy crap Javy. 229 PAs of 41.5% K-rate. Young or not, it's hard to put into perspective how terrible that is. I would honestly be slightly surprised if he makes it through a full MLB season next year.

 

Jorge Soler isn't likely as good as his .339 BABIP made him look, but Alcantara isn't as bad as his .261 made him appear. I'm looking forward to both being useful players next year.

 

Holy crap we have so many resources going into the offseason. Few gaping holes, tons of open payroll space, more prospects than we can usefully hope to use.

 

I'm not promising it will be good, but we have more potentially useful MLB pitching than we've had in a long time.

 

I don't remotely trust the front office to do what it takes to make the team a full-blown contender next year. I suspect they'd rather win 82 games with a $70m payroll and glory in their amazing efficiency and "keeping their powder dry" than actually take some risks and invest some resources on an 89-team that may or may not work out.

 

Like Rizzo, this should be a situation where it works out pretty well for us, but it's funny to me that our first huge contract (give or take a jxn) is going to be getting Theo's band back together and rewarding one of his buddies.

 

Speaking of that, congratulations to Jed Hoyer for his fifth season GMing a major league team without ever putting together a playoff team.

[UMFan83]

Rizzo finishes with a .912 OPS, which is 7th in the MLB and 3rd in the NL.

 

32 home runs which is 9th in baseball and 2nd in the NL. If he didn't miss almost 3 weeks he could have been challenging Stanton for the league lead.

 

Can't say enough about the season he had and I shudder to imagine what it might look like if he improves.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Of the 28 teams never run by Theo Epstein, 19 of them have now made the playoffs since the last time Epstein did.