5/6 Cubs (Lester) @ Cardinals (Lynn) 7:15 CSN

[fallacy]

Oh hey, a leadoff blooper. Now we get to watch two stolen bases

[Derwood]

Cardinals team BABIP has to be like .897

[treebird]

this guy isn't messing with lester so i am confident i was overreacting when i was scared before Edited May 7, 2015 by treebird

[Guest]

ross you are a sexy old man

[DiamondMind]

holy [expletive] we threw out a runner

[ctcf]

nice job gang

[fallacy]

100% he's safe

[Derwood]

wow, mlb.tv is like 30 seconds behind you guys

[bcl412]

Out I think. It's close.

[treebird]

also lol wtg ross and castro

[ctcf]

if this gets overturned, im gonna burn things

[Gilby]

He's as safe as Fowler was.

[ctcf]

also lol wtg ross and castro

 

that was a p sweet tag

[halplm]

This article seems really stupid that Len is talking about

 

It's not terrible stupid. The basic point is that teams aren't throwing the Cubs a lot of strikes... mostly because the Cubs have swung at a lot of bad pitches in recent years... that's why the Cubs aren't hitting for power, there aren't enough pitches for them to drive.

 

The Cubs are being selective, which is good, but what the article fails to explicitly say... is that opposing pitchers are getting a LOT of close pitches that should be balls, that are called strikes... because the Cubs don't get any respect from the umps for said patience.

 

So in other words, the Cubs are screwed.

[Cubswin11]

This article seems really stupid that Len is talking about

 

It's not. I linked to it early in the thread. It's a good read.

Well the Len is doing a bad job summarizing, he's making it seem like it's saying "they are being patient/taking walks, but also striking out a lot. They should do more of the former and less of the latter." When they kinda go hand in hand. Also I know it was a week or so ago but I thought we ranked pretty well at not swinging at a lot of balls outside the zone?

[Blessd24]

I doubt they would overturn this one. It's a lot like the Fowler replay.

[DiamondMind]

wow, mlb.tv is like 30 seconds behind you guys

 

it usually is at least that

[treebird]

"being the dork who holds the bag of headphones for the umpires isn't an embarrassing enough job, should we slap mlb.tv logos all over his body?"

[DiamondMind]

This article seems really stupid that Len is talking about

 

It's not. I linked to it early in the thread. It's a good read.

Well the Len is doing a bad job summarizing, he's making it seem like it's saying "they are being patient/taking walks, but also striking out a lot. They should do more of the former and less of the latter." When they kinda go hand in hand. Also I know it was a week or so ago but I thought we ranked pretty well at not swinging at a lot of balls outside the zone?

 

It's a long form article, kind of hard to summarize

[fallacy]

He's as safe as Fowler was.

 

one team is the cardinals

[ARCubsFan]

He's gonna be safe because of course

[Guest]

wait i was told that runners on base against lester are given coupons good for a free trip to 3rd base

[Derwood]

Bulls have cut the lead to 11, for those who care

[treebird]

wait i was told that runners on base against lester are given coupons good for a free trip to 3rd base

 

I ALREADY SAID I WAS WRONG

[TruffleShuffle]

This article seems really stupid that Len is talking about

Yep. If there are stats that say the Cubs aren't being patient enough, sure, but I'm pretty sure their approach has been fine, and it doesn't explain how worse teams are hitting for more power

 

their approach has been fine, but they have the worst contact percentage on pitches inside the zone, and worst contact percentage on pitches outside the zone, and their swinging strike percentage is highest in baseball. they swing and miss a lot - which isn't surprising - but the lack of power thus far is surprising.