5/30 White Sox (Peavy) at Cubs (Wood) 1:20pm WGN

[Guest]

Maybe Baseball Prospectus' 3rd-order wins are right and this is actually a .540 team.

 

Does it make you feel any better that that would still put us a fairly distant 4th?

 

If everyone played to their 3oW, we'd be 1 game back of the Pirates and Diamondbacks for the 2nd WC.

 

Don't say these things.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Maybe Baseball Prospectus' 3rd-order wins are right and this is actually a .540 team.

 

Does it make you feel any better that that would still put us a fairly distant 4th?

 

If everyone played to their 3oW, we'd be 1 game back of the Pirates and Diamondbacks for the 2nd WC.

 

Don't say these things.

 

I'm starting to get a glimpse of the glory that is Theo's genius.

 

We're going to win 93 games next year.

 

 

and still finish 10 games behind the Cardinals

 

[Schwarber Fan]

I know the Cubs were a lot more talented and the rest of the division was a lot less good, but I want to point out that the 2007 Cubs were 9 games under .500 on June 2nd.

[bukie]

Cub pitchers are 1 RBI shy of the major league record for RBI in a month. They're at 19, and the 1940 Tigers had 20 pitcher RBI.

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't mean a lot of [expletive] if Castro stays [expletive]. It's nice that 2 parts of the "holy [expletive], we need these three guys to be really, really good"-trifecta are doing good and awesome, respectively, but Castro's sloppy piss of a season so far is a huge, huge downer.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I don't mean a lot of [expletive] if Castro stays [expletive]. It's nice that 2 parts of the "holy [expletive], we need these three guys to be really, really good"-trifecta are doing good and awesome, respectively, but Castro's sloppy piss of a season so far is a huge, huge downer.

 

I'll take a Renteria-like career for Castro in exchange for the front office's mojo with finding productive players up and down the roster.

 

We've got:

 

An .800 OPS 3b (with plus defense) who was a pre-arb waiver pickup

An .800 OPS RF for $2.25m and another pre-FA arb year functioning as a friendly team option

A couple of 3-win starting pitchers found for minimal investment (one year of Sean Marshall for one, a 1-year $6m deal for another).

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't mean a lot of [expletive] if Castro stays [expletive]. It's nice that 2 parts of the "holy [expletive], we need these three guys to be really, really good"-trifecta are doing good and awesome, respectively, but Castro's sloppy piss of a season so far is a huge, huge downer.

 

I'll take a Renteria-like career for Castro in exchange for the front office's mojo with finding productive players up and down the roster.

 

We've got:

 

An .800 OPS 3b (with plus defense) who was a pre-arb waiver pickup

An .800 OPS RF for $2.25m and another pre-FA arb year functioning as a friendly team option

A couple of 3-win starting pitchers found for minimal investment (one year of Sean Marshall for one, a 1-year $6m deal for another).

 

I'm loving the pitching, but little about how the offense is constructed tells me they've got a long term batting lineup anywhere near in place; at best you've MAYBE got a combo of three or four guys, and only a couple of which shoot to be anything (ideally) more than just acceptable. I'll enjoy a (relative) miracle year in the short term, but I'm waiting to see more before I get too excited.

[Andy]

I know the Cubs were a lot more talented and the rest of the division was a lot less good, but I want to point out that the 2007 Cubs were 9 games under .500 on June 2nd.

It's a good thing the Cubs are so far behind that it's hard to get hopes up, because you and Kyle are trying to mess with us.

[Andy]

Cub pitchers are 1 RBI shy of the major league record for RBI in a month. They're at 19, and the 1940 Tigers had 20 pitcher RBI.

It's too bad Matt Garza is pitching tomorrow, otherwise that record might well be ours.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I know the Cubs were a lot more talented and the rest of the division was a lot less good, but I want to point out that the 2007 Cubs were 9 games under .500 on June 2nd.

It's a good thing the Cubs are so far behind that it's hard to get hopes up, because you and Kyle are trying to mess with us.

 

The ultimate fly in the ointment is that we are going to make the team worse at the deadline unless we're within shouting distance of a playoff spot, and that would require both an extreme hot streak and a simultaneous cold streak from one of the big NL Central teams in front of us, probably Pittsburgh.

[UMFan83]

Cub pitchers are 1 RBI shy of the major league record for RBI in a month. They're at 19, and the 1940 Tigers had 20 pitcher RBI.

It's too bad Matt Garza is pitching tomorrow, otherwise that record might well be ours.

 

Hey now, Garza has a 1.000 OPS this year

 

(ok he's only 1-3 with a double and has a career .210 OPS but whatever)

[BCVM22]

A little late, but highlights for all three wins of the series:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~bcvm22/cubs/highlights_2013.html

[Little Slide Rooter]

I know the Cubs were a lot more talented and the rest of the division was a lot less good, but I want to point out that the 2007 Cubs were 9 games under .500 on June 2nd.

It's a good thing the Cubs are so far behind that it's hard to get hopes up, because you and Kyle are trying to mess with us.

 

But more importantly, the Cubs were a lot more talented and the rest of the division was a lot less good.

 

In 2007 we were looking up at less talented teams. This year we're looking up at 2, maybe 3 legitately talented teams. Regardless of how much better we are than our record suggests, the damage is done. Luckily, we no longer have a GM who thinks we have a chance and give up prospects for slight upgrades.