6/30 Cubs (Hendricks) @ Mets (Niese) 6:10 ESPN, CSN

[sontensei]

Soler will be back soon.

[philosophizer75]

Against a lefty, given his obscene numbers against lefties this year, why not bump rizzo back to cleanup and run a lineup that looks something like:

 

1. Fowler

2. Castro

3. Bryant

4. Rizzo

5. Coghlan

6. Montero

7. Denorfia

8. P

9. Russell

[sontensei]

castro 4th is rally killer --- double play machine.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Matz with a PH walk-off homer in the 9th Rondon will need to a departed relatives for forgiveness.

[jersey cubs fan]

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[DiamondMind]

[expletive] we really need to win this game :\

[DiamondMind]

1. Dexter Fowler (S) CF

2. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B

3. Kris Bryant ® 3B

4. Starlin Castro ® SS

5. Chris Denorfia ® RF

6. Matt Szczur ® LF

7. David Ross ® C

8. Kyle Hendricks ® P

9. Addison Russell ® 2B

 

1. Curtis Granderson (L) RF

2. Ruben Tejada ® SS

3. Lucas Duda (L) 1B

4. Daniel Murphy (L) 3B

5. Michael Cuddyer ® LF

6. Wilmer Flores ® 2B

7. Kevin Plawecki ® C

8. Jon Niese (L) P

9. Juan Lagares ® CF

 

Gametime Forecast: 74°F • Mostly Cloudy • 27% PoP

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Jesse Rogers @ESPNChiCubs

Maddon brought in a magician. Details to follow

[DiamondMind]

lol

 

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[Schwarber Fan]

6-0 Cubs. Bryant and Rizzo homer and Hendricks goes 8.

[treebird]

pleasepleaseplease use Montero with Lester tomorrow

 

thursday is a day game after a night game anyway. we're getting two ross starts this series regardless.

 

i do want montero to catch lester though, just because lester will hopefully turn it around and then we can all point at his good start as forever evidence that ross doesn't need to be the personal catcher.

[Alien11]

Castro should hit 6 or 7, definitely not 4.

[DiamondMind]

Please win....

[sontensei]

tomorrow is colon... ross can hit him they're both old as fck

[UMFan83]

So Montero and Ross have combined for 272 PA at catcher, Ross making 70 of them, or 26% of the PA between the two. Is that normal for a backup catcher? Just seems like he's playing more, but I guess if you figure Ross is guaranteed to catch ever Lester start, thats 20% right there.

[DiamondMind]

It's criminal how many AB's Ross has stolen from him. I don't understand it.

[sontensei]

Ross is the MVP of this team? what you didnt know!?

[DiamondMind]

The only thing I give Ross credit is for catching runners leaning off of first sometimes. That's about it.

 

Ok but seriously lets be positive, we NEED this game.

[DiamondMind]

Is Fowler ok? He was even kind of walking gingerly back to the dugout

[Gilby]

So Montero and Ross have combined for 272 PA at catcher, Ross making 70 of them, or 26% of the PA between the two. Is that normal for a backup catcher? Just seems like he's playing more, but I guess if you figure Ross is guaranteed to catch ever Lester start, thats 20% right there.

 

Since there's a platoon and a personal catcher situation, I'd assume Ross plays a little more than the normal backup catcher.

[ARCubsFan]

Holy [expletive] the magician made Starlin walk

[Schwarber Fan]

Ross has had some brutal luck on fly balls

[Schwarber Fan]

Ridiculous strike 3. Yet again.

[Guest]

So Montero and Ross have combined for 272 PA at catcher, Ross making 70 of them, or 26% of the PA between the two. Is that normal for a backup catcher? Just seems like he's playing more, but I guess if you figure Ross is guaranteed to catch ever Lester start, thats 20% right there.

 

Since there's a platoon and a personal catcher situation, I'd assume Ross plays a little more than the normal backup catcher.

 

Only 9 catchers had more than 500 PA last year. Backup catchers playing ~25% of the time is the norm.

 

EDIT: And several of those 9 only made that threshold because of DH/1B time(Posey, McCann, Castro)

[Guest]

Ridiculous strike 3. Yet again.

 

It was right on the edge of the zone on TV.