Random Cubs Musings

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

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well played.

[seanimal]

rizzo is from florida and we should be impressed he didn't shoot him on site.

 

correct

[Guest]

[TruffleShuffle]

soo...... once bryant comes up, we can look forward to something like this?

 

7 coghlin/ruggiano

6 castro

3 rizzo

9 soler

5 bryant

2 montero/castillo

4 baez

8 alcantara

1 whoever is pitching

 

bench: la stella, ruggiano/coghlin, castillo/montero, valbuena, sweeney

 

sp lester

sp arrieta

sp hammel

sp hendricks

sp wood?

 

rp: rondon, strop, ramirez, turner, doubront, wada, some other lefty?

[treebird]

soo...... once bryant comes up, we can look forward to something like this?

 

7 coghlin/ruggiano

6 castro

3 rizzo

9 soler

5 bryant

2 montero/castillo

4 baez

8 alcantara

1 whoever is pitching

 

bench: la stella, ruggiano/coghlin, castillo/montero, valbuena, sweeney

 

sp lester

sp arrieta

sp hammel

sp hendricks

sp wood?

 

rp: rondon, strop, ramirez, turner, doubront, wada, some other lefty?

 

we are smart, pitchers bat 8th

[d_money]

Listening to Pat Hughes on the Score is getting me pumped...Soler and Bryant and their possibilities in 2015 and beyond. Pretty damn exciting.

[Banedon]

Listening to Pat Hughes on the Score is getting me pumped...Soler and Bryant and their possibilities in 2015 and beyond. Pretty damn exciting.

 

Bruce Levine just said "Whore-Gay Soler".

[SouthSideRyan]

soo...... once bryant comes up, we can look forward to something like this?

 

7 coghlin/ruggiano

6 castro

3 rizzo

9 soler

5 bryant

2 montero/castillo

4 baez

8 alcantara

1 whoever is pitching

 

bench: la stella, ruggiano/coghlin, castillo/montero, valbuena, sweeney

 

sp lester

sp arrieta

sp hammel

sp hendricks

sp wood?

 

rp: rondon, strop, ramirez, turner, doubront, wada, some other lefty?

 

we are smart, pitchers bat 8th

 

And hopefully don't bat our worst hitter 1st

[RynoRules]

Listening to Pat Hughes on the Score is getting me pumped...Soler and Bryant and their possibilities in 2015 and beyond. Pretty damn exciting.

 

Bruce Levine just said "Whore-Gay Soler".

 

Wishful thinking on his part, if you catch my drift.

[davell]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cubs-officially-force-window-open/

 

Jeff Sullivan dropping the knowledge again.

[SouthSideRyan]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cubs-officially-force-window-open/

 

Jeff Sullivan dropping the knowledge again.

 

Isn't he dumb?

[sneakypower]

you're thinking of Paul

 

Jeff Sullivan is great

[SouthSideRyan]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/let-us-address-the-angels-super-hypothetical/

 

I was thinking of this dumbass article I guess

[Guest]

turned on chicago sports talk live and regretted it even more quickly than i knew i would

 

so [expletive] stupid

[TruffleShuffle]

soo...... once bryant comes up, we can look forward to something like this?

 

7 coghlin/ruggiano

6 castro

3 rizzo

9 soler

5 bryant

2 montero/castillo

4 baez

8 alcantara

1 whoever is pitching

 

bench: la stella, ruggiano/coghlin, castillo/montero, valbuena, sweeney

 

sp lester

sp arrieta

sp hammel

sp hendricks

sp wood?

 

rp: rondon, strop, ramirez, turner, doubront, wada, some other lefty?

 

we are smart, pitchers bat 8th

 

And hopefully don't bat our worst hitter 1st

 

alcantara is hitting 8th.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Fangraphs added formal projected win totals to their 2015 projections (something about BaseRuns instead of raw WAR totals or whatever), and they have the Cubs at 84-78, 11th in baseball, fifth in the National League.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Flipping through the projections for various teams, what really gets me is how deep the Cubs are in ways that most teams aren't. Both in pitching and position players. And I think it's feasible to imagine second-half contributions from Russell, Edwards and Johnson.

[SABR Gamer]

Fangraphs added formal projected win totals to their 2015 projections (something about BaseRuns instead of raw WAR totals or whatever), and they have the Cubs at 84-78, 11th in baseball, fifth in the National League.

 

This is so damn sexy.

[SABR Gamer]

you're thinking of Paul

 

Jeff Sullivan is great

 

I'm assuming you're a Jeff Sullivan > Dave Cameron guy?

[treebird]

you're thinking of Paul

 

Jeff Sullivan is great

 

I'm assuming you're a Jeff Sullivan > Dave Cameron guy?

 

hopefully everyone is an x>dave cameron guy

[sneakypower]

you're thinking of Paul

 

Jeff Sullivan is great

 

I'm assuming you're a Jeff Sullivan > Dave Cameron guy?

i like them both, but yes

[tenderdracula]

I listened to a dave cameron podcast for the first time today and i'm shocked at how much he sounds like the kid from the documentary trekkies

[UMFan83]

I was trying to argue with a Sox fan yesterday (first problem) that in ranking the city's starters, Arrieta should be higher than Quintana, and in trying to argue that I found out that Arrieta's FIP (2.26) was second in all of baseball (min 150 innings) behind only Kershaw. Even xFIP (2.73) has him 5th in baseball, tied with Grienke and trailing only Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Strasburg and Kluber.

 

Not much to add, I just didn't realize he was even that much better than his ERA, which the Sox fan was arguing was a fluke and unsustainable. I might even have an argument that Arrieta should be 3rd ahead of Shark, behind Lester and Sale.

 

Edit: The top 5 starters in the city by FIP

 

1. Arrieta 2.26

2. Sale 2.57

3. Lester 2.80

4. Quintana 2.81

5. Samardzija 3.20

 

By xFIP

 

1. Arrieta 2.73

2. Sale 2.83

3. Samardzija 3.07

4. Lester 3.10

5. Quintana 3.37

[Guest]

I was trying to argue with a Sox fan yesterday (first problem) that in ranking the city's starters, Arrieta should be higher than Quintana, and in trying to argue that I found out that Arrieta's FIP (2.26) was second in all of baseball (min 150 innings) behind only Kershaw. Even xFIP (2.73) has him 5th in baseball, tied with Grienke and trailing only Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Strasburg and Kluber.

 

Not much to add, I just didn't realize he was even that much better than his ERA, which the Sox fan was arguing was a fluke and unsustainable. I might even have an argument that Arrieta should be 3rd ahead of Shark, behind Lester and Sale.

 

Edit: The top 5 starters in the city by FIP

 

1. Arrieta 2.26

2. Sale 2.57

3. Lester 2.80

4. Quintana 2.81

5. Samardzija 3.20

 

By xFIP

 

1. Arrieta 2.73

2. Sale 2.83

3. Samardzija 3.07

4. Lester 3.10

5. Quintana 3.37

Wait until Kyle Henricks gets 150 innings. The Cubs are going to rule.

[Guest]

Rizzo just tweeted this article for TBT

 

http://m.weei.com/sports/boston/red-sox/alex-speier/survive-and-thrive-red-sox-prospect-anthony-rizzos-return-cancer